Any Democrat who votes for the first part after they've announced the plan for the second part needs to be tarred and feathered.

Greg may I offer you this for future use

Three right-wing talking points whose logic contradicts each other: 1. No voter ID means illegal immigrants are voting. 2. You need an ID to fly on a plane so you should need one to vote. 3. We need to send ICE to airports to arrest all the illegal immigrants flying on planes.

I know everyone is enjoying a good laugh over this but if anything it puts more pressure on the Dems to cave on DHS funding which they absolutely must not do (and almost certainly will)

The safety record in US aviation is pretty damn stellar the last few decades. For that you can thank solid engineering, lots of redundancy, and a very skilled workforce. It ain’t the place to prioritize “efficiency”.

Reading about the crash at LGA, thinking about the near miss I was in ATL about 15 years ago. Short version: plane I was on was accelerating for takeoff when another turned in front of us. The pilot slammed on the breaks and it took about 15 seconds to stop. We

Been messing around with my old, nearly forgotten (but in perfectly fine physical shape) iPad 2, trying to see if I can use it for anything useful...like maybe reading comics or something? So far no dice. Planned obsolescence is such a scam.

They did it better

Like, the arrivals area of a commerical airport is one of the few places in America where you can be confident that 100% of the people there have the government’s formal approval to be there.

HOWLING

Without sleeping, Tucson to Dallas (and after about 5 hrs sleep, on to Atlanta). Longest trip: Atlanta to Cape Cod, then over to Minneapolis with a detour to Toronto, and then back ATL. I’ve also done Durham NC to Seattle twice and the other way once (via Winnipeg.)

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Unpopular opinion I’m sure but a large portion of the frequent flying public are Trump voters and/or in social strata pretty insulated from law enforcement and I think them being confronted with the reality of what they’ve wrought is good.

It’s a good thing that nobody in Winnipeg is disabled because otherwise I’d be concerned about the state of our sidewalks

one of my related hot takes is that we should ban news networks from real-time updates of results. they can report results when the votes are counted.

the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er

He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this

Global market actors should have learned 10 years ago already not to chase down every incoheren brainfart posted by Donald Trump

The summary recommendations of this report read like a list of things the Trump admin is doing the opposite of

Likely thousands of people are injured or killed every year around toilets, and the problem is going to get worse as the baby boomers age. We can’t continue to ignore it. lloydalter.substack.com/p/toilets-ar...

If you’re now fighting to restore the status quo ante bellum in a war you began, you lost the war

i have been rewatching THE WIRE for the first time in like 15 years and one thing i am struck by in the first few episodes is how theater-like the show is. each scene plays like it could be on the stage, right down to the blocking and movement. but it’s not at all distracting! it works, in fact.

Everybody who tried to argume with me about the water and energy consumption of "AI" abd data centers can go jump in a fucking lake. While they can still find any.

Its possible the Dems have stumbled into a good place to make a stand; the frequently flying portion of the public is massively over represented among pols, media, and big donors. But not voters.

Project Hail Mary is really good! Definitely worth taking in on a big screen and not reading too much about it ahead of time.

I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.

“Don’t put children in cages” being a remotely controversial position is one of the more salient reasons I decided to leave the US. The country is profoundly broken.

Ok -25 and blowing snow is bad but I’m pretty sure I hate this more

these nightmare people truly believed the reason everything wasn't perfect was b/c the army was being kept from murdering by woke, so they burst through the barriers and ran right into a poison thicket growing out of a tar pit & now we all have to suffer as they thrash and scream WHO DID THIS TO ME

Hey Winnipeg, who makes good baguettes? Bonus if they are close to River Heights

RIP Chuck Norris. His fight scene with Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon is one of the heights of cinema, proving that a martial-arts action duel can tell a story and communicate ideas. Fortunately Norris went out on top, retiring after it was shot, never heard from again.

Today at 2:46 pm (GMT) the sun is going to return to the northern hemisphere (the March equinox). Here is a #dataviz showing the path of the sun from different perspectives as the year progresses.

the way that black women specifically have been targeted for the "crime" of trying to control their reproduction is one of those things that makes me all the more persuaded that one should understand the 13th Amendment as a broad right to bodily autonomy.

Hoping for jury nullification I guess but not holding my breath for it in Camden County

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

Woohoo SPRING!

I remember when everything started moving to apps and I was morally offended at the idea of having to download all these little programs to access services when the Internet was right there and you know what, I was right

The country that makes your Ozempic and your kids’ Legos, whose companies employ thousands in the US, and whose main cultural export is coziness, was preparing to blow up its own runways to keep the American military from invading www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

I see the NYT has adopted the Daily Mail’s “post dumb shit to drive SM engagement” strategy

Took my dog out front for a quick pee walk. Pretty sure I smelled a dude’s cologne walking on the other side of the street. My dude I think…I think that’s too much

Imagine a Democratic Party that fights Republicans half as hard as it fights its own young progressive candidates

Losing her first election - an Illinois Democratic primary for Congress - puts Kat in pretty damn good company:

Some recent paintings

Sometimes I think these weirdos thumb through the DSM like a catalog of personalities they want to try out

Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.

Looks like the dome is working!

Norway’s Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, says Canada feels like an ‘honorary Nordic’. With our shared Arctic geography, high quality of life, progressive social policies, and similar environmental/cultural values, it is understandable that we feel like kindred spirits. #Canada #Norway

I have a joke about carbon offsets but someone else is going to have to tell it to you and a third person is going to have to verify if it is funny while a fourth person argues that the second person was already going to tell the joke anyway