Various ways to investigate the Good shooting: -- Minnesota indicts Ross based on abundant video and extradites, with subpoenas to feds to get the squelched evidence. -- Good's widow brings a wrongful death suit against Ross and his employer (based on pattern and practice) to get discovery.

A good start on the new year.

I am calling for all of the Epstein files to be released immediately without redaction to prove I am not implicated. I also demand that one of the new battleships be named for me. If a multi-draft dodger gets the whole class named after him, a non-veteran with a high draft number gets a boat.

So, DOJ released incomplete, unsearchable, and almost entirely redacted shit. Of course, they did. Who is going to enforce anything against them? They see us as Piggy's dick shape and feed us shit and keep us in the dark.

So, they'll release all the files in 2 weeks, eh? Code for never.

I don't know why I see what I see on by Bluesky feed. Do my choices create a left-leaning array? Are there others whose choices bring them mostly right-leaning posts? Or can you consistently post and like hard right and still get mostly leftish stuff displayed for you? How is Bluesky structured?

To elaborate on a comment I made that "Teapot Done was a drop in the kettle by comparison with the current corruption," the dismaying difference is that Teapot Dome was treated as a huge scandal when dug out, while Piggy's many open and obvious grifts are just shrugged off as expected of him.

An ever hopeful Bird starting to realize the neglectful humans still haven't refilled the feeder.

After listening to a public radio bit with people saying what effects would be of no more internet, I saw this in my office's copy room. We're ready.

I checked out a CD audiobook of a Carl Hiaason book, thought about where my portable CD player might be (and whether the batteries are corroded), and went to Best Buy. "I might be from the wrong century," I began, and asked if they have them. Maybe online, the clerk said. Yep, wrong century.

With hope of getting back in shape, I bought an electric bike to assist my peddling up the considerable hills on the way to work. Went great for a week, then rain, then the time change. Now the ride home would be mostly in the dark, and these old eyes may not see the potholes and cracks. Next year!

When I checked after midnight and saw a tie in inning 15, I thought maybe I need to pick a fave (the Cubs being out). How? Go with Canada because Trump is shitty to them? Or go with LA, because Trump actually is occupying it with troops. Boots on the ground point the way: Go Dodgers!

Another way to look at the frog resistance in Portland is that the aspiring monarchy is using the slow-boil approach to lull us into staying in the pot while they turn up the flames of fascism. Confronting the stormtroopers as inflated frogs is saying, "We won't be boiled!"

Prediction for the next 13 months: ICE and military will ramp up vastly in blue areas, to the point that it will seem normal. Then during early voting and election day, both will be heavily present near polling places in blue areas to sweep up or scare away anyone who looks like a Democratic voter.

Military officers told to lead troops in a war inside the US against the "enemy within" (i.e., people who disagree with Trump) must either violate their oaths and obey him or obey their oaths and resign, which diminishes the military's ability to fight foreign enemies. We lose either way.

I went into work later because of a utility appointment, so I couldn't compare the morning commute after the Rapture with normal.

Snopes blew its fact check on Noem and South Park. Instead of confirming she said only liberals criticize women's appearance, it should have pointed out some of the many times the right does it. E.g., Trump repeatedly discrediting female critics or accusers by mocking their looks.

I have to thank a bunch of folks on a thread I wandered into for reminding me why I left various previous forms of social media because the bickering over fine points of perceived difference just raised my stress level and wasted vast amounts of time. Time for a sabbatical. Maybe finish my novel.

The purpose of the birthright guidelines is to boost the deportation count by letting ICE snatch 1 or both parents and baby from maternity ward.

Earlier today I replied about what I tell religious proselytizers at my door. Well, couple hours later up show 2 young ladies in the horrid heat saying they want to tell me about Jesus. My dog is erupting. I say, "I'm happy with my current religion, now I have to walk my dog." They scurried.

Our newest outdoor kitten, Nubbies, has rejoined mom as a community cat. Her 3 siblings are watching suspiciously from a bush. They'll be tougher to catch.

My MSN news feed fed me an ad for a free AI Biblical Sermon Generator. Wondering what the catch is on the free part. Resisting urge to play with it to see what perverse sermons I can prompt it to churn out. Seeing potential for results contrary to expectations, like pre-Nazification Grok.

In an alternative universe, POTUS 47 flicks her brown hair out of her eyes and orders the US military to move food, medical aid and infrastructure into Gaza to save the people from starvation, and to push back against any military or militia that tries to get in our way.

