Terrific

From today's story from the Associated Press: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford..." Regardless of where the carrier is going (Venezuela) or why (God only knows), stop for a moment to reflect on how fucking insane just the beginning part of that sentence is.

As a card carrying member of the "left", may I ask: can we all please just not give a f--- about Syndey Sweeney? Aren't there more real and more pressing problems we need to channel our efforts against?

Funny that the President who believes he can ignore courts, cross out the 14th amendment with a Sharpie, and declassify things just by thinking about it after the fact suddenly feels he needs someone's impossible-to-get permission in order to release anything having to do with Jeffrey Epstein.

I just typed "patients" to refer to my capacity to accept difficulty and delay. It made me wonder: how much of what I attribute to ignorance in the world is really thoughtlessness and carelessness?

Fox News using the Iberian power outage to imply that solar power is bad, when the true cause seems to have been rare atmospheric effects causing instability in the transmission lines. Fox News employees: find a better job, please. www.foxnews.com/world/massiv...

If we hope that Red America will wake up when they experience the hardships that are coming, wouldn't today be a good day for Democrats to abandon identity politics and embrace a populist, anti-corruption agenda?

Fun (for now) little ChatGPT interaction...

"The other side is worse" is an awful excuse for anything and only leads to division and a race to bottom, ethically speaking. Just because R's are corrupt doesn't give us a right to be corrupt as long as we are arguably "less so". Biden used his power for himself. If Trump did it we'd be incensed.

New social media site, new strategy. If you post snark, even if I agree with the sentiment, I'm muting you. This excludes @markhamillofficial.bsky.social, who gets a pass on all things.