“The meeting was an insult to the officers. Called urgently to Washington to be lectured on personal grooming by a drunk wife-abuser and a campaign rally by an increasingly demented president”

I needed a moment of zen on my drive back after reading the Events of This Morning. So I stopped at Grandview in the New River National Forest. Take in these photos and feel small and at peace in the mountains with me.

the people dooming about nobody walking out is a hilarious juxtaposition to trump basically saying the lack of applause is one of the most undermining things they could have done

Hegseth: and ANOTHER THING.... these beards, man, they're just... they're not [unintelligible]... we've got to get back to being fucking REAL MEN with these fuck yeah guns like *imitates shooting noise* BlueSky Rando: holy FUCK the fascists have WON forever it is OVER

Embarrassment is the main thing. He is actually detrimental to the administration's authoritarianism for this reason, I think; literally the only people who find this act even remotely intimidating are panic-brained doomers on BlueSky

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

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I can never again say Trump does nothing good. This is A+ content.

I can see being an alcoholic helping with the task of telling a room full of United States military general and flag officers they’re fat.

One of the things you really learn working with current or retired GOFOs is that they *all know one another*. Their personal networks are *insane*. They may not all like one another *at all* in some cases, but like, they know one another.

Hoo boy the Coates/Klein exchange was very good and I think revealed two things that have really gotten to me. Feel free to mute the thread. Or block me, whatever.

This. I've spent a lot of time in WV and it's literally all about NG these days. Pipelines being built EVERYWHERE. Almost no one mentions coal except in a historical way or to explain the origin of pepperoni rolls.

I am in the Wild and Wonderful West Virginia and even here the coal thing is getting increasingly anachronistic. It has been for a generation or more, but it’s losing its cultural power here.

It’s Extremely Cool that I get to have Professional Opinions about this.

New episode of the @holocaustpod.bsky.social! Really thought-provoking conversation about dehumanization. Sadly, very topical as well.

This great. Take it in and think. Personally, I'm in the service cuts block. But, there's value to knowing where you are and why.

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

Cardinal Robert McElroy at the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

First time presenting a research paper in a church! ⛪️📄 Presented our paper on aging & cognitive skills at the workshop on „Skills and Demographic Transitions: Labour Markets, Productivity and Welfare" in Urbino last week. Thanks to the great hosts! Link to paper and tv coverage in the comments.

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i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

Folks, wear your safety glasses please.

“older men are higher risks for physical ajd mental health problems in offspring, if they can have them at all” is a self-censoring fact for US conservatism

Many of you don’t want to hear this but the liberal international order currently rests upon the shoulders of a Ukrainian Comic and a former AQI insurgent

“The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.”

The reason I like chronological, text-based social media is that I can engage with people talking around a topic, and sixty seconds later I can come across someone posting an academic article exploring that topic in depth.

One CNN investigation has identified “more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …”

Packed Federal Fallout pod out this morning First a shutdown showdown but will there actually be one this time? Then GOP polls in Virginia that still show Spanberger up Finally New Jersey looks closer so will it get most of the attention in the home stretch? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Pretty sure this counts as a donation in kind to any of these folks’ primary campaigns

Word to the wise, if you think that the field will be stormed at the end of the game, save yourself the broken femur and *watch* rather than participate. Ask me how I know apnews.com/article/virg...

I am extremely confident that every single person that has ever worked in an emergency room, pediatrics clinic, fire department, rescue squad, medevac, pharmacy or whatever has at least one story like this. The specialists have dozens.

The scariest thing a first responder can be called for is “baby unresponsive, not breathing”. I worked for awhile on a specialty team for newborns and pediatric patients and we would respond to field calls like this. A huge proportion of them end up being febrile seizures.

*taps sign*

Remarkable in its way how his favorability on crime is declining given the sheer amount of attention the regime is placing on crime and criming more generally. Promises made promises kept, after all.

This only happens to you once

what a lovely day, I sure hope nothing bad happens

Wake up it’s gameday

Saturday morning Zen youtu.be/ALUKDkOxVPo?...

Has anyone written up a long form article about the fundamentally submissive nature of men in the MAGA movement? There’s something weird going on there.

The title of my Master’s thesis was “Stroke as a Public Policy Problem” and so you could say the Trump II admin is purpose built to destroy me psychologically.

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I don't want to speculate, but you have to think that the hours that Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein spent over lunch in 2017 almost certainly featured one of the most normal conversations of all time.

NHC doesn’t make landfall within five days, which is the smart play. I’d expect some east-northeast shifts to the end of the forecast with time, as is the typical model/NHC track bias.

Whether or not it makes landfall, heavy rain across the Carolinas and Virginia is expected over the next 3-5 days. The WPC forecast explicitly shows 7-10”, with locally higher amounts likely.

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I’m glad that there’s no chance that I’ll be in a Friday afternoon news dump of Epstein files. Living like that sounds really stressful.

So Sinclair appears to have *really* lost here. Their statement is uh… let me pull a few parts. sbgi.net/sinclair-sta...

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Huntington’s is one of the most cruel pathologies you can imagine, and the people that care for these folks get very few wins but continue just the same. Tears not of joy but of hope.