Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

Every time Johnson used the word satire I start to wonder if he is heartening back to fantasies about the description he heard of ancient satyr plays in an introductory Clasics course. Little Mikey: Ahh. Tell me more about prancing around wearing enormous compactly stuffed leather phalloi.

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

The Latin adj. “pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum” and the Ancient Greek adj. “καλός, καλός, καλή, καλόν” should just be translated as “beautiful”regardless of gender (I.e. don’t switch to “handsome” for masc. (or n.) nouns. The Grks and Romans used a single term; we shouldn’t code switch.

Conducting a live fire exercise over a civilian highway is fucking stupid. It doesn’t really matter if I-5 fell within the minimum acceptable risk threshold for the exercise. Those standards are designed for controlled environments, not civilian highways.

Schools in South Carolina recently sent home unvaccinated kids, to stem a growing measles outbreak. Turns out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly infected their classmates for days. That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

man you realize how far through the looking glass we have to be for someone at THE EPOCH TIMES to resign over signing the pentagon's idiotic press restrictions

Trump And Vance Fired Live Munitions Over A California Freeway, And Gavin Newsom May Have Saved Lives By Shutting It Down

JK Rowling’s name for an HBCU wizarding school would be the most racist thing ever committed to paper

That Vance’s “escort” detail was subject to “fallout” from a “premature detonation“ feels very in line with some of the current South Park storyline for some reason. 🤔

Jesus Christ man

[checks calendar]

Immediately.

So basically trump tried to kill his Vice President again.

"Free the Alabama Penis" wasn't on my Bingo card for today. Yet here we are.

Serious business here

Coast Guard bought Kristi Noem two private jets (I guess if one breaks down). Cost: $172 million. Is that what you call draining the swamp?

The Preamble to the Constitution began with three magic words and they were not “I, the King.”

Hegseth wants to make his "Christian Nationalist" church the sole church recognized by the Pentagon, and he is terminating chaplaincy contracts with Catholics and mainstream protestants. This is what "freedom of religion" means to Trump.

Y'all are amazing. Keep blocking!

Gotta block them all! Block early, block often! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Jaws, but I may have seen The Birds on tv before that. And I can’t remember whether I saw Jaws second run on TV or on HBO. Despite growing up in FL and swimming at shark capitol New Smyrna Beach, I think The Birds might edge out Jaws. Not sure.🤔

Judge Ellis: "This wasn't a suggestion. It wasn't a hint. It wasn't a topic of conversation. It was an order. So I will enter it today, and I will expect that it will be follow."

Judge Ellis: "If that person's answers are 'I don't know," and 'it's not my responsibility,' then we'll come in Tuesday with another person until I get the answers that I want."

The ghost of Epstein just won’t stay quiet. Makes you wonder whether someone knows what’s in those files that little Mikey Johnson is trying to keep locked up. www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...

If you’re a fed and wear a mask, you’re a coward

ICE arrested a cop.

Mask off

This sounds familiar.

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

the supreme court musing about racism being over and every young republican being outed as a literal nazi happened on exactly the same day

Resisting the urge to start blogging. Really resisting the urge to comment on the purpose and function of commemorative arches in imperial Rome/antiquity and their subsequent reception and use throughout the ages. Resisting easier when I think about getting my scholarship scraped for crap AI.

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

Real "how d'you do, fellow kids" energy.

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

Wait, she had credibility? Nah. Despite her past jobs, no credibility based on her recent work involving many absurd legal takes at faux news.

Interesting how the lights in the image simultaneously give a Dr. Strangelove war room feel and create a kind of thought bubble effect—though I think that the latter is largely the result of the caption/pull quote. @readingthepictures.bsky.social

In addition to his concerns about war crimes, *look at what color he is.* Trump and Hegseth have made it very clear that they are utter racists who believe no non-white officers deserve their rank.

After seeing the headline “DOJ Probes Bolton,” I really really think we should retire the word “probe.”

Who’s testing teenagers’ sperm count? 😱

“We gotta fill our teens with sperm” say two old men who look like handbags made from walrus scrotum.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.

I just want people who are actually competent to run government. That shouldn't be too much to ask, but alas.

(yes, it's AI slop, but John Roberts is also Slop)

It's not trust in any one person, or any one truth claim, it's a recognition that science--a community and a tradition and it's distinctive knowledge generating practices--has yielded stupendous results over the years.