Quite clearly why Americans were warned to get out of Israel before the weekend. That also warned Iran. This is catnip for Netanyahu, who always wants to bomb Tehran, and also brings him closer to Trump, a relationship threatened a bit by Trump's Peace Circus.

Saying this to me without allowing me to reply is not fair. You don't have the facts on this one about Anthropic's fight with the feds.

We don’t want thunder; we want rum

2 points: 1) It was local law enforcement that arrested a blind man for trespass and possession of a weapon, which was a fucking curtain rod he was using as a cane! And also they handed him to ICE. 2) What was the temperature in Buffalo when ICE shoved him out the door of the truck? How much snow?

I imagine Obama is embarrassed and angry he ever took shit from Larry Summers after reading those emails.

When you have to turn down the music to determine whether that weird noise is part of the music (why?) or a loud noise your cat just realized she could make in the back room.

Whenever someone says "I don't have a racist bone in my body (which pols used to say frequently) I think, Our bones were all stewed in racism from birth, it's in all of our bones.

Practically signing-cant.

Chances Trump is going to attack Iran because he's mad about the tariff decision?

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

My pup just needed to hide the fact that she had a certain toy (no idea why), and there was a little scramble, and she gave me a great "Who me?" look, with something suspicious sticking out from under her butt.

It's not that companies make a killing on vaccines in the US market. It's that they make barely enough that they aren't losing money. But without the protections for approved vaccines here, they'll be losing money globally.

Charles Cullen (the nurse who killed all those patients) and Mark Kelly, and thus his identical twin brother Scott. Hard to say who is the better person.

Child me inside me has been puzzling over this nonstop for 60 years. Why?

Why do you hate my dog, who stands on the bed, looks at the bathroom mirror and won't stop barking because it freaks her the fuck out?

À lire si vous voulez rire un bon coup.

Black with cat hairs is the new black.

Europeans are not native to the US. We are an invasive species.

Rereading Wuthering Heights, and if you are REALLY interested in cruelty, have I got a book for you!

I'm torn about this and similar issues. Giving him what he wants is easy, and the easiest way to get something your constituents need. The cost/benefit analysis would say do it. But I'd rather negotiate for something that gives him pain. A fundamental rule of negotiation is, if it can't be win-win,

Asking Isaac Bashevis Singer about the Superbowl is absurd on its face, & the Times is just kvelling in that. In 1979, the Superbowl was not a national holiday. Baseball was the national sport, the one you could tell who was a spy if they didn't know the rules. Some chance that Singer knew baseball

How can Bezos afford reporters if he needs to pour bazillions into AI?

God do I hate that while the Melania vanity documentary produced by Melania will be coming to Amazon Prime, Becoming, the Michelle Obama vanity doc produced by the Obamas is on Netflix. Just cut the shit, if a doc is produced by the subject of the doc, it's not a documentary, it's a commercial.

Driving south on 280 back from SF to Palo Alto one night I suddenly saw a wall in front of me across the highway. I knew it couldn't be there, but I had to drive right through it with my heart in my mouth.

I think DeSantis is thinking of the brutality that means Dersh can't get a pierogi there.

While this is usually true, it becomes different after a conviction for underage prostitution usage. (Which should not have been a thing, child rape is what he did.) AFTER such a conviction, your association with the convict should be totally different.

The whole fucking point is to accept personal risk as yourself and dare the state to do anything about it. You are there to be seen, known, and heard. Not to cosplay as an antifa super soldier.

We need wider bridges, more lanes, more highways to deal with congestion, how can we afford public transportation?

This year the question is if a groundhog comes out and sees a protest, it'll be a good year.

He certainly can't testify in the court case, so he's leaving. Has nothing to do with when ICE and CBP leave.

Just looked at before and after of the Lincoln bathroom, and I gotta say, if you don't like how old houses look, don't live in an old house!

ICE and CPB are not the SS, yet. The SS shot people in the street and kept on walking, secure in the knowledge that no one would do anything about it. They didn't hide it. They didn't defend it. But ICE & CPB are starting on the road in that direction, and the time to stop them is now.

I genuinely don't know what happened to the crunchy granola leftists that were anti-vax and the bane of northern California schools. Did those folks go MAGA? Did they go up in smoke? Are they RFK Jr followers now? They were a large part of rolling back the requirements which happened in blue states.

That Penelope lopes along in penny loafers.

For my cat, every way to get to her food bowl lies across my lap, no matter where I sit or if the dog is on my lap or not. Sometimes she gingerly walks around the dog on my lap, sometimes right over the dog.

The Daily (NYT) is going to explain to me what the situation in Greenland negotiations is, and if they can do that, they deserve a Pulitzer.

Sometimes the light hits just right. Black-capped chickadee. #birds

Maybe not the UTMOST respect . . .

Republicans are pulling this off now. But congressional insider trading is definitely a both parties problem. Pelosi has vigorously opposed measures to end it for years. We gotta recognize when Dems are part of the problem and call them out.

Sandhill Crane giving a look. #birdoftheday #MoodyFaces

They can safely block X and Grok along with Canada, the UK, and Australia (as currently planned), I'm sure the Commonwealth would like the company. Meta too, why not? No one needs Meta. Take it one step at a time, making clear there are steps coming. Give him a stroke when he gets mad.

Outrage!

Fascism isn't a coherent system by design. A coherent system can be argued against and taken apart piece by piece or all at once. The firehose of January thru March & still today could not be argued against, if you tried, you ran around in circles and Republicans danced with fingers in their ears.

Furthermore, I think showing you the notifications from people you follow would be quite helpful for a number of large accounts (of which I am not one at all). If your account is big enough, you can't just block people giving blockable replies, too many of them.

Self-Portrait by Max Beckmann, 1938 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137489

John Bolton on TV, as I wait for my MRI, not saying anything crazy, tho he is a crazyman.

Roman Polanski should have gone to jail for drugging and raping a 13 year old, and then shunned by all, not allowed to make movies (and no, his young wife's grisly death doesn't excuse this). And one would guess this was not the only time or the first time he did it.

Trump has successfully turned attention away from Epstein now. And I don't know if it will come back.

Autocrat kidnaps autocrat, tries to take his place.

I do think this one is funny. I'm happy to live in the Year of the Potato. Just hope it doesn't mean I'm moving to the Eastern Bloc and eating only one food.