Can’t say this is the most ridiculously horrible thing out of this administration but it sure AF makes the top 10. Holy.shit. www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

PSA: pay more attention to what’s happening with your local legislatures than with what is happening in DC. I’ve seen people say that before but I didn’t give it the attention I should have. Shady ass shit is happening right under your nose and you CAN affect it WAY more than you can in DC 😉

Sorry that I have been absent. Lots of big things happening locally for me that I’m very involved with. Can’t say too much but Kevin O’Leary can go fuck himself! IYKYK

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw “The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”

Take a much needed break from the current state of the country and world and have a nice good belly laugh 🤣 Credit: www.instagram.com/sineadiebobe...

Utah bringing the HEAT!! Yaaasss!!

Last week I paid more for gas than I ever have in my life. Today I paid even more.

Oh for fucks sake! The U.S. presence in Germany serves American interests in monitoring and shaping German power, not just defending it! The fucking COMMANDER IN CHIEF of all people should understand this. He thinks he’s just pressuring GE to spend more on defense. It’s way more nuanced than that!

Wait. Whut? I have sooooo many questions. “The mandatory registration applies to green-card holders, refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented men.”

If you find that your mind is so full of information that you too could be an AI, give this free site a go. You can ask the human powered "AI" questions or become the human powered AI yourself & give the answers. A little fun is good for you.

Current bargaining unit DoD employees, with a few exceptions, should be receiving a notification soon that they no longer have any union protections.😞

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There’s about 30 days of disaster relief funding right now. I guess we’ll just have to offer thoughts and prayers if there’s a natural disaster….

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Raise your hand if you’re a man and would like to receive flowers BEFORE you die. Inquiring minds need to know.

Excellent book. Buy it now if you can and if you are able, buy extra copies to lend, give or put in your local little library. Bookshop.org allows you to basically buy from any local bookstore (and shipping is free this weekend - BONUS!). If you can’t buy a copy, look for it at your local library!

“People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

“Livin’ on a Prayer” is a State Farm ad now. This dropped the same week I drank coffee with dinner, googled insole support, chose sleep over fun, and got a shingles vaccine. Jon Bon Jovi is literally selling insurance while I’m out here buying it in every possible form. We are both officially old.

USDA is actively soliciting farmer input for a fertilizer price collusion investigation. The input pricing squeeze has been a known prob for decades. Interesting timing for an antitrust probe, but if you’re a farmer, this is the survey to fill out…. farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/04/usda...

Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology. The queen of all vices: Pride. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Finally someone is taking them to task about calling the DoD the DoW, and their reckless abandon of veterans who lost their jobs. They don’t care but I’m grateful to know that someone is paying attention!

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

I mean, we all know it’s going to be some dipshit like Cruz or Lee that gets the nomination. These two put the term “shit sandwich” to shame 🤦🏼

Tomorrow at 10 ET, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on ... the Second Amendment: www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the... I'll be the minority witness. And my written testimony has some ... thoughts ... about what we ought to be talking about instead:

Things that give me joy: Baby chickens 🐥 Dogs 🐶 Blooming flowers 🌺 My adult children hanging out with one another without me being involved in anyway 💕

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

Of course. How did we not see this coming? 🤦🏽 He never misses an opportunity to make himself and his cronies richer, no matter what, while making the lives of the working class more and more difficult.

So Iran will “build back better” & be back in the nuclear arms business faster than ever. This is what happens when you negotiate w/ yourself. This 2 week “ceasefire” is just an off-ramp for Trump, dressed as triumph. Fine with me! But lives were lost!!!!!! 😡 😞

Yes! All of this!

This is the Donut of Misery. Generally used to track, or countdown to the end of a military deployment. It seems appropriate to use it to countdown to the end of the FOTUS’ term. We are 30% there! 😩 But I maintain hope that it will be cut short by any means possible!

“War crimes” means nothing without a mechanism to hold those who commit them accountable. We do not have that mechanism. We MUST take back the House and Senate so we can impeach, convict and remove these dirtbags. I know I’m preaching to the choir, so get just one person to vote blue & we can do it!

“When we think about it now, about how it might take shape, we make it less likely; indeed, we deter it.”

Pretty much captures it, with the addendum that the increases in military spending are a meant as a bribe to the people who Trump hopes will occupy their own country on his behalf. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-2027...

Hot take for people who don’t understand how the US military works: it’s not a monolith with a coup lever. It’s a massive bureaucracy with a civilian chain of command. That’s a feature not a bug. I know many of you don’t want to hear this. Don’t shoot the messenger though. These are just facts.

Morally, legally, economically the war on Iran is disastrous and the disaster goes on for years no matter what happens now. But what cannot be overstated is that in pure national security terms it is also an unmitigated catastrophe.

Those are the words of a "potential" war criminal (pushed and encouraged by his "potentially" war criminal president)

LMAO I really want a bumper sticker that says “Cash, Grass or Ass. Nobody rides for free.” But I worry about how that might affect my security clearance 😅

I calculated my egg costs after my coop burned down and I’m not okay. I’m no mathematician but I think I am paying about $11/dozen for eggs.

Why would anyone assume that Iranian airspace is “safe”? The takeaway here is not that passive IR = vulnerability. Our systems aren’t perfect or flawless. The takeaway is that anytime a jet flies over hostile territory, it is vulnerable. 1/2

At least the Army *tried* to do the right thing by suspending these pilots and opening an investigation. Accountability fails when the people who are entrusted to enforce the rules are the ones breaking them. Ugh.

Peaceful protests matter! Public pressure works. Peaceful protests do more than send a message to politicians though. They build coalitions of people who take action for/against specific things, and those things are extremely effective. Keep resisting in every way you can! So proud of you today! 🔥

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

Just finished listening to this. It’s fantastic and SUCH a welcome break from this shit timeline. If you need a giggle and/or a wholesome heartfelt story that is not at all ever sad, give it a read or a listen. @elysemyers.bsky.social It’s so good! ❤️

I learned cursive. I only ever use it to write notes to myself on a Post It. Teach kids to be literate. Maybe bilingual. Who cares what their handwriting *looks* like? (And if you care, remember that even people who know how to write in cursive often have hideous handwriting).

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Maven uses Anthropic’s Claude AI under the hood. In fact, many companies doing business with the DoD do. My oh my…how ever will the DoD get itself out of this (yet another) pickle? 🤔

Hi! Your friendly neighborhood 82nd Airborne vet here to tell you 1,000 paratroopers is a command group+advance party and it makes no sense to send this element unless the plan is to send a fuck ton more ground troops relatively soon!