It's not dumber than you imagine, it's dumber than you can imagine.
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It's not dumber than you imagine, it's dumber than you can imagine.
I'm a 72 year old college educated man (Junior college and university in Texas. I think I learned about it about the same time you did.
Our landline was converted to VOIP when we changed from ATT to Xfinity. Then a few years later I migrated the number to Google Voice and now our it rings on my mobile.
virtually all nominees have already told us who they are and what they believe in their writings and public statements during their career up to that point. Anything they say contrary to that in a confirmation hearing is a lie.
Is this a backhanded way to say these kids are overweight?
I went a couple of times... but I'm very particular about my breakfast potatoes... and that hash brown casserole is a non-starter. Waffle House, Denny's, and IHOP all have good hash browns.
**puts hands in pockets**
When the musick plays, everybody bow down and worship the image...
I don't watch any of the Sunday Morning Republican Talking Points Showcases.
Similarly... I only stay to interact with a private neighborhood group where I live.
Wind, solar, and storage has kept the lights on this summer! Excerpt from Grid Roundup by @douglewin.bsky.social: Energy Information Administrations says 50 gigawatts of solar and storage will be added in the US this year, and an astounding 40% of it will be built in Texas.
I like that this theme is embraced in the Robinson Mars Trilogy.
low hanging fruit
The Senate needs to be apportioned and the House needs to be expanded substantially.
So since that post has the silver verification symbol does that mean he posted it as official DoD policy?
evangelicals and 'evangelical' billionaires
I have a family display device (magicmirror.builders) that uses a couple of newsfeed RSS links to display today's headlines... but not a reader per se.
Also, as @joshtpm.bsky.social pointed out yesterday, the BLS has started to make greater use of estimates (in lieu of actual data collection) for the CPI.
This is the definition of 'shoot the messenger'
follow @unusualwhales.bsky.social to learn more...
they're motto is 'choose your voters, don't let the voters choose you'.
that was happening here in houston 20+ years ago during 'W's administration. it's endemic to their mediascape.
Maher has largely gone the way of Carlin. They both hilarious in their prime, but they both turned into angry old men.
If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare… Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?
That's a great recommendation that tRump wrote for the Late Night shows.
This.
Trump has no plan. It's all Heritage's Project 2025.
Those 'faith leaders' are believers in what he is saying.
tell me you're insecure without telling me you're insecure.
I think that is a central tenet of law enforcement actions in general.
or when he went to Puerto Rico?
Yes... but they'll try it. Standing may be easier to achieve than in the TikTok case.
Pam Bondi's will just send them a letter saying it's OK. re: TikTok... see @stevevladeck.bsky.social essay on this related topic.
...and the pregnant women can have their baby at one end of the row, papoose them up, and both of them can pick on the return trip.
Correction: NNN% tariffs, otherwise known as taxes, on goods coming from __________, to be paid by U.S. consumers.
I have my notifications turned off because otherwise we're inundated with these ridiculous 'Blue Alerts' the state issues every time someone looks crosseyed at a cop.
She's just another billionaire.
Too many people are convinced that poverty is the result of some amorphous character defect.
NWS probably did their job. This was probably a last mile notification problem.
2025 feels like being awake during surgery
You really don't have to use the cute nickname for the concentration camp
Ground Hog Day, Dr. Strangelove, Oklahoma, O Brother Where Art Thou
The Apple+ broadcast should just be the local broadcast. The same poor coverage infects the golf broadcasts on ESPN+.
...busy....
somebody is business 'updating' the textbooks
Depending on your eschatological views, end time events may not work out the way she expects.
I would accept that as an axiom.
It is important to remember that Impeachment, Conviction, and Removal is a political act and is whatever the Congress says it is. Congress could impeach him for erecting the new flag poles if they wished.
War. An article I power
Miss Lindsey has already lined up behind him.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
What WSJ Said about Stephen Miller at 9PM on a Friday www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/21/w...
the accuracy (via @midheavens.bsky.social)
It's all projection, all the time.
He wants the one filled with chocolate.
Musk/MAGA WeChat
@nytimes.com - is this part of the news that's fit to print or has democracy already died in darkness?
Plus I'm tickled pink that Biden was invited to the Juneteenth celebration in Galveston tonight.
If you want to have all the parades the other countries have, then you have to have all the holidays as well.
Mike Lee’s reprehensible behavior and comments on MN and so many other things are not just about Lee, they are a reflection of the lack of moral character of every voter in UT who put him there, & every cowardly Republican colleague and the Mormon Church who refuse to say a word.
I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬
There is no republican party, only MAGA.
They're going to claim they weren't testing for the school bus stop sign.
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
The National Guard may be deployed in Los Angeles tonight. Not for an earthquake. Not for wildfires. But to silence protests against ICE raids. This is a humanitarian crisis. And peaceful protest is not a crime. It is a cry for dignity. A demand for justice.
I'm gonna get rich just eating eggs!
They run on draining the swamp, only to learn it's a spa.
shouldn't #Southwest be investigated for departing without sufficient fuel on board for their filed flight plan?
I know far too many people will absolutely not vote 'D' because abortion. They are single issue voters. Period.
She might as well have said, "I'm sorry you're so stupid..."
Everybody equates NASA 'mostly' with the 'space' part, but they do a tremendous amount of work in 'aeronautics' that is indispensable to the aviation industry worldwide.
Is this like the social standing score that the CCP uses?
cosplay
SNL should so do this. Similar to the way they turned the 'guy going to the doctor' into a podcast.
We did too... and we had power during hurricane Beryl last summer.
We installed rooftop solar and batteries after winter storm Uri. Also this term the Texas Lege is trying to hobble the renewables industries.
remember the 'good old days' when the VP misspelling a word was a scandal?
the real problem is that they can go on that particular media outlet and make all kinds of claims that are never challenged because it plays into their worldview.
and too many of those healthy people see illness as a result of some amorphous character flaw.
The republican god is
Where is the lettuce and tomato?
I taught school--public and private--for a quarter of my life. I have NEVER EVER seen a kid harmed by a vaccine. Ever. I interacted with hundreds and hundreds of kids. However, now kids are dying from measles, a preventable disease. And kids who bring Covid home to vulnerable elders can kill them.
My physics teacher: There is no preferred frame of reference.
it's not the Trump tax cuts.... it's the Project 2025 government destruction plan.
🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.
To quote Molly Ivins: "if he gets any dumber, we'll have to water him twice a day"
If I don't believe in it, it's not real.
How can someone end up in the governor's mansion and not know the basics of government?
Those who 'can', do. Those who 'cannot', legislate.
This is how to treat Jake Tapper. www.showbiz411.com/2025/05/20/j...
@jimmykimmel.com is my hero! I hope that @colbertlateshow.bsky.social does the same
These individuals who come to testify to congress and spout incorrect responses should immediately be terminated from government employment.
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
I don't think any Democrat demands the release of violent criminals. We only demand DUE PROCESS and HUMANITY. It's really not that difficult. 🙄🖕
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.” - 1984, George Orwell
If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.