In case nobody noticed the other day, work is actually getting done in the House. It does appear somebody’s grip is loosening.

“Baseball fans believe the game has become unfair.” Please tell that to the assholes arguing how the Dodgers payroll is good for the game overall.

Speaking as someone who grew up in a rural area, lived in a few cities, and chose to return to rural America to bring up my family, I have to laugh. There are virtues and vices to living anywhere, but this kind of broad brush take demonstrates the effect of the politics of division in America.

In normal times (remember those?), any president participating in a round table on rural healthcare would be an occasion for genuine optimism. This is not one of those times.

It is very fitting that he’s one of those Star Trek fans. I bet he weeps iron tears when, after a few mocktails, someone gets him going about Janeway. www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

My oldest kid and I are headed up to Springfield on Monday for a day of events at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. We all need a little Lincoln in our lives at the moment.

The army obsessed over whether its soldiers possessed sufficient hatred of the Germans in WW2, concerned that the “soft” children of a liberal democracy could never really acquire the necessary spirit and will needed to match the elan and esprit of the children of totalitarianism. They were wrong.

Our most prolific CW military historian is back with another work examining a neglected topic: combat defaulters. This will no doubt be an important contribution to soldier studies and one students of milhist more generally would do well to read. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640959/

The author of that comment sees himself as “well read,” I bet.

If people are just giving away awards, I’d really like that Student of the Month yard sign I was up for in fifth grade. I was robbed of the honor.

“We are bringing Stars & Stripes into the 21st century. We will modernize its operations, refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon [sic] morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members.” Each issue will now feature a photo spread of Pete in PT shorts.

You will never find a more easily discouraged, eternally defeated and embittered crew than the posters on a ST subreddit who hate everything about the franchise since DS9. SNW is an “atrocity” btw. And I won’t share their thoughts on Discovery. Not family-friendly.

Thanks to my asshole congressman, SCOTUS has now made it possible for sore losers to sue when they fairly lose elections. The irony is that Mike Bost is in a safe seat in a district so red a can of paint with “Republican” written on it could win.

Imagine if this was 2010 and these were Tea Party protesters banging on the doors of congressional offices.

Mississippi. I’ll also claim the Meramec, Castor, and Current rivers.

@hoosierhomer.bsky.social I watched this. At first I thought it would be a German ‘Fury.’ It’s not. I’d almost call it a horror movie set on the eastern front. screenrant.com/prime-video-...

Dems doing well (again) this Tuesday. Another reminder that the electeds who have the biggest impacts on a person’s daily life are their local and state officials.

It’s not exactly a pleasure, but lowering the block hammer on irrational folks who somehow believe that Dems had a mechanism to prevent the furtherance of ICE raids during the shutdown, and are therefore responsible for Good’s death, is the kind of TL cleanse I could use more of.

@hoosierhomer.bsky.social This looks very interesting. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638734/

Illinois’ weirdo video gaming mogul has entered the Republican race for governor and he wants you all to know he’s not just a Republican, he’s a “Trump Republican.”

The funny thing about “one hit wonders” is that they have other content, some of it quite good. loudwire.com/1980s-rock-b...

No contest.

Yes, the folks running Congress are disingenuous ass clowns, but if Jack Smith could show up and make them look like fools, the Clintons could too. This is bullshit.

You have half a dozen guys who all seem to be on different pages of the script. That won’t confuse and frighten the citizen at all.

It’s all over but the crying. See ya, Arenado. I wish things had gone better for everyone. #STLCards

He thinks “asylum” means mental institutions. Change my mind.

In case anyone needed to know what a Harvard MBA gets you these days.

When the sentiment is laudable but the historical comparison is dead wrong. I can’t help it. It makes me cringe.

This photo. Troopers of U.S. 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) trots past an M3 Stuart of the 192nd Tank Battalion during the withdrawal to Bataan. The 26th Cavalry executed the last U.S. horse cavalry charge on January 16, 1942.

The reanimated corpse of Toby Keith sings a medley of David Allan Coe songs with Kid Rock?

I’m happy for Lindsey Graham. He’s had to go along with all this neo-isolationism for eight years now, and suddenly we’re talking about another war (or two) and he’s as giddy as a school boy.

Republicans control both houses of Congress. Schumer and Jeffries are leaders of the party in minority. Neville Chamberlain was the prime minister of Great Britain. He led the British government. The mechanisms available to Dem leadership are limited to floor speeches and introducing legislation.

I was not a big Dead fan, but the musicianship in that band was phenomenal. More importantly, they always seemed like a group of guys who genuinely loved the community they built through their music and were deeply loved in turn by the fans.

If Trump thought any of this shit would really float, he’d be out front. He’s not. He’ll let J. D. and Kristi fall for it. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbies-...

My small Illinois town has had a wonderful day long anti-ICE demonstration in downtown. Of course a redneck driving a beat up Harley drove circles around them, flying an oversized Trump flag, cussing at..nuns.

Slightly diminish a band. Jolly Crue

I recall a much neglected FBI report from over two decades ago warning about the infiltration by white nationalists and anti-government types of law enforcement. Nobody wanted to touch it.

Interesting turnaround on WW1. There was fairly broad consensus in the years after 1918 that our involvement had been a mistake.

Pipes made a comeback in the 80’s. I remember my grade school principal walking the halls with his unlit pipe. Not entirely sure what started that.

“Sure, X is overrun by racist incels and dudes who try hard to look like Heinrich Himmler, but I’m not going to let them win by leaving.” Folks, this isn’t how smart consumers operate.

USDA pulling $1 billion in funding from Minnesota is totally a coincidence.

Max Kepler’s been a naughty boy. I offer commiserations for Twins fans.

Finished this the other day and I couldn’t have been more impressed with the diversity of topics or the quality of the writing and research. Kathryn Shively’s chapter on the failure of U.S. logistics in the campaign is worth the price of the book. uncpress.org/978146968536...

“My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” - POTUS

In college, the dialup internet on campus was unavailable to most people from 7pm-12am and the unfortunates queued up outside the computer labs like Soviets waiting for bread.

Exact change.

If you didn’t catch the MSNOW interview with a Vietnam veteran in Minneapolis, do so. This is the kind of thing that gives you hope and makes you proud. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

We need to hear from the dudes who kicked him out of the band for taking it all too seriously.

36 Republicans voted against Trump in the House. He’s losing it over the five Republican senators voted for the war powers resolution. This does not look like a man with a cast iron grip on the party.