My healthcare skeet broke contain. Weird feeling to have something blow up like that.

“Taxing me won’t help teachers,” says a man who has never lifted a finger to help teachers in his life.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Just went through the open enrollment period. I had to increase my deductible by $1,250 to have my healthcare cost only go up $50 per pay period. This shit is unsustainable.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

So uhhh. You into scented discs? Yikun Crystal scent plastic! Blue smells like floral. Pink smells like peach. Orange smells like Orange. Brown smells like mocha! All listed now. You know where! Randisc.com

The Bologna Area 51 is listed. Yes. It’s as floppy as a slice of Bologna! (Zone slot.) Randisc.com

Yeah there's a larger story here about how the Texas Bargain - low taxes, cheap houses, good schools - ended up making the state way more competitive politically while the Florida Bargain - low taxes, cheap houses, you can do crimes here - made theirs less.

Went to the casino on a whim..

And 8% shandy? Who is this for?

I’m marinating some chicken and every once in a while I think I can smell everything cooking already. Just realized I splashed some sesame seed oil on my fingers putting the marinade together

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

Through the front 9 at Driftless 18 in Rochester, MN. I can see why it’s #6 for MN on UDisc.

Stop calling the leisured provincial gentry "working class"

My buddy has apparently decided to get married at a downtown church the day of commencement for UW Lacrosse. Looks like they are done though. Got a seat at Buzzard Billy’s luckily.

Early, wet morning at Todd Park. Very nice course and clearly well loved.

Went to B & J bar and grill for dinner and there’s some live music (solo guitar guy). He’s pretty good. Lots of beer on tap. I love trying local spots in new towns. Beats going to subway.

The New York Times treats Republican lawmakers like hapless bystanders rather than willing co-conspirators in the illegal war with Iran.

I'm not one to usually balk at something being music; it's a broad category. But Drake releasing three ALBUMS in one day... that's not real music.

Local park announces my new course installation. Thousands of dollars from my pocket. A piece of the park that was unused/unusable because of overgrowth. 99% positive support. And this guy: 😂😂😂😂

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Going to a wedding in La Crosse, WI tomorrow. It's a former student that I still play music with in the local orchestra (but he's a pro now that is paid to be concert master). Happy to support him and his fiancee, but I didn't know I'd be giving this much money to the cause through gas prices.

If you see this, post a STAR TREK

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

“When the Vikings aren’t force-feeding Justin Jefferson, or Jordam Addison is blanketed in coverage, chances are Jauan Jennings is going to get his opportunities to make some heroic catches on balls on or off target from Kyler Murray or J.J. McCarthy.”

I haven't gone to McDonalds in a long time, but I just got an ad and.... a McDouble is $2.50?!?! And they are advertising that?!!??!

From Hassett's comments about a "good" economy (just look at the credit card use) to Trump saying he doesn't care, I'm led to one conclusion: Republicans don't just think corporations are people, they think corporations are the only people.

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

The central reason that trust in health professionals dropped during covid is that the president intentionally and explicitly used doctors as scapegoats for the economic damage the pandemic caused. What irritated overly online center-right pundits is a smaller factor.

“Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow [Muslim] citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.” --George W. Bush, six days after 9/11

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

I’m watching the first Greenland movie. It’s pretty stupid fun for an apocalyptic thriller, but man The kid is a non factor. Even seven year olds on insulin have agency. The kid could be a real person but instead he’s the object that keeps the characters going.

Him admitting this to a gathering of *law enforcement officials* really lays bare how much law and justice are nothing more than a mirage in this country

It was a good day. Slow fishing but quality fish. I missed a bunch and probably had my line sliced by a northern twice.

It’s crazy having a garbage cat like Pixel after Misha having such a sensitive stomach. She get into everything and never pukes.

One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW

Virginia resident here. They closed the schools for the referendum vote, so my wife had to take off work to care for our daughter, which cost us money, and now the whole thing was invalidated anyway because Dems won and that is no longer permitted? I'm angry on a number of levels.

It's supposed to be a nice day for fishing opener tomorrow (it's been ugly the last few years at least). It's going to do wonders for my mental health to be out on the water with friends all day. Just to get away from the news about the blatant evil guiding this country every day.

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

in essence he's right, he's firing multimillion dollar missiles at butterflies. and this is why your libraries are closed on the weekends and your grandfather is working a retail job at 80

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

"It's no big deal that your loved ones died of COVID. In fact, if you think about it, it was sort of their fault that they died."

wut

One of the defining hallmarks of our modern age is that people in charge of good things are willing to make them incrementally worse for a chance to make more money, knowing most people are powerless to stop it.

I feel like making Educator's Appreciation Week and Nurse's Appreciation Week the same is a long con to make people fight over worthiness. Surely they could be different weeks.

I have some VIIA gummies branded "for sleep" but they've never done the trick. Lots of cannabis (smoked and edible) makes my mind race when trying to sleep. I'd like a sleep aid option if possible I tried just one 5 mg & nothing else (for science!) last night and I just feel drowsy this morning.

The problem w/ how Dems communicate isn't big words. It's that they often create complex two-beat logics to get to what they think voters care about: eg, "For the cost of the Iran War, we could fund health care for 30 million people"--not wrong, but two points, tenuously related. Just say one thing!