Personal account of the founder/publisher of Bhamwiki. Statements of fact or opinion may change when I learn new things. (Distopos with an “i” at the old place.)
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
He has a master’s in electrical engineering from MIT, this guy.
Yeah, it’s been a while but I think the insurance/bond requirement was where I made my retreat.
He believes he’s the one who selects host cities for the IOC?
I kind of intended to become one, just to collect the title, but never did.
My local bank branch has a notary, but they also have a pretty short list of things they will agree to notarize, so I feel like it undermines the concept of them being a “notary public”. I’ve had better luck at UPS stores, but I’m guessing those are endangered, too.
The stated reasoning seems dipshitty to me.
Would be fun to refer them to an argument clinic.
According to a recently declassified study covering stardates 40500 to 56000, junior officers were 24 times as likely to be maimed or killed by transporter accidents, despite the fact that they were used much more often by bridge officers.
Yes, upon signing you now qualify to hold the rank of ensign and are entitled to a red uniform shirt.
Do the boundaries of the 2nd rule also invite probing?
Vance argued that Americans who trace their ancestry to pre-Civil War have a greater claim to citizenship (slaves’ descendants excluded, natch) and others should be officially second class. He explains his beliefs a lot. But acknowledging it means admitting they’re extreme and no Dem is equivalent.
So often, people enjoying good mental and emotional health compile a list of the traitors who have turned on them.
I feel like a federal grant to the DC Public Works could probably have accomplished all this at 1/100th the cost to taxpayers.
Treated him like a dog, I bet.
I didn’t mean to Google the letter B, but the result did convince me to figure out how to disable Google AI
so the thing is, there is an actual law, the 1949 amendment to the national security act of 1947, that says he can't do this congress can pass a law changing it, and the senate could ratify, and the president can sign. but this is not executive order stuff
It would appear that they’ve determined that “emergencies” are, like “facts”, more powerful and useful if you invent and declare them instead of just observing and responding to them.
Hmm. That might be where your worst enemies have the most influence tho. Maybe better to see about hiring some Varangians.
I think we need to stop saying that people hate crime. They like punishment. There are clear ways to reduce crime that involve systemic investment in communities but we avoid doing that in favor of ever more militarized policing because too many people in power like punishment.
There’s a chance a winning ticket will be blown by a breeze into your open window, or will be sent to you by an attractive stranger, or accidentally packed into a box delivered to you. And statistically, the chances of those happening are not really any worse than if you bought your own tickets.
Toshiro Mifune is to film as Joe Namath is to football.
Honestly, I’m not sure we should have absorbed the notion that the military is a crime-fighting force so quickly just so we could dicker about its deployments.
Low income is the single greatest threat to my checking account, followed closely by people trying to make deposits.
“If it doesn’t grow it will die” smacks of “we lose money on every sale, but we make up for it on volume.”
Someone’s been reading too much Walter Scott.
I had the sense somehow that there were a few staffers who sort of competed to get the style right and to throw in misspellings and stuff to make sure they got shared widely.
Staffed entirely by false promises.
Nailed it.
- from Julia Kristeva, “Murder in Byzantium: A Novel”, translated by C. Jon Delogu (2006)
“Between us, none of this is all that serious, since the media-manufactured culture is only a gigantic outpatient clinic to treat the narcissistic pains of the middle class—OK, but it still irks me to see how easy it is to pull the strings and how many twisted people profit from it all!” (1/2)
The picture I have in my head would hold about 48-64 feet of shelf space. Sturdy and well-constructed. Maybe even illuminated. But now I’m thinking of hybridizing it with a bus shelter.
We should not have elected this guy for anything ever.
I’d recommend that he be sentenced for long enough that it’s unlikely he would complete it.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
I agree with these points. I was starting to wonder, though, when I walked by one yesterday… how big could I go with one of these without summoning a code official?
One of my Senators (ugh) likes to be addressed as “Coach,” I reckon for similar reasons.
“If I Did It” turned out to be too ambiguous.
I’d imagine that were be to be forced to work against his will, his commitment to the process might flag.
Eh, got one of those four blocks from my house and I’ve only ever thought of the trucks that turn themselves over in it as a nuisance.
