He’s not stepping aside; he wasn’t invited to participate. He raised a stink about deserving to be included, but, his argument was unconvincing.
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He’s not stepping aside; he wasn’t invited to participate. He raised a stink about deserving to be included, but, his argument was unconvincing.
I’m surprised ICE impersonators aren’t already pulling home invasions. When “legitimate” ICE agents are masked and refuse to identify themselves, there’s no functional difference between legal and criminal actions. How’s anyone supposed to know if it’s really ICE?
With the amount of Entemann’s and Sara Lee I’m stress eating, it’s hard to believe they missed.
Are you sure it’s not Amendment Nine and Three-Quarters? No one can see it, but when Trump runs unconstitutional orders through it, they magically come through on the other side as if the Constitution is irrelevant.
It’s interesting that secret service told reporters the guy who stole Noem’s purse what a white male, then they wait a week and DHS says it was an undocumented migrant but refuses to give any other details.
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A couple mornings ago, CNBC let Jim Cramer yammer on about reading Death by China again, and he encouraged others to read it. He said Peter Navarro is “more cogent than you might think” (regardless of “Ron Vara”). It ruined my breakfast. I switched to watching Opening Bell on Bloomberg TV.
I’m watching Christine Lagarde answer question after question with calm, cogent, complete answers. As an American, I’m not used to this kind of behavior from a woman facing the press. No smirking? Favoring data over “vibes”? Being respectful to journalist? WTH is this?
As kids, we threw that word about like confetti. They were pariahs, totally segregated at school: separate busses at separate times, no cafeteria (lunch in the classroom), no school events. Ugly consequences for all of us. Later, we did better & I thought we killed the word. I hate hearing it again.
Exactly. We just said they were awkward or weird (or the r-word). I can armchair diagnose at least half a dozen kids from my school days who were probably on the spectrum, by today’s standards, but were either diagnosed with a generic learning disability, or had no diagnosis at all.
I love “happy dog face”. It always makes me smile back.
I swear to dog, if I had a small child, I’d be looking for daycare fully staffed by drag queens. It’s really the only safe choice.
Sadly, my appointment got dissed.
I know this makes it difficult for visually impaired folks to safely use the crosswalk. But, I still love whoever is doing it.
Google took $$ to put phishing above real PayPal site (also paid). AND the fake login is good enough to fool Apple's Passwords app into providing real site credentials. So be wary & rely on good sense more than tech safeguards. BTW, the charge was legit and my new password is super complex.
The #1 PayPal result on Google is a phishing scam! I got email about a surprise PayPal charge. I tried to go to PayPal on my laptop. Passwords app popped up, but the site said I was locked out & gave a phone #. Their help line gave me weird vibes and I hung up. Then, I checked what happened.
Why is this doofus on CNBC plugging Death by China and saying Navarro is more cogent than you think?
Ok. No matter the agency’s name, being on a government watch list is probably never going to be a good thing for anybody. The government isn’t always meticulous about keeping innocent people off of their lists, or removing them when the error has been reported.
Hmm. Our airport security woes started with the 2nd trip we took after 9/11 (pre-Xmas 2001). Oct security was normal. In Dec, she was pulled aside without explanation & again on Jan return. That agent said her name was on the list. It happed every domestic & international trip until she was 18.
Watching 80s videos breaks my brain a little, because I remember them being “so totally awesome” at the time.
The 9 to 5 music video hasn’t aged well, but the song is still awesome. Dolly is such a great storyteller.
Kentucky in 2017. FWIW, she also retained her right to vote, though she couldn’t manage to fill out a ballot, so I never took her to the polls.
I was my mother's guardian & conservator due to senile dementia issues. She was prone to sudden angry outbursts and she often threatened to get her rifle or "slit your throat" over imagined slights. Court revoked her rights to make money/health decisions, but she retained the right to own guns.
One bad debate performance (while sick) aside, I’d still put money on Biden beating Trump in any cognitive test.
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
If a short form social media post is eligible for a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing*, you should win. Your words are truly poignant. *clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in a way that uses journalistic tools effectively
This made me sad. Nothing has any value to Trump, unless the price tag is prominently displayed. Even when he knows someone else values something, he’s prone to destroying it out of spite or laziness. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
Trump’s “taste” is what an 8 year old child-laborer thinks “rich” looks like. Life-long access to brilliant art and architecture, and Trump has no appreciation or respect. More rococo! Shinier gold! Scrooge McDuck has more refined taste!
I really want to build an indoor pool and sunroom attached to my house. But it would be “unreasonably expensive”. Would it be OK to just steal the all the materials and then stiff the builder so it won’t break my budget?
I often say that Rush’s Subdivisions and Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit are like bookends for those years of my life. “Conform (Be cool) or be cast out” in middle and high school to “Oh well whatever never mind” as I was finishing college.
You would hope MAGAts would put on their thinking caps… but evidently they don’t have any!
Popsicles/drowning, or the popular ice cream/violent crime scenarios are easy illustrations, because we only need to experience living in the world to spot the fallacy. But study/polling data is often misunderstood by laymen “doing their own research” on topics for which they lack required knowledge
No need to get fancy. Just put him in ADX Florence, like any other domestic terrorist.
