Neck looks bad, but that gunshot wound to the left ear healed up nicely, it seems.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

When you're devoid of humanity, so human lives are the last thing on your mind:

OMFG. 😮‍💨

Flava Flav 😊 youtube.com/shorts/NA5SV...

It's never a good idea to "put all your eggs in one basket," but it seems like it was an even worse idea to allow the US to dominate so much on the national stage. Like, the US is the only place IN THE WORLD that handles credit cards. WTF? I'm shocked that any industrialized nation slept on that.

If you could ask the proverbial "enemies at the gate" one question that they'll answer honestly, what would it be?

Abolish ICE and CBP. After fully prosecuting everyone involved in such cruelty. Start from scratch.

This is the sort of thing I think of whenever I hear some "conservative" blathering on about real America and heritage and all the other nonsense that comes from white supremacist nonsense. youtube.com/shorts/t61nJ...

It's weird how difficult it is to find the number of people registered with whichever party. There are breakdowns per state, city, county, etc. At the national level, the word "affiliation" gets thrown around a lot. Vibes from polls. But, damn, being a registered [insert party here] is uncountable?

This entire series is fantastic. Among other things. youtube.com/shorts/t4JHM...

It's about being open bigots, apparently. The cruelty is indeed the point.

I love that this will probably live forever in the zeitgeist, haunting guitar enthusiasts for eternity. youtu.be/JAfb1eY4BFE?...

It's not hard.

I'm glad someone shouted "liar" at him, relatively to his face. Makes sense it'd be the small, immigrant woman ready to fight a man who threw a liquid on her at a public event. 🤔

How a society treats its powerless is reflective of that society.

Our wee snow-thrower was so intimidated by the storm, we had to bring it inside.

Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I wonder if sex even sells anymore in the face of rage way, way, waaaaay outperfoming everything else, so often. :-/

Trump: I'm going to send one of our great hospital boats* to Greenland to help all the sick people there not getting attention. Greenland:

The Kavanaugh, Alito, and Clarence dissent on the tariff decision was just more of the utterly hypocritical and inconsistent bullshit that comes out of this court. I hope the "conservatives" on the US Supreme Court destroy each other. Soon.

About 30 years ago, (before she was my wife) my wife accused me with "ice cream is always your solution" and...I dunno, I don't think it's always, but it's never wrong.

The trafficking of human beings like wares is an American tradition that needs to go away.

A future I'd be happy to get behind.

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

Tarrifs.

Why the hell is the U.S. still punching Cuba in the face? Still trying to win the cold war? Racism? Habit? All of the above!?

About goddamned time.

Oh, Yeah, Now I Remember The 80s/90s and A Jesse Jackson Remembrance by Dr. Patton. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Well, that's not dystopian at all.

Why do "conservatives" keep insisting we need voter I.D.? I haven't voted in every state, but in the two that I've lived in for the past several years, I've had to show my I.D. in order to vote. These clowns are so full of shit, their brains have been displaced.

Well, now...

Pretty cool how the arrest of Prince Andrew is being attributed to "new" evidence sourced from the release of the Epstein files. That's not "new" evidence. It's old. WTF?

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan AP: Zero NYT: Zero WashPost: Zero Reuters: Zero Politico: Zero Axios: Zero

"MARCO RUBIO'S IMPRESSIVE SPEECH" What is it about the type of pundit who hears the same condescending bullshit in more erudite terms and swoons with high praise? Is there a word for that?

Generative AI is reducing quality of life. It's good enough to mimic, but had no soul, nothing beyond the moment. AI "screensaver" playing jazz in my dentist's office...

Monday night Twitch talk show "Fiction Impossible" is happening tonight at 6:30pm (ET) with the six authors of Sinister Societies (novellas) from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social TWITCH.TV/CSECOONEY

These mashups are incredible. youtu.be/T_A6XC_EG4A?...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Cuban-America Fascistito Warns Europe It's Losing Own Culture To Immigrants

I just quote posted a 🧵 on the mess w/CBP being given a laser weapon by Hegseth to try out for their operations along the southern border. There are a couple of different reasons this was both bad overall & just not a very smart thing to do. 1/

Did you see this today? Anti #ICE protesters carried a MASSIVE U.S. Constitution through the streets of Minneapolis. Not a flag. Not a slogan. The Constitution. Thousands marched, demanding accountability and asking whether federal enforcement is aligning with the rights written on those pages.

Apparently, this response is a Britishism questioning the statement, but that doesn't matter. Kids hear EVERYTHING and they sometimes ask their parents what's meant. There's nothing to be skeptical of about this unless you're a fucking weirdo.

Look at this brave ICE supporter supporting ICE in close proximity to school security and getting walloped anyway.

You thought your unvaccinated daughter had a cold. It could be a week before she's diagnosed with measles. By then, the virus “has multiplied and descended upon her lungs, kidneys, tonsils, and spleen, down to the marrow of her bones.” Elizabeth Bruenig writes about how a child dies of measles:

How to fix all city finances: make the police officers pay for doing this shit, not the city

It's incredible that any news organization would blithely refer to "an increase in tariff revenue" and not explain where that "revenue" comes from.

Look at this ignorant moron try to answer a question about his own beliefs. Racists don't actually know anything, they just.... believe things.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.