Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
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It was the cat coming in. It's a little after 9 now. A hot day. I have trash cans and some tools to the right of our door now because of a project I'm doing elsewhere. Mistake. I suspect it's there. I hate this because A. I don't want the animals to get bit. And B. I have to kill it now.
Rattle snake rattling in the dark just outside our door when I let the cat in now. Man I hate that.
In honor of his heritage, Ferenc Puskas-quality.
Catching up on the football. That Szoboszlai free kick was Jamie Tartt quality.
Prior to the incident, Mayor Giuliani tied an onion to his belt, which was the style at the time.
I am not inclined to believe anything said by Giuliani or anyone in his employ.
When QAnon emerged publicly in August 2018, the media was totally blindsided. Most had either no knowledge, or had actively ignored it. There's no excuse now. The president is sharing insane prophecy cult memes, and it needs to be covered. It's not normal.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
"They will die.... and they will be condemned."
NFT: Nakba Fungible Token
Every time a Republican says "unite" what they mean is "shut up."
Latest plan from California republicans to secede just dropped. sfstandard.com/2025/08/26/r...
A hearty perennial in these parts. sfstandard.com/2025/08/26/r...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
"It is the biggest military investment by Norway ever."
Big Charles Wallace under the control of the evil IT from A Wrinkle in Time energy.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
This would be one of the greatest atrocities of human history as a NFT
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that “congestion pricing is dead” (and that he is the king) Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
This ends with Trump demanding military tribunals. Bet it. bsky.app/profile/qjur...
There's a whole book to be written about the deliberate use of Third Reich-style posters by Trump and the GOP's official social media accounts. They know exactly what they're doing.
Playing my AAJ card here: Reich/Soviet imagery makes my blood run cold. bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Times goes with "explicit" when "any" or simply omitting the word between "president" and "authority" would have been more accurate.
The National Guard was built for disasters and emergencies. Now it’s being turned into a domestic police force. From Iraq War and Army National Guard veteran @itsapurdy.bsky.social Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
Now that's an impressive smorgasbord of euphemisms
If you're a journalist trying to piece together what the hell just happened in Sana'a, I've been following Houthi politics on a daily basis for a very long time and have a lot to say about who got killed, just sayin'
The Trump administration is destroying what had been the best healthcare system in America. In this instance, I chose Community Care because the VA wait times for each step, from injury to surgery, were absurdly long. Of course, this is what Republicans want. They want to kill VA to privatize care.
VA is a disaster right now. I generally don't trust the private sector with my healthcare, yet had wrist surgery three weeks ago at Baylor Scott & White in Dallas because VA couldn't handle it. First time I've had a major procedure or serious condition treated outside the military or VA since 1996.
He goes out like Gigi on The Sopranos? That's how I see it.
An abusive narcissist. And the people cheered. You nailed it.
The made a fascist (really) war criminal president and then this happens? Weird.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
3) GOP states will also ratchet up voter suppression, with help from the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court. Expect some *very* aggressive efforts. We won't be able to stop them. But there is a non-zero chance that they miscalculate and drive angry voters to the polls.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
It's a rant about worker installing paving making a mistake and treated like the crime of the century. In the style of noted landscape artist Paul Bremer of "ladies and gentlemen, we got him" fame. bsky.app/profile/pale...
'democrats are obliged to govern but republicans get a pass' is bizarrely the mentality of both establishment institutions and a lot of leftist posting.
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
We are living in the President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camachoverse. www.thedailybeast.com/top-dod-offi...
Not for nothing, but "I'm not even Jewish" in this context means the speaker is an antisemite.
We are living in the President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camachoverse. bsky.app/profile/gizm...
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
Taps the sign. bsky.app/profile/bung...
Countries Israel has bombed with US financial and diplomatic support in 2025: Yemen, Iran, Syria, Lebanon. So far.
Yemen’s Houthis have confirmed that an Israeli airstrike killed their government’s leader, along with a number of ministers, in the capital Sanaa.
Historians will tell the story of the Trump presidency through excess death statistics. bsky.app/profile/kend...
Point of order: Biden didn't lose the 2024 election.
"Trump’s age, his visible health problems, and the White House’s cagey answers raise real questions about transparency and capacity. Yet the institutions that pride themselves on holding power to account have largely looked away," @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
The IPC's report last week declaring a famine in Gaza City will be a source of shame for all those who will inevitably claim that they didn’t realize the extent of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza — my latest @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is a pretty amazing story. Imagine all political and trade relations between two enormous powers with ideologically aligned leaders falling apart permanently over the pettiest of side-eyes in a single phone call www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
"Primarily does "intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work" National Weather Service Uh huh.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Famously when The Life of Brian came out it inspired no controversy and prominent Christians said it was just a bit of fun, no harm done
You win.
