Very clever. Right wing jackasses in Madrid, Spain, sent their rightist city leader to Mexico to be an asshole about praising the conquests of Hernán Cortés. President Sheinbaum published an edict by Spanish King Carlos I from 1548 on how Cortés had committed "atrocities".

A certain peace can come with having reached an age when there is nothing left to be done but what is left to be done. Much less brooding, much more doing.

Car dealers, things of that nature

The problem with talking oil prices down is the geezer has old man brain and thinks that gives him more room, so then he blows some shit up, and complicates things further

This is where Trump has a disadvantage. Any other POTUS would be able to talk for sustained periods about Something Greater: America, Freedom, The Troops, whatever. Trump couldn't go a week without becoming enraged that people were talking about those things and not him, and s**ting on all of it.

You can tell Graham Platner wasn't and isn't because, unlike Mamdani, a lot of Platner's news coverage is positive He's one of them in a blue collar mask which makes him safe for the establishment

Some parts of one's self-mythology turn out to be load-bearing. The failure of those is beneficial in the long run, if you survive the short run.

I miss when there were things you didn’t need to legally prohibit because they were so obviously trashy and embarrassing that nobody would think to try.

I just punched you in the face but I want to emphasize this is not a resumption of our brawl. You are not to hit me back.

This genuinely sounds like abuser speak. We hit them, but only because they made us, and if they would stop making us mad, we won't have to do it again.

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

In 1999, John Peel made a list of 400 recorded musical tracks from the 20th century, four from each year. Here is track #166 (1941):

whoever leaked that he’s panicking about leaks is the funniest person in the government

Been saying for ages Trump acts like a trust fund kid spending down an account he imagines is bottomless and has no concept of how to refill. Roberts OUGHT to know better, but seems not to.

This Canvas outage across campuses reminds me of an opinion that I have which is that universities should run off homemade software maintained by two people for 50 years at a time that does one specific thing well and otherwise has no commercial value.

The Wellness industry has the same greed as the biomedical industry but nothing it sells you actually works

One day we're all gonna have to actually download these songs we've Shazammed, you know...

I will never understand the reality-distortion field that the right has bought into around the physical capabilities of a sedentary octogenarian with the worst diet imaginable who literally hasn't exerted himself physically since LBJ was president. He can't fight! Why would you think he can?

A new way to respond to inflation: My favorite burger joint removed the bacon from its lowest priced burger and dropped the burger’s price by $1.00. If you want the bacon, it’ll cost you $1.50.

It's that special day again...

I know I’ve already reposted but…Trump I demolished a global refugee resettlement infrastructure in the name of vetting. Biden, somehow, genuinely rebuilt it. Trump II hasn’t just redemolished it but made a farce of it, by building an active recruitment pipeline which is the opposite of vetting.

Looks like foreigners don't want to risk being imprisoned by ICE just for a chance to see a soccer game.

If racism is no longer a problem, then why are all the states rushing to redistrict after the Supreme Court ruling all in The South? And all the people pushing to redistrict all White? 🤔🤔🤔

What a perfect illustration to accompany this song…

I forgive the little old man on speaker phone in the bookstore cause he was asking his wife about books she wants and he said, “We need to buy it here and support Kaitlyn and not buy it on Amazon” 🥰

Just played a CD.. All the songs were mixed to the same volume and, get this, no adverts at all. I'm telling you, this is the future.

It should be political malpractice to enact a “jungle primary” without also including a consensus-forcing mechanism like approval voting or ranked choice. All this drama in California over a nonpartisan primary would be a non-issue if the rules actually captured which candidates have widest appeal.

“This is gonna sound crazy, but I swear to God, I keep seeing a green dancing bear on the field,” said Adolis García

This card has a picture of a squirrel

The extent to which "savvy" types just ignore what Musk says and does is quite remarkable (and evil).

I used to hang out with some American conservatives online a long time ago and something I realised quite early on was they all basically believed in a fantasy version of the Democratic Party.

“He was supposed to make us rich, punish our workers, and make my kids love me again” remains completely undefeated as a theory of mind for the average trump voter

A reminder www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Bezos “obeyed in advance” so hard that it’s gonna be hilarious when he pretends he never supported any of this.

If you want to know why Trump's doctors keep asking him to take basic cognitive tests that would show if he's starting to develop the dementia his father had, just watch his press conferences.

magnificent www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...

In honor of Star Wars Day

When on the Kent State campus I always stop and put my finget in the bullet hole in the metal sculpture on Blanket Hill. 1/2 inch thick steel. These were the bullets shot into a parking lot full of 500 students.

It is insane this has been allowed to go on.

In 1999, John Peel made a list of 400 recorded musical tracks from the 20th century, four from each year. Here is track #165 (1941), which is newly relevant:

If you voted for this hot mess administration, I better not catch you sipping margaritas and having enchiladas at a Mexican restaurant on Tuesday. You can have meatloaf and Coors Light at home.

The President truthed today that “Hakeem Jeffries, a Low IQ individual” should be impeached. The President is presumably a High IQ individual as evidenced by his ability to distinguish a bear from a giraffe, a lion, and a shark. Yet he doesn’t realize that members of Congress cannot be impeached?

Half-a-year of daily Sudoku. It’s not much, but it’s mine.

So, apparently Todd Blanche only eats meals at strip clubs.

Appreciating what I have, in light of three decades' of knowledge of what I would lose.

Rudy Giuliani did absolutely everything he could for Donald Trump, destroyed his reputation for him, only to be discarded and abandoned, and now as he’s dying used for Trump’s preening. That’s destiny for you.

It was all fun and games, wasn't it folks

striking that wurman is basically unable to grapple with the real world and turns instead to a shallow formalism that leads him to positions such as "interpretation of congressional statutes in furtherance of rights is exactly the same executive orders meant to strip rights away."

WIFE: remember the time you talked shit about that restaurant that has now become one of our favorite, most reliable dinner options? ME: oh you mean the time that we dialectically overcame a past era of contradictions through protracted struggle?