It took me a while to figure out that this is prostitution SMS spam. So that's a new one.

Boy, if you can't trust SantaCon's president, who *can* you trust? It really shakes your faith in humanity.

ConservatIves used to call these kids sinners. And they’d punish them for being pregnant young. Surreal how they change once racist eugenics are what is valued.

“Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s husband exchanged text messages with young female staff members, as did her father.” Come on, now. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

She really said teen birth "crashing" is an existential threat to humanity. She typed those words, and hit the Post button.

All of these dudes need to be disbarred. I am convinced it’s the soft white underbelly of the white nationalism movement,

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Roses are red Violets are wrong To deal with copperheads I bought these snake tongs

nasaforce.gov has been registered by EOP.

Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims, according to federal court records.

I would love a linguist / historian to dig into the word "warfighter," which feels like "homeland" to me (derogatory). This though brought to you courtesy of my learning that the Defense Acquisition University has been renamed the "Warfighting Acquisition University."

It's a damned shame that Tom Lehrer isn't alive for this. He'd have a tight three-minute song about this knocked out by lunch time today.

One crappy thing Google did was promote unlimited storage of photos, and then said "oh, never mind" after six years. Now all of my photo uploads count toward my storage limit, which is how my account came to be at 94% capacity. It was a trap.

kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks

a small price to pay for speed and convenience.

I started blogging at waldo.net 30 years ago today. Boy, that's a long time. You might be surprised to learn that I wrote a lot less about procurement policy as a 17-year-old, and more about hiking the Appalachian Trail, which I started the blog to chronicle. (We didn't have the word "blog" then.)

You love to see it

I want to know when my great-grandparents got married, but can't find that information anywhere. No problem, I'll just order their marriage certificate. That simply requires...uh...knowing the date of their marriage. 🤔

Well, I regret I was right—she was covered in ticks, which are arachnids.

Trump angered Catholics, so the White House trotted out Vance, who said...this. Amazing stuff.

POST SPIDER SNACK TIME CASE CLOSE WALDO

She can barely move. I…I think she’s got an infestation of spiders.

INNOCENT

I just had to track down my errant beagle in the woods in the dark, and it turns out the forest is absolutely full of spiders right now. Thousands of them. It’s a little unsettling.

"The Pope is incorrect on matters of theology" is excommunication time. H/t @jumulojimbus.bsky.social

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NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate. This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement. Over and over, the accusations fell apart under scrutiny.

As President Trump threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, even some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as “lunatic” and “clearly insane.” nyti.ms/4cuATjd

Bessent dismisses the threat of climate change and melting ice caps: "As we all know, the natural habitat for the Earth is actually water."

I hadn't realized until I saw this image that a handwritten Maxell cassette insert, with a track listing, date, and venue information, is a sort of a visual madeleine for me.

I am not saying that the U.S. government should make and sell cars for the unserved 40% of the market (many of whom require cars to function in our built environment), but I am saying that this kind of thing should be on the table. Industry has no room to complain because this market is unserved.

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

this is called "doing something"

“Imagine if my grandmother had wheels. She’d be a bicycle. That’s something DOT needs to pay attention to.”

Accountability itself continues to take a beating at the hands of our current roster of federal appellate judges.

And that’s how FEMA leadership will learn that CNMI is part of the United States, which will be surprising news to Administrator [squinting at org chart] Vacant.

It actually is Baal… and this after a dozen Iranian LEGO animations depicting Baal as his ally. This is hard to even process.

When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

“Democrats will defund the police” was just another confession masquerading as an accusation.

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

I built several snake-proof bluebird houses around my property a couple of years ago. Today, the first bluebirds of spring hatched.

“It's a shame that the Pope has made the Catholic Church political” is one of the most amazing sentences ever uttered by a politician. Elite stuff. Arguably the most wrong a person could be, including rejecting basic arithmetic.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Oh shit. Substack are the Kik guys? Holy shit. We're talking Roblox level predatory shit on that app. Oh my goodness that's nutso. They're bad people fr