In doing our post-convention season inventory, we find ourselves with WAY too many High Caffeine Mystery Samplers on hand. We need to sell off 30 of these before June, so we programmed in an automatic 30% off* until we sell those 30! *Only online, only high caf www.fridaytea.com/products/fri...

"You typed WHAT"

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

Help I need a bigger lap. I have been SWARMED.

Anxiety! :D But also this is a super professional out of office message right

“The steep cuts to the program's inspectors baffled CDC officials since the small team's staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. Fees from cruise ships companies pay for the program, which is supposed to inspect large vessels at least twice a year.“

Yeah a lot of people want to think of racism as incoherent, unexamined, gut-level knee-jerk hate. It's not? It's a tactical tool. And it works on left-of-center voters too, bc farm worker issues can be safely walled away as "a Latino issue" instead of a "THIS IS THE HORROR YOU FEED ON" issue.

Boris is as impressed as hell that I just got author copies of LIGHTNING RUNES, as you can see.

All good news this morning. Myrtle is bright and happy - it looks like the last 2 days might have been the worst of it (fingers crossed).

The Democrats had a 50 state strategy under Howard Dean until 2009 when new leadership came in. I think about this a lot. State houses are where voting rights are made or broken.

Trump has apparently been gluing challenge coins to the doors of the West Wing. Fascinating how the challenge coin thing has been embraced by right-wingers with no military or law enforcement experience as a sort of currency of valor. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The art god commanded me to finish it tonight. I don’t have a title. (Fountain pen on paper.)

that scream you heard was every single lock-out tag-out guy on the planet screaming at the same time

Incredibly, one of the first people I met with a Yarbo was a former network architect who'd already taken precautions against the worst it could do. Matt Petach says consumers should treat such devices as "hostile agents." Don't trust 'em, don't put them anywhere or with anything you care about.

If you have, or know someone, with a Yarbo robot lawn mower... they might want to read this. www.theverge.com/tech/925696/...

A new sci fi anthology, *Resistance*, joins the fight. Profits from will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union and Pro Publica. 18 stories of standing up for what’s right, fighting oppression and showing that even one person can make a difference. www.fantasticbooks.biz/product-page...

"Looking back now, it’s clear that the desire to undo the Civil Rights Era — and even restore the Confederacy to a place of honor — never disappeared. It was sometimes set to the side and reshaped, but they kept the fire burning with unwavering attention."

ACLS / MLA / AHA / Authors Guild won the NEH case against the mass termination of grants.

again, one of the main demands of early socialist parties like Labour was *for MPs to be paid* because they believed that being an MP should be a dignified profession open to everyone.

I go on about this occasionally, but state legislatures are the most insane U.S. example of this.

NJ pays legislators 82k a year, up from 49k last year. This is still less than my wife makes as public school teacher (15+ years in, with a masters)

Imagine making $110,000 as the CEO of a company with billions in revenues and 30,000 employees. That’s what my state’s governor does.

Just got out of a group with Trump '24 male voters who disapprove of the job he's doing. We asked them to raise hands for who they might support in a presidential run. Whole group interested in Rubio. 1.5 hands for Vance. 4 for Fetterman. John Fetterman.

Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.

GOT HIM! Details later but he’s home and safe

French prosecutors are summoning Elon Musk to the French capital again—this time to face preliminary criminal charges in a sprawling investigation into his social-media platform, X. on.wsj.com/4wgu0Lf

The #FuzzyRebelAlliance loves brushie time

Until someone can find a way to permanently defeat the Confederacy this will be the American reality. Our forebears failed in 1865 & 1877. They failed again during the New Deal. They failed to fully enforce the CRA & VRA. And the result is the Confederacy won again last week. 15 & end/

The Confederacy didn't just reappear w/last week's ruling, it has been here all along riding first one party, then parts of both, then the other as a parasite hollowing out American state & society from w/in. It changes its names, how it presents itself, but it has never gone away. 12/

The Confederacy didn't lose, except on the battlefield. It won the overall war because it won the post-war peace. Every single time it has been faced with a defeat it doesn't accept that loss, just like it didn't accept the surrenders at Appomattox or Greensboro. 10/

One of the hallmarks of both Republican politics & FedSoc judicial scholarship & jurisprudence for the past 40 years is that there IS NO SUCH THING AS THE GENERAL WELFARE in the US!!!! Which is why passing any legislation that benefits the majority of Americans is verbotten! 8/

Dunning & his adherents white wash the Confederacy, the road to secession, the Great Rebellion, & the anti-Reconstruction efforts, firmly cementing the Lost Cause lie as legit US history, which is part of the reason we call the Civil War the Civil War & not the Great Rebellion. 4/

That effort succeeded with the Compromise of 1877 & the institution of Jim Crow. Shortly thereafter Professor William Archibald Dunning established the revisionist history/historiography that would become the Dunning School of American history. 3/

This follows from a categorization error that the Confederacy lost the Great Rebellion now d/b/a the Civil War. While the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered at Appamattox & of Tennessee at Greensboro, the Confederacy won the post-war peace & its politics have dominated the US ever since. 1/

“The move disqualifies loans for those studying for careers as advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, social workers, counseling and mental health practitioners,..” www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Robert Fossier's The Axe and The Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Christopher I. Beckwith's The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia, which I dearly want to read: press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier, by Melissa Macauley: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Languages of China, by S. Robert Ramsey: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road, by Xin Wen: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia, by Haun Saussy: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

(I shall not, of course, manage to buy all the things I covet from @princetonupress.bsky.social even in a sale, but. One likes to look.) Moving away from Mediterranean antiquity a little, there's Hourani's Arab Seafaring: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

And here, again, in Mediterranean antiquity, Michael Maas' The Conqueror's Gift: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

And I cannot avoid desiring to read Harriet Flowers' Intellectual Property: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Continuing the Mediterranean antiquity theme, I find myself drawn to @princetonupress.bsky.social's Surviving Rome, by Kim Bowes. (press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...) I've read a bunch of stuff about the Roman economy and social history and this looks like an interesting intervention.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

got a button set I've been wanting to snag for a while

Update from an orchard I love -- posted just today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfvN...

In case you HAVEN'T seen the poster recently EVAN @gianttourtiere.bsky.social