Was a pretty quiet birthday. My partner made an incredible apple pie for me and we played the first 6 episodes of Dispatch. Not bad. 🍽️

If your religion says you can’t do something then don’t do it. Don’t get the law to force other people to conform to your religion. Muslims can’t drink alcohol but I’ve never heard of a Muslim going to the Supreme Court to get neighborhood bars shut down.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

S Tier candidate. Michael has a big heart, an unyielding work ethic, and a strong moral character. He will be a force on the RTD board. Check him out at michaelforrtd.com

Was Faith a 12-year-old?

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

“everglades concentration camp” is right there, and more descriptive

It's a feature, not a bug

another thing that is quire evident is the aesthetic distaste for rowdy and strident protest and rhetoric that you see among some elite opinion-makers.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

There's an egg shortage in the bay area due to bird flu issues, and we've tried a few times to buy eggs in the last few weeks with no luck. I went to Costco this morning right as it opened and was able to buy some. But the woman in front of me loaded her cart with *53 cases* with 2 dozen eggs each.

The RTD Board has a performance committee meeting today at 8:30 AM where we will be discussing this year‘s goals and if you would like to weigh in, I highly encourage you to attend! www.reddit.com/r/Denver/s/v...

Very excited to have joined @getmoresmarter.com to talk RTD and the politics of public transit. Look for the episode this coming week!

Insane

Make Article I great again

One of the very cool things about this case is that the court called one of the original framers of the MT state constitution to help interpret it because our constitution is only 50 years old and Mae Nan Robinson Ellingson was 24 years old when she helped write it.

Buy the ticket, take the ride...

Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

I've never met Dilan, but I signed this letter because I believe in student journalism, The Stanford Daily and a University's responsibility to its students. There is no reason Stanford should push for the prosecution of a student journalist who was just doing his job. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

My Dad lacks confidence as a hardware store Santa, but he is greatly admired by his subordinates. He has Lowes Elf Esteem

I legit think the cynical promotion of this this is one of the most brazen acts of public evil I’ve ever seen because there is *no tradeoff* in any way that counts, there’s no complicated externality, it’s just fucking letting people, mainly children die for the hell of it.

(secret to reliably flaky biscuits is to grate the frozen butter and to do about four folds total)

Ideological messianism, prizing loyalty over competence, a dedication to outsourcing government functions to enrich political allies, a conviction that propaganda can overcome the bleakest realities, blithe dismissal of empiricism of any kind

If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Yeah, I still think he chickens out and claims victory like this

@pfrazee.com please create a “make everything dark” option where the layout backgrounds are true black and all bright images are auto inverted.

You used to call me on my self-own

Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Holy fuck a swan just tried to eat my camera.

Out of the top 18 movies ever in terms of domestic opening weekend, 17 of the 18 are made by Disney

I don’t want to go back to therapy so I’m just going to up the number of times I say “that’s showbiz” each day

I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t

the oceangate ceo was better at his job than elon

I tried to play off the Elon ruining twitter thing as being funny, "let it burn" etc but it actually just fucking sucks and is sad. pre-Musk twitter was garbage but it was our garbage

Floof!

Tucker Carlson just announced on Twitter that he is relaunching his show ... on Twitter

I told my friend that I would give him my first invite code, sadly none have materialized yet. I doubt this will work, but I figured for his sake, I should give it a shot.

Waiting for #CoLeg to vote on the major Land Use Bill #HB23-213 final passage in the State House

challenge accepted.

The worst feature of bluesky right now is the images. Text only is wonderful. And while I use the DMs a lot on Twitter, I can’t help thinking that it’s actually nice to not have them on here.

only thing that scares us is people being cruel to each other. so right now we're having a blast but very focused on that problem

@pfrazee.com how soon will Federation be available? If I want to set up my own instance, it seems like the app allows it, but there’s no documentation on how to do it.

Genuinely one of the worst Democratic senators of my lifetime, and that’s saying something in a world where Joe Lieberman exists 

I’m usually a pretty stoic reader, but this article definitely got to me. It’s one of those stories that is completely believable but still really stunning.

Today is a good day for Jamba juice 

normalize being nice and friendly. and giving other people the benefit of the doubt. and listening to what they have to say