So far, their only loss was in Tallahassee, Florida.
I think he may be subject to sanction if he tries to claim his more recent profession.
Okay, here's what I know and don't know* about the planes that were supposed to take children to Guatemala today. *None of this flight tracking would be necessary if ICE Air didn't keep its operation secret and if Drew Ensign didn't talk to the court in riddles. 1/
This is the first time I’ve thought “it’s a shame it’s illegal to send flowers to a judge.”
Doesn’t look like it’s much trouble to look up.
I can
That first sentence is itself impeachable.
I could go higher if it helps.
Also, where applicable, woke is helpful.
You can see him?
My column from Monday. Alabama lawmakers for years tolerated a “tough on crime” parole policy that did nothing for the state’s high homicide rates and made prisons more dangerous. That’s because most prefer displaying chest-pounding hatred of criminals to effective crime-reduction policies.
I think probably he’s just a mite discouraged.
This cries out to have a version with a banjo, or a shamisen.
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
"Is protecting democracy actually anti-democratic?" As if this lede was written by @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
There’s a chance he’ll be mad when he finds out that he didn’t.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright / Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, / Greige, greige against the dying of the light!
It “learned” it from us.
It sounds like they’re planning to address the issue by giving the human staff extra work when they’re busiest. So smart.
And all the Republicans too, frankly.
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Yeah. I’m wishing none of us had, or ever will.
I can’t see any way around them being perceived as such, short of a surrender.
We could start by never ever voting for any of them. Finding another authoritarian to punish them for us isn’t necessarily a big improvement.
What if you were to learn that intelligent people don’t actually think much of you?
Wonder how it correlates with supermajority.
So, our collective mental health.
We’ve arrested these guards, right? They’re being prosecuted?
“Bodied”, by Andrew Body. Nice.
Unexpected news, given that the legislature is not currently in session.
Apparently we’re to be concerned that the death camp may not be particularly well-run?
Somehow my brain filled in the story as involving Stipe’s dad being your crummy landlord.
I mean, while they’ve got their pants down there’s something we could measure to try to determine something.
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
My employer, an architect, celebrates the process depicted in the 1948 film “Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House.”
Literally what's the action, JD?
I don’t know who looks at college transcripts and not simply the degree, and *maybe* a summa cum laude or whatever.
He’s gonna order the army to dig the canal as punishment.
How?
And it’s not be coincidence that they all entered into a mutual-aid crony network.
“I wish ill on JK Rowling” A statement that will get you banned? As policy this has me howling They sorely need to countermand.
Historian here the notion that Trump is a “socialist” for trying to get a stake in private companies and somehow anti capitalist is simply wrong. He is going back to the Royal African Company and mercantilism when corrupt royal monopolies and crony capitalism ruled. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
WQXGA WQXGA!
For some reason they can’t figure out any way to fix the mess they made/are making/will continue to make at scale, other than surveillance and criminalization of us, without so much as a glimmer of self reflection or accountability
And keep in mind it’s not ethical to employ horses in the carrying out of punishments.
Chicken Soup for Tom Clancy’s Soul.
And also, trans people are part of the wee that needs to be fixing this and enjoying the fixing of it.
I encourage whomever they find to work on different ways of saying “you understand, we are discussing human beings, right?”
They were already painted drab gray. This was just a brighter shade of drab gray.
Clearly, the prosecutors should have tried to pin it on the sandwich.
Is that what you want?
Neither Memphis nor Birmingham have a “red city mayor”.
Leonard Wilson, commander of the Alabama division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, does.
For context, this is the first time in a long time that a Democrat has even campaigned for that seat. Got to start somewhere I reckon.
Love to see MO people saying things like this in GOP town halls - this one is Rep. Mark Alford's town hall. "Constituent: I am pissed, and I am pissed at you. The man is a dictator. He knows nothing about what he talks about. You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
They just agree that “pro police” is opposed to “pro civil rights” like that?
Earlier this year I said that if they are brought to justice, based on how our laws are supposed to work, some of these DOGE kids should be facing sentences in the tens of millions of years.
macksting 