The people saying this also think that we just need to elect Mark Kelly in 2028 and everything will go back to normal.

People are so used to sanewashing that it is jarring to see the president quoted verbatim sounding like a crazy person. Trump the actual person and the media presentation of The President are usually completely divorced from each other.

“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”

Adam Baldwin was literally *the* guy who named GamerGate and made it go viral. It was just some loser 4chan/incel YouTuber shit before then. They spammed him to get his attention because they knew he’s also a psycho loser and they wanted to make it go viral, and he did it. And it worked.

Adam Baldwin said a lot of awful shit, and afaik has never apologized or walked any of it back. He deleted his Twitter account and just hoped everyone would forget? www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02...

I have seen a number of my favorite shows be canceled and then come back to life and I'm sorry but it's almost impossible to recapture the magic.

this is a key structural problem in how elite opinion journalism covers our politics. these folks don’t actually interact with the maga hoi polloi; and more importantly, *they do not want to do that* because if they did they’d have to admit - to themselves - that actual rank/fike MAGA are fashy.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Going away for a week to Durham, and I'm gonna miss this little doggo.

The ironic thing about life is that you are a different person to everyone you meet. To some, you're quiet. To others, you never stop talking. Some remember you for your kindness. Others, for the time you walked away. You are a villain in someone's story, and a hero in another's.

"Paid protesters" *another* accusation that was actually an admission.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "We really need a specific example of missing or incorrect data to diagnose the problem. 'The numbers are wrong,' isn't very helpful."

The idea that the White House didn't figure Iran might try to cut off oil out of the Gulf is comical. They didn't figure for what has now become the fulcrum point of the whole conflict. Iran's leaders are now showing that regime change can work in both directions.

I had a call with the financial counselor from Duke this morning. Fortunately I have excellent insurance and some savings, so they have no concerns on this front. But what must it feel like to face this without the means to pay? The out of pocket cost for a lung transplant is staggering.

"Bigotry is ultimately an expensive luxury, and its price is paid not only in money and wages and bureaucracy."

When you think about it, paying $6/gallon for gasoline is just like investing that money in your 401(k).

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

A story about time, friendship, loss…and the quiet hope that even the smallest choices can change the future. Happy anniversary to one of the greatest journeys ever made.

Matt Yglesias helpfully points out that people like him love to pretend they didn't support the Iraq War. h/t @parkermolloy.com

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

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I hope every judge is this incredulous with these obviously bullshit excuses for lawyers outsourcing their brains to AI.

Apropos of nothing, Kim Kitsuragi is my favorite video game character of all time.

Musical instruments cost the Pentagon "$1.8 million. That included a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, a $26,000 violin, and a $21,750 custom handmade flute from the luxury Japanese brand Muramatsu."

I've been thinking a lot about gratitude, and friendship. I have three caregivers for the transplant, and each of them has known me in different times and in different contexts. In the past few weeks, I've reconnected with several people who I was close with in the past, but I'd lost touch with.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Legit wondering if I should maybe go out and buy an EV tomorrow.

Donald Trump causing another fossil fuel energy crisis leading to a resurgence in popular support for EVs, electrification, & renewable energy would be a hall-of-famer in the Annals of Unintended Consequence.

Timeline cleanse.

This is incredibly on point. Spot oil prices grab the news, but it’s the impact we’re about to witness to petrochemical and derivative production that should really scare the shit out of folks. It’s the sort of shock that could ripple through our global industrial economy for many months.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

I am struggling this morning. Chest is feeling tight and I didn't sleep well. One week out from Testing Week and I am counting the days. Once I get to Duke, I will know how much my disease has progressed and how soon before I'm listed for transplant.

Unsure would be higher.

I get that most people aren't great at pattern recognition but come on. How are we still doing this

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Radio op on bombers in WW2, then worked in broadcast at WGN. Helped invent the first mobile TV news broadcast units. Later a pilot in the Civil Air Patrol.

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

Fun fact about the F/A-18: the flight simulators are (mostly) unclassified, unlike the newer planes. A few years ago, someone I know got me into the training sim at the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort and I got to fly one. I fought of some MIGs over San Francisco. Was pretty fun!

"I did not expect to be exposed to geopolitics when relocating to the city in the Middle East built by slaves" Starting to think that working at a global hedge fund might not be a job for intellectual heavyweights.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

There is only one strategy to "win" at politics: to fucking stand for something.

I still remember when I pointed out that ALEC was a right-wing bill mill and it was a complete waste of time to lobby an organization that was firmly in the pocket of fossil fuels, I was given a sanctimonious lecture on the importance of reaching across the aisle. I should have quit on the spot.

SEIA has always been this politically myopic. When I was on their government affairs team, I argued for a grassroots strategy that would leverage the popularity of solar energy. Instead they spent money on joining ALEC and donating to Republican leadership PACs.

At a certain point, a country's internal political system may become so sclerotic that it is impossible to hope for any accountability for crimes under international law. In that situation, what is the proper recourse for the rest of the world?

whoops

The US and Israel reportedly slaughtered twenty volleyball players at a sports hall today in southern Iran. Self-defense, they call it. modern.az/en/dunya/575...

You can just say things.