Notice how many people interpreted my post as zero-sum, that expenditures should be taken away from seniors rather than given more to children and young families. This zero-sum thinking is a huge problem in US politics.

I’m so glad somebody directly estimated this. It’s even more extreme on a per capita basis. The average American retiree gets more than 10x more public spending than the average young person.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

These pilots will get hand-selected for promotion. www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...

Hey @puckthepilot.bsky.social it is okay, nbd, the Ops Boss said they were just flying a regular training sortie on a training route.

@puckthepilot.bsky.social you'll get a kick out of this.

Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

Paid $2,500 for a fully loaded 2013 4 door hatchback that accomplishes 99% of my driving needs, serves as a home backup battery, and refuels via a standard wall outlet. Car insurance is like $300 a *year.* One set of tires, otherwise maintenance free. Why choose anything else as a daily?

Reading about a $200 billion request from the President for a war no one wanted right after reading Sandi Doughton's "Full rip 9.0: The next big earthquake in the Pacific Northwest" makes me want to open a window and scream à la Network (1976). $200 billion could buy so much mitigation. So. Much.

Waaaaaaaait — Gregg Phillips got a top-level gig with FEMA? How did I miss this?

“Many cities now avoid using the term at all, and are even careful about talking about having more things close-by in other ways, lest they be accused of ‘pushing that 15-minute city agenda’!” I’ve seen it first-hand, and it’s not ok. City Halls need thicker skins and a lot better communications.

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Trump is paying feed, clothe, house, and provide lousy medical care for illegal immigrants at DHS jails. Then he's paying for free flights to their home country, no questions asked. Then, he's giving them thousands of dollars in taxpayer CASH. Scandal of the century.

Trump is not a conservative. He's a big government statist who hates the Constitution and spits on the limited government cause. He cares only about his self-defeating population purge agenda. It should be obvious by now: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Imagine if Biden argued, "We're going to pay to shelter immigrants in DHS facilities until we can find and pay for a flight for them to the USA and then give them $2,600 CASH because it will be good for our fiscal situation since they'll pay taxes here." He'd have a better case!

The government has a ~$1 BILLION program for illegal immigrants to receive government cash and free flights if they came or stayed illegally. It is literally what they accused Biden of doing in reverse. Cash handouts and free flights for illegal aliens. No principles. www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/u...

We got a DM the other day with a fun request from a local family: Could we find this nice BART train operator who always waved and beeped at this special little rider? And if we found him, could we deliver him a thank you card!?  So we got to work …

ChatGPT: you’re so right, Leto Atreides II. Merging with a worm would give you unconscionable power that you, alone, could wield — you, alone, could be trusted with. You wouldn’t be committing a genocide. You would be saving humanity

I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training for three years before the office was disestablished last year. I owned the policy on professional military education for all five services. I have listened to Secretary Hegseth's announcement. I have thoughts. 🧵

Yes, Congressman. You should use your time and position on a powerful committee to determine whether or not I should have a job that *checks notes* I have never had. We deserve better than this.

Damn the way congressional members are reacting to this you'd think you'd just started a large-scale conventional conflict

You couldn’t go five minutes without hearing the word “littoral“ for the last dozen years or more, and now things are actually kicking off in the littoralest littoral in the world and the USN is all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

FIGHTING FOR WEST TEXAS, ON & OFF THE BALLOT Kyle Rable & his team spent Thursday evening volunteering at the South Plains Food Bank packing snack bags for kids in our area. Grateful for opportunities like this to give back & support our neighbors. #fyp #volunteer #texas #serve #food

My toddler asked me what “photography” starts with 🤦‍♂️

POV: you are the captain of an Iraqi oil tanker idling in a Dubai port

For those keeping score at home: I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week. To be continued...

On the day this story is running, you choose this message? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.

Agreed. Would also add: any facet of the government that becomes partisan must be dismantled. Amend the Hatch Act.

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

all seems like fun and games until the measles outbreak, incel mass shooter, or Shahed 136 drone hits your kid's school I guess

been saying this for close to a decade now and it keeps getting horrifically more true bsky.app/profile/tee-...

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

Bluesky has the juice!!

Folks, we don’t have time to go to war in Iran when the DoD is waging culture war back home

Remember when Google was good?

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

Here’s a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Do you have a strategy for communicating about disasters? And a larger system for understanding disasters politically?

Love to see it

*SGM voice* “Hey Trooper! Yeah, you! Stand up! Stand up and move to the back of the room!”

DHS is shutdown. Just look how shutdown it is.

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

Texas local news covering the murders in Minnesota: "...one struck an ICE officer with her vehicle before being shot, while another showed up to harass ICE officers while carrying a loaded gun, which apparently fired while he was being restrained, leading to him being shot by officers as well."

Dale's views are in line with Jessica Valenti's observations

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

This little maneuver is going to cost some airlines a lot of money.