I need to scrape up some donation money for the Freedom From Religion Foundation legal fund. ffrf.org
I taught Sociology 101 with a unit on interpreting statistics. To illustrate correlation vs. causation, I’d claim that popsicles make kids drown. Proof? As popsicle consumption spikes, so too do child drownings. Always. The unaware are easily misled by misinterpretation of accurate numbers.
After seeing the news that the shingles vaccine reduces the chance of dementia by 20%, I thought, wouldn’t it be funny if childhood vaccines similarly reduced the chances of developing autism? If unvaxxed kids have it at a slightly higher rate, maybe there’s a grain of something there. Or not.
I had a serious accident last Fall, I was pinned, alone for a long time. Every so often, I wonder if I’m still stuck there, unconscious, having a long, insane nightmare. Maybe, I’ll wake up and it will be like just that time when a full season of Dallas was just Pamela Ewing’s bad dream. #doover
But, he didn’t mean it a derogatory way. He was just using the old name of the school, which was changed because it contained a derogatory term. See? And who among us hasn’t dropped a reference to the Milgram experiment while haranguing employees to stay on task? No dark subtext there. Totes normal🤪
I’d like to report Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’” Deuteronomy 27:19
Today, while speeding north on I71/75 toward Ohio, a car from Ontario blew past me like a rocket. And I thought, now there’s a guy who does NOT care how many speeding tickets he gets, because he is NEVER coming south of the border again.
I understood you were using imagination and not being “irrational”.
I thought Real ID would be sufficient. But, No. Only Real ID that shows citizenship status satisfies the requirement. My state, KY, doesn’t list that. Does any? IDK. SSA knows who’s a citizen and who’s not. They could mail us all new Soc Sec cards with “citizen” printed on them for free. It’s BS!
It’s very important to teach children that hitting people is wrong. Except for Nazis. Then, it’s very important to teach children that the thumb goes outside the fist.
My cohort were “rebellious” GenXers - too much self-sufficiency & independence to appreciate parental interference. We wanted to be masters of our own destiny. I get how that could lead to conservatism (Sci-Fi saved me from that ideology). But, authoritarianism is antithetical to all we wanted. 🤷♀️
My (then) 7 year old daughter got on the watch list in 2001. Our whole family underwent extra TSA scrutiny for a decade. Getting pulled aside really scared her the first time - she thought we were being separated. It wasn’t easy faking cheerful compliance, but that’s all that kept her calm.
And 2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2
Yep. They excel at hypocrisy.
The MAGA cult idolatry is disturbing.
These guys don’t tip. Because “tipping culture is out of control”.
This. Right here. 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇
Nothing exists that can’t be improved with some kind of cheese.
Maybe the filibuster is too complicated for some non-political folks. For them I say: Ask your Senators to “use every available tool to block this bill” Poking republicans with their own pitchforks might be satisfying.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov :: you better not be playing cute with your language about stopping the SAVE Act. I hope you intend to VOTE NO ON CLOTURE, as opposed to what you did with the CR when you told us you'd vote no on the bill, but still voted YES on cloture. We are in no mood for games.
You fell for the voter fraud conspiracy theory. You prefer voter suppression and poll taxes over the statistically zero fraudulent votes ever cast. SAVE doubles the cost of a driver’s license to $48, plus I needed $78 in certified documents. And the closest appt in next 30 days is 212 miles away.
His rhetoric changes, depending on which weasel last stroked his ego. At NRCC, he said "The states are just an agent of the Federal Government”. There must be a half dozen people, all pushing different agendas, manipulating him through flattery and feigned obsequiousness.
I believe you. It’s legit. I worry about crazy-sounding stuff smoke screening a worse thing. I’ve been outraged by something that was later discredited to learn it distracted me from other bad stuff. It looks like he posted a photo of himself with Buddy Carter, and he’s wearing the gaudy thing.
How about the way “Project Yo-yo Waffles” (my pet name for Trump’s on again/off again tariff scheme) is mostly announced via Truthless and Xitter, sites that only members can fully access?
The ONLY source cited is Drew Pavlou. I’m starting to see blog self-referential stories. But, no other person has admitted seeing it.
Is it real? photoshopped? AI? I can’t tell. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s real. It’s plausible - Trump once wore a cartoon of himself under his flag pin. Keep in mind it’s not verified by any other source. Maybe it’s too fresh, maybe press is ignoring, maybe it’s fake. Healthy skepticism is good.
Trump’s plan to “reinvigorate” coal is just pollution with a PR team.
Ok y’all, it’s Boing Boing reporting on a Xitter post. It’s totally on-brand for Trump, but, let’s grain of salt this thing. At least until there’s some corroborating evidence.
We just keep repeating the same mistakes. I’ve been watching vintage TV shows, lately. I couldn’t believe how many All in the Family episodes are still relevant to current issues!
"The spill is not a minor one, said Paul Blackburn... The estimated volume of 3,500 barrels, or 147,000 gallons of crude oil, is equal to 16 tanker trucks of oil, he said. That estimate could increase over time, he added." apnews.com/article/what...
