Progressives walk & ride bikes. Conservatives walk & ride bikes. Centrists walk & ride bikes. road.cc/content/news...

“You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” ~ Peter Drucker

Double indemnity? After hearing that a group of documented workers were arrested by ICE, I’m wondering if they’ll be released by a judge and then grabbed again? (And counted as two arrests on the quota.)

“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” ~ Noël Coward (seen in The Week)

"If gold rusts, what shall iron do?" ~ Geoffrey Chaucer Sadly, the political leaders who understand the meaning of that quote aren’t the ones who need to understand the meaning of that quote.

“What happens in conflict is the flattening of identities and somebody becomes just one thing or another, and we can marginalize or dehumanize them,” says Mr. Sarrouf.

Saying that a vaccine which isn’t 100% effective “doesn’t work” is like saying brakes that don’t stop you from ever running into something don’t work.

“…the agreement between DHS and the Navy is that ICE cannot store lethal ammunition, house DHS personnel or detain people at the naval station. ICE can, however, use office space, parking and store non-lethal ammunition beginning Friday until Oct. 5.” wgntv.com/news/lake-co...

It’s wild living in the Information Age and the Dark Age at the same time.

Mixed cultural heritage enriches societies by bringing together traditions, languages, and practices. Some people call it “alien invasion”; I call it “hybrid vigor”.

“Order protects liberty, and liberty protects order.” ~ William Webster, former head of the FBI and the CIA.

This may just be a thought experiment, but someone is suggesting Norway should purchase Harvard and move it near Oslo. “Norway has the money and Norway’s culture is a perfect fit with Harvard.” www.bi.no/en/research/...

Journalist: “… which is bullshit.” Editor: “You can’t say that.” J: “… which is a lie.” E: “You can’t say that either.” J: “… nonsensical jibber jabber.” E: “Ennnhhhhhh.” J: “… a claim not backed by data.” E: “Print it!”

Just reflecting on how well autarky, economic self reliance, worked for the Soviet Union.

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People shocked to find 14 year olds working on farms know nothing about rural America. My first real job was at 14 detasseling corn. I’d get up at 5:30, eat cereal, make my lunch, fill a water jug, then walk about a mile to where a bus picked us up. 14 YOs can work in agriculture.

🚨Minnesota’s bipartisan congressional delegation condemned the politically motivated shooting that killed Rep. Melissa Hortman and injured Sen. John Hoffman, expressing grief, unity, and support for law enforcement—confirmed by reputable sources

There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” Mark Twain

Reminder to Congress: Once an asset is no longer an asset it becomes a liability. Choose your path.

Insurance EOBs (Explanation of Benefits) should be named OEOBs (Ostensible EOB) or MEOB (Meaningless EOB). I went for a blood draw. EOB for the draw, NOT the lab work, has 4 line items “Laboratory Services”, each with a different price, totaling $657. For that price I’ll bleed myself.

If you think INFLATION is bad, wait until you try DEFLATION.

“God doesn’t make mistakes!” That’s absolutely correct. The mistake is yours for not knowing that God filled the world with a variety of people to test our capacity for compassion and understanding.

"While others search for what they can take, a true king searches for what he can give." - Mufasa

On chemicals and food, RFK Jr. runs up against powerful GOP constituencies

So we have actual fact checkers who know all the facts? Why not create a TV channel where they just give us the facts? We could call it the News. #SteveThoughts

Libraries across the United States are cutting back on e-books, audiobooks and loan programs after the Trump administration suspended millions of dollars in federal grants as it tries to dissolve the Institute of Museum and Library Services. apnews.com/article/inst...

IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” *Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽

Dear #iPhone developers, Please adjust the software so that if I click a notification within 0.2 seconds of its appearance then ignore that click and recognize that my intent was to click something now hidden under the notification… so do that.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

My wife and I were discussing all the Medicare gap options and how we’re going to have to dig in to understand the differences. It made me wish we just had socialized medicine. I said “It’s simple: You’ve got my back and I’ve got yours.” To which she added “That’s how you build a strong nation.”

Just because you don’t know what your purpose is, doesn’t mean you don’t have one.

Corporate Update: In order to rectify the trade imbalance we have with our employees, from today on salaries will be paid using CorpBucks. These CorpBucks can be exchanged for goods and services ONLY at Corporate owned stores and service centers. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

At this rate, in twenty years we’ll be eighty years behind the rest of the world.

In honor of our Lord and Savior, murdering each other deferred to Monday. www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

Emmanuel Macron is inviting researchers from whole world to choose France and Europe. "Here in France, research is a priority, innovation is a culture, and science is a limitless horizon," assured the French president.

This has been one of Trump's undiscussed plans all along.

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

Twice in the past two days I’ve had conversations with people who were grimly committed to the idea that all this pain was critical to reduce the national debt. In both cases, the person was completely unaware that Congress is planning to increase the debt by $4T.

What fuckery is this? Who made DOGE a regulatory body? I thought deregulation was the MAGA mantra. www.protoolreviews.com/doge-mandate...

«On a déjà évalué que chaque Américain va composer avec une augmentation de presque 2 000 $ par année.» “It has already been estimated that each American will face an increase of $2000 per year.”

Damn. It just dawned on me that with tarif fees being hidden in higher priced goods, I’m going to be paying sales taxes on that tariffed price. It’ll be a tax on a tax. Clearly “Liberation Day” is for the dollars that will be liberated from my wallet.

Václav Havel: “I have said it so often: if the West does not stabilize the East, the East will destabilize the West.” “Ideology offers human beings the illusion of dignity and morals while making it easier to part with them.”

While Tesla recalls its glued-together dumpster trucks, China's BYD is cranking out reasonably priced EVs that charge in 5 minutes. Yes, 5 minutes. Thank goodness tariffs are protecting us from these, huh?

The idea that people just joyously contracted measles for the immunity in the "good old days" is stupid in itself but there was literally an entire rom-com subgenre that revolved around people locked in quarantine together (enforced by the police at the time)

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Something to think about