Getting out and touching grass. Communing with the neighbors. Haven't been been reading Twitter, but *have* been taking walks. Sometimes I can't handle the treadmill of evil bullshit the world puts in front of me and I have to claim space for my own soul for a bit.

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

"In 2025, the US is France. As impunity and lawlessness have grown in the US over the last several decades, it has also grown everywhere else. Even now, in the days of dwindling US status as a global endo-ideal, US news is watched more than anywhere on earth." #3E #EndImpunity 🧵

My wife to my children: “Your father is not drunk, he’s just weird”

i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*

Fuck, just saw a dude say "if corporate dems found a genie they'd negotiate down to one wish then wish for something they think the Republicans would like"

When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

So here's where we are, Sunday morning: Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases. So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care. Dystopian.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Toying with the idea of a two-month internet-cleanse. Creating more spaciousness in mind-heart-soul and instead of scratching my itch to communicate by tweeting, putting myself into some long-delayed writing projects that seem to be blocking whatever comes next.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

My kids will not let this happen

Good lord it is beautiful here today

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Why is it always "Christians" celebrating the misery of their neighbors?

America 2025: Where Free Little Libraries have to do double duty as Free Little Pantries because so many of our neighbors are about to go hungry.

Wednesday has been gone for a month now but she boosted me in my dream last night and I miss her a lot today.

It could have been so much easier, Dave, if you had let nature take it's course. 🤣

This is important

The end result is what we’re seeing in the U.S. - a democracy struggling to function because its institutions are trapped in disordered discourse. Governance isn’t about solving problems; it’s about demonstrating loyalty to manufactured narratives.

We’re living through a fundamental shift in how discourse is created. Institutions once shaped a shared reality through discourse - imperfectly, but with structure. Now, that reality has splintered. In its place, engagement-driven ecosystems amplify whatever resonates, truth optional.

America is not unique. Any democracy can fall to state capture by disordered discourse if there’s no systematic response. This isn’t something we can fact-check our way out of - it’s deeper than misinformation. It’s about power, identity, and the narratives that shape reality itself.

We carved (homegrown) pumpkins last night!

Are we living through the dumbest collapse of a major world power in history?

If I were Hispanic or Latino I would simply start wearing combat fatigues and a mask everywhere. Haha oh god this is terrible.

TFW your boy *really* knows and loves you.

Today fucking sucks but I came upstairs to make coffee and saw this and definitely laughed

Okay, gun nerds: What is the best quality/dollar in commercially-available AR-15s? Def getting a can too, so thinking 14.5 with a 1.5 can adapter. I don't know anything about the market, so please educate me.

Afternoon/evening neighborhood walk while the kids are in dance class. In the outskirts of the "war-torn" Portland area.

Not even satire.

impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.

Do you ever wonder whether these right-wing Christofascists ever feel a pang of conscience when they project this hard? Or is it pure self-righteous ignorance all the way down?

Great framing.

when we stopped at a gas station somewhere in rural Indiana earlier today, the women’s bathroom was closed so I went to use the men’s. the store manager ran over and frantically said women “aren’t allowed” to use that one—“we got a ticket last month.” what kinda piss fuckery is going on in Indiana

Watching them turn their shockjock podbro stoolpigeon into a fucking *martyr* in real time made a few things fucking *clear* to those of us paying attention. All of those things point to this: We no longer live in the country we thought we lived in. That place is gone.

Come back home. It's loud out there.

Currently texting former co-workers to see if they still think I'm as hysterical as they did when I wore an American flag belt upside down in 2016. No responses yet.

You don’t actually think they’re going to “open” the government again, do you?

Turns out we’re one of them shithole countries.

The Trump people are going to invade, destabilize, and loot Venezuela. Then they’ll leave it in a smoldering ruin and take the money they made and invest it in luxury penthouses and casinos over the fresh graves of the Palestinian people. Maximum human immiseration activated.

Amazing thread in which Grok confidently, repeatedly insists that a photo of the U.S. Capitol is actually a photo of Tren de Aragua members.

In other words: starving Americans, unpaid troops, and working-class chaos are now just leverage in a political stunt. This isn’t governance. This is hostage-taking with a Bible in one hand and a gas can in the other.

To borrow a phrase from science-fiction author William Gibson, “there are no maps for these territories”. Put more bluntly, we’re fucked — but weirdly so. Fortunately, we are not without options.

An elementary school in Gresham Oregon is closed because ICE blocked the road.

The government is shut down, I hear. But ICE is still out here, snatching kids from schools, staking out bus stops. Following school buses and trying to snag parents as the school buses drop their kids off.

Man, nobody gets off on losing the prisoner's dilemma like fucking Democrats.

I turn 41 this year, and for my entire life, I have had high blood pressure. They said it was congenital. But in the past two years, I've gotten a massive handle on my mental health and default stress levels. And now I have almost *low* blood pressure. No medication required.

The neighbors have a pumpkin patch, and it's funny: they have to put signs up around their chickens who are molting because most of the people who come here from the city have no idea what a molting chicken is