I love this America.

Reading conflicting press accounts of a shooting at a press event; waiting for the hydrocodone to kick in, prescribed b/c US medicine is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ when it comes to women’s menstrual health; the NSF board was fired but a new bureau was created to oversee offshore oil drilling. Another day in America.

Constructed two raised cedar beds, planted herbs and leafy greens, took down old bushes, planted new bushes, pruned the silver maples, and planted a young blossoming apple tree. Deeply aware of my own privilege when I say that no tonic on earth is more potent than working your land by hand.

At last! Infrastructure Week!

Experts on waffles? Waffle House? Teleportation? God? God’s hands? Georgia? FEMA? Journalism? Reality?

36 years and two audio formats apart, two kids - one who would become the parent of the other - select the exact same album as their first consciously purchased piece of music. Talk about synchronicity. 🥁

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...

At the airport this morning I heard that a flight to Salt Lake City was cancelled because there was no crew to fly the plane.

Hello from the rollercoaster in the sky that is the flight I’m on! Welcome to my in-flight panic attack, where I look around my fellow passengers and wonder why they aren’t all screaming! Some are even sleeping! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE! What’s great is that climate change is making this SO MUCH WORSE!

Do any other working parents feel incredibly morose the night before a big work trip? Boy and Spouse are a-ok and I’m moping around like I’m going into space, not a few airplanes. Ooof.

Sinners WAS better. Markedly better. It was the foundation on which OBAA rested.

Sinners was robbed. Send twe — whatever the hell these are.

BREAKING Australia says won't send navy ship to Strait of Hormuz after Trump request

At the local playground and there’s a kid walking around quietly saying “shit…shit…shit…” They’re going to grow up to be a great American.

Meanwhile Russia has been helping Iran target US forces and the US has asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

I have no words. www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

It’s comforting to think this is the reason why Trump started a war with Iran b/c the reality - he just wanted to - is worse. Don’t overestimate the amount the public cares about children and women. Everybody who’s anybody either knew about or cavorted with Epstein and nothing happened.

According to CNN there’s a “strong odor” coming from a VA-based ATC tower. One can only hope it’s something benign, like RFK Jr in his exercise jeans doing pull-ups to motivate the unpaid air traffic controllers.

Yesterday at this time I was in a tank top. Then it got cooler and rained a whole lot. Then this morning is got real cold and snowed. Then it rained. Now it’s sunny and melting the snow. Did we live thru a year of weather? Is it 2027 now? How’d the midterms go?

$11.3 billion is a third of USAID's annual budget. It could fund USIP for 205 years.

*throws computer against the wall* *quits field* *moves to New Zealand* *becomes an apiarist* *names her bees* *learns their language* *becomes a bee* *pollenates* *dies unknown and content*

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Input: "I need new pants." Output: "The PLA's logistics doctrine explicitly prioritizes material readiness. We must not fall behind. Acquiring new pants, ideally reshored and domestically manufactured, is not a lifestyle choice. It is a strategic one." *dying* timhwang.github.io/because-china/

Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas is the lamest addition to the Marvel Universe.

Just another data point to reinforce the hypothesis that are are, in fact, living in the dumbest timeline.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

You're a freakin' igit, kid. Like wicked fakkin dumb to pick this fight. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“Other regime change-curious interventionists also purchased Ecuador” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Amazing how this Administration’s foreign policy goes from strength to strength. What could be a better plan to bring peace and democracy than by setting up an ethnic minority to get absolutely slaughtered again. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

If you think this Iran war is a distraction from Epstein you’re delusional. No one cares about sexual abuse of women and girls that much.

Minutes after Donald Trump announced that the US and Israeli governments had launched a “major combat operation” against Iran, disinformation about the attack and Tehran’s response flooded X. wrd.cm/4aYONte

Secretaries of Defense are literally scheduled down to the minute, their days are so packed. To have dedicated 6 minutes to this record this video, plus the staff time required to write, vet, and film it, is insane. Doing so during a military buildup in Iran’s backyard is criminally frivolous.

The horror of this is too immense to comprehend. It will leave a permanent stain on the United States, and we deserve it.

Putin wants his shtick back

thank you, algorithm

Today in Hellscapes of Commerce, we have whatever this thing is

It’s impossible to watch luge and not make a “nnnnnyyyeeEOWWWWW” sound as they zoom by

All of us with young sons hope that, if we have a kid like Ilia Malinin, we can comfort and sustain them when they have that kind of a bad day. The real work of parenting isn't getting them to the Olympics - it's guiding our kids through failure, and Ilia is still a kid. Man that made my heart hurt.

This is the only thing that will make me uproot and move my family to a foreign country. I will never recover from having an infant during a pandemic with no vaccine to give him - so watching good, safe, normal vaccines get trashed is an actual waking nightmare. I cannot do it again.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

There’s no war. The US wasn’t attacked, and isn’t under imminent threat. Congress didn’t authorize it. Treaties don’t allow it. Drugs aren’t armaments. Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists. Even with all that, we don’t know these were all drug traffickers. And even if they were, they’re low level.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

With apologies for using Strategy Cheese’s trademark emoji but — 🎯

That Ring followed by that Budweiser horse-with-eagle ad was a real one/two punch of technojingoism. Woof.

My five-year-old is best friends with an immigrant from Uganda and if he was deported it would break my son’s heart and sow seeds to hatred towards the government so I’m not sure this is really a winning formula.

These are not the actions of a nation of laws. lataco.com/captive-loti...

Two things I love about old radiators: (1) you can see and feel the thing keeping you alive when it’s 9 deg, and (2) it reminds you of how insane it is to have controlled heat indoors. And for some reason, tonight it reminds me that in 40yr it’ll be *a thousand years* since the Battle of Hastings.