My mother's dog stole an entire rotersserie chicken off the counter, and picked it clean May your new year be as prosperous

HAPPY NEW YEAR! EACH DAY BRINGS US CLOSER TO THE TYRANT'S FALL.

I have no college rooting interest other than a marriage-based affinity for Cal, so I am firmly on Team Chaos which is easily the most fun way to experience the college football playoff

Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile! Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes! The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.

man they really don't make em like Manousos Oviedo

I feel like the Framers were very specific about this not happening

The embargo on hiring from industry is fucking moronic and getting rid of it is one of the tentpoles of that "how to fix/staff Dem defense" piece I keep promising to write someday

people like Sirota, who have an almost pathological opposition to building more housing, fascinate me

RETVRN to a world where the ultra wealthy felt the slightest obligation to make people like them so they'd tolerate the acquisition of so much capitol without breaking out the pitchforks

That last part really gets me. They tried to make Christmas into a way to say "fuck you" and then accused everyone else of disrespecting the holiday.

Americans will spend the next 20 years paying the price - a market of last resort for Trump's petrostate oligarch allies whose oil reserves would otherwise go stranded.

committing fourth generation warfare (posting)

It's called the Mandate of Heaven formally, I believe

will say it is nice that for once, at least momentarily, even if only for one night, the president being senile seems to have saved lives rather than ended them

Hummingbirds harass my mother when she refills their sugar water, and I have a new metaphor for Republican voters

The only Republican presidents who have departed the office in reasonably good health after two full terms are George W. Bush & Ulysses Grant

Litter robot 4 tracks cat weight and trips and it's pretty fascinating. One of my cats likes to wait and do big poops, which weigh (I now know) a third of a pound.

Trying to think of synonyms for "evil" so that cat sitter understands cat's nature, without unduly stigmatizing him

To learn embroidery First you must master the ways of the vector graphics (unless you have $800 around for the buggy software that does it for you)

Absolutely amazing. Just a brilliant piece of legal thought that needs to be read in its entirety.

Tag yourself, I'm gray/casual bloc

if you think that terminally ill people being able to opt for medical euthanasia sounds horrifying it is because you have not seen the types of natural deaths that people die

I DID IT I figured out a present for my dad and brother. I am mentally economizing by getting them the exact same thing.

Just insane. This man's face & name have already been plastered all over the internet, but police are saying the evidence "now points in a different direction." I can't imagine. A reminder to wait for the facts to come out.

Sometimes when I complete reading a book by Adrian Tchaikovsky, I stop and ask myself: Is England okay? And it's a very silly question to ask myself because at that moment I've just completed reading an entire book in which Adrian Tchaikovsky explains to me that England is not okay

Gen X folks replied to this post like a lion seeing a rack of ribs

The endgame here is getting the Supreme Court to declare that the entire civil service system is unconstitutional. Which is to say, this administration does not want us to be a modern, efficient, globally competitive nation-state.

Look, if it were so easy not to be stupid, anyone could do it

Arcane Season 2: Jinx lifting her lantern, peering through the smoke, terrified she fucked up and killed her family again... that was a great moment.

The $5 is load-bearing, though.

Anyone complaining about European rearmament as escalatory simply doesn’t understand Ru. Ru invades the unarmed and the neutral (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine). It hasn’t dared invade a NATO member, no matter how small. If Ru does attack NATO, it will be because it perceives its members as unprepared.

YOU ARE NOT HERE TO PUT YOUR MILITARY ON THE BLOCKCHAIN YOU ARE HERE TO PUT THE OTHER POOR DAMN BASTARD'S MILITARY ON HIS BLOCKCHAIN

Translation: Pentagon is sitting on a fuckton of cash and we want to have most or all of it.

This is not going to go well for the GOP. I really don't think they comprehend how large this is.

Never have I related to anyone so hard as the pudgy man who looks very upset in photo below

You know, when I was working for the Chinese, they kept telling me that they thought that Trump was a fellow traveler (w/r/t Chinese communism) and I laughed them off, but now, man, I don’t know

werewolf mode: sending my niece a bunch of punk records

Inside you are two wolves: One wants to give sibling a good gift The other wants to prank them

I resurrected my grandmother's ludicrous embroidery machine, and I feel like Frankenstein. "It's alive! IT'S ALIVE!!" (the carriage is moving as it's supposed to)

Key to Adam Drivers' rage here is that no one is listening - because there are no sleigh bells. Sleigh bells were largely phased out with the sleighs. He is pining for a past that perhaps never existed in reality, but which he has been culturally primed to expect as his due.

it has been truly amazing to see certain people who would normally acknowledge things like this contort their positions in crazy ways just to avoid admitting something that might hurt their ability to win contracts (campaign messages don't matter as much as conditions and wouldn't have saved Harris)

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

There's also the realization that if they admit what he's saying is racist, then that would make them racist too because they also believe in X, Y, Z "He's not racist: he's basically right about that"