i wonder if these generals and colonels planning and ordering these missions assume that they can’t be prosecuted? this needs to be a top line demand of the democrats in 2028

little furry cannibals joining the resistance because Luke made C-3P0 pretend to be the Ewok god and Princess Leia gave Wicket a cookie was the final triumph of the Sith then Luke & Leia used Ben Solo & Rey to flush out Palpatine.

Imagine being afraid that immigrants are going to take your money, while the prez wastes your money on a golden ballroom, renaming the DOD & a poorly planned, very expensive war. 🤡 We have free protest stickers you can print at PaperAmmunition.com & you didn’t even say thank you 🤭 #resist #protest

just got a bullshit civil infraction dismissed with prejudice. next step is going after the city pd for all the errors their piece of shit investigator pulled, up to & including perjury, that necessitated a litigator who costs as much as I do appearing for such a nothing-burger infraction hearing.

liberals need to understand that all the stuff they were protecting that had been secured only by supreme court precedent is all basically gone now. if they want it back, and that’s a big if, they are going to have to figure out how to do dramatic things in Congress again. i won’t hold my breath.

Americans oppose Trump ballroom 2-to-1; even more oppose his signature on money: ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll www.newsbreakapp.com/n/1AwYPrkw?s...

people will talk today’s VRA decision is a primarily a “Supreme Court Bad!” political event. It is not. #SCB! is the B story, but the writing was already on the wall. The main event today is a culmination of decades of Democratic Congresses failing to protect the VRA from FedSoc Juristocracy.

6.50 a gallon in S. King County

come at me Blanche, you fucking bush league toady.

wait, Oz Pearlman was the WHCD host? the guy who used to do video demos for online magic shops?

i have apparently stumped ChatGPT by asking it to pastiche some of my own published poetry from back when I had time for that kind of thing.

More public art, please. Even better when it's functional and inspires play.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Ruh-Ro!

“fallible” or “inaccurate” isn’t the best way to think about witness statements, imco. it’s more that they are unreliable and in need of careful examination & critical development. witnesses often know both more and less than they think they do, particularly about a complex or emotionally charged …

while you might write a poem about golfing, altho i’d advise against it, it is impossible to golf about poetry. the magisteria of dance and architecture are not nearly so securely insulated.

fuck

lede being buried way too hard on this clip, in which the ghost of Ricky Kasso sets up behind Leavitt before vanishing (0:16-0:18)

i get the sturm und drang about SCOTUS bs, I really do. but if you’re gonna fix the court, first you need to fix congress, right? but if you fix congress, then it can just pass new laws to abrogate court decisions that are bad, & it won’t matter as much how shit Alito is? so maybe work on that now?

i suppose a revolution against patriarchy might not be a new Matriarchal form—government by mothers—but “Dictatorship of the Filiae,” in which all our Daughters, as a class, seize control of the means of reproduction & redistribute its laborious burdens fairly & devoid of patriarchal exploitation.

yknow, when i read feminist theory in the women studies classes I took 25 years ago, we made lot of use of the “sex/gender system” concept. foundational to that was a distinction between gender &sex that treated gender as a form of patriarchal oppression imposed on the material reality of sex.

you know what law and/or politics and/or us history academics (i know there are a few of you out there) should look into? the history of History Pedagogy in the legal training for lawyers of the constitutional founding generation. surely if History and Traditions mattered, they’d have studied it?

i have so many calls to make this morning and my headset is broken so i am stuck on speakerphone while everyone in the world around me is doing early morning yard work. who are these fucking monsters who mow their lawns before 9:30 AM on a Friday?

here’s my question: when you rightly choose to have your sculpted physique suited in a jacket that form fitting, do you have to wear a girdle to make sure you don’t split the seams the first time you take a deep breath?

seriously, any journalist or just anyone who gets 30 seconds in front of this bozo, the only questions you can possibly ask are: 1.) what the fuck does SPLC have to do with the 2020 election. & 2.) do you have a fucking time machine? what effect did the 2020 election have that you could undo now?

ok even someone in MAGAland has to see the problem here, right?

where did they find MAGA chris farley to pitch them these questions?

kinematic intelligence is one of those things anyone who read Hubert Dreyfus 40+ years ago would have assumed AI researchers were already working on all this time. interesting they are finally getting around to it as they seem to have finally saturated the Chinese Room and not sparked consciousness.

blah blah blah chord tones blah blah 5th position and 8th position reading blah blah blah major sevenths sound like garbage on 7 chords blah blah modes are chords are modes blah blah

i don’t really like professional sports but i occasionally get very interested in weird baseball pitchers.

like seriously, you have to be some kind of idiot to buy Tesla stock. it’s priced higher than Ferrari with earnings per share an order of magnitude worse…

why anyone gave any money to that fucking tool is beyond me. electrek.co/2026/04/16/t...

i just love this shit. 20% of cyber truck sales for q4 last year were fraudulent sales manipulation. I gotta say, the FBI agent who will finally manage to pull a John Delorean on Musk is really asleep at the wheel at this point. www.autoevolution.com/news/musk-s-...

Welfare Queen www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Federalism!

fantastic

this is really good; open.substack.com/pub/knowingi...

Turns out there are California laws against kidnapping. if they're not going to identify themselves a state could always presume that they are not federal agents at all and let them prove their identity later.

how was I not already following this account?

what triumph?

finally got around to watching The Stringer on Netflix. i admit I was predisposed to believing the film’s claim because of Nick Ut’s decision to accept an award from Donald Trump and the amount of patent bullshit spread in his defense by his defenders. The film is far more convincing than that.

love is ephemeral but herpes is still forever.

i hate insurance companies. Uber is a new kind of insurance company.

cool.

this is the kind of insight I read McManus for. it’s also where we can see the conservatism of radical liberalism, which often stops at the doorstep of past injustices without effectively unpacking the modal connections to present inequality.

i was reminded incidentally today, by @mattpolprof.bsky.social’s piece on Roger Scuton, jacobin.com/2021/11/cons... of Scruton’s weird philosophy of music, which is fundamentally mistaken but was laudable at least for taking Wittgenstein’s gnomic puzzlement over music seriously. still, for all of…

democrats suck, but I’ll take Obama and Mamdani singing the Wheels on the bus with kids in publicly funded childcare over MAGAGOP any day.

my general policy as a committed amateur court watcher is to always assume that the leaks are choreographed far more deliberately than the decisions. it is a hermeneutical principle that has yet to lead me astray.

Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...