Ever notice how we always study war, but never peace? Violence, but never nonviolence? Like somehow studying what destroys us will stop it happening? Hasn’t happened yet, has it? Why don't we try an alternative? Some ideas at my latest substack... substack.com/home/post/p-...

One of the many problems I have with courtroom dramas (let me count the ways! and I probably will, as time goes along) is that they ignore court reporters & their symbiotic relationship with judges, the law, & everything else... eve1125442.substack.com/p/the-court-...

Ursula LeGuin was such a wise woman.

Truth.

Those were the good old days.

So many PACs with so many ads for 4 conservatives' bitter fight to be the nominee for governor - that's a lot of money, and where better to get it than the South Dakota perpetual trust industry?

So what is the deal, and why are 4 conservatives blowing through millions of dollars in an election that’s not over who’s going to be governor, but who gets to run for governor?

AI v. us. Nick Land: “My prediction is that A.I. will persuade you that technology eating the universe is beautiful.” Paul Krugman: "People loved the internet. People hate AI... how far can you go with a technology that everybody hates?" I'm with Paul. eve1125442.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...

I'm sure we can get it from Elon Musk. He can always make another trillion from somewhere...

Books, comments, history, science, and educated sarcasm coming up. Did I mention that I hope in my next incarnation to be a shepherd by day, paleolinguist by night? Let's have fun! eve1125442.substack.com/p/were-all-c...

2 places where there aren't any gold horses: Greece and Rome. Also France. And England. And Europe... www.notus.org/trump-white-...

I'm sure Mike Lindell will be willing to do a version of "I Love Trump's Pillows" for the crowd.

No one has ever, ever, ever slapped him down hard enough.

There's only about 5 tons of freaking work to be done.

CroneEver eve1125442.substack.com?r=2m3di&utm_...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admitted that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from the Epstein files release. DEATH? The truth is probably far worse than anyone can imagine. Blanche needs to be prosecuted as well.

The hilarity, of course, is that the United States is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons against another country... And killed from 150,000-200,000 Japanese civilians. Genocidal, aggressive... sounds like us, doesn't it?

These are crimes against humanity. Future Nuremberg trials are waiting.

Don't just cry, LOSE YOUR JOB!

The United States is going to be left like a gutted fish, lying in the sun.

Back in 2025, Hegseth fired most of the civilian staff & contractors "to focus warfighting". He fired the people whose job was to set up the supply chains to feed / clothe etc. those warfighters. And then he & his Pentagon buds spent $22 million on lobster tails, etc. Unforgiveable.

"The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act provides that beginning on 12/18/25, the Selective Service System will register all 18-25 yr old males using other existing federal government databases..." In other words, Trump can activate a draft on demand any time he wants... Hang on to your hats.

We're not protecting him - it's our Congress, SCOTUS, and the DOJ under Bondi. It's the people who are in the Epstein files, terrified of it all coming out.

If that's the case, how the hell did Iran launch over 500 ballistic missiles and over 2,000 drones in the last 48 hours?

Just about every reason they've come up so far for bombing Iran is the same one that the George W. Bush administration had for bombing Iraq... And we were in that mess for 8 years, 8 months, and 28 days.

It never occurred to them to help American citizens get out of the war zone they created.

And this is how it's done in the MAGA world.

They had no plan, they have no plan, they will have no plan. Other than the gold drapes DJT's chosen for the Big Beautiful Ballroom. In his mind, everything else is irrelevant.

Americans overwhelmingly oppose the U.S. entering into war with Iran. The U.S. government should work to deescalate the crisis, prevent a full blown war, and not escalate tensions that put our national security at risk. sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...

Now this is a damned good question...

Now that's petty bullshit.

Well isn't that special.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

Brand new polling from Data for Progress, shared first with Strength In Numbers, shows voters back Dems in the DHS shutdown over ICE — and overwhelmingly favor key reforms such as preventing mask-wearing (+23) and requiring judicial warrants for arrests (+34): www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

FDR's monument in DC

MAGAMatthew 18:6

ABC: Do you still have confidence in Pam Bondi as AG? MASSIE: I don't think Pam Bondi has confidence in Pam Bondi. She wasn't confident enough to engage in anything but name calling in a hearing. So no, I don't. She was responsible for the document production.

I think the actual term is "NO oversight."

So am I the only one who's noticed that Maduro got arrested before a single Epstein client?

When MAGA man attends a comedy show

"The US is not a signatory to the Rome Treaty of 1998, establishing the ICC which has jurisdiction only over signatory countries..." BUT "War Crimes committed on soil of a signature nation to the ICC expose those committing crimes to the jurisdiction of the ICC. Venezuela is in the ICC."