Now, more than ever, we must remember the cemeteries are full of irreplaceable men.

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The left Joe Rogan is Hasan Piker but establishment Dems hate him. There is no centrist Joe Rogan because it is impossible to be a centrist and build a slavish political fanbase because you stand for nothing, not even something atrocious.

For my animation friends: Here's a thoughtful list of Adobe Animate alternative program pros & cons from an experienced show TD who knows her shit (I have worked with her and can attest to her expansive knowledge, capability and insight).

Anyway, for those who are intrigued by wealthy failcouples getting into farming: I did a whole video on how the Neelemans can't even get beef right. And beef is a LOT easier than raw dairy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLZU...

"Successful anti-authoritarian movements do not win by softening their positions. They win by building unlikely coalitions around a broadly resonant grievance." Like, say, corruption. Or, unchecked corporate power.

Why do comic creators self-promote all the time? Because we have to. Even working with a publisher that's supportive, press only goes so far. The rest of the success falls on the shoulder of the creator rallying their fanbase. So here's mine. I'll RP yours. www.kickstarter.com/projects/whi...

DOJ didn’t forget to redact this one.

The last time I saw my grandmother, she told me "men were changing their gender to win at women's sports" so I guess I better send her this! I'm sure it'll change her mind!

"The other iron law of reactionary centrism...is that only the left and liberals really have agency. The right just reacts – everything is always backlash, never a self-generated political project." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tooting the horn again, but I wrote a whole book about this. Tom Homan has been promising this.

A thing that is funny about the moral grandstanding by Repubs re: Christopher Columbus is that nobody knew or cared about him 100 years ago. His "holiday" is barely 50 years old and was pushed through by Italian-American lobby groups in response to...anti-immigrant prejudice.

i feel like we've had a good enough sample size for like two decades on whether or not body cameras on cops do anything whatsoever to stop them from killing people. the guy that murdered renee good was filming it on his phone for fun!

Scenes from a personalist regime: the president speaks directly with the security agents expected to generate a justification for his taking control over elections

In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.

People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

This is how wicked people think

I live in Iowa so if you wanna see a cow up close, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And when you do you understand exactly why pasteurization is an essential, life-saving process.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

One problem with billionaires is that they're so rich they no longer have rational incentives. To someone like Bezos, the financial performance of WaPo is wholly irrelevant, and so the only "incentive" is to satisfy emotional urges, such as breaking something just to show he can.

We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

with the Washington Post firings I'll redirect you again to the piece I wrote last year for Dame Magazine:

this is literally the critique of crypto that was offered when it was launched, so please, fuck off into the sun

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

The target boycott is pretty much the dream outcome of the corporate activism that’s been targeting Wal-Mart for decades now.

*Drank raw milk in pregnancy* Good lord. You have MAHA demonizing vaccines and Tylenol when they love them some raw milk, and this is the shit that's actually dangerous.

Someone with time and talent should write about how solar panels, wind farms, and batteries have probably saved Texas from a winter or summer blackout maybe three times since the infamous TX Freeze of 2021. You can plainly see the daily power curves which would have broken without them.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

That’s a crime in *Florida*?! That makes no sense.

100% not the first time that guy’s laid hands on a woman smaller than him.

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

This week over at Writing and Whatnot, I wrote about general meetings and how not to screw them up. One of the worst meetings Shawna and I ever had ended up getting us a job. So every general matters... writingandwhatnot.com/blog/general-meetings

Imagine getting your ass handed to you by a group of kids that includes someone wearing a "choose kindness always" hoodie.

I really, REALLY wish I could have read this before my first few general meetings. They are a very odd, nerve-wracking things and I still don't feel like I know what I'm doing in them.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Putting on my suit and tie and going on America Erwache to describe a 234 year old basic requirement of the constitution for lawful searches and seizures as a “nonstarter.”

Of course law enforcement wears masks. They have long not been accountable to "the people." They are their own super-class of people with special rules. It's a symptom; not a cause.

These cases over the past ten years from SCOTUS tilted the House to Republicans. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Christopher Nolan has cast a Genovian as Penelope and a Bostonian as Odysseus. And they will be speaking English, a language that did not exist in antiquity. This whole production is pure chaos.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

So I started writing this paper almost exactly a year ago, based on the talks I'd given across 2024, including my keynote for the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. This is the pre-print and, all things considered, the full edited version should be available in April. …

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

The man who murdered Renee Good didn't need a bodycam because HE FILMED THAT SHIT LIKE IT WAS HIS IG REEL

The orcas have discovered fire.

"They start by questioning the assumption that CEOs necessarily seek to advance “legitimate” ends. Instead, they suggest that a persistent issue is predation: the exploitation of asymmetries in information and power to the disadvantage of shareholders, creditors, customers, or employees." 🔥🔥🔥

I've been writing professionally for 30 years, and when I wanted to transition to writing more prose I signed up for one of MRK's seminars. Very useful, very effective, and depending on your audiobook library, you get to spend an hour thinking "Wait, where *do* I know that voice from ..."

Today (2/2) at 8 PM ET: a class for writers on setting intentions. Join the "Live-streaming classes" tier to attend. patreon.com/maryrobinette

About the "rents will just rise" thing. Most basic incomes accompany either a "guaranteed income" clawback up front or a "UBI" tax after so unless you volunteer how much you get how much would you be charged www.scottsantens.com/how-to-calcu...