My wife babysat Ollie North’s grandkids in high school and she never understood why that was totally insane to me until like a few weeks ago when the US / Iran relationship became more salient and she read a story about Iran Contra.

Took the kids to the carnival last night and you can tell they had the time of their lives because I carried one passed out asleep in one arm and the other dragged kicking and screaming out in the other. The baby is perfectly content in the stroller. Next year I’ll…. Carry her somehow.

This is correct and a load bearing part of any high performing unit’s cohesion. Gotta cut folks down to size.

@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social hey just wanted to make you aware

My great aunt, who lived out west, had a rare condition that made her extremely dry and green skinned. She died when exposed to falling water. Seeing rain is traumatic and dangerous for many of us.

What are we estimating PMF’s size and capacity is these days? Seems like a good use for them here from Iran’s perspective.

Discuss

In light of self-proclaimed socialists yelling at AOC while singing MTG's praises, allow me to present a small snippet Philip Converse's "The nature of belief systems in mass publics"

"We can support that subcutaneous emphysema of the scrotum due to traumatic pneumothorax (blunt trauma), despite its impressive clinical presentation, is not really an urgent situation" lmao that must have been fun as hell to write

A beautiful and sad article. Erin has cared for several of my patients and helped them live their best life until the end.

It’s second Sunday of the month…. Shortly it will be Captain Dan’s Laundry.

Gonna use this as an opportunity to share a case report with a title meant to cause psychic damage to anyone with twig and berries.

Christianity under threat? A church member worries that one of their projects might one day become illegal...

It is not surprising, but it is none the less shocking, to see they really are just going to keep doing this thing. Like, sure, it is electorally suicidal, economically disastrous, and culturally poisonous. But when the alternative is having to admit you were wrong? Not even a choice.

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When doctors do not care - new essay by me in @thelancet.com, describing the apathy and disinterest I experienced during 20 years of undiagnosed chronic symptoms www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... if you can't access but want to read - please do email me for a PDF

No lies detected.

Do we have a deal?

As an audience member, my daughter has consistent and clear requests, and my husband makes sure to let me know them.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

I’ve once gotten a follow up page that said something to the effect of “only mustache was found”

The company that was nominally awarded this contract was called “Atlantic Industrial Coatings, LLC”, its Small Business Association profile lists it as a woman owned small business with the contact having a “vaspray.com” email address. Vaspray is also the website.

Niche government contracting / acquisitions Poasting but this is also 100% true

There are programs that allow the government to “set aside” and award contracts without a full and open market competition. Many of these are premised on socio economic status determinations. The company referenced below is a woman owned small business in an economically disadvantaged area!

The album is only available on physical media or iTunes, no streaming, but man this Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) album is fantastic. Just full of fantastic lyrics that meet the moment. “Stack the courts to serve your own salvation…” “Katy Perry being all annoying”

Dawg this is sin.

Some people simply aren’t prepared for truth.

Remember in late 2021 when we were pretending that people who didn't get the vaccine all had very reasonable excuses

Hypervigilance profiles in sleep-onset insomnia and psychiatric comorbidity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.722943v1

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

Snakes do NOT hunt in packs.

I also had a separate guy once tell me he had just been running from a pack of copperhead snakes that were hunting him through the tree line.

Taxpayers when it’s time to staff a BLS ambulance and one engine in their town of 15k

This, too, is Roomba with Cerebrovascular Disease Characteristics Thought. Thank you, @persistentpoasting.bsky.social for bringing this matter to my attention.

And they treat non-FD EMS like garbage. Why pay?

Americans have such a disdain for public service that I truly believe even the largest cities would still rely on volunteer fire departments if it weren’t for the corruption and immediate social ramifications of people in your community dying. Because rural places tolerate it! Lots of suburbs too.

Why does a bat screech? A whale sing? Reopen the schools.

Concerning!

You could basically just watch everyone testifying right now in Louisiana’s senate hearing. it’s been maybe 1/3rd black church leaders

distressing antebellum politics energy

many people are wondering if Jay Jones has the courage

Have the courage to do the right thing Attorney General Jones.

People bitching about Spanberger for a court's decision are once again doing Republicans' work for them. Dem legislature got the thing on the ballot and passed if the court strikes it down, they should just do it again.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

i have my own strong opinions about this but curious what you guys think this paragraph is doing in the Virginia Supreme Court's decision to nullify the will of the people

you can design a framework for good governance, but you can't design your way out of a problem of malevolent politics...

What the fuck does this even mean lol

Makes organized civil conflict much more likely, along with consolidating partisan *access* to power within states that are otherwise politically contested. I try not to doom about that stuff but that’s really bad.

Really, the #1 political project for VA state Democrats right now is to make sure the state supreme court is never in a position to make a similar ruling like this again, and to punish those that brought it about.

It's time.