I needed to watch this tonight

So glad I was at my AA meeting.

If you want to know what it was like for Jews to be kidnapped in broad daylight by their governments and that then to become just normal life, now you know.

“American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. HHS cuts key AAP grants, citing concerns about “identity-based language” and insufficient focus on agency priorities. The organization said the cuts could harm child health.” 🧪

This is worth reading. It applies to the military, but not only the military: www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...

I wrote an episode of Love Death + Robots about that. It won an Emmy! (Not for me, for the animators. Still.) youtu.be/R9lTsnlJXcw

...and that's just the ones leaving voluntarily

Yes, and the next time you all freak about my "be careful with words" pedantry, this is the dire result of 20 years of calling everything "terrorism," something I objected to long ago for the same reasons that I carp about fascism, etc.

"And Tiny Tim, who did not die" = heartwarming, Christmassy. "And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.

A modern hero:

It might get me labeled as a Crazy Bluesky Radical, but I don’t think it’s great that our nuclear arsenal is at the disposal of a demented old man who’s just an exposed nerve of grievances and hatreds with absolutely no impulse control.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Not for nothing, but this is thiiiiiiiiiiis close to an act of war

This whole thread…

whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all

You're posting on BlueSky, you are already on a list.

Dear Turtle Island Liberation Front: I guess it’s too late but you might have found this helpful bsky.app/profile/kenw...

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

If Trump had truckloads of evidence about 2020 being rigged, it would have come out by now. If Trump was innocent, the Epstein files would be out by now.

A fox hanging out in the carport across the lot from my place.

ICE is the American Schutzstaffel and these Kavanaugh Stops are going to kill someone.

Got a dusting of snow last night.

U.S. Intercepts Ship Carrying Chinese Missile Components to Iran maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-...

Bondi hero who disarmed gunman identified as local father Ahmed al Ahmed, suffered two gunshots

Once again.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

This is why “the cloud” is for sharing, and not for day to day operations. Backup *everything* and back it up *locally*.

Aside: I don't need an explanation that Substack is a Nazi bar & I should leave. If you'll pledge to signup as a paying subscriber if I move to Ghost or Beehive & offer to help with the migration, I'll think about it. Meanwhile I'm trying be caregiver for 2 people & get caught up on my mortgage. 3/

In case you have never seen this.

dreher and his friends would save us all a lot of time if they just said “jews”

I've been laughing at this all day. All three of these people nailed it. 10/10, no notes.

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

We decided to buy a muppet instead of a tree

this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life

Hmmm yes

So sad to see that "crony capitalism with a body count" isn't working as well for the NRA these days. In addition to thoughts and prayers, I invite those ghouls to cut down on their office expenses by fleeing Fairfax County--which would have the added advantage of removing an eyesore from I-66.

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

U.S. Seizure of Shadow Fleet Tanker 'Skipper' Ends Years-Long Sanctions-EvasiCourt. gcaptain.com/u-s-seizure-...

Christmas tradition in McLean Va.

A short thread in which Mark Cuban explains he doesn’t understand medical insurance. The guy is unimaginable wealthy and doesn’t need to use medical insurance. Everything he describes is either already a limit of private insurance or would be better in a single payer system.

Alrighty then.

My stance on doomers remains consistent and it is that I think running around publicly shitting your pants in fear all the time is shameful

Christmas tradition in McLean Va.

@diane.dianeduane.com I think we found out where the Borg came from.

Wow, “French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Everyone’s gonna die someday. Trump may die sooner, and when he does, I worry there will be a genuine explosion of violence by people who will be enraged by the celebrations, a deepening of the rift.

And, not to be a hater but... If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.

My hometown newspaper has decided to name it’s op-ed aggregator after a really cheap hooch. www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/

So, yeah, this reminds me of something Cory Doctorow wrote several years ago. pluralistic.net/2021/04/06/d...

The photo of the former marine with the flag should get the Pulitzer.