Hello. I'm from Louisiana. I'm also like 70%+ Anglo-Saxon. I like to put beans on things and things into beans. You know, typical white people stuff. Anyways, wtf are these beans on?

Using keyboard keys to jam three letters into one square for a crossword puzzle is clever but unethical, and I will stand on this hill.

Hopefully, this view from the ICU waiting room does not become an annual tradition. But it happening two years in a row is thought provoking.

Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube. Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...

So I joined AARP on a whim a few months ago because it was like $50 for five years or something like that, and I was able to get like $200 off a set of tires with the discount. Anyways. I know we ask concerning questions about the youths, but what about our elders?

50 year mortgage but the interest isn't amortized.

Time to boycott Disney again.

Chili's just served me their skillet queso in a bowl. I'm so offended. I at least want the illusion that it isn't simply a reheated cheese food product with a can of chili.

I flippantly told a close friend over the phone that the shooter's motive(s), just like a lot of violence in general, is going to be a muddied mess that doesn't fit a nice narrative. A cursory glance looks like this is right-wing on right-wing gang violence.

True. But it's okay to eat one of these every now and then. Just eat your veggies so you poop more than once a week.

If it feels like Louisiana US Reps and Senators aren't in it for Louisiana, it's because several aren't. Source: OpenSecrets.org

I'm convinced Trump has dementia. DC was a crime hotspot in the 80s and 90s for several reasons, by the DC metro area as a whole isn't much different than Dallas or Atlanta.

If I had a nickel for every time a presidential criminal interjected themselves into the operations of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics out of political paranoia, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot. But it's weird that it happened twice. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_J...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a climate report that aims to cast doubt on the severity of climate change. Prominent climate scientists who are cited in it say their work was distorted or misused. “This isn’t science—it’s propaganda,” says climate expert Ben Santer. zurl.co/UELHj

Deep dish pizza will always have a unique place in my lore. This is a slice at Rotolo's Craft & Crust in Baton Rouge, LA. 🧵

My first book, "On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It" came out a week ago and is now available in hardcover and e-book edition with an audiobook version coming out in August! #booksky www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-bigotr...

To be frank, learning is the best part of being human.

Timeline cleanse. Clouds outside the plane while landing in Baton Rouge.

I'm officially renaming HR 1 to either the "Trump Tax Tragedy" or the "Trump Tax Trespass".

Walmart, Amazon, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and FedEx typically top the list in most jurisdictions. Fast food franchisees like McDonalds and Burger King are also contenders.

Men and women who have never smelled the aroma of sintered human flesh or tasted the sandy Arabian air will stand before cameras, lecterns, and microphones today to justify the blood sacrifice of American sons and daughters to appease the ego of a deflated, dilapidated, and weak president.

Cursing is rather boring, no? Back in the 19th century, if an abolitionist wanted to get under the skin of a "proper" Southerner, they would label slave owners as sex addicts. I vote for developing some equivalent modern version of that salicious language that has some modicum of truth like above.

Something that's been knocking around my noggin but isn't fully fleshed out is the notion that it isn't "illegal aliens are here" but "illegal aliens suppress wages due to intentional actions by employers" that probably concern most reasonable citizens.

Has anyone just been vibing and then a (drunken) stranger just rocks your perspective so hard with one innocuous question that you feel like you won't be able to sleep for a minute, or is it just me putting the finger down on this one?

The best outcome would be a Musk/Tech centered third party that fractures the GOP voterbase and lead to a Dem majority that fixes some of the brokenness in Congress (re: to repair the electoral college, we need to course correct our Congressional apportionment to where 1 person = 1 vote)

It's 2025. We have a plethora of peer nations with different approaches to state-provided healthcare. It's absolutely pathetic to keep wanting only employer-proivded solutions.

The alt text though 💀

No reasonable person would look at Aldi products and think they are Nabisco products.

One of the failures of America was its inefficient distribution of the gains of productivity to the productive class. Adopting policies similar to Huey P Long's (more radical than FDR's approach) would have kept this country's ethics on track for success to *all* and not to a few.

No notes. The archive and the necessity of its existence speaks for itself. www.thelgbtqarchive.org

Something like 90% of tax payers take the standard deduction. I'll be honest Ihaven't re as d the proposal, but if tipped income deduction is "on top of" the standard deduction, then there are a lot of EIC scenarios where someone may save $200ish on taxes but lose $800ish on credits, so net -$600

Trump's tariffs aren't intended to correct America's economy. It's intended for Trump and his cronies to get bribes to have their imports be "tariff exempted".

In 2010, I used to work for another big box grocer, and I was the grocery department manager. Fancy title for the person who replaced price tags. Managers would sometimes approve price changes in the system to "not be late", but there would be no one available to physically replace the label.

censor = 🙊 censure = 👩‍⚖️ sensor = 🚨 censer = 🕯️

Low key I'm into this 170 page footnote anecdote.

Draft-dodging, convicted felon who golfs every weekend asks others to moderate their consumption.

A new local bookshop opened up near me. They had a copy on the shelf. I purchased it and a cup of tea, and proceeded to read the entire book. It's a solid and motivating read.

Convicted felon wants US to commemorate the rule of law.

My super commutes have started to distort my view of a "long haul". Dallas to Houston is about 3.5 hours. To me, that's a typical Tuesday 😂

Dentist: When did you start grinding your teeth? Me: I dunno. Probably 2017? It stopped in 2021. It just started up again in 2025.

It's bittersweet that my Twitter account is 15 years old today. I remember tweeting via SMS on my daily commute when I was in graduate school.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A significant portion of my political lens comes from being born in 1986. A good portion of my life has been spent with divided branches of government, but I can correlate my life trajectory and satisfaction with whether Republicans controlled the executive and/or Congress.

This and "bioprocessing/bioengineering" is just slight variations of the same overall process of making alcohol. But spooky scary science, or something.

I have worked in corporate settings. This is called "hitting KPIs" but having little or no care in the "how" part (or worse, the KPIs were set with little or no thouyght into their setting, which is about 95% of KPIs)

As I get older, I wonder if the statement "America has lost her religion" is potentially true. But the religiosity lost isn't the supposed "Christian" god or other gods so much as our fervent regards toward liberty, even if said mythology of freedom is incongruous with our actual history.

The simplest way to decrease the federal deficit is to remove all deductions.

China's (and Europe's) "nuclear option" in this trade war would be to invoke compulsory licensing of US owned patents and hold the fees in escrow. It's tomfoolery to believe conflict in trade is good for anybody.

He Puts The Gas In Gaslight. Also An SPR Update. Please Share! youtu.be/jgQLXmgkM-g?...

Ironically, this was initially done to stop the tariff wars. And now it's being looked at to stop some tariff wars.