Camus' The Stranger, narrated by Donald J. Trump

I might be Emerald Fennelling here, but is The Stranger just about police violence moving from the lynching era and not understanding they have to be covert?

Two points about the downed F-15 crew in Iran: 1. Hegseth threatened “no quarter” against Iran, making the situation worse for those downed fliers. 2. Media speculation that the fliers could be used as “hostages” is sloppy language. They'd be prisoners of war taken during combat. Not "hostages."

Means-testing also makes programs cost more than they would under a universal model, because so much money gets wasted on verification, surveillance, and compliance.

Since the New Deal, the right edge of the conservative movement has been committed to the goal of eliminating all facets of the federal government that do good in the world, leaving behind only a war machine and a surveillance operation capable of containing the “internal leftist enemy.”

Getting free birthday tickets to the Sounders v Austin FC game was not in my expectations this morning but the Sounders just put up a First Match on Us program. www.soundersfc.com/first-match-...

The sun is so violent. I'll be ready to take the train in the wrong manner and then it will emerge to remind me that I'm just a plant and it was only a prank that my mood was cratering.

Anti-christ levels are in the red zone

Concept: replace the cannons in the 1812 overture with Whip-It!™s.

I’m no lawyer but I find it interesting that Christian conversion therapy practitioners have the right to tell kids they aren’t trans but those kids’ teachers apparently don’t have the right to say they are trans and people on the internet may not have the right to affirm them being trans either

I'm sure the leadership from the party whose youth wing is talking about being "j-pilled" is definitely asking for this for perfectly legitimate reasons.

new rule is that no Republican is allowed to criticize Gender Studies ever again

clearly there's a vested interest in protecting them from a public trained to recognize what they are up to. like if the PLA tried to shut down Chinese language instruction to prevent Americans from reading their weapons manuals

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

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The Small Business Administration spokesperson is claiming the agency is ending loans for green card-holders because of limited lending capacity. So there’s billions to spend on an unauthorized war but we can’t afford to help an aspiring business person _and taxpayer_ open up a corner store? 🧐

seemingly overnight, you went from having your leadership elite assassinated to the US publicly declaring it might let you have ownership over one of the most important chokepoints in the world. If you have a reversal of fortune like that, you are gonna keep pushing and see how far it goes

This article was designed to make me become the joker. When the NPT was signed, there were zero nuclear armed states outside of it. The fact that there are now almost as many states with nukes outside as inside is THE problem in non-proliferation rn and Israel is a full QUARTER of that problem.

Nightmare megachurch playlist continues to grow with Robyn's Talk to Me.

GBAO survey of 800 US Jewish voters for @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social: – Generic ballot: 67-24 Democrat – "Support or oppose the U.S. military action against Iran": 60-40 oppose – Just 31% support "unconditional financial and military assistance to Israel" www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Every time I have need yo pull up the GS I have a brief moment to go "How the fuck does GS-1 [federal pay of <30k for your first year] still exist?" before slowly searching around and finding it is basically reserved for lifeguards in training.

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympian with a variation in her sex traits, criticized the IOC policy discriminating against transgender and intersex women. “It’s like now we need to prove that we are worthy as women to take part in sports. That is disrespect for women." www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...

Okay, to be clear, I am not a Newsom fan. But there is an anti-war argument to be made for compulsory military service, where everyone has a personal stake in ensuring that it doesn't get used. I think about this piece and the decoupled democracy often: www.bostonreview.net/articles/ela...

Happy Holi!

The incredible thing is watching the trains crammed with people protesting the national government and celebrating the creation of a regional rail connection simultaneously. It's like the entire county is out to make some noise for good governance and bringing people together.

It is astoundingly busy on the trains today. Business owners are excited, too. I talked to two people doing booths at Mercer Island who said the train will be good for them. One said, “I can’t imagine why people were against this.”

All these fucking nerds cheering as we drop onto the floating bridge today. Seattle (and Bellevue), I love you.

14. It's so maddening. Government workers should be paid. You shouldn't have to wait on lines in airports, or worry about Coast Guard preparedness, or whether FEMA can handle the next disaster. But you do because of the utter lack of character in GOP leadership.

Miami is the new San Francisco, with the highest out-migration rate of all large metros. jedkolko.substack.com/p/with-less-...

Gardetto's and Chex Mix are both General Mills products. I feel like this is morally wrong? There is no choice?

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

*screeching at the moon traaaaaaaains*

When Seattle votes for anything bold and progressive we always re-litigate it until the suburbs get what they want.

I love the FTC's honesty when you report fraud. "We can't resolve your individual report," or «The form you filled out will be ignored because we are pro-scam.»

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you're making chicken paprikash you should be in the kitchen before noon even if you're saying it's a good day for a late lunch.

A drag show of Mojtaba Khamenei and Donald John Trump set Gimme More with someone saying war over more as more and more horrified nations around beg them (mostly Donald) to stop.

Going to start a stabbing myself during this apparel final counter. We're at 6 including absent-mindedly pinning through my finger at this point. Two hours left.

Jesus Christ, let the rodeo boys take Michelle out to pasture for these god awful critiques

Sashiko needles are so Gom Jabbar coded

NEW: Virginia lawmakers just passed a bill that'd forbid sheriffs and local police from contracting with ICE, if ICE doesn't say it'll follow state laws and agree to let its agents be prosecuted. Everyone seems to agree that'd spell the end of ICE contracts in Virginia: boltsmag.org/virginia-bil...

the last time *just gas* got this out of control, i had to do napkin math to see at what price i had to drop out of college because i couldn’t afford the commute. if it had gotten a dime higher, that was it. no degree for emily. these people have never met a normal person.

I think one thing Woke 1 did was apply the way bog standard America thinks about the USSR to the USA. Because when I think about the way some people are screeching about Lenin today, it's like... Okay, but he also sucked in the way Washington and Jefferson sucked, and it's America 250.

dying laughing at the strava data for the guy running laps on the french carrier

Okay, watching a machine do this while I just push a button and don't even pretend to care about all the other things I need to do to make it nice was insane. My boyfriend did immediately call it a line of buttholes when I showed him, though.

Me, sowing (sowing): hell yeah, this rocks Me, reaping (realizing how many broccoli are about to start generating): oh god, oh no, I do not have this many planters

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

Delta swore to its employees and unions that it was not transporting deportees this way.

Starting an office flame war (calling going to the courthouse to find a case to avoid having to figure out a pay-by-the-opened-PDF-page service visiting Colonial Williamsburg)