My stance remains unchanged.

@seancasten.bsky.social Can I offer you a hat?

These selfish motherfuckers suck so fucking bad dude. There are more of us than there are of them.

Thermostatic Shock

Spanberger’s win and Zohran’s likely win means only one thing for the future: the people clamor for CIA Socialist 2028

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Dick Cheney dying on the day Bill Kristol finds himself rooting for a socialist to be elected to run America's largest city is something alright

The Cheney obituary pairs well with this piece I just published about the final attempts to stop @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Read them together and subscribe to @foreverwars.bsky.social:

"Cheney, 84, picked an appropriate time to die." - @attackerman.bsky.social, on the death of Dick Cheney

More great work from @winwithoutwar.bsky.social and @vetsaboutface.bsky.social taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-gro...

“We should be unsettled by the idea that a multi-trillion-dollar complex of mass extinction exists at all. We should be even more troubled by the fact that this nuclear enterprise is to be guided by something other than logic and evidence.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/fresh-hell...

It’s late, I should already be asleep, I have no idea what he actually meant, but I certainly could believe that Trump saw all the news about Russia’s Burvestnik test, his smooth brain interpreted it as a big bang nuke test like in the time of yore, and now he is sad.

If you don't know what this is about god bless you

The US has a massive advantage at non-yield producing testing methods in technology and expertise, so of course this would be another unforced giveaway to Moscow and Beijing.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Abolishing ICE is insufficient. Investigations and prosecutions must happen. People have to go jail. Others have to be barred from ever working in law enforcement ever again.

Normally it’s the opposition party that boycotts parliament but in America we do things our own way

if you have any ability to do so this is the time to contribute to your local food bank

The house will be the quieter.

That’s the official answer. In another world, the House might convene anyway, elect a speaker pro tempore and go about its business.

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

The state is not a personal slush fund for the monarch, but Trump is absolutely determined to use the tools of the 21st century along with the economics of the 19th to rule like it's the 17th century

Still relevant today!

Everyone in that room knows that applauding any part of this speech would be welcomed by these guys. There's precisely zero chance they face backlash for caving right now. They aren't because they know it's wrong and because it still matters to them.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Some beautiful things I saw in the waning hours of northern latitude summer:

Today, we’re expanding our NotWhatYouSignedUpFor.org campaign — which connects service members to resources for responding to unlawful and immoral orders — to two major active duty military installations: Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune.

free speech: chilled foreign relations: collapsing employment: anemic prices: rising the stock market: wheeeeee

I wrote on the death of MIIS, American cultural apathy, and why we can't have a healthy nuclear community. open.substack.com/pub/horsdoeu...

Rather delighted with my running art today.

It is good and easy to make the case against assassination without going out of your way to argue that a violence-cheering hatemonger was something other than what he was. Elevating his views to mere disagreement, as though he championed tax reform not supremacy, erases who he was and what he did.

Everything is always contingent, but the past year has felt exceptionally contingent to me in a way I still can’t articulate well. Perhaps it is a phantom sensation. Just really don’t love the dependencies of this particular path we’ve all been hurtled on today.

I remain as astonished as I was six months ago about how the notoriously power-hungry congress seems to have so gleefully ceded its power, just a so much more craven institution than I even imagined.

Around this time every night the news of the day fully sinks in and I’m just the maddest I’ve ever been, truly astonished that I can somehow be even madder with each passing hour. I’m sure I’m not alone in this feeling.

Just out for an evening stroll in beautiful DC, wearing my Third Amendment T-shirt so the national guard knows they can’t come sit in my couch

a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Donald Trump raided the home of my UN ambassador as punishment for his public criticism. Out of respect for the presidency, I will say nothing and paint another picture of a dog. by George W. Bush

Again, eyes are rightly on D.C. but please don't forget Los Angeles. ~300 troops are still here, but more importantly hordes of DHS goons continue to terrify and brutalize people in the second largest city in the country, and local authorities have been unable or unwilling to stop them.

cash assistance, housing first, permanent supportive housing everything about homelessness is a choice. we know what works.

It's time to GET LOUD, DC. The people who oppress our communities are not welcome in our communities. No matter where you are tonight, bring noisemakers, pots and pans, GoGo on the stereo, whistles, chants, or any other way to MAKE NOISE so Trump hears we want FEDERAL FORCES OUT NOW — FREE DC.

Has any national elected official condemned the TACO patrol tonight? It's unbelievably inciteful, dangerous, and reprehensible. I've seen a few mock it, but they aren't here. They don't know how scared and angry people are here. #FreeDC #DCStatehood

Last week, Border Patrol agents massed outside of a @governor.ca.gov news conference. They wound up arresting Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios, a strawberry delivery driver with no criminal record and just there to drop off fruit to a tea room. This is his story www.latimes.com/california/s...

Brown shirt included!

Ed Martin in a trench coat in August admiring New York houses, yikes

not sure the word is "thank" tho

Always grateful for Spencer’s perspectives in these times: “The people of D.C., like the rest of us, will have to rely on one another for the protection their local elected officials will not provide, busy as they are quoting laws to men with swords drawn to cut down pervasive social disorder.”

Six weeks out from the government funding deadline, many Senate Democrats are in the process of convincing themselves they have no choice but to cave. One of their main rationales will be a bad read of mostly irrelevant history. In truth they’re just scared of the unknown.

Can anyone explain what this meaningless misuse of words means? "... protesters pushed back on federal law enforcement and National Guard troops ..." Can it be a mixed metaphor when you're conflating two actual things? Federal law enforcement and troops are here. Protesters held rallies.

Classic Schumbler