I am Tom Steyer's strongest soldier now.

These pardons don't have to be honored and Trump v. U.S. can just be ignored. Ultimately, the monopoly on legal force is what decides which laws are real and which are fake.

I’ve always said New York is the Tirana of America.

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

this guy isn't just a danger to our democracy, he's a danger to every democracy on the planet

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

In happier news, my kid had a great time going through his Easter basket and a tomato vine I left in its grow bag from last season is already sprouting tomatoes.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Like at least North Korea has to set up a special, state run TV station for the lady in the hanbok, whereas the NYT just does the same thing for free because they went to Yale with Trump admin staffers and their kids attend the same private school.

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

Someone as easily manipulated and incapable of skepticism as Ezra Klein just shouldn’t live in the Bay Area.

🎶 From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, you won’t have any oil unless you pay Iran a fee.

Maybe I should throw my hat in the ring for California governor? I’m sure the candidacy of a complete unknown wouldn’t be a doomed waste of resources and a potentially disastrous distraction.

This is absolutely not a surprise, but the inevitable outcome of the jungle primary in a state whose “progressive” party mostly rejects the idea that you should have to contribute the greater good, whether by allowing new housing, paying property tax, or dropping out of the race for governor.

I don’t have strong views about who should be the next governor of California, but I do feel strongly that candidates currently poling at < 5% have already been assessed by voters and found lacking. Arguing whether voters should like them more is irrelevant to winning the election.

Did anyone who actually read the book come away feeling that Stephenson thought that the metaverse, or really anything in the dystopia he conjures, was a good idea?

the candidates being asked to drop are polling below 5% in a race where if the Democrats don't consolidate we risk both top slots going to Republicans, it is a goddamn disgrace that the no-chancers aren't dropping. You wanna coalesce around Becerra go ahead, at least he *does* poll at >=5%.

I think we just need to make this shit mandatory.

I guess we now all know what we'll post when Trump dies.

Man, this really sucks. One of the best spots in downtown San Jose. I think that leaves downtown without a single movie theater. RIP 3Below.

Re: the right to have grandchildren, isn’t there someone you forgot to ask? 🤔

Paul Ehrlich, famous for being wrong, dies at 93.

Just in case you need a other reason not to vote for Mahan, he is not proposing anything to actually help with a gas crisis like funding transit, he is just proposing subsidizing wealthier citizens with gas guzzling SUVs www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/s...

The strait of Hormuz is open for transit

A daycare closed near me and they recently chiseled off its sign to reveal the original name: Future Assets Child Development Center🙃

we do have nuclear weapons and we do have long range missiles, and we appear to be run by a significantly more erratic and warhungry government than Iran. 1

Schultz fleeing a prospective wealth tax--just like his fellow billionaires in California--goes to show that state level wealth taxes should include common sense provisions to imprison billionaires until they pay it.

LA Marathon finished! It was so hot out, but now it’s done!

I’m just about here. Increasingly convinced that things won’t get better here until the US is defeated defeated. Donald Trump signing an unconditional surrender on an enemy aircraft carrier defeated.

“We must kick out all the Muslims because assimilation is impossible” says [checks notes] “Zia Yusuf.”

As an increasingly geriatric millennial, it’s kinda interesting how many phrases I have adopted from George W. Bush and now Trump. I don’t find myself knowingly using phrases from any Democratic presidents 🤔

I mean, the people funding AI are generally pretty cool with enslaving and recklessly experimenting on actual human intelligence. Don’t see why they would suddenly grow consciences when the intelligence is embodied by a machine.

TBH, this is just begging people to lie on grant applications. Begging people to say they’re going to buy a bunch of Trump bibles or create exhibits on criminal aliens and then to just spend the grant, if they ever even get one, however.

This is why our elites see discrediting and marginalizing fields of study that engage with that kind of information as so crucial. That’s what axing humanities programs and even basic sciences like geology from public university offerings is all about.

If you somehow work at Palantir and are just now learning about its shady government surveillance business you may also be surprised to learn that water is wet.

Woody Allen got Jeffrey Epstein’s help to get his kid into a college with a 40% acceptance rate. LMAO

This is true, but I’m sure Melvil Dewey would have visited Epstein Island if he had the chance.

Unironically, they should kick us all out and bar any of us from coming. No more study abroad or Rick Steves tours until the orange man is gone.

i think about this every time i look at the latest Overdrive or Hoopla or Kanopy invoice. unless prices or demand stabilize, our budget and thus our library will soon be describable as “lessee of digital content with a legacy dead-tree side concern.” 📚

Time for some librarians and archivists to go dumpster diving.

There’s a lot of bad things about going to grad school for history, but among the worst is that it can inculcate an obsession with how others perceive what you study that leads you to forsake your own passions and interests. Peer pressure worse than middle school.

Reviewing our collection of travel books and it can’t be overstated how travel guide publishing never recovered from the pandemic. The most current guide for so many destinations is 5+ years old. I have to weed them and they will just never be replaced.

One of the worst developments of the last ~20 years has been that in certain professions, 5% are superstars and 95% eat cat food for dinner. Society depends on a broad and comfortable middle path.

A lot of predictably vile comments on this one. So many good liberals become reactionary pricks as soon as someone suggests society should help out its youngest members and their parents.

We talk a lot about how the GOP has become the party for bigots and the party for dummies, but we should spend a little more time talking about how the GOP has become the natural political home for losers.

@ifbookspod.bsky.social Spotted at a book sale in Sacramento!

Pretty sure this is what resurrected Spock.

This post gets at an unfortunate truth: the price of childcare is literally unbelievable until you’re paying for it.

Until we can give indigenous communities their land back copies of Eat, Pray, Love and Excel 2007 for Dummies will have to suffice.