We’ll find out if they hold the ceremony at Four Seasons Landscaping.
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We’ll find out if they hold the ceremony at Four Seasons Landscaping.
Ah, here's a more likely explanation. bsky.app/profile/seth...
George Washington inauguration too. Wondering which specific thing he's going for with the shirt, because nothing about his presence involves giving anyone the protections enshrined the constitution.
And, of course, there's the Confederate flag, which is now flown by racists, people dog-whistling a racist message by tryig to argue it's heritage or, at a minimum, people who are completely comfortable with being amongst racists.
I tend to think that Americans don't celebrate divisions like states because most of our state flags SUCK (New Mexico, Tennessee and a few other ones are cool.) And, of course, the Union flag in the Civil war was generally the US flag, albeit with fewer stars.
There have been recent movements to fly the flag when, say, protesting Trump, to show that this is about an opposition to him, his policies and his fanbase (MAGA types always try to conflate it into "why do you hate America"), but it's definitely complicated on this side of the pond, too.
In the US, a lot of people fly the US flag, and often, it's just garden-variety love of country (maybe someone served in the military), but fetishism of the flag (and backing laws to protect the flag) are a very right-wing thing.
Can they do a Liz Truss and find a new Prime Minister without holding new parliamentary elections?
This totally looks like he lost a bet, and I've set my mind to wondering what kind of humiliation would have been on the other side of that bet if he had won.
Walleye on a stick and Sweet Martha’s cookies (both excellent) await!
I don’t expect a candidate to agree with me on everything, but things like antagonizing trans people and people doing their best to survive without a roof over their heads are dealbreakers for me.
Just watched the Jen Psaki montage of Republicans holding town halls and being berated by their constituents. The guy from Alabama abruptly ending one while the most deep south accent in history yells “bye, Felicia” warmed my heart.
The deal is that we pay them a modest salary to stay ready with a weekend each month and a few weeks and we call on them if there's a war or a natural disaster, not to be political pawns or because Trump wants to punish an entire city to avenge Big Balls.
I'd have to imagine the Guard hates it too -- get yanked out of your day job, maybe have to work out childcare and they don't have anything for you to do so you have to twiddle your thumbs at the Lincoln Memorial, a train station or a Krispy Kreme.
If it DOES happen, predicting that: - None of the Trump teflon extends to JD, who has all of the dickishness but none of the charisma and gives off a "bully's toady friend" vibe. - Even if it's an obvious medical thing, MAGA will still completely blame him and go straight-up QAnon on him.
I'm in Illinois and there were plenty of appointments available starting next Thursday (which I'm guessing is shortly after they're getting the shipment.) Thinking someone in one of the neighboring states might be able to sign up for an appointment here.
If I’ve arrived at your chatbot, it’s because I couldn’t google what I needed and it wasn’t in your FAQs and I grudgingly went to the chat because someone will probably answer faster than it will take to get to a person through the phone system.
Any attempt to actually solve my problem or “deflect” the call back to something on the webpage has failed miserably.
I’ve found every chatbot encounter to be completely useless except for starting off with collecting my info and doing an initial multiple choice question to determine which actual person the chat should route to.
Zohran has been incredibly clear about how proud he is of New York, how much he loves being a New Yorker and how much he wants to make his city more livable for others. He doesn’t owe any of that gratitude to Vance or anything he stands for.
(I'd add that any candidate should be looking at how Mamdani, AOC, Eric Swalwell and Tim Walz handle press, social media and outreach and seeing what they can use. Some of it might not be age-appropriate for all candidates, but most of it is just good communication adapted to modern media.)
Also doesn't hurt that the people negatively affected by the rent stabilization stuff are NYC landlords, a group most NYC residents aren't fond of and he's been able to make hay out of them heavily funding Cuomo in an effort to keep rents high.
Zohran is an exceptional talent, but I'm really hoping that Democrats everywhere are studying this and seeing what they can borrow from it in terms of mannerisms, framing and just generally addressing questions head on.
At the moment he's still over 50% approval and he's a lame duck. But he's going to run for president at some point and this needs to get tattooed to him.
They built it with no sewer facilities, no water source and no power source (except generators running fuel that also needed to be trucked in.) With the construction cost, it cost at least $4,000 per detainee per day, most of whom hadn't been charged with a crime. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
Also hoping Democrats pound the table on how they planned it, who got the bids, etc. It's Florida. If someone shines the light of truth on the process, they'll find a ton of Republican donors and family members at the companies.
Now would be a great time for Democratic state legislators to start pounding the desk about an audit of the process, how the bidding process was conducted and, inevitably, whose donors and family members work for the contractors who got the business.
I'm personally hoping they stick Florida with the $250 billion for this. DeSantis was all too eager to build it and he didn't do any of the required preparation and studies. Their voters will ignore abuses of immigrants, but they'll notice throwing a quarter billion dollars down a hole.
Hoping they stick Florida with the bill for this. DeSantis was all too eager to build it and maybe it'll get the attention of Floridians to know they threw a quarter of a billion dollars down a hole. www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis...
