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Writing a letter does nothing when the Big Bad Bill destroyed Medicaid and hurt hospitals' incomes. No amount of hand-wringing will fix this. Finding a coalition to impeach this illegal regime is the way to fix this. Quit focusing on the symptoms and cure the disease.
The Wedge Issue Agitprop Bot Army managed to cancel AOC, somehow. Accusing you of being "a secret Zionist" is a surprisingly light touch for them.
If you can't build a consensus across the aisle, to remind conservative moderates why America has been a world leader for a hundred years, then no amount of grassroots politics will save us. We will be mown down in the streets and camps; America's light will be extinguished by cruelty and stupidity.
It is already too late to go "Back to the way things were". Democrats need to find a small handful of Republicans who are still loyal to the Constitution, to America, and to Americans. You must work to fix the media narrative; to expose MAGA as foreign occupiers, and to restore Democracy to the US.
Foreign Governments have provably funded far-right candidates through massive influxes of money to political action committees. They funnel money directly to our new media. We are at war; a Civil War, instigated by foreign meddlers and run by foreigners to our shores like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.
A year ago we had a functioning Federal Government. But over the last year it has been destroyed, as certainly as if Washington D.C. had been bombed by Russia. It will take decades to rebuild our position in the world, and to restore the agencies that serve all Americans. Democrats must do more.
If MAGA sends National Guard to NYC, will they send them by ship?
We are in the midst of an unconstitutional coup, and you MUST find enough republican patriots willing to impeach, to save America.
He'll do it. Believe him. And the ONLY thing you can do to stop him, LEGALLY, is to find enough Republicans who still love their country enough to impeach him with you. Everything else is hot air and wasted time. Your time; Our time; America's time. Our enemies occupy our nation. Stop them.
Gavin Newsom at least realizes something that @democrats.org seems completely institutionally incapable of accepting: This is a propaganda war to save the United States; and SPECTACLE is the advantage MAGA has against us. If the Democratic Party doesn't fight back with spectacle, we're doomed.
Your constituents will never vote for you again, unless you successfully find the votes to impeach Trump. Even if we wanted to.
Things Peter Thiel Believes, Unironically:
George R. R. Martin should tell everyone Patrick Rothfuss is the official choice to finish Game of Thrones. Then they should both post pictures from the same vacation.
I thought I could read "Guards! Guards!" to distract me from current events. But I ask you: What is * Obsessed with Gold * Full of Hot Air * Desires Sacrificial Virgins
If you have a beef with "how much things cost to keep up with environmental regulations" you don't have a beef with "government regulators", you've been distracted from the real problem of "wage stagnation via massive wealth redistribution to the oligarchs".
It's time, on this Fourth of July, to remember what we sought freedom from, what illegal cruelties were visited upon us, and what we did to escape the yoke of tyranny, and recall what that tyranny looked like. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
Do any of you really think we're going to get midterm elections, much less a 2028 Presidential election? Because nobody who passes a bill this terrible is going to give up power willingly. @repbonamici.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social
Is there a town in America called "Nuremberg" and does it have a courthouse we can use in 2029?
"Maybe a species that evolved when atmospheric CO2 levels were 220ppm might be reacting strangely when those levels reach 420ppm"
"But Democrats will retake power" You all keep saying it, but I don't see Impeachment happening. What I do see is an assault on Democracy and basic human decency that we haven't seen since 1930's Germany and hoped to never see here. I don't care what you have to do to find the votes to impeach.
@repbonamici.bsky.social thank you for being one of the House Dems who voted Nay on the motion to table Impeachment proceedings. Please try to convince others that this is important. Whatever pressure you can bring to the party establishment is important to saving America.
I think it's time for everyone at @democrats.org to ask themselves "Am I one of those FDR Democrats, or am I one of those George Wallace Democrats?" Because the FDR kind are going to win elections and swing America back on track.
"Skeets" is okay, but I feel like "Bleets" is more apropos.
On one hand, I consider "The Last Ringbearer" to be a vile misinterpretation of The Lord of the Rings that attempts to cast an oppressive slave-owning purely-evil regime as the heroic defenders of Freedom and Truth. On the other hand, I absolutely love "Hamilton". ...it's a rich tapestry, Marge.
No one: @nytimes.com: "And this is why and how it makes sense for Trump to attack Iran"
We haven't reached the AI singularity, or even the AI Event Horizon, but we are certainly in the AI Spaghettification phase.
Notes on Cultural Relativism: Congee is weird. Savory rice breakfast? So strange. Grits, however...
"If trans women aren't at the bottom of the Patriarchy Crab Bucket with the rest of us, are they even real women?"
Using Ben Stein here is just ...adding to the sarcasm.
It's like fundies who become Satanists: "I'm not just going to reject one illogical thing; I'm going to reject society itself—then I'll feel strong and smug!" [Note: this applies to all the "White Men who are Really Excited to Tell You Why God is Dead", not normal "sky's blue; god's dead" atheists.]
So it was no surprise when a portion of these guys decided that Feminism and Queer Rights were an affront to their genius. How dare other Liberation movements exist! We were supposed to focus on how God is Dead and how clever Richard Dawkins is for explaining it!
The entire thing was just so willfully intellectually dishonest; a bunch of guys Rejecting the Dominant Paradigm because it turns out they wanted to replace God and Church with their own power structures. It was a re-run of the early 20th-century Orientalism, but without the Orientalism.
Back before it had a name, I was reading a book by one of the "New Atheist" Dudebros, which had a section about how Abrahamic religions were worse than Eastern religions, because religions like Buddhism were "peaceful". I put the book down and said aloud "Dude. Have you never SEEN a Kung-Fu movie?"
Because of the way hard drives wear out, it's not generally a good idea with large RAID arrays to try turning it off and back on again.
Half of my homelab bill is from keeping my rust spinning. Converting all my storage to SSD storage would pay for itself in 8 years, given current prices. I pay extra for falling-water-sourced electrons, so the environmental pressure doesn't overcome the financial pressure.
We haven't traveled in horse-carriages for like a hundred years, either, but the Folsom Street Fair had Pony Play on display the one time I went. So... ...great... now I'm curious to know what the historical prevalence of Pony Play was compared to today. Why do you do this to us?
I think the hang-up is that people don't WANT to believe that bad things are possible, so they choose to believe that calm, reasoned warnings are hysterical panic. Because people want to believe they're in control of their lives, and things will continue as they are, forever.
The fact that we live in a world where searching for "Hello Kitty [any brand of firearm]" always returns valid results, tells us a lot about the world we live in.
I think a lot about how the guys who used to ask me that at work were the same guys who would go to strip clubs for lunch.
Ok hear me out: "The Bourne Accountancy".
I write comments; I realize I don't want to end up in a pile of naked corpses; I delete comments. ABC deleted 538 the day their "Disapprove" line leapt over the "Approve" line. We're really past the point of no return now.
The terrible secret of making fresh-baked bread is that over the next two days, you will eat nothing but an entire loaf of fresh-baked bread.
I'm reaching the point where "correcting people who are wrong on the internet" is losing its lustre. So, everyone, just believe what you want. Hot sauce regrows hair. Touching a lizard makes you grow scales. Bread crust is where the nutrition is. It's all true. Everything.
Finally catching up on Marvel's What If?... I did not expect the finale to be "What If... Dragonball Z?"
It's a bit chilly out there....
I should like to tag @cthompson.com, mostly to use the tag feature.
Well, that was easier than I expected, to set up your own domain name. bsky.social/about/blog/4...
