The Jurassic Park franchise has the chance to do the funniest thing.

A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies. The chance to begin again, mining in the ketamines of the moon for your ketamine-fuelled moon master!

The ethic that the Trump administration is instilling in government agencies is one of evasion, defiance and dishonesty

They are deliberately torturing children.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Finally started watching The Pitt, I'm amazed that somehow they managed to cast a Frank Quitely drawing

Murc's Law taken to its absurd, abysmal conclusion. Republicans, because they lack agency (only Democrats have agency) are not on the hook for anything R-controlled government agencies are doing. @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social

We are getting to the point where there will be, not just no presumption of regularity, but a presumption of irregularity. I don't know the Latin for 'Everything is presumed partisan and pretextual about this act until proven to the contrary' but the administration is working towards it.

At the risk of disaster: I stand by this. And my elaborations of the point in the thread. (I mean, ferchristsakes, Stancil got personally attacked by an evil robot - Mechahitler - sent by a cartoonishly demented superrich jerk. for. no. reason. Who could Stancil be like besides Scott Pilgrim?)

"It's not on your resume, but weren't you on the Washington Post editorial board in 2024 and 2025?" "You can't prove that!"

So several of my teeth fell out and, when I reached down to pick them up, it turned out they were kinda-sorta Apple AirPods. More Steve Jobs, less Cronenberg, thanks. And then I woke up.

Enjoying watching a young Christopher Lee against an old Boris Karloff in “Corridors of Blood” (1958). Meh story but magnetic cast. Nicely shot throughout.

Impeach and/or 25th amendment. Whichever is quicker.

Détails d'un livre à paraître @morgenbd.bsky.social ...

Willi Geißler (1895-1977)

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Remember 'Judge Dred' for Clarence Thomas (and Alito) when the vote comes.

'Don't talk to me about my own morality' is the guilty-angry reactionary core of the R party. D's cannot afford to get SO wrapped around the axle of fear of a rightwing base - in blue CN! - that they perform proverbial 'irritable gestures seeking to resemble ideas' on behalf of R's. Make THEM do it.

Insanity.

This is quite a quote from @rickhasen.bsky.social on possibility of Trump seizing ballot boxes: "It may take people in the streets protecting the offices where ballots are being tabulated. The Brooks Brothers riot would look very tame compared to what we might see in 2026." More here:

People, man. They need to get it together or we're all doomed.

This is a great piece by @adamroberts.bsky.social I must have missed at the time and can use now. I'm currently teaching 'philosophy & SF' and one (optional) exercise is: pick an unfinished ongoing 'high concept' science fiction series - that is, one that feels 'philosophical'. Solve for its ending.

Honestly it's sad that libs are so ignorant of 20th century history. They can't see how, on this journey, maybe the REAL Gulag Archipelago was the small number of violent resisters complicating efforts at peaceful resistance to establishing of a vast network of concentration camps along the way!

Inside the mind of an anti-anti. What is hoped for is eventual transition from Trumpism to vaguely-envisioned post-Trump 'conservative' order. Douthat hopes some more amenable successor may sail in, after, enjoying locked-in positional, partisan advantages of leverage & power due to Trump trumping.

Impeach. 25th amendment for the very small trucks on the waters.

Trying to decide which are worth keeping and which are not.

that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together

“abolition is ridiculously utopian. you know what’s realistic? peaceful dragon unicorn bunnies.”

Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

Has there been a single shooting by immigration officers over the last year in which DHS did *not* blatantly lie about what happened?

In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.

I had a dream that I invented an elaborate card game with a wholly original mechanic for play. Upon awakening I immediately had my doubts about the design.

George Soros must be going broke, paying for all this.

If New York supporters are concerned, probably there is concern as well at a diner in Akron, so Epstein and Thiel were just being good populists.

Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.

Honestly, it might be simpler for Trump's defenders to hold non-impeachment hearings at which they argue that some actions Trump has taken are defensibly non-impeachable.

Impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach.

"resistance liberals can't have been that right about trump if they couldn't stop him" -- the last gasp of people who've run out of arguments but don't want to admit it

I took a long plane flight so: Predator: Badlands: ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2 Unpretentious creature feature. Young predator outcast misfit must prove his honor by making the ultimate kill on the 'death planet'. The pitch: "Alien vs. Predator" meets "How To Train Your Dragon" you'll get how. You can guess probably.

this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

That moment when you’re reading Thucydides and hit this passage just before the start of the war: “Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquility for an apparent temporary advantage.”

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

Millerism means Minneapolis times 100 for a decade. It would tend the United States apart. It is something close to Milosevic’s line.

‘If I wanted to do what Epstein did, nothing could stop me, and it wouldn’t negatively impact shareholder value,’ is not the defence of the accountability & social utility of the super-wealthy elite he thinks it is.

I don't want to jinx it but how has Trump NOT taken personal credit for the upcoming mission AND promising to claim the moon in the name of the United States - while raging at feckless Nixon for failing to do so already in 1969, even after we stupidly spent so much money?

Was unaware Nazi meth was brand 'Pervitin'. Are we sure it isn't still in wide use by right-wingers today? I mean: the name.