It appears they're complying with it. I'm glad this got assigned to a judge who refused to stay her judgment on it. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
We’re going to have a lobbyist who works for Big Pleats meet you at The Palm.
Perfect!
Absolutely loved them (and the Charisma of the Dead definitely sounds like something that didn’t quite make it onto Dead Man’s Party.
Or the album Oingo Boingo decided not to make. (Spoiler alert, I'd still buy a bootleg of the damn thing)
Thinking borscht. They'd never be able to get the stain out from the beets and that would serve as an excellent metaphor for the confederacy.
She's my next Congresswoman.
Daaaaamn. Bam Bam ate his Wheaties today.
I’ll know this story is real when Scott Presler tries to register them to vote in Pennsylvania.
Yes! Surely that gentleman with the complexion of leather, the brain worm and the voice like a slow-motion train brake failure can guide me to health.
That said, chatbots and "agentic conversations" really piss people off and I can definitely see one of them slowing down the service by a lot.
I've generally found ordering through a drive-thru to be pretty accurate and the only motivation I could see would be to reduce headcount. I could see showing the person taking the order a text-to-speech of the conversation helping with order accuracy...
Trump and Harris split men under 29 nearly half and half, while women under 29 went Harris 61-37%. Guessing it's a pretty lonely existence for young, single MAGA guys out there who are in college or in a town that isn't bright red.
Wondering if anyone can place what kind of writing or whatever is on the map of Texas on the hat to narrow it down a little further (e.g. is it something pertaining to a specific group?)
Absolutely, and I completely understand how anyone would look at the level of harassment coming from the president and RFK Jr's misinformed goons, but leaving just lets them put someone in there compliant.
Additionally, I'd imagine that the labor supply for food service jobs has dropped because of ICE grabbing and deporting undocumented employees and people with pending asylum claims.
I fully understand why someone wouldn't want to deal with presidential-level harassment, Trump's fan club or be involved when the Cabinet member over their department turns their sights on destroying it. I can't blame them for resigning, but the more effective tactic is still to fight it.
But the protections and the process provide a lot more opportunity to kick up a ton of dust, where a resignation just shows up as a line in a news story on one day.
But the next tier down are career people, who are protected by the Civil Service Reform Act. Of course, Trump has attempted to fire the Merit Services Review Board and is arguing that he has a constitutional right to fire anyone who reports up to him and that's still being litigated.
I'm ALWAYS team fight it. I know the CDC director is a political appointment (e.g. nominated by the president, approved by the Senate), and with a few exceptions that are being litigated now, the president can fire appointees for pretty much any reason...
It depends. They put the restrictions on them in California and they (mostly) obeyed them. It wouldn't surprise me if the same pattern happens elsewhere (district judge temporary restraining order on the whole activation without permission from the governor, stayed except for limiting their scope)
I had times available for both Walgreens and CVS near me and, in both cases, the first date available was September 4th, which is probably when it's getting shipped in (or they want to get it started after the holiday weekend)
I was able to see appointments at CVS and Walgreens, so if you have one of those near you, that might be an option.
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
For now, they're just ASKING if you have the health risks instead of asking you to prove it.
I could definitely see the Democrats taking the House and even the Senate, but they really need to get their shit together and not leave the messaging to Schumer and Jeffries, who are really terrible at this.
I'd love to see someone take that Texas map, map voting precincts onto it and see what would happen if people vote as they did in 2018. I don't have an ability to do that, but Trump's popularity is tracking close to what he was running at this point in his first term.
It's still a year off, but if the election was today before gerrymandering, Trump would take a major thumping. Trump definitely has supporters who will only show up if he's on the ballot, his support among Latinos could collapse and the older/college educated voters show up more reliably.
My two analogs for this election are Obama and Trump's first midterm elections where both lost a ton of seats in Congress. Obama managed to turn out a lot of low-propensity voters (as did Trump) and those voters didn't show up in the midterms when their candidate was underwater.
With the approval yesterday, both of my local pharmacies (CVS and Walgreens) made it available. The procedure to sign up for the shot was the same as before except it now asks if I'm over 65 or have a risk factor. Once I answered yes, I was able to sign up for it.
There's a very good reason why that 44-year-old Lee Atwater interview where he said the quiet part out loud is still relevant. Tipping point was when calling out racism was seen as more offensive than being racist as long as the speaker refrained from using actual racial slurs.
Are we 100% sure that Tim Kaine doesn't have a side hustle?
I can assure you that nothing is going to look like government waste more than two dozen bored guys standing guard at each of our 168 post offices.
If they DID send the guard to Chicago and a court limited them to what they had in LA (guarding federal buildings, protecting federal officers), there are like 5 big Federal buildings and no border to guard, so they'd REALLY be twiddling their thumbs here.
I have to wonder if Trump is looking at the Guard deployment to DC, where he doesn't have the same constraints on what he has the guard do, there are a million Federal buildings, he can order the DC police around and they're picking up trash, mulching and looking bored at a train station...
