He did that same one almost exactly a year ago. Is he just doing "greatest hits week"?
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He did that same one almost exactly a year ago. Is he just doing "greatest hits week"?
the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"
Paragraphs and paragraphs of describing the exact makeup and armament of the forces at the Battle of Five Armies, the technical specs of the dwarven forges in the Lonely Mountain and the Black Arrow's flight characteristics.
Yes! This is exactly the appropriate description.
Lovely walk in the Park today
Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.
@devincow.bsky.social Every American who loves our National Parks should remember that while Donald Trump and Elon Musk were harassing, demoralizing and firing US government employees including Grand Canyon National Park rangers and staff, North Rim's Grand Canyon Lodge burned to the ground.
Martha Wells Humblebundle in support of World Central Kitchen. Highly recommend. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
You are naive. GOP voters have consistently voted against their own economic interests for decades. They are driven by grievance politics, not the hopes of better economic days ahead.
Anyone with a brain recognizes that the massive growth in data centers requires massive growth in electric power supply but not one Republican has a brain so they're all on the warpath against solar and wind, which are literally the only ways we can possibly meet that rapidly growing demand.
Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
What if illegal crossers and smugglers discover the new technology called “gloves”?
Fox, with the eager cooperation of the Trump kakistocracy, making moves to silence or co-opt more actual news stations.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
Kelsey Cook and Taylor Tomlinson
You assert that Trump is doing all this shit to distract from the Epstein Files AND that the shit he's doing is incredibly horrible on its own. "The brutal occupation of DC goes against everything we stand for as Americans and it's a sign of just how desperate Trump is to change the subject."
This week I dug deep into the Paradox of Tolerance. We might hope still to build a new house to replace the one abusive bullies are burning down, after centuries of decades of being enabled in the name of civility. If we do, the new house will need new locks. www.the-reframe.com/change-the-l...
A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
The entirety of David Drake's corpus. It was a fun game of "spot the origin".
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Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
No way MN can do it. We are a legitimately purple state; there's no way redrawing the lines can pass. I do hope some of the 60/40 states can follow CA's example.
Bobs, after Bob Denver
Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.
Yes. It goes button, cremini, and then portobello.
Something I very much miss after moving from northwestern NJ to the Midwest. Every supermarket had a wide variety of great mushrooms. Now, it's hard to get anything other than hard white buttons or sad portobellos.
Every college I've worked at has used that book for at least one class.
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
Yep. The gilded everything is a dead giveaway. He kept showing off charts and pointing to them.
Whoever made the chart doesn't know the difference between median and medium.
Project 2025’s roadmap for dismantling American government is 47% complete, according to the website Project 2025 Tracker. Remember when Trump denied knowing about the authoritarian playbook and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass? https://youtu.be/XmZm3zeSSDc?feature=shared
Donald Trump won 56% of the vote in Texas in 2024. Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 House seats, or 66%. If this plan goes through they'll control 30 of 38 seats, or 79%.
Besides a couple of Secret Service agents, who else is in that group?
WTAF? Between the stupid answer and giving a Nazi salute - twice! - this is just unhinged behavior.
Listen here:
Man who pardoned a convicted murderer because he liked who was killed makes illegal order backed by no law to arrest elected officials for a crime that doesn’t exist. You know, because they are the law and order party. Release the Epstein files.
This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.
It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...
I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them. Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
Not surprised. I see a lot of RW men embracing the "losing side, not convinced it was the wrong one" as a new "Lost Cause", a noble struggle against an oppressor. Even while Trump's GOP destroys America, aggrievement politics requires seeing themselves as persecuted heroes.
From my experience with an earthquake in northwest NJ years ago, all of the granite meant the quake wasn't so much of a "ground shaking" as a "abrupt, audible slam". Thought a gas main had blown up nearby.
As usual, Bill Burr doesn’t miss 🎯
Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
Is this where they’re going to store the Epstein files?
When the boys were teens we used to do theme movie nights. The Spy Night was "Hopscotch", "3 Days of the Condor" and "Sneakers".
Nixon's Enemy List redux
Same! Soldiers should be viewed and used as defending America. "War fighters" as a phrase has heavy Imperial, expansionist connotations.
Against all logic, somehow everything MTG says or does is dumber than everything else she says and does. She's the Escher's Staircase of Idiocracy.
Next to "Who's Your Doggy" pet supply store, so creative naming is a theme.
"Christmas Shoes". Even the most ravenous of monsters will flee rather than have to listen to that on repeat. Source: me during a particularly traumatic Christmas retail season job.
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Purging the watchdogs is how you end up with an intelligence community that looks like the one in all of the conspiracy movies and TV shows of the last 50 years. That it's being done by people who could not pour piss out of a boot if the directions were printed on the bottom is especially galling.
t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.
Very amusing anecdote! And very Lehrer.
Sorry you went through that. Thank you for sharing your experience. Daylight is our best disinfectant against toxicity.
