Just remember the first nominees of an expanded court will be by a Dem President. I will vote for whoever oromises and then does it with no mealymouthed "equal representation of both parties" bullshit.

Awww. RIP

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Unqualified diplomat who only got the job through connectons with the administration has to negotiate the opening of a strait amid rabid anti-western sentiment.

I absolutely think a senate candidate's personal life is my business, because he is running to be one of the most powerful people in the United States. This is not a position where you can maintain a principled privacy for your serial infidelities *that took place last year.*

Cartoon by Steve Breen

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

I'm sorry, but I've got to talk about this, because this shit is dangerous. It's a truth universally acknowledged that *at the very least until relatively recently,* Graham Platner was a scumbag. The type of reddit chud who'd blame women for being raped and muse about imagined failings of Black ppl

The problem with a narcissistic doofus who sexts w/ multiple strangers while still a newlywed, midway through fertility treatment, isn't that he's a bad husband, it's that he seems like a reckless dummy who can be blackmailed or manipulated, whatever his political skills! Holy Anthony Weiner

This is what we did in 1976. Not cage fights.

You gotta watch what the other dog does.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Besides history, I quilt too. And I got some credit card bills coming due so take a look and see if there is anything you like. Even if its summer, there are non-quilts items like wallhangings and placemats. legalquilts.onlineweb.shop

I don't know how to get through to people that the Dems need to be DIFFERENT than the Republicans. Which means not accepting Nazis and pedos in the party.

If ya'all had listened to people when his Nazi tattoo came out and he refused to acknowledge the problem and torpedoed his candidacy THEN, more stuff wouldn't be coming out now. There are still other viable candidates, Costello and LaFlamme. Rank them. Not Platner.

It takes years and years of red tape to build high speed rail in this country , but data centers are going up overnight and concentration camps. Sounds like we have some sort of problem in this country.

As requested, here are day old ducklings jumping off a ledge onto a lake set to "Ride of The Valkyries" 🐣 🪶

Can anyone recommend a good backgrounder on the Mejii restoration? For a general reader, not a specialist. Thank you.

I've given up on trying to find a note taking system "as good as index cards." Bolstered by the recent study that hand writing improves memory, I gave in. Currently recopying all my notes to cards. P.S. don't suggest Scrivener tried it it doesn't QUITE work for me.

(I will do this for free but if you'd like to buy me a drink I have a ko-fi, ko-fi.com/tlecaque 😅)

Went to brunch at our favorite place. They refuse to put on extra help in the kitchen knowing there is a crowd in summer. Then Hubby's crabcake eggs benedict was awful. It was cold. They put CHEESE rather than hollandaise sauce on it. That is an abomination unto Nuggan.

105 yrs ago today-5/31/1921-the Tulsa Race Massacre began when white mobs attacked the vibrant, prosperous Greenwood district of Tulsa, known as “Black Wall Street.” Many Black-owned businesses were destroyed, with at least 36 Black residents killed and over 800 injured. Image: Public domain.

It’s the Second Time he has done this for our State! Thank You Stephen Colbert….

There is nothing more San Antonio than this thread.

I want one governor just one to look at their staties and say "your job is to protect the people of this state from ICE. Yiu can't do that, turn in your badge, your kaw enforcement powers are suspended."

"The Pod Save guys boosted their favorite failson former bartender* from when they were bros in DC and the Maine labor movement grabbed onto him as the alternative to the cryptkeeper governor they hate" is a pretty plausible account of what happened here

I have just realised a fundamental truth about Donald Trump. When he says he's "Six Feet and Three Inches" that's actually two separate measurements. And he's rounding up both of them.

I've been wondering about that big UFC cage they are building on the White House lawn. You know the one higher than the White House? Have they considered we get some nasty lightning storms in summer in DC?

lol

The thing about Platner is that I swore we were all passing around some anecdote a little while back about how you can't allow even one nazi, even a well-spoken one with good vibes, into your bar. I have a very clear memory of this. We all agreed with it and found it trenchant and apt.

Does anyone remember the name of the BlueSky Open Source Goodreads?

I just want to point out one thing here, there was a "review of all diagnostic studies and lab results for the last year." How many diagnostic studies and labs were done in the last year and what were they?

Anyone seen him walking lately? I'm wondering if they have him mostly in a wheelchair, so he will get wheeled out of the limo to a golf cart where he will lumber a few steps, pretend to swing, then his caddy will place the ball on the green for him.

You cannot make this shit up.

Why are public libraries worth protecting? So that knowledge itself does not become privatized. That's the *real* danger of pushing everyone to go to sites like Google or to A.I. chatbots for answers.

the stereotypical small town story is of the pitcher who gets away with sexual harassment because they can throw a fastball at 95 mph. the era we are in is ruled by the guy who never made the team but bets on the game, but still somehow loudly gets away with the open sexual harassment

@shipwreckspod.bsky.social hey I know this one.

if one removed people who obsessively talk about teenagers' genitalia in public, a huge swathe of the conservative movement would simply vanish

There is no way they had actual contracts with anyone for this FreedomFest250 thingie. Most contracts have penalty clauses for canceling without cause. The way they are dropping like flies tells me the singers don't expect contractual consequences.

Bret Michaels bailed. Not what I expected.

Yesterday I signed a bill to return 3,400 acres of land to the Fon du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa - a joint effort between the Tribe, the state, and the University of Minnesota.

This is Togo. He escaped his house when no one was looking. Came back a few hours later, but his parents were out searching for him. Fortunately, his youngest human was still home and able to relay the good news through the doorbell camera. 14/10 (IG: baltoandtogo_huskybros)

Once again - it becomes a lot easier to understand this modern iteration of fascism if you remember it is constructed by many absolutely terminally online edge lord losers filtered through GamerGate and 4chan. People who have never been funny trying to tell the same in jokes & memes with dead eyes

303!!! How did his floors not buckle?

For reasons known only to Nuggan I had to look up the Greek Muses today. Which caused me to finally "get" on of the characters' names in Lindsay Davis' Falco/Flavia Alba series. And then I rolled my eyes so hard I saw my brain.

One of those amazing coincidences of history. Captain Isaac Hull commanded the USS Constitution in her battle with the Guerriere on August 19, 1812 On August 16, 1812, his uncle Brigadier General William Hull surrendered Detroit without even token resistance.

So he doesn’t have a bank account but does have a stock portfolio?

I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.