Thanks to JD Vance, the next generation of 19th Century history teachers will have a perfect example to explain the French Ultramonarchists and "more royalist than the king, more Catholic than the Pope".

Congressional Democrats are actually using the spending deal from last week as leverage to rein in ICE. Republicans can't threaten to shut down the whole government since the other bills passed. I'd prefer that ICE be abolished, but since that's impossible for now, these demands seem good.

I've been reading some of C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union books, and holy shit am I glad those tech oligarchs haven't heard of her they way they have Iain Banks or Neal Stephenson. Elon Musk would have a division of Tesla trying to manufacture azi if he knew what they were.

I keep coming back to Kaiserreich, despite all its flaws as a game, because it fulfills the fantasy of taking any backwards, despotic, bigoted mess of a country and transforming it into a SocLib/SocDem paradise within 30 months.

Charlie Kirk was the kind of coward who though people who criticized him should go to prison and people who murdered his enemies should go free. He was wrong. Violence is still bad even when directed at someone as hateful and contemptible as him.

We need new regulations on osteopaths to prevent any future horrific murders.

Bread didn't rise. Think I've been cursed by a witch.