List three things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Interaction between operations, information flows, and software in non-profit healthcare. 2. The Dispossessed 3. Theodicy in Bujold’s Five Gods series.

Portland is a peaceful, vibrant city with no need for federal agents on our streets. I urge Oregonians not to fall into Trump’s attempt to incite violence. Just as I did in 2020, I will lead our delegation and state officials to oppose any unjustified increase in federal forces.

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

The African-American veterans who gathered in 1887 to honor Thaddeus Stevens for his role in the "hopeless fight" for justice and equality did not do so because they believed they represented the zeitgeist or the silent majority, they did so because they knew they did not. Dare we do any less?

A major impediment to doing politics is that a mass of people do not understand what words mean.

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Leave this on the street to scare your local evangelical

Accidentally raptured into heaven with all the evangelicals and somehow one of them has already set up the worst barbecue place imaginable. There's a banner out front where the illustration depicts a pig that has a goatee and is wearing a handgun in a holster. Everything tastes like corn syrup.

imagine everything we could fix and everyone we could send to the Hague

really hoping they're right about Tuesday being the Rapture because a world without Evangelical Christians sounds like a literal paradise

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life

I imagine that it gave Charlie Kirk great pleasure to die as a martyr to the god of death he worshipped. I wish instead he could have died another way: of old age, peacefully, in a country where all his work had come to nothing, and he himself completely forgotten.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

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Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

decades of bothsidesism, decades of the end of history, "a pincer movement by the illiberal right and the illiberal left," whatever story you want to tell--the need is the same: we need to get our powerful to believe in liberalism as a fighting creed once again

that guy with the sword there? he was a teacher. but there was something that needed doing.

Our institutions have adopted a practice where anything supported by a major American party must be treated as if it's at least 50% correct, which means that when a major party is controlled by a group doing utterly indefensible things, all our institutions fall silent and pretend it's not happening

Many official communications channels of the US government are controlled by people who celebrate the Nazi party and the response of our elite news and political institutions has been to look the other way and not say anything about it.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

I think postmodern fascism is going to be the ideology of the 21st century. Killing for the sake of killing, because everybody vaguely remembers that killing is what important people, and we all want to be important. Acting out a cargo cult of the 20th century, without reason or meaning.

Exploring new frontiers in stupid racism.

Good, I needed another reason to grind my teeth today.

in any case, every single one of these people hates your freedom and would happily see you enslaved for the sake of their fantasies of domination

hard for me to take these guys seriously — and i know i should — because they all sound like such fucking idiots.

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney

think about how rotten your soul has to be, how broken your moral compass, to think drag queen story hour is a sign of social decay but snuff films of war crimes is exemplary, stand out, should be shared far and wide. these people are sick

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

Look whoever does Gavin Newsom’s social media, all I’m saying is, when It Happens, just post this:

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount

it's easier to buy a gun in the united states than high-rise trousers

It's almost like he's doing socialism. Well, socialism with national characteristics. I wonder if there's a word for that, when you put nationalism and socialism together. A term maybe journalists could use to describe what is happening. Some sort of, I don't know, national socialism?

BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵

This is exactly what ambitious Democrats do. And that is not a criticism at all. Cf. @joshtpm.bsky.social

the obituary James Dobson deserves

we let people have their say, and they said stuff like "my kid doesn't need vaccines" or "the 5g tower near me is murdering my dick" and "i think black people evolved from crabs 100 years ago, i do not want them living near me" and the lesson here is most people should not have their say

Everyone on TV not asking this question is doing it wrong

RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid

what I want out of the next president is someone who thinks general sherman didn't go far enough