There's an interstate compact intended to catch exactly this sort of thing through information-sharing, ERIC. It had bipartisan support until Republicans turned on it because of Trumpian, denialist conspiracy theories.

Zero Americans benefit from this. All of us, every Conservative and every Liberal American, are watching our future hobbled. Shattering a treasured national asset: our former status as the top destination for global talent, hard-wrought by generations of visionary Republicans and Democrats.

Run, don't walk, to listen to this #Ween set from the Court Tavern in New Brunswick, NJ (1996) Filmed on 8mm, audio from the sound board Standout tracks from The Mollusk, 12 Golden Country Greats, and Chocolate and Cheese www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdD2...

The historic 'All American' Division deserves better than a poorly-planned war of choice started by a deteriorating vengeful leader and a clueless warmongering major he put in charge of the military. That's my hot take.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Lee was a horrible man and a traitor to the republic. The army he led into an invasion of Pennsylvania with kidnapped free black people and sent them into slavery. Whatever tactical genius he possessed led him in his most famous battle to just march his army straight into the enemy’s front.

The only reason the Supreme Court of the United States is now examining the legality of a mail ballot receipt law is that Donald Trump is an election denier who still can’t his loss, and Republican lawyers have decided to legitimize and sanewash that denialism as a matter of federal election law.

These are the same people who wanted folks fired from their private sector jobs for posting literal quotes from the mouth of Charlie Kirk after his death

Good things still happen in a falling-apart world

9 more seasons of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance + Muppet Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I'll buy out Muppet Studios and give the Henson kids a few billion each to greenlight the latter

Rand - often wrong, occasionally VERY correct

People have sometimes claimed to discover the origin of introspection in this or that historical era. But if you mean Rousseau, Petrarch would like a word. If you mean Petrarch, Cicero. If you mean Cicero, Socrates. If you mean Socrates, the Buddha. If you mean the Buddha, Gilgamesh.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

Hegseth went out of his way to say the bad magic words.

Mar Espinar, Spain’s PSOE deputy, on Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s support for Trump: “Take your mafioso chief of staff, go to Mar-a-Lago, and leave us here — because we are more like the brave ones from Minnesota”

Deep in their bones they are anti-American, opposed to the very idea of a nation explicitly dedicated to liberty and equality and the rule of law and electoral democracy. Not just failing to live up to that creed, we've always had a lot of that of course. But affirmatively, ideologically against it.

That dork Kash thinks this is what being an FBI agent looks like

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

The companies standing up to Trump have the model: "we provide goods & services that customers seek to exchange for money" and the ones bribing the admin are: "we need govt contracts and exemptions from tax/environmental regs to make the maths work b/c people are lukewarm about our products"

This is what heroin must feel like

Nazi punks fuck off

When I was in college Alec Baldwin asked me to give him my baby teeth

I know it isn't *probable*, but it is *possible* that there is a future where this pathetic little dork ends up in prison. Maybe here, maybe another country. But it's possible.

The Iranian ambassador was not, for the record, on American soil. I’ve never seen an admin more full of juvenile man-children openly projecting their juvenile man-childness every time they open their mouths and try to come across as “tough.” (And yes, I know Waltz’s background: still juvenile.)

I can't wait until fascism is over so I can go back to hating Democrats over shit like this: "failure squarely on Jesse Salomon (D -Shoreline), the...chair. Despite being approved by the Washington House on a 94-2 vote...it was never given a public hearing" www.theurbanist.org/2026/03/02/n...

Just a reminder that the Trump administration is at the supreme Court today arguing against your second amendment rights. As if you didn't need a reminder that they hate *all* of your rights

Timeline cleanse - love anything like Hopper loved drawing and painting his beloved Jo's buns

Toffoli & Wennberg walking the 'Hockey is for Everyone' walk, coaching the Sharks' Pride Scrimmage between Team Trans & SF LGBTQ team. Hooray for positive masculine role models 💪🌈 www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/6...

And in Iraq, we had active NATO support, the full backing of allied defense and supply chains, and broad domestic support for the conflict. Today, we've alienated our allies, installed an unqualified political hire to run the Pentagon, and have a president increasingly unmoored from reality. /2

It's almost like the rule of law and government stability is the essential foundation of a market economy. What a concept.

To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state.

Holds up

The #Mariners' Josh Naylor provided a nice moment Tuesday by greeting history-making umpire Jen Pawol before stepping into the box. "It’s not hard to be inclusive and welcoming and happy. I think it could change the world.” (via @shannondrayer.bsky.social) sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...

Love this coming from the President "Egg Prices were Slightly Too High One Year" admin. What if instead of eating offal, we didn't destroy the world's greatest economy and all our soft power? That way we could have the meat we want + allies + security + real influence. Maybe I'm the crazy one.

While this is bad/scary, I don't want anyone to lose sight of the fact that these fuckers are *scared*. They know the next two elections (at least) are going to be an absolute bloodbath for a lot of republicans and they are trying to do anything to avoid ending up in jail for corruption/treason.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

Choose! Choose the form of the Destructor!

Watching Delicious in Dungeon with my kids tonight. It'll bring joy, not doom

Had to ditch Biden because eggs were $3.50 instead of $2.99, but you only get two dolls as Xmas, 3 pencils, and forget eating any beef you filthy peasants!

People desperately want a solution to high housing prices that does not require building new homes in their neighborhoods. No such solution exists. If we want lower rents and home prices, we need to build more homes in the places people want to live. Anyone who says otherwise is bullshitting you.

meanwhile Trump will be like "brown trans narco-terrorists are eating pet gerbils in the litter box Biden mandated in every school. That's why tonight I directed the Secretary of War to arrest the minority whip & strap them to a JDAM I'm directing at an Iranian children's hospital at 12:00 tonight"

If you look around the table and can’t tell who the mark is, you’re the mark.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Remember the red scare that gripped America for like 50 years? The fear was losing our freedoms and ending up acting like authoritarian regimes in Russia, China, and Cuba.

Normalize giving stuffies to grown men as they celebrate the greatest achievement of their lives

live free or die

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

Basically my great awakening that shattered my libertarianism was a twin realization that economic rights are secondary to political ones, and that even if I have some of the ideological views that libertarianism describes, the Ron Paul party is not an effective channel for any of that