Can you imagine the moral dishonesty of serving as a pastor while employed by ICE?

Everything wrong with policing in America personified. I long for his day in court.

My wife was roasting cabbage (son’s fave) to go with dinner last week when I told her “apparently cabbage is vogue this year”. You keep doing you long enough and the trends come around. Next thing they’ll steal my “beets are a power food” line. In seriousness, one cabbage lasts a week.

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It was a true honor of my life to be the steward of a critical piece of our society for nearly a decade. I worked side by side with many amazing civil servants who took their oaths seriously and in my opinion were the glue that holds this great experiment together.

This should concentrate some minds. Will it?

The lead in DC tap water explains so much

And so one day I expect a MAGA hat in the back of a broom closet at the Museum of American History will be viewable upon request.

every single thing about this administration is stupid and unnecessary but getting into a trade war and threatening a shooting war with Europe - Europe! - because the president saw a Mercator projection and wants to slap his name on Greenland is maybe the stupidest and most unnecessary

American homes are getting larger on smaller lots, the wrong direction Id say. I’d counter that by orienting our lives more towards the outside we make more space for joy. Halving the size of our home for more outdoors space certainly has brought more joy than a larger home would have.

Gosh and a guy just wants some good olive oil and a peaceful life. Can we stop voting for idiots and just be happy with nice things?

Brilliant: “Ai is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok.” - Corey Doctorow in the Guardian

What kind of sick bastards think it’s funny to joke about murdering their own countrymen. Medical folks use gallows humor to soften the trauma of losing a patient. Soldiers joke about death to harden their souls against killing. This is different, it’s willfully choosing evil, abolish ICE.

I predict that the “Regime Barbie” - Botox and a blowout nasty white lady aesthetic, is going to become toxically unpopular for at least a decade. Guesses what will take its place?

The weather is broken again, low can’t be 38° when it’s 23° out.

Greenlander’s watching Minneapolis like “NOPE!”. Join the USA for GDP and Jack Boots isn’t a compelling deal.

17 years @mountainash.bsky.social and I have been married so I am trying to think what wisdom that’s earned. My advice would be to view a relationship as a journey, and choose a travel companion not a destination. I don’t know where we’re going but I’m happy to get there with Ash by my side.

I was telling @ultralaser.bsky.social that Miller/Noem/et al obviously thought if they killed a white lady all the white Minnesotans would stay home and get out of the way, but standing together with our neighbors against the gov't is as American as it gets and most people ain't that kind of racist

They are in fact not brown

Eagles and general aviation while working on a fence.

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Newsom is a dangerous horse to bet on

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Notice how these ICR agents aren’t being raptured.

I give it 2-3 years before the F150 is fighting for its life against a XiaoBao-2T or whatever China’s answer to the American pickup will be. In the long run it’s good that American companies will be forced off their laurels to step up and really compete. Being the default has made us lazy.

Driving this morning the CBC was covering Canadian-Chinese relations. Does Trump understand that by pushing Canada towards China we are weakening the North American Bloc? Sadly he probably does but in his deluded mind American strength is in spite of, not because of our special relationships.

Could WaOrCa just join the EU or be adopted by Canada already? It’d be good for GDP

Uncomfortable truth:

My Saturday morning started at one friend’s house assisting the cull of a goat which their neighbors are helping butcher. Now I’m off to deliver some of Ash’s hausgemacht sour dough pizza crust to another friend’s farm. It’s a lovely community morning on a gorgeous day. Important stuff.

Life has afforded my wife and I a lot of opportunity to travel. Anyone else who’s also traveled will have likewise benefited from American cultural hegemony. Our cultural touchstones are universal and it paved the road for many interactions. The sun is setting on this world and we aren’t ready.

It’s a dare to Trump

At the end of most days when everyone is off to bed I do the dishes and clean the kitchen while I listen to the news. My hack for cleaning wet dough from bowls and implements is to set them by the wood stove and by morning it flakes off.

Cut to 10 years from now she’s sitting in the same seat desperately attempting to rehab her character. Give her no quarter.

The pervasiveness of misconduct is all but confirmation this behavior is being directed from the top. Supposing ICE has become an illegitimate political instrument, what precedent exists for intervention by other entities? I don’t think we have one, this dangerous and uncharted territory.

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“Trump invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its president, stole a bunch of its oil, sold it, and stashed the money in banks in Qatar” is a stone-cold CLASSIC of this genre

In the coming weeks and months it will be illustrative to observe how may of these cases are thrown out. God speed you brave souls out in the icy streets showing us what democracy looks like.

Pro-tip: when you read a post that makes you really mad, stop and consider if that was the point, then put down your phone and go outside.

The newest White House addition shall be named: Tammany Hall.

As a soldier who served alongside these troops during the cold war… the complete cowardice of those in our system who dod shit and have done shit to stop this and don’t even speak out really pisses me off. And should they go through with this, we aren’t trained for Arctic war like these guys.

Hypothetically speaking we would be totally not mad if Denmark got ahold of those un-redacted Epstien files and let the Trump problem solve itself. Just saying

The irony is that fungi-phobia is partly to blame for deaths which health authorities will gladly tout to stir up more fungi-phobia. I’d love if we got the details on how these were misidentified as opposed to a lecture on the evils of wild mushrooms. Education > ignorance

How fascist does this need to get before my people wake up to the reality upon us.

Science for the win!

NJ.com: A Secret Service agent assigned to JD Vance’s protection detail has been placed on administrative leave after telling some woman masquerading as a journalist all about Vance’s movements, travel plans, how the protection detail was planning its coverage, etc. She was employed by James O”Keefe

I guess if one grew up in the west it isn’t so remarkable but I’ll forever get a thrill that even the hospital waiting room (labs) has a Mountain view.

From CBC: A herring sale fundraiser for Kids with Cancer had to be rescheduled after seals broke into the nets and ate the catch. Herring sale fundraiser is something I’d patronize.

An immigrant in ICE custody was murdered by prison staff. Accountably is at risk because it happened at a private facility, which it is not subject to FOIA. Use our tool to tell Congress to apply FOIA to private prisons: freedom.press/issues/safeg...

I hope that everyone who was so terrified of illegal immigration they voted for Trump now feels safer with armed gags of roving thugs brutalizing citizens with impunity. Right, are we safe enough yet?