Coincidentally, his $TRUMP memecoin offers a convenient and untraceable method to funnel bribes directly to his coffers. The man is not stupid. He’s a sly schemer with no ethical or moral compass. And he is protected from consequences at every turn.
I’m evaluating an illogical goal of balancing goods trade* w/ each individual country, connecting that w/ damaging domestic policies, and realizing that the latter serves the former. It’s not a casual; it’s a serious concern. *Balancing all goods and services exports with all imports is healthy.
add to it’s Arctic dominance? We won’t know until they’re occupying. Manipulating the stock market, blatant insider trading, meme coins, creating a Crypto reserve, ending the Fed, predatory tax policies, cutting Soc Sec & SSI, killing consumer watchdogs, and raising bank fees all impoverish the 99%
His plans will let us die in the USA, too. Gutting health agencies, fouling up emergency services, coming after Medicaid, putting quacks and hacks in cabinet positions - all deadly. Isolating us from allies while also f’ing up intel and firing generals invites invasion. Does Russia want Alaska to 🧵
Multiple cards and Deep Search are two of Libby’s best features.
Sure, it’s a stupid executive order, but, have you ever tried to rinse conditioner out of long hair under a water saving gentle trickle shower head?
Northern Kentuckians add to CHPL’s circulation statistics, since it offers free cards to library members in Boone, Kenton, and Campbell Counties. I mostly use CHPL’s digital resources, but, sometimes, as a special treat, we’ll ride the ferry across the river and go to the library.
It is ambiguously worded; they could have swapped “patrons” for “those” for clarity.
Wow, didn’t Russians ever play Galaga?
Wow, if all these folks fell into a pit of vipers, the snakes wouldn’t bite them, out of professional courtesy.
@sodrock.bsky.social has already showed us the receipts by posting this graphic:
I’m tired of the whole concept of SCOTUS right now Note: If you don’t know Murderbot, the book quote is “I’m tired of the whole concept of humans right now”.
The converse of "Treason doth never prosper…” is that patriotic failure will be punished as treason. Even if there are elections in 2 years, and even if every R seat is flipped, it will be too late to salvage anything from the ashes. I think we have about six months, maybe until year-end before 🪦
When Snowden revealed that all international phone calls were being stored and scanned, I jokingly talked about landscaping plans for killing off a half-dead BUSH in my yard and replacing it via bizarre keyword laden plans. I wouldn’t dare do that, now. I worry that I haven’t self-censored enough.
This series coming to TV might be the best thing to happen in 2025.
If your library subscribes to Hoopla, you can borrow the GraphicAudio dramatized adaptations to get acquainted with the characters. You can also borrow the ebook and regular audiobook versions (the narration is excellent). Really, Murderbot is wonderful in any media format.
Ohmygodohmygodohmygod! The trailer looks so good! Looking forward to watching Murderbot is the only thing keeping me sane(ish). And Sanctuary Moon clips… squeeeeee!
The Trump economic plan has a Top Secret Code Name: Yo-Yo Waffles 🪀 🧇
I’m going to the drug store to buy extra headache and heartburn meds.
Growing out-of-zone plants indoors is an expensive hobby for me. Meet Avi. He grew from a grocery store avocado pit. To stay healthy, he needs controlled temp & humidity, grow lights, soil amendments, etc. He’s almost 3 years old. If we’re lucky, he might start producing fruit in another 3 years.
I wonder how many people took that as encouragement to “Buy DJT”. It’s gotten a big, inexplicable (to me) bump today.
Not if it’s a North Carolina Supreme Court election.
Somebody needs to take a gun safety class. explore.nra.org/interests/sa...
This is terrifying.
“Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!"
My college friend had a Honda Prelude with pop up headlights. Not sure the exact model year, sometime early to mid 1980’s. That was a fun car.
It’s the back story for Khan Noonien Singh and Eugenics Wars. But, I wouldn’t worry about it; Star Trek hasn’t accurately predicted much of anything, has it?
Americans have enough surplus income to afford buying lots of things from other (often smaller or less wealthy) countries. Reaching a perfect trade balance would be most easily accomplished by eliminating US income surplus and/or reducing our population by cutting life saving services. 🤔 Hmm
These people who came to him, did they call him sir and have tears in their eyes? How sure is he that they weren’t talking about running for president of the Homeowners Association? HOA president would be a better fit for his qualifications.
Chevette is pronounced “shit-vette” for geed reasons.
After my Pontiac died at 100,000 miles, my GM-lover dad was “disappointed in me” when I replaced it with “Japanese junk” 1994 Honda Accord wagon. I sold it to my brother after 125,000 miles. He drove it another 150,000 before selling to a friend. That guy drove it for years before trading it in.
But, Cruz will share some of the Texas’ most famous things: BBQ, Shiner Bock and measles.
I'm tired of the whole concept of the Supreme Court right now (apologies to Murderbot)
Schrödinger's Portfolio: Until you look, you’ve simultaneously gained and lost value.
I’m dying to see some sneak peak photos of Sanctuary Moon.