The President is taking approx $1B of taxpayer funds from a military project to refurbish a plane given to him by a foreign nation, which he plans on taking with him when he leaves office. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
UnitedHealth allegedly misused AI to deny medical claims. Delta plans to use AI to set individualized flight ticket prices for passengers. AI data centers from companies like Meta and X are reportedly harming nearby residents. The list of harms from AI goes on and yet...
the difference between Dem politicians like Beshear & Walz (who say supportive things about LGBTQ ppl) and the Newsoms, Emanuels & other Dem politicians/pundits throwing trans ppl under the bus isn't "strategy", it's that the latter group is transphobic
I've seen a few people use the Firefly quote "May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one." Weird, considering their guy is in the White House, but feeling perpetually aggrieved is their whole personality.
If only The Minnesota Star Tribune knew someone who actually works at Twin Cities Public Television. I do. The number is 24. An unnamed staffer told me "it's a bloodbath".
Dang! That hits hard.
Love how he prepared for this journey these past months. Beautiful final show, embraced what was happening. Went out like the true searcher he was.
Done. Can't wait to read them after work.
I don't often plug stuff here, but... 1) I do have to eat 2) I'm really proud of a set of stories and characters I started with *brand new* at the beginning of the year. This is the first story: ko-fi.com/s/ef5a7b7880
Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.
"Attempt"? It's not merely an attempt. You'd think journalists would have better facility with language.
Just gonna tuck that distinction away for future use...
"Flat crack" was the term we used at B.Dalton when MtG first came out.
Same. From The Hobbit, where Bilbo is taunting the giant spiders of Mirkwood.
Never change, England
The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.
Absolutely unhinged levels of ego stroking for the Beloved Leader here.
It was cool to see the new Superman talk about his love for Star Wars, especially @michaelastackpole.bsky.social 's X-Wing series. Between him and Cavill, it's almost like guys who are happily and passionately interested in fun hobbies make good Supermen...
Lord Eshteross
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
Actually, both Bushes were surprisingly OK with comics making fun of them. Bush Sr. actually had Dana Carvey in the Oval Office doing his impression on the White House phones. I think they, unlike Trump, realized that getting publicly upset at being ridiculed just makes you look weak and small.
Teaching AI literacy. (GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)
Minneapolis song
Tragic irony that the Biden admin responded to an economic crash by prioritizing wages and employment over profits more than previous US govts, the Harris campaign proposed big new benefits (eg covering elder home care), then many voters who say they want that stayed home, or voted for the opposite.
Done. Loved the Great Blue Heron design and will happily wear it as a tee when I take out my camera!
The Grey Revolution
It is funny how persistent the "Commies!", "Schools are corrupting the youth", and "They're coming for your guns" drumbeats are throughout the entire 20th century. I like following Seth Cotler because he specializes in this stuff and often posts examples.
#girlgenius Hated to do it, but we started a GoFundMe. These are chaotic times, and no mistake, and all of a sudden we realized they were chaosing all over us. (www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-f...) Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Well, I've had it for years in one leg and can tell you that it sometimes feels like an itching inside the calf where it can't be scratched if that helps. Also, you become more susceptible to blood clots, so cross your fingers for that.
Some crops are not suitable for machine harvest. As for the rest, farmers already struggle to break even and a good part of the reason is the high cost to purchase, operate, and maintain expensive equipment. Does anyone think "AI Deere" or whatever will be a cheaper alternative?
Wakefield should be in prison, no parole
💯% this! It's been so normal for us for so long that most Americans don't realize it, but setting a precedent by voluntarily relinquishing power right at the beginning of our country was truly a miracle.
And Americans are either yawning at or gleefully celebrating a concentration camp for innocent people persecuted for their race. The question “Could it happen here?” has been answered emphatically.
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
Bluesky pals! I have a sci-fi graphic novel called DRIVE, & it's my favorite thing I've ever done! If you need a long, escapist read at the moment, I highly, highly recommend a deep-dive! The entire thing is free to read, here: drivecomic.com (THIS PAGE: “One last thing before you go…”)
That's the good stuff, with the TOE and everything.
Mall katana is such a great reference. With the death of malls, I wonder if Gen Z has an analogous one?
Fix This Sign xkcd.com/3113/
![Comic. [Person with ponytail using handheld device in front of a large sign with crooked, off-center header, with crooked QR code (with illegible URL) and crooked list beneath] Header: DOANATE TO FIX THIS SIGN! List: $10 Fix kerning [kerning around “rni” of kerning is difficult to read]; $20 Align Columns [out of alignment] $20 Fix text size [much smaller text size]; $50 Fix typo; $50 Fix centering; $100 fix rotation. PERSON: Grrr… [caption] My new company’s business model is based on extorting graphic designers.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidspubnircp7xyx267adn6waakg76eb4giljnlwdh3zig5dqw7pbm@jpeg "Click to view full size")
One of the things that *actually*, *truly* makes America great is NASA. And Trump has slit its throat.
