Totally not a cult. Not even a little bit.

This is a great move. Really glad to see them doing this. Social Media should not be the vector for dissemination of important public services information. “Facebook and Instagram are like host-destroying parasites” - I couldn’t agree more. portofpt.com/port-discont...

A crazy thought, but maybe this is the leading edge of a process being put into motion to eject DJT from office? (It's the call for Congressional action that makes me think this way. She could have had this same presser without that call to action,)

I truly worry about who is managing cybersecurity at Truth Social. It's a no-brainer that getting control of Trump's Truth Social pseudo-official policy megaphone could be immensely useful to an adversary and cause irreparable harm very quickly.

We really, REALLY need to do something about this whole thing of conducting domestic and foreign policy via social media posts. Truth Social is a third-rate site with questionable security hygiene. I doubt it would be very hard to compromise and take over his account (maybe already done and latent).

What's My JND? 0.0037 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd... #WhatsMyJND

Yeah, this isn’t going to end well.

I get it that most cab rides are for 1 or 2 people, but why on earth wouldn't you re-envision the form factor for a taxi to maximize interior space and ease of ingress/egress? Think hackney carriage rather than "looks cool like a sports coupe." This concept just seems dumb for taxi use.

The Cloudflare "are you a real person" checks are getting completely out of hand. There's gotta be a better way than adding 10-15 seconds of wait time bullshit or hitting a check box every time I visit a web site.

They keep saying this, but how is Anthropic dictating "how our great military fights and wins wars"? It's a fucking tool. It's not going to stop you from doing anything or dictate how you *must* do it. It sounds as stupid as saying "Excel won't let me attack my enemy with overwhelming force!"

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

We’re not looking for a D version of Trump. We‘re looking for a principled D who will ruthlessly apply the rule of law and relentlessly drive accountability down to the last evil member of the current admin. Beshear ain’t it.

Build a 110k seat stadium. In front of the White House. By June. Yeah, totally doable.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

We can’t keep going like this. Something has got to give, and the longer it takes to happen the worse it’ll be.

The thing is, many of the things he’s talking about will eventually become reality. Visiting and living on Mars, regular interplanetary travel, vastly more intelligent autonomous systems and vehicles, etc. He’s just very, very, very wrong about how quickly they’ll come to be.

This is incredibly, incredibly bad.

lol, I can’t believe that this was actually so prescient.

This guy is an odious, lying, vile, racist piece of shit. It angers me to white hot rage to know that he will almost certainly be president sometime in the next three years.

I get the sentiment, but I still think that a separate U.S. “Space Force” comprised of “Guardians” is a monumentally stupid premise when the Air Force already existed.

Despite all the cries of “no!” In the replies, I think that a rigorous primary process with multiple qualified candidates is a good thing. Let’s let the voters decide!

Hard agree. Felt the same about I Think You Should Leave. After one episode of that, I did. TimR’s stuff just doesn’t do it for me.

I feel like with everything else that is happening, these things just add more tension to the situation, like the pressure building up on the Cascadia Fault. At some point, the tension is too much and the megathrust event happens. It isn’t going to be pretty.

Ughhhh…

Absolute malpractice here to describe destroying decades of established science and positive health policy as an “overhaul.” His work will literally kill people that should not have to die.

Ugh. I guess the regular update emails from the VA are just going to be Trumpist propaganda for the foreseeable future. 🤮

Dems have an opportunity here. Every single Dem member of congress should issue a statement identical to the one that set Trump off this morning. Force the conversation about illegal orders and signal to the military that they have their backs. He’s obviously scared. Time to press the advantage.

Here’s me putting down a marker that the senate vote will be a majority, but *just* shy of veto-proof. I’m sure they can cobble together enough nay votes from Rs that are retiring or not up in ‘26. Oh, and I bet Fetterman votes no.

Proof that JD never did anything very strenuous while in the Corps. They don’t call the 400mg Ibuprofen tabs “Ranger candy” for no good reason.

He desperately wants to send out checks to people with his name on them. He knows that people will like that and not really think much about what they are or why they got them.

ygtbfkm

Sunday mental health hike along the Hood Canal

It‘s really easy to set up a monthly donation. If you can afford it, donating cash to your local food bank goes a long way toward helping them serve more people.

For anyone who wants more context on the controversies surrounding the Alamo, I highly recommend reading “Forget the Alamo“ by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford. There’s a mythology around the Alamo that is almost entirely fictional.

The grift, graft, and corruption of this administration is far, far beyond the scope and scale of any previous examples. The most unsettling aspect is that there is no longer any attempt to conceal it. Our leaders have overwhelmingly failed us.

Straight up exploitation. This is some truly evil shit.

I give it no more than 2-3 months before Platner is on Rogan railing about how he was canceled. The only prevention is for someone with enough juice to take him aside and lay it all out to him until he understands how exactly it is that he fucked up.

Nice to see, but polls don’t mean jack when we have all three branches of the gov’t hell bent on just destroying the country as it used to be. I’m increasingly convinced that the path out of this is not through elections. Too much has been destroyed and too little formal resistance has materialized.

Aw, dang it.

Mariners!

Very useful - thanks @eva.computer!

They keep pushing at the edges, testing resolve, probing resistance. The ultimate problem that they have is that giant chunks of revenue flow from the areas they’re targeting. At some point they will force a response, and the longer that takes the more drastic the response will need to be.

Mariners wyd

Keep repeating this, over and over. Every day. They did it to Biden, it can be done to Trump.

All this, every day. Blowing up these boats and murdering the occupants is all to satisfy the deranged delusions of Trump and Hegseth. If they were serious about stopping the flow of drugs, they’d want these people alive and talking.

Oh damn. That’s brilliant.

I’m increasingly worried about the level of fortitude that will be required to wrest control back from the authoritarians. Even after we can make that happen, it will be a massive effort to reconstruct the Republic and put preventive measures in place. We have a Herculean task ahead of us.

I honestly have no idea what he’s even trying to assert with this statement. It makes no sense whatsoever.

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.