In their haste to praise the new LSU athletic director, many Louisiana press outlets seem to have memory-holed the official Hush Blackwell report. If you don't have time to read the whole thing, this link provides a good summary. lailluminator.com/2021/03/10/2....

The fact that the federal elected dems can't organize themselves as the anti-corruption machine is utterly damning statement about their political abilities.

This should literally be every democrat’s campaign platform…

Trump: "What the Democrats will do is make Puerto Rico a state, make DC a state, they're gonna pack the Court. They're gonna end up with more electoral votes. They're gonna end up with 4 senators. And they're gonna do this 100%."

If SCOTUS decides that states/officials can refuse to recognize gay marriages, I plan to refuse to recognize *all* marriages. I won't refer to your spouse as in any way related to you anymore. Sorry straights. Your lifestyle choice just doesn't sit right with me.

If your party has to have a wing that *doesn't* include all the Nazis in your party, guess what... you are still in the Nazi party.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

If you want something to say to people who badmouth socialism, try these: 1. It isn't communism. It works in a democracy. 2. It's the radical idea that individual wealth isn't the primary goal of society. 3. It doesn't take your money. It makes sure everyone has what they need as a baseline.

ugh in this idiotic timeline? She'll probably win because the Dems will cart out some barely walking "moderate"

This whole country is just a fucking grift-on-grift-on-grift-on-grift right now We can't get a federal guarantee to not die of starvation or go bankrupt from medical debt but these fucking goons...

Sooooo that’s what the inside of my flume pumps look like 🫣

ugh so next week's ballot in New Orleans has several measures that I am conflicted on - bond initiatives for projects that are desperately needed but... like... bond debt is so crushing for cities. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves rather than just taxing rich people (and churches)

We need a wealth tax that makes these predatory funds not cost effective.

Colorado shows that feeding children is still a popular notion. All school meals should be free.

Something something blue wave idk

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

I am a nerd. I hope the people who come to ClayFest this weekend are also nerds.

Ope found them! In my downloads folder, of course. Not like, anywhere sane.

America

Crazy to me that folks think seeing a new rescue dog through heartworm treatment is too hard for them. I didn't know any of that when I got my first dog who was HW+ and it was just something we went through. Literally just pills, a couple shots, and keep her calm. Shelter even paid for treatment.

White House Had Prior Knowledge Of Cheney Threat

I got a 120V heat pump water heater installed (for free through a DOE study). I love it.

Oh…

If I’ve learned one immutable guiding principle it is never idolize a politician. And never trust anyone who does.

argggghhhhh I made a bunch of logo label stickers for my pottery to go on bags when I do a market and now I have no idea where I saved that file to get more printed.. and I have a show on Saturday 🫠

One of Cheney's things was to treat every conceivable threat, no matter how likely, as an absolute certainty. Aside from being super shitty risk assessment, it also very much pushed us towards this police state where the citizenry is seen as "the enemy" and any brutality is seen as justified

This is accurate! SNAP is obviously important because it feeds people, but there is data showing it also reduces healthcare spending and has economic benefits too. As I always say, our country would gain a lot by spending even more on SNAP to give people true freedom in their food choices.

And, of course, compound it youtube.com/shorts/cFbCF...

I truly think it’s now time we have the conversation about taxing the shit out of any company making or using genAI and use that towards funding UBI since they are literally intending to put everyone out of work to maximize profits

Just heard a story on NPR about how cops are now using genAI to write their police reports... so a mystery machine is now writing the fundamental base legal document that gets used in *any* legal incident... great

I was always annoyed at comments like, "Even Teen Vogue is covering this better than the NY Times." Because, one, Teen Vogue has been consistently excellent at political coverage for a decade. And two, it reinforced the outdated idea that legacy outlets are the best model for political journalism.

I think one of the most annoying parts of my university's present financial situation is how the system/state are acting punitively towards UNO when it was upper admins who *they* chose for us that put us in this situation in the first place

Soooo he's either lying (plausible) or being used as a puppet by someone else in a shadow coup (plausible)... so which is it? Did YOU pardon him? Or is he not pardoned? Because NO OTHER PERSON has that authority

My department has a mutual aid table in a public area outside the main office. In addition to providing ready to eat snacks, some bring other food (and produce from our gardens) to share with whoever needs it. Nothing is there for long, so that existing need has gotten bigger.

Milling up some more spodumene for shino!

So... like what happens to the economy when 4M unpaid federal employees suddenly cannot pay their mortgages? How many months backstop do you think most people have? Just as a rough point of reference the 2008 subprime crisis arose from somewhere in the 1M mortgage foreclosures range.

If anyone is coming to NOLA for AGU, you have to get food from Addis Nola btw. One of my fav spots in town on historic Bayou road.

I *literally* had some construction workers tell me my flat tire on a mountain road in WY last summer was because of DEI. It was the dumbest fuckin' thing I had ever heard with my own two ears (the installer was some 19 year old white kid in Laramie btw)

Yikes.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

So everyone says we were unreasonably made afraid of quicksand relative to real risk but today I literally almost died in quicksand

"However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet" except for drivers...

Huh

Who wants to get married and live in side-by-side creole cottages together? 😂

Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest scientific achievements. The fact that members of one political party in the US wants to destroy vaccines signals how unserious they are and how they should not be allowed to govern.

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Nworie & Jobe investigate measurement techniques of biogenic carbonate grains morphologies and evaluate their advantages and limitations when compared to micro-computed tomography analysis. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

Let’s do a FIRED ARTS art share 🔥 Including but not limited to: ceramics, glass fusing, glass blowing, metal work, pyrography, or anything you make with intense heat! Please use alt text!

The future is here and … just… fuuuuuugggggghhhhhh

I realize that many scientists are not confident in their art skills. Simple drawings made by scientists who may not be artistically talented are significantly better than the ai art because **the ai stuff is full of errors**. “Bad” but correct figures are better than “prettier” wrong ones.

I’m old enough to remember when the biggest scandal in the country was a guy who paid $130,000 for an office door and sometimes referred to himself as a geologist when he wasn’t (but also kinda was).