That's right.

the only policy stance more odious to me than NIMBYism is antivaxx. literally risking the life of your own children (and others who are immunocompromised) simply because you’re a total fucking moron

technologically advance a band Jefferson Starship

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

they're trying to cargo cult their way to Horst Wessel—none of these people care about Kirk at all, and after today, few of them will even pretend otherwise—and *the press is falling for it*

ah. bluesky.

this is almost as funny as the right-wing Facebook comment I read recently that said that American public schools should teach French but not Arabic, because historically Arabs are colonizers and the French aren't

A democratic opposition coalition has to be big tent, for sure, but it doesn't grow by pulling its punches on the core message. You make the wannabe autocrat the bad guy, push down his popularity, denounce him as a malignant traitor, and rally against him. You can't half-ass triangulate that part.

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

What ICE and CBP are doing are things they already could do (and sometimes did do) under Bush, Obama, and Biden; the outrage is justified and one hopes there will be a Congressional pullback of Executive power out of all this, but this is more "new" in degree than anything else.

Ty Cobb 🤝 Ty Cobb getting tagged with an overblown reputation as a villain by the first draft of history

Music is, at best, fourth on the list of things I prefer to listen to while driving.

lmao michigan’s workaround on the new covid vax restrictions is to declare that not having gotten a dose of the lasted covid vaccine is an underlying condition that puts one at high risk, that rules www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

nominations for the 2026 Pulitzers just opened on Wednesday but there's one we might as well close now

the usual suspects are trying to dunk on Will for saying "no one is getting shipped to camps," and I guess in a vacuum that's fair enough, but it's correct to say that nobody is getting shipped to camps *for giving a protest org their contact information*

your regular reminder that the tax structure that funds Social Security is indistinguishable from one that would be designed by a person who is both stupid and insane, and that the simple, screamingly obvious fix would keep the program easily solvent forever

Brad Lander rules.

You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the 3rd and 4th generation

Yeah, this is it. The degree of capitulation from the Supreme Court and the media is maybe slightly greater than I was expecting, but most of the bad shit that has happened and is happening has been baked in since November.

The same people screaming about opsec for protests today tried to convince people opsec doesn't matter when sending money to active warzones so maybe these people should be ignored

STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue. [BAYLESS nods] You KNOW I am sensitive to the First Amendment, BAYLESS: Absolutely STEPHEN A: BUT!

Bluesky: “Authoritarians like Trump rely on the threat of force and the fear it instills to keep dissent muted, more than the actual use of force” Bluesky, one minute later: “Stay as anonymous as possible! Be very afraid of what they’ll do to you!” You’re literally doing their work for them

Don't be chickenshit.

I'll never again experience the euphoria of immediately leaping to my feet and yelling THAT'S OBSTRUCTION upon seeing the Will Middlebrooks/Allen Craig play at the end of Game 3 of the 2013 World Series

Remembering how Jon Stewart spent all of last year telling me that he’d grown more nuanced and wise after his retirement and that Trump v Dems wasn’t as black and white as people claimed. What a ridiculous fuckwad he turned out to be.

well good news: we did move into a second day, and on day 2, one of the halves of this website decided to get not only dumber, but more pugnaciously, aggressively, in-your-face dumb

Ilya Shapiro remains the least serious "libertarian" on Earth (and there is a ton of competition for that title).

Episode #4739258 of "the way the immigration system actually works in America is not even remotely how most Americans think it does, and is approximately a billion times worse in every possible direction"

well that's silly, the protest is much less likely to give you E. coli poisoning

you may *choose* to get email notifications and updates and donation solicitations. you may *choose* to be solicited to help organize future events. you may also *choose* not to do these things. i cannot fucking believe people are pretending to believe there's any controversy here.

And, you know, I feel pretty strongly that this kind of group freak out is, to the extent that it matters at all, doing the regime's work for them. It's not arguing "precautions," it's not risk assessment, it's just telling people they're in danger for doing normal, necessary things.

not mine, but in the late '70s and early '80s my dad's job regularly had him on early-morning weekday flights to Farmington, New Mexico on the original Frontier Airlines

we're really gonna move into a second day of half of this website warring with the other half over whether giving Indivisible your email address will get you black-bagged and whisked to CECOT, huh

in much of the rest of the world, political parties (especially those on the left!) maintain their own entire information ecosystems—there are party newspapers, party TV shows, etc. Democrats cannot do this because this is the United States, where political parties are illegal

"Don't sign up for a protest" is a thing to think about if you're planning to do illegal shit. Putting your name and email on a mass, planned, permitted demonstration is a zero marginal risk if you are already politically involved, and a de minimis risk if you're not.

An enormous amount of this discourse is Cult of the Operator for guys who smell like patchouli oil and have a favorite Kropotkin.

me watching yet another late-season Dodgers bullpen doodooification:

in no particular order: @ewpod.bsky.social, @fivefourpod.bsky.social, @ifbookspod.bsky.social, Maintenance Phase, and @theresthistory.bsky.social

Tim Walz: "I've been telling people since January it's going to get worse before it gets better, but it is going to come to an end. History is not going to be kind to these people. History is going to remember them for what they're trying to do. It's not what they're going to get done."

unironically one of the very best things about living in America

I actually don't think the department matters all that much, TBH. What matters more is the extent to which you (1) insulate them from unwitting students (especially undergrads) and (2) make their lives fucking miserable.

need to have a talk with whoever decided to use the Mercator projection for this

especially infuriating because that already exists, it's @liberalcurrents.com and unlike The Argument, they actually mean it

in a number of his tech talks, Bryan Cantrill compares Oracle to the nazis. this is widely considered to have been unfair to the nazis.

oracle is a legal department which, as a side effect, produces ISO 9000-compliant variations on open source projects. if you buy any of them you will eventually receive a lawsuit threat which will bankrupt your company

I personally try to live my life in such a way that, if I were to be murdered in cold blood on camera, a plurality of Americans would not disapprove of me less than a week later.

it turns out that playing a very public, weeks-long game of Schrödinger's Douchebag undermines your credibility with normies, who could have guessed

I think many in this administration believe that there won't be another election that can remove them from power. I also think they have no clear plan for actually making that happen and believe they can make it happen only because they exist in a self-reinforcing reality distortion field.