Lucy got a checkup today! No bladder stones found. We did find one concerned kitty. She's home and recovering from her visit.

Hot New Sovereign Citizen verse just dropped. Just tell the cop you're a tech company.

Someone tell me how to get the full width notification panel. @samsungmobileus.bsky.social updated us to One UI 8.5 and apparently took away full screen notifications. I can't figure out how to go back. The old one was way more useful. What a downgrade.

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

When I grew up in American Christianity, the thing about not idolizing other gods was pretty important, and those same people are, today, literally hoisting a golden idol of their chosen saviour.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

@microsoft.com Are you now able to offer me the indemnification agreement you couldn't offer me the last time we went rounds on this issue?

A Polish developer published an OrcaSlicer fork that restored what Bambu Lab's January 2025 firmware update broke. Days later, Bambu's lawyers came calling — and the cease-and-desist they sent exposed something the company probably didn't want examined too closely. youtu.be/0tdZ5Z7nRDY

Five years of social media handles. Ten years of email addresses. Family information. Biometrics. DNA. This is what crossing the border into the United States will soon require. youtu.be/K-ebiORD9WM

Have I told you my Holocaust joke? I once told God my Holocaust joke. But He didn't laugh. I said, "I guess you had to be there."

Blanche and Co immediately used Sunday's "security incident" to justify the ballroom. The rest of the motion is just as insane. This isn't how lawyers and judges make and adjudicate legal claims and issues. This is insanity.

Anyway. I’m glad nobody was hurt and I’m sure the journalists who attended the WHCD will not center themselves and their personal experiences and instead remain focused on holding the powerful accountable and informing the people about their government.

If a powerful and evil person reviled my colleagues, and dehumanized them, and said they should be executed for treason, and I went and broke bread with that person at an event to promote and celebrate and normalize him, I would be a shitty person, and I hope people would be shitty to me.

So, anyway, I obviously need the ballroom for national security. ✊✊

What would it look like if a U.S. president were a Russian intelligence asset? In this video, I compare the strategic prescriptions in Aleksandr Dugin's "Foundations of Geopolitics" with the observable foreign policy decisions of the Trump administration. youtu.be/6-u4R5xbpOk

I updated PostcardsToCongress.org to version 2.0 today, adding support for Americans abroad and adding state reps as recipients. It's been a fun project so far, and I'm happy to say users are already sending postcards on a daily basis. Stay tuned for updates. Coupon code in the original.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Just noticing that, in Abrego's civil case, on 4/17 govt appealed Judge Xinis's "constructive denial" of its motion to lift her order blocking his removal to Liberia. Govt told Xinis to rule by 4/17; she said it had no power to give her a deadline & set a hrg for 4/28. Govt blew her off & appealed.

The pro-pedophilia party isn't doing so hot these days. "Fractures Emerge Between GOP's Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings" youtu.be/ZaZPiwxPqO4?...

Maybe Trump should consider winning the Iran war before boasting about his success during Vietnam, where he dodged the draft.

My photo of the day, taken with the sunrise photo from yesterday, is this, what looks like an Egyptian Goose, flying high over the Moselle. Aside from the standard converting and color grading from a raw image, this is unaltered.

My photo from this morning, the sun over the Moselle river.

I don't understand who are the rich people complaining about Mamdani taxing luxury second homes in NYC? When he was elected, they all left. So why are they still complaining?

Back when I was a prosecutor we used to call this — telling everyone you were probably going to lose — ”laying a mattress.”

Someone who used every tool at his disposal to overthrow our democratically elected government is most emphatically not a "good man," and most emphatically does deserve to have his career destroyed.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

The @housedemocrats.bsky.social fail to move the needle in Washington. Engineering a losing vote in support of Iran by a single vote so you look good on paper is pathetic. STOP KILLING KIDS! @fetterman.senate.gov is a cheerleader for genocide.

YOU GO GIRL. CONGRATS!!!!!!!! www.tmz.com/2026/04/16/e...

State gambling regulation isn't just about fraud prevention — it exists because legislatures concluded that wagering on contingent events activates compulsive behavior patterns that warrant licensing regimes, self-exclusion lists, advertising restrictions, and funding for addiction treatment.

With a final tally of 213-214, the war powers resolution to disengage US forces from the war on Iran failed by a single vote. Representative Jared Golden of Maine was the sole Democratic lawmaker to vote against the measure. Had he voted for it, it would have passed, handing Trump an historic loss.

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The Pope just called out MAGA and Trump as "darkness and filth".

There's a point where a Justice has lost the plot. Thomas cannot hold a position counter to the first amendment principle of freedom of religion while also advocating for one theogy to rule over all. This is very serious.

The Clarence Thomas speech is worse than I thought. He advocates for a return to a theogy-based government, says the U.S. Consitution was originally based on his god. "[It] holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government." He doesn't mention the 1st Amendment.

Trump is now retaliating against the Catholic Church by cancelling the funding for their programs. A petty man-child vs the largest pedophile-protecting org on the planet. You'd think they would know each other better.

I asked Claude why the federal district court system was so protectionist and it used the word "Cartel" in its response. 🤣

Today I Learned that the 24-continuous-hour work rule for resident doctors is the *reduced* limit after a court case said even more time was too much. That 24 hours can be extended by six more for a total of thirty. And again, this standard was set by a doctor addicted to morphine and cocaine.

I really wish we would just call quid-pro-quo donations bribes and stop covering up for the criminal activity of buying votes and favoring your relatives and business partners.

The Epstein class loves to talk down to the masses from a position of privilege all while claiming that they are only privileged because they deserve it and are better than everyone else. They are born on 2nd and think they hit a double. Fucking clowns. We need to take them down.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says Progessivism is ruining America . . . while being married interracially to a white women which itself is only possible because of Progessivism. The ladder-pulling with these Boomers is greedy and pathetic. Get. Them. Out.

If the Pope calling for peace is controversial to you . . . You may be a dumbass.

Today's Haiku: Charging my car, So much less than diesel, I win again!

So I read this guy's response and, while he's still wrong about 'hot Dems', it's important that this was a private conversation with an old friend. The venting isn't that bad, basically the hot Dems comment. He's frustrated that the Democratic party is not more inclusive.

Something must be terribly wrong in this guy's head. There are plenty of hot Dems.

Funniest thing to see MAGA worship their messiah until he literally claims to be Him.

Oh NOW they realize his blaspheming isn't "fun" or to "own the libs". He doesn't respect their god any more than the dirt on the bottom of his shoe. This says more about his supporters than it does about him. He outed himself decades ago. But the antichrist isn't here to fool the non-believers.

The Iranians have denounced Trump's desecration of Jesus.

Oh, now he's depicting himself as Jesus Christ blessing Jeffrey Epstein. Funny how the child raping and pussy grabbing is okay but the gas prices and false prophet are the things that go too far.