Wavy Gravy. (Not my first, but my concert flex).
If Prabowo manages to fuck up Indonesia in the way he tried to fuck it up in 1998 (after which he should have been jailed for the duration of his natural days) well, it will stink. But also have a certain grim poetry about it.
Makassar (for a time Ujung Pandang), a city of 1.5mln and capital of South Sulawesi, home to 10mln. It aint Java, but this aint some backwater. bsky.app/profile/reut...
"Trump Launches Assault on High School Football." No democrat ever. Sigh.
"This one weird trick..."
What do I know? But in Trump's first term, when I was still on twitter, I routinely noted his weekends empty of all events. There were lots of them. Particularly the 3 day ones. His laziness is longstanding.
This headline is really something. A better version would be: "Removal of a mere seven parking spots provides room for safety improvements for $12mil trail, which will be enjoyed by thousands" Morro Bay-Cayucos connector trail will result in loss of some parking spots share.google/ZvLHRnL8LWtQ...
“All center fire semi-automatic weapons are banned” does the trick I think?
I don't have a mobile phone. I get along fine. My ability to do so is a mark of my enormous privilege. You need serious resources NOT to have one in the US, and many other countries.
“He criticized the fact that vaccines are listed on the CDC’s website as one of top 10 medical accomplishments. That’s quite literally insane. Vaccines are one of the greatest medical accomplishments in human history and have saved a staggering number of lives.”
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
“A magistrate judge released a D.C. attorney and West Point graduate from jail Thursday, saying the government had “as close to zero” a chance as possible at demonstrating he was a danger to the community.” He was walking while Black.
Yes but X remains the platform of choice for the eugenics meme and car crash video community so who's to say which is best arstechnica.com/science/2025...
"Pritzker’s health department in Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers in response to the mess in Washington" Attn: @governor.ca.gov - this Californian is asking you - please follow Pritzker's lead.
In Donald Trump's America consumers have fewer choices at higher prices thanks to increased taxes on imported goods. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
Gretna police fired shots over the heads of evacuees streaming across the Crescent City Connection, as bullhorns blared for them to go back to New Orleans.
It could not be more obvious that Trump is establishing his own judiciary — a court system more in line with the likes of Egypt under both Mubarak and Sisi, where pliant judges only exist to give the regime the veneer of legal legitimacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Around midnight last night, President Trump sent up a “pocket rescissions” request. Pocket rescissions are illegal. Here’s my thread explaining what pocket rescissions are, how they work, and why they’re illegal.
Not a lawyer, but I also wonder if a lack of prosecutorial competence is relevant.
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
In regards to how Cowboys owner Jerry Jones talks about Micah Parsons, or any other black player (who risk life-altering injuries every time they step on the field) who would like to get paid. bsky.app/profile/bung...
oh are we talking about Jerry Jones today?
It's been fascinating watching the sports talkers dancing around: "Jones is treating the black flesh of Parsons as a commodity he owns for the purpose of stuffing more cash into his pocket."
Trump Insists Government Will Run on Musk's Sieg Heil Machine. bsky.app/profile/zoes...
A Trump Defense Department official sued an astrologer, Amy Tripp, a.k.a. Starheal, with whom he had a 15-month-long affair, after she allegedly texted his wife, “He won’t get confirmed. He’s cooked.’
it literally terrified the worst people tbh
Wow.
On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tesla FSD turns off more US consumers than it attracts according to an August survey of 8,000 respondents by Slingshot. And about half of those surveyed think FSD should *be illegal* the way its advertised and works now.... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/t...
I don't love private insurers either, but the primary reason for the home insurance crisis in California isn't corporate greed. It's that many inhabited parts of the state have become extremely dangerous thanks to climate change.
I know nothing.
This "journalist" is an interesting case study in the right-wing/GOP hack & flack pipeline. Graduated from a private Christian college straight into the right-wing propaganda machine: Accuracy In Media, Media Research Center, Accuracy In Academia, Just The News, Blaze...and now Fox.
Of course, we knew Trump or whoever’s making decisions these days would pick a deranged freak to run the CDC. This is an administration packed to the gills with deranged freaks.
Short thread worth reading on Jim O’Neill:
Our county fair has the 4h kids do glamor goats.
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Right. It's a taxi company that makes zero dollars from taxis which is why investors say it's worth $1.1 trillion.
Almost 100 buoys bob along the surface of the ocean, quietly collecting information thousands of people use every day. Now, that crucial data is in peril — and its loss could lead to dire ripple effects across the state of California. via @amandabartlett.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
Marines LOVE marching.
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
The Fiendish Flouridators are everywhere.
