They’re literally giving prosecutors the names of people and organizations, and telling them to go find crimes. It’s clear from the NYT that the directive came from Trump. This is a direct consequence of Roberts explicitly immunizing weaponization of DOJ in Trump v. US.

Usually the best I can do in the first panel is “I choose to accept this person.” And in a simultaneous fail and win, I accept that as good enough.

If you’d like, quote-bleat with an old pic you still love. I dearly loved this car and enjoyed the scenic drive through Washington’s Cascade mountains where this photo was taken. I especially like that I’m not in it.

@governorferguson.bsky.social I’d love to see this for Washington, too. Maybe mandate clear display of a badge and name while we’re at it.

With so many House Dems getting rolled by this, I’m happy at least to see my rep @jayapal.house.gov being her usual smart self and voting no.

Was about to restart #Disney+ after pausing Netflix, but I can’t support their cowardice anymore. Plans to pay #Paramount #CBS for Strange New Worlds season 3 are likewise canceled.

I feel strongly that media should not call this a "crackdown" on free speech. That word implies something illegal is being righteously targeted and rooted out. It's the same framing that has obfuscated the admin's "crime" and immigration policies. Just call it censorship.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

Somehow had never seen The Blues Brothers until last night. Entertaining. Lots of fun music and cameos. Needs way more of Carrie Fisher blowing shit up.

Time is a mystery, but I may be more mystified than is reasonable.

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the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people

I still don’t believe Hell exists, but this is the most convincing argument for it I’ve seen.

The NYT has had a, shall we say, /mixed/ record in recent years, so this is encouraging to see.

Part of why I post about my life so little is that @danidonovan.com keeps doing it for me.

jeff is correct but there is an even darker, underlying evil on the board. the actual goal here is to classify *our existence* as mental illness. "should trannies be allowed to have guns" is a door they want to open because it requires "trans == ill". this is a signpost on the road to genocide.

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A day may come when this appetite of mine fails, and I break old habits of over consumption, an hour of clarity and restrained orders when I accept that two slices of cafeteria pizza is too big a lunch, but it was not this day.

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CBP, always striving to reach new levels of evil.

Tired today, but it’s just a baseline late-stage-capitalism kind of tired.

Despite knowing all the coping strategies, this has happened to me today (and will continue to happen)

Just watched Grave of the Fireflies for the first time. Oh my god. A beautifully crafted, absolutely gutting film about Japanese children who are orphaned and starved following an American bombing campaign during the Pacific War. I couldn't stop thinking about Gaza. Highly recommend.

hypothetically, if fucking a dog meant that there would definitely be 2026 elections, i would ask how you know the causality of that relationship, because if you can't explain how it verifiably does+will work, i gotta be real with you, it just sounds like you're looking for permission to fuck a dog.

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Note to self: Be careful about listening to What It Sounds Like at work. 😭 #kpopdemonhunters

ADHD Alien is one of my most reliable sources of joy, so I’m thrilled to see Pina posting again.

I’m admittedly not up on bribery best practices, but this doesn’t seem like a competent effort.

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Inherited a Steam Deck from a friend and found this welcome option missing from the PS3 and Switch versions of #Portal. After all these years, I can *finally* enjoy the minimalist original soundtrack in blessed quiet.

Today #ICE and Border Patrol descended on the plaza of the Japanese American Nat'l Museum. The very spot where Japanese Americans, including my family, were rounded up and sent to concentration camps with no due process in 1942. The community wasn't having it. Read JANM's statement bit.ly/4oDsjng

Of all the places ICE could pull a gestapo cosplay stunt like this, Little Tōkyō near the Japanese American National Museum adds a special extra layer of offensive.

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Your last save celebrity photo is your therapist. Honestly, win!

Shame is one of the hardest things about ADHD for me. I'm back and the book is finished but instead of feeling proud, I feel ashamed for not having managed to stay active, manage my household better or even shower regularly.

I’m so proactive and on top of it this primary election. I dropped off my ballot the *morning* of election day instead of after work.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

It did not hurt.

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Safely home from a road trip to visit dear friends. It required a ferry ride and a tunnel toll at the end, but I made it from Los Angeles back up to Seattle without ever setting tire on I-5.

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Have arrived safely in Los Angeles (well, Alhambra) after a 3-day motorcycle ride from Seattle. Almost exactly 1,400 miles in exactly 25 hours of riding time, consuming 23.6 gallons of gas for about 59 mpg overall.

Late breakfast in Oregon on the first morning of a long overdue road trip to visit dear friends. And also go to Disneyland.

Finally replacing non-motorcycle shoes worn through the soles. I both celebrate and mourn my expensive tastes.

If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.

This all by itself should be a national scandal, and career ending for the agents who did it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u....

<deep reluctant sigh> Whatever you think about using two spaces after sentences, please stop spreading the myth that it has anything to do with the change from monospaced type to proportional character spacing. That has no effect on distinguishing space after sentences from space between words.