Brown and furry Caterpillar in a hurry, Take your walk To the shady leaf, or stalk, Or what not, Which may be the chosen spot. No toad spy you, Hovering bird of prey pass by you; Spin and die, To live again a butterfly.

Johnson: "We had a little hiccup with some Latino & Hispanic voters for certain, b/c some of the immigration enforcement was viewed to be overzealous. Everybody can describe it differently, but here's the good news: we're in a course-correction mode right now. We're gonna have a new DHS secretary."

Today, I give thanks for the alt-text required default setting of Bluesky. It has gotten me so well trained to do alt-text that it is now second nature to add it to all documents I now have to fix for work. This is painful and new for others but not me.

"You ought to come back to us with some data" -- Dick Durbin dogwalks Peter Schweizer over his wild, evidence-free claims about a plague of Chinese "birth tourism"

"In his second term, Trump knew exactly what he wanted and who could give it to him. In many cases, that meant not just a weak choice but literally the worst possible choice, the person guaranteed to do maximal harm. In short, we have never seen quite this collection of clowns, cranks, and crooks."

this did make me laugh, albeit bleakly

“We’re in a Schrodinger’s tariff right now.” One proclamation says “a 10% tariff on the rest of the world,” the next post says “a 15% tariff literally effective immediately,” then the White House pretends he never said it. The crack team who brought you the trade war are now in Iran.

The actual elite failure that helped lead to Trumpism -->

Indeed. (Always read Law Dork! And subscribe! And pay!) www.lawdork.com/p/posse-comi...

"Iran believes there can be no end to the conflict until it believes Trump has been shown the economic, political and military cost is so high that it is not worth repeating."

Oh, we call this (euphemistically & usually incorrectly) “reestablishing deterrence”

AS I WAS SAYING, they have no freaking idea how to respond to him. This is why they’re so terrified of him.

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy. Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit. [email protected]

nothing has ever Not Happened as much as this thing Did Not Happen you know who absolutely doesn't know how money works in a grocery store? billionaires. significantly less experienced at navigating the real world than anyone on SNAP!

"Operation Lethally Fragile Masculinity"

I feel some kind of way about people saying that we are docile cowards when we are being shot in the streets and teargassed on the regular and the response so many have is to figure out where they can go to add their bodies to the list of those willing to die to try to stop fascism from taking over.

I really don't think people understand the degree of organization that is happening in so many regular neighborhoods in America.

This is not the place to tell me that Americans aren't doing anything about this because we're docile cowards. Americans are doing a lot about this and you just don't know because our media isn't talking about it.

What she said and also the whole thread.

Flashback, June 2025: “Conservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead.” www.lawdork.com/p/conservati...

In fairness every one of them deserves to wear shitty uncomfortable shoes

ok the wild thing is, to the extent Schumer had any strategy at all, it was "sit back and let trump screw up until everyone hates him," but no, democrats dead set on swooping in and rescuing him from the consequences of his actions

March 10th Update: After a relatively low transmission winter, we had a long shoulder, but numbers are starting to trend further down. Still elevated in the Midwest and Northeast. NWSS & WWScan: Estimates: 🔸325,000 new infections/day 🔸~1 in 200 currently infected

Flu A has almost fully retreated, but Flu B has picked up some of the vacancy. The worst part of Flu season is clearly behind us. Data from Biofire

Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias?

Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement — way more tolerance for civilian harm.

The national average price of a gallon of gas is up 11 percent (34 cents) over the last month gasprices.aaa.com?state=DC (It’s up over a dollar at the station I go to in DC. Maybe the stats are lagging?)

Take a break from human folly; watch rocks being born in a fiery red fountain from the very bowels of the earth.

Because you sickos love this, here's the updated flip count in legislative seats since the start of Trump's second term, following tonight's Dem win in New Hampshire: Democrats: 28 Republicans: 0 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Pro-drugs PSA

Can’t not read this in Jean Smart’s voice

He is the exception that proves the rule. The luckiest motherfucker who ever walked this earth.

The law of unintended consequences rules.

Give him a bottle and put him to bed. FFS.

What happens when a mad king discovers that the war he launched is not going to go the way he envisioned it? Asking for a friend.

COLLINS: Even the Heritage Foundation said they only found 100 instances of non-citizen voter fraud since 2000. That's out of 1.5 billion ballots. SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: So, what are you afraid of? What are Democrats afraid of?

JUST IN: Democrats have flipped a Trump+9 seat in the New Hampshire House, per reporter Kevin Landrigan. Republicans outspent Dems by a considerable margin. This is now the 10th special election flip for Ds in Trump's second term, versus zero for the GOP. sos.tn.gov/elections/20...

Sure hope Ds have candidates contesting every race, in every jurisdiction. Because if we're getting a D+17 swing versus 2026, it's entirely possible you'd get upsets in a lot of normally out-of-reach places

::low whistle:: From the looks of it, this seat went from R+13 in 2024 to D+4? nhjournal.com/gop-loses-ca...

👀 ICE deported two U.S. citizen children with their mother to Guatemala, even though she had apparently elected to leave them with their grandmother in Florida. The govt is now arranging their return under court order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

SLOPPELGANGER

Judge gets Renfer to admit he is aware of the many AI hallucination cases

Renfer: the document I filed was intended to be a draft. Once I came back from my vacation I did the final document. Judge: you're going to have to walk me through that. I understand the meaning of the words you are saying but it doesn't make any sense.

Renfer: the issue is whether I tried to deceive the court. I didn't intentionally deceive the court. I just made a mistake.

Judge: attorneys, and particularly those with the awesome power of the US Attorney's office, have a responsibility to be candid

Judge: you intentionally drafted this with AI and you intentionally filed it with the court without checking it. How is this accidental? Why weren't you candid with the court?

Judge: your surreply claims these quotations were "inadvertently included". What do you mean by that? Renfer: I mean that I thought I had reviewed the document and checked the citations but I guess I didn't

Renfer seems pretty unclear about the actual sequence of events he is claiming

Judge: the challenge is, when you file something with the court that is not forthright, it makes me question everything else you say