Local road closures today due to the York County police funeral. www.wgal.com/article/pa-o...

This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up

I don't know that I am qualified for this job in any way, shape, or form, but I would like this and can see myself doing this. I'll think about this for a day or two. Maybe I'll go by Loudon Park Cemetery and talk to Beau's ancestors and see what they say. www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit...

No, Facebook, I am not going to watch a Doug Mastriano reel. Not even if you paid me. Unless it was at least five figures, lump sum.

I've been using the term "Fox News Cinematic Universe" for several years to describe the self-reinforcing mythology information bubble the right-wing inhabits. Nice to see others, like @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social here, using "FNCU" in the same way.

That's good. Yeah, I'll take that.

Tonight, the American people - in defense of free speech - returned a political satirist to the airwaves after a burgeoning fascist regime tried to silence him. It’s an historic night. I won’t forget it.

One of the two jobs I applied to yesterday I have already been rejected for. This was the one where I needed a "moral philosophy" and I quoted the twelfth Doctor.

I think @jamellebouie.net had a great tweet somewhere along these lines, the media has really gotten played into offering the kind of sheer volume of coverage of Kirk that would typically accompany something like the passing of a president

Charlie Kirk’s memorial service revealed the hypocrisy of Republicans’ christlike rhetoric compared to their unchristian deeds, but still most Democrats refuse to wake up to reality. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/iXaN5Hb

I never thought the Latveria-Markovia war would end. Just endless earth-shaking doom all around. It's lasted since the 80s, but somehow Trump brought the two sides to the table and brought it to an end.

On the National Mall this morning, a new satirical statue is up celebrating Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's "friendship" in honor of National Friendship Month.

Okay. So this is wholly on the Republican controlled government then.

I installed and configured the Alpine email client on Linux Mint Debian Edition. As a way of composing emails -- in plain text, in a terminal -- it's solid. I wrote a book of an email in half an hour. Just words writing. Felt good.

That's a second job applied for today. The process went to some weird places. Like, what's my moral philosophy? Straight up, I quoted the twelfth Doctor's final speech, leaving out the bit about pears because pears are awesome. Yes, I credited Doctor Who. I said it was a good source.

A thing that's wild to me as someone who aged into being extremely news-aware when Elian Gonzalez was rescued at sea is that any of these boats could have refugees, human trafficking victims, or children on them and this administration is just blowing them up for clout with no consequences

My sister sent me a job listing to look at this morning. There are many points of interest, and I would be well qualified. But the job closed on Friday. Still, I sent an email and attached my resume. You never know.

It didn't have to be this way. This was Trump's choice to end the American Empire. His voters voted for this.

"Trump was right about one thing – Kirk is bigger now than ever before, he's eternal." Has Donald Trump and his administration succeeded in turning Charlie Kirk into 'MAGA Jesus' – or was his memorial just about hating the left?

I'm sure there are people who are looking forward the the Mandalorian and Grogu movie. I am not one of them. Maybe mild interest due to Sigourney Weaver. That trailer did absolutely nothing to make me want to see it.

Eric Idle did record two songs as Dirk McQuickley of the Rutles. They do not sound like Rutles songs. Neil Innes wrote and recorded careful, thoughtful Beatles pastiches. Eric's two Rutles songs sound like lesser Monty Python sketches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SO...

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

No, Keith Olbermann. Eric Idle did not sing "All You Need Is Cash." 1) That's not one of the Rutles songs Neil Innes wrote. It's just the title of the 1978 television movie, there's no song of that title. 2) Eric Idle did not perform musically as a Rutle. That was Ollie Halsall.

I've long thought Lincoln's historical reputation is reliant in part on the fact he never really had the opportunity to fuck up Reconstruction. A living second term Lincoln, fighting with the Radical Republicans, for a more lenient Reconstruction than they wanted, would have tarnished his legacy.

I always love it when people post this panel in particular

This is not a book I will own anytime soon, but I will. When I get a new job, I will. Soviet Tolkien fandom is fascinating.

I've heard that Enya records Tolkien-inspired music purely for herself, and there's a part of me that wants to hear it, and another part of me that thinks it's very Tolkien indeed to have a private creative outlet.

Why would anyone visit the US right now? Both professional & "low skill" international workers are being punished. Tourists are getting black bagged. Your visa can get revoked if you've made fun of some guy who was mates with the president. They're gonna host the OLYMPICS in these conditions??

I used to dislike that we didn't get a cool hero shot of Bruce wearing the Batman suit for the 1st time, but now I'm glad they did it this way. This isn't a big heroic moment. This is a tragic moment, & seeing Alfred react in shock & horror at the man he's known since childhood is great. #BatmanDay

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

It's grifts all the way down with this administration. I'm telling you once again that an anticorruption rallying cry to wash these motherfuckers out of government would be a very successful vision to offer voters.

I'm impatient. I did a clean install of the Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 Beta after test driving it in a virtual machine the last few days.

I was out last night with some former Diamond colleagues, and talk turned to ChatGPT and applying for jobs. One talked about how he was reliant upon it to tailor resumes. I shared that I had asked it *once* to write a cover letter, and hated everything about the result: "Too toxicly positive."

Important thread on one of the malign actors within the Trump regime -- Russell Vought.

Windows 11, you ginormous pain in the ass...

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Is it just me, or is Donald Trump committing impeachable offenses on an exponential curve this term? I'm a mere layman, but that looks like exponential growth to me.

"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use

Here's the problem I see. I'm not sure Democrats can trust any deal they make with Republicans for health care subsidies, because the Trump regime has demonstrated that they will not spend appropriated funds. Johnson and Thune could agree to a deal, knowing it will not happen.

This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

For those who had a shitty day in a shitty week in a shitty year, you are not alone. And you are loved.

I still can't believe a large segment of Red America looks at this pampered crybaby, slathered in orange makeup with his cotton candy combover, doing his little dances to the Village People and going on endlessly about his passion for interior decorating, and thinks "now *that* is an Alpha Male"

There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

I hope Human Connor doesn't butter Connor.

Trump is sovereign. Brendan Carr said it on Hannity in the quote I flagged below, and now Trump says it

Free speech is when Trump can say what he wants and when you can say what Trump wants. bsky.app/profile/twse...