Then call Greece.

It’s like when a decent movie comes along so they make a sequel no one wanted, and then make a trilogy that absolutely no one wanted.

These guys basically now have to fix the Strait of Hormuz or they might as well toss in the towel and rebrand as the Whig Party. And no one has the foggiest f***ing clue how to fix the Strait of Hormuz.

My understanding is that if the Strait is not open in the next few weeks, we're to expect $100-110 oil which would put gas prices well over $4 per gallon. I struggle to communicate both how intractable that problem is and how deeply forked the GOP prob. is if gas is, like, $4.50 average in the USA.

It’s a special military operation

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

Someone told me there was no evidence this dude was a Neo-Nazi.

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

Rebuilding a client site right now. Proudest moment was just checking the AIM(WebAIM = Web Accessibility In Mind) score. His current site is 5.9. Currently my build is a 9.9 (expected due to broken links in dev). While accessibility is baked into my builds, it’s also the final check in each sprint

Having a disability doesn’t preclude you from harming people, even unintentionally. It’s the complexity of living in a world where natural disorders are complicated by social contexts. It’s entirely possible for your disability to harm people unintentionally!

“Unregulated sexual economy” is just an extremely weird thing to say. Reform is fucking odd.

As I told my undergrads at the start of the semester, I'm not asking you to write a paper about Little Rock's school desegregation because I don't know what happened there. Little Rock is just the topic. The act of researching, writing and editing the paper is the whole point.

Previous norms? When? 1775?

More circle jerking

see that's that bullshit a tic is involuntary, but BAFTA not saying anything to Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan afterwards is a choice

This earned me a block, and yet journalists are trying to act like they’re brave? Journalists, left or right, tend to be little bitches who never grew up and are chasing clout. It’s why I avoid most rags, left and right, because I don’t want to read something by a glorified high schooler.

my reaction to that knowledge:

Scientists create plastic that completely dissolves in seawater within hours www.earth.com/news/breakth...

To jail Americans. 1/3 of us aren’t citizens in their view.

This is just anti-religious bigotry and shows a massive lack of understanding of progressive religious people, who tend to be stronger allies than progressive atheists.

will no one rid me of this turbulent court?

Well look at that, SCOTUS finally agrees that the monstrously illegal tariffs are, in fact, illegal.

Seems like a different age.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I think her odds would be very small, but there’s something exciting about a former waitress/bartender being president. She’s who I would vote for in the primary (sans Pritzker running), but I also fear I’m in the minority. What would change her odds is a Pelosi or other major mod endorsement.

Calling out other white dudes has been a favorite pastime of mine for a while. But it is rather effective. Especially the more “masculine” coded you are.

So where do the next batch of seniors come from?

Despite being raised southern Baptist and having the heritage on my father’s side, I’ve been told to my face that I’m a “different kind of white.”

Because it is treason.

We all know it was Boris Johnson, right?

Further evidence that immigration is a net gain for society.

My advice to the Democratic Party - kill the lib, and let the Liberal be born.

Version 2 HOLD THE GROUND AT ALL HAZARDS, Minnesota Edition

I love everyone discovering a suburb of Fort Worth is White Settlement, TX.

MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN

Oof. Yeah, gonna be hard to cancel midterms when this is the backlash already. And November is gonna be blue.

Tarrant County is the largest red county in the nation. I cannot emphasize enough how big this is. Rehmet winning this race against Wambsganss would be an earthquake of Biblical proportions.

I wish Lacan had lived long enough to see and experience social media, especially Bluesky.

America is a nation of immigrants and if you try to “well ackshually” that with some intellectual tripe about colonialism, no one will listen to you because you’re a dork. No normal American will listen to you. And you’re harming immigrants, so fuck off.

Yes, no successful nation state or empire has allowed immigrants, other than all of them.

Those of us in semi-red states that can go blue have a massive obligation to vote this November. Our votes are likely to count.

“Both sides are evil” Leftists 🤝 centrists and center-right

People keep saying "Getting arrested is bad, actually" and while I'd certainly prefer not to be, the administration's entire strategy is built around the idea that I will live in fear of it, and shape my behavior to avoid it, and cry in shame if I am. That is how THEY CONTROL YOU.

I’ve disagreed with Stancil on economic issues and found him annoying, but you gotta respect this. Man puts his money where his mouth is and it’s admirable. He’s done more than me, I know that much.

Hot take - democracy requires sacrifice and sometimes that sacrifice is personal. We don’t all get to be heroes in the end, sorry to say. You might have to give up your security and identity to fight this stuff, maybe more. That’s what’s required.

I’ve spent 4 days on a button that was “vibe coded,” because systems are complex.

I wouldn’t allow another human to do this, so why would I let something less-than-human do it?

If they were being funded, there’d be evidence and it would be”new wood” and “leather placards.” The stupidity to believe this…

The church protest and Trump’s response has so many echos to the Pussy Riot church protest in Russia.