After chuckling along with the late night hosts mocking the stable genius (with the MIT prof uncle) for not understanding that there are no numbers for reducing anything in terms of percentage higher than 100, I recalled (dimly) studying imaginary numbers in high school math class. Sorry Donold.

After their sibling instantly went in one trap, bound to get legalized as a community cat, these 2 saw its plight and carefully circled the other trap without going in. #catsofbluesky

The Pubes are scrambling so hard to keep the Epstein files hidden because they're sure Trump is splashed all over them.

I recently doubled my NPR local station donation to help offset fed gov's attempt to silence that necessary, objective source of news. Just now I heard on the local classical station that it is losing its fed funding too. So I called and doubled my contrib. Please, folks, bump your donations too.

There will be no real discovery in the libel suit by orange felon vs WSJ. It is a setup for paying T personally from funds of an ally.

I just doubled the monthly draw for my local radio station (Omaha) carrying NPR. I told the person answering the phone that somebody has to support it, if the government won't. Y'all chip in too, wherever you are! Don't let this objective and necessary voice be silenced!

Having been clued into the appropriateness of the term "cock womble" to describe 45/47 and other foolish men in his sphere, I asked my phone what the female version is. It took the space out of cockwomble and offered "twatwaffle" as the closest equivalent. As in US AG Twatwaffle. Spread the word!

Kitten gazing at painting of ancestor.

Suggestion to reporters: Do a story comparing death threats received by reporters whom Trump calls "evil" compared with other reporters who ask him questions. Seems like a purposeful intimidation tactic. Not just dodging the question.

Apparently Musk had Grok trained with tRump's rally speeches and press conference answers. Grok is channeling his rambling style. Somebody ask it about toilets and windmills.

How to prevent Medicaid cuts eff. 2027: Replace all Republicans up for election in 2026, repeal the cuts 1st week of January 2027, then override the veto.

Thank you to our neighbors near and far for blowing up your rent and mortgage payments for our amusement tonight. But it's after midnight. You have our permission to stop now.

Effing Hulu! After watching 21 of the 24 Andor episodes I found were on Hilu and expiring 7/3, with the last 3 tonight, I fired it up tonight and ... gone already. I read and article saying Thursday was the last day. Effing cliffhanger.

Stop using their analogy. Alligator Auschwitz is much more on point. Alcatraz was for convicted felons. Auschwitz was for disappearing people who don't match the government's preferred demographic.

2/3 the way bingeing on Andor. The similarities to Life of Brian are striking. The Roman Empire references have permeated the whole Star Wars series, but here the pre-Alliance rebels being so splintered and antagonistic to one another echo the rebel groups Brian encounters.

I didn't know Andor was on Hulu until I saw Saturday night that it leaves after Thursday. That's 4 episodes a night to binge it. I'm on track so far. It hadn't occurred to me that anything in the Disney black hole might be accessible to a regular Hulu subscriber.

Trump giving the Iranians permission to bomb the US base in Qatar is like Milo Minderbinder contracting with the Germans to bomb the US air base in Carch 22. Another great deal maker.

Family photo. The big one has been processed into the Community Cats program. The 3 kittens will join when they are a little older. Food on our porch feeds Mama, who feeds the kits. #catsofbluesky

So, apparently, it is cool with the Supreme Court that ICE can snatch me off the street, not believe me when I tell them I was born in Nebraska, and straight away whisk me off to Fuckbuttistan with no opportunity to present my birth certificate to a judge? Please tell me I'm wrong about that.

I was just reading a court hearing transcript for an appeal brief I'm writing and came across this: THE COURT: You know what, I am not going to penalize your client because of what you did here. I will allow you -- don't make faces at the Court, Mr. ***.

Reunited! We took the mama to Community Cats for spaying and shots about 8 weeks after she went suddenly svelte. While she was there, we 1st saw the 2 kittens. We reclaimed her and released her this morning. Her lookalike came right out. Here they looking for the tuxedo sibling.

What is SpaceX's failure ratio for Starships? For all of its rockets?

So apparently Noem is saying the federal government is deploying military to remove from state and local office the governor and mayor.

So the DOGE minions left behind drugs after they vandalized USAID offices. Is this included in the congressional investigation of the cocaine baggy found at the WH?

Congressional pubes have been scared of 47 because his bankroller would finance primary opponents. So the fear is focused on Musk. Look for the pubes to scatter confused.

My guess is big deal posters allow comments from accounts they follow but not accounts that follow them.

Is there a setting for blocking replies containing bad language ("pissed")? Usually my replies show up as soon as I hit Reply. But an ironically adoring reply to a big deal poster never showed in his replies list, though it is on my list of replies.