Beyond all of this, DC deserves a lot better than to have their government micromanaged by a bunch of goobers in Congress.
They need statehood. Absolutely the first thing Democrats need to do the next time they have a trifecta.
I'm not a veteran, but if I was, I'd be really pissed off that Trump decided to do this to a bunch of soldiers who signed on to stay ready, help their country and maybe be activated to fill sandbags when a flood is coming or clear roads after a hurricane. They didn't sign up for this.
This is a bully taking people away from their jobs for a month because DC's unique status means he can send in the guard and micromanage their police. And there's nothing for them to do so they're milling around a train station, picking up trash and spreading mulch.
I have a ton of respect for anyone who signs up for the guard. The deal is that we pay them, they devote a weekend every month and a few weeks to stay ready and they're available if we have a war, natural disaster or other vital reason to activate them. This isn't remotely close to that.
You don't, under any circumstances, have to hand it to North Korea, but they at least made sure THEIR dictators were smiling when they put something like this up.
Nothing like having the guy trying to neuter unions hanging an enormous banner of himself glaring at people on the Department of Labor just in time for our holiday weekend that celebrates unions and the labor movement.
Imagine thinking that a bunch of Guardsmen needing to leave their day jobs for a month to patrol a train station. pick up trash and spread mulch is a success or an efficient use of their time.
Love it! And Spinal Tap did have a large skull, shown in the scene at the beginning where they were loading in to an area -- The skull is rumored to be somewhere in Seattle after Soundgarden used it on a tour.
The leaders of North Korea at least cared enough about THEIR banners to smile on the photos.
Wondering how many times she's going to keep trying to indict on the felony charge before indicting him for a misdemeanor.
Was this the Milwaukee Dachshund Derby or something else?
I feel absolutely terrible that a bunch of people who signed on to keep up to date on their training, go to war if needed and sometimes get activated to help recover from natural disasters are getting yanked around like this.
If someone were to ask me if Trump had done anything I support, I’d probably mention that it’s about time we got rid of the penny, but I honestly can’t think of anything else.
Feeling especially bad for the guard members pulled from their day jobs, activated for political theater, standing around because they aren’t needed and then being given a broom or a bag of mulch.
We have about 5 large federal buildings downtown and no border to enforce. Predicting the spectacle of a bunch of Guardsmen who don’t want any part of this guarding every post office or something.
I’m in Chicago and thinking that if Trump DOES activate the guard, it’s likely they would be restricted to protecting federal law enforcement and protecting federal buildings…
Just thinking that in DC, there are a ton of Federal buildings and because of DC’s unique status, Trump is the commander in chief of the guard and can micromanage the police…
“Transparent”
When the guy in charge of the EPA can't actually do something to improve the environment and needs to gin up some outrage to look busy.
I get embarrassed receiving compliments and this kind of meeting would be my own personal hell.
Are they talking about how fast gas will pour out of a jerrycan or is it something else? I glossed over it the first time, but I can't imagine that ranks higher than like number 100 on anyone's list of gripes. "Start dinner without me. It's gonna take an extra 10 seconds to fill the lawnmower."
*Turned a valve, emptied a reservoir not connected to Southern California's water system because there's a mountain range in the way, wasting a ton of water needed by farmers in the name of a photo op. I too would like to hear from the people forced to turn that valve.
I can someone would trust a chatbot designed to be encouraging and frictionless, blowing through danger signs where a real friend would let a parent know or tell someone "you're really depressed and we need to find someone who can help you with this."
The latter is really scary. Real friendships and relationships are going to be complicated. Real people are messy and I can completely see how someone struggling to interact with real people could look to a chatbot for friendship...
This is all moving in a very scary direction very quickly. AI has gone from a glorified search engine that can take conversational inputs and a novelty that paints images on request to a convincing deepfake engine and a salve for loneliness in just a few years.
Yikes. I realize that the models are fed by whatever is out on the internet, the internet can be a pretty dark place and the models aren't programmed in a linear way that gives a predictable, reproducible result, but they need to make sure stuff like this can't happen.
Definitely! Honestly, I don't know who else is in the picture for the Maine senate race, but I really liked what I saw here and I'm hoping this is finally the time Maine sends Collins into retirement.
Nope, that's it. The Fed Governors are all well-qualified academics. He botched trying to pressure Powell into quitting when that hardhat tour backfired and he knows his base will just see her as a "DEI hire" because of her race and gender. Pure unadultered racism.
Wait. Joe Wilson finally got something right?
Every word of that speech was important, but especially THAT part
Like every time Fox News shows up at a “Chicago Breakfast Spot” and it’s deep in DuPage county with whoever they could rustle up to come and be on TV at 6 am.
I’m sure the Illinois Guard members don’t want to do this, I doubt the other state Guard members want to either and he can’t micromanage the Chicago PD or Illinois State Police like he can do in DC due to their special status.
Honestly wondering what happens if Trump deploys (or tries to deploy) the Guard, Pritzker says no, they guard the handful of Federal buildings we have and there’s like two dozen Guard members looking bored at every post office or something.