…ok…outside chance I make it worse later…but…really quite a lot later…so…just as likely whatever I can dash off right quick will have to serve…& I’m trying not to be in such a rush I wind up spilling my coffee?
Yeah that gets us to the power of the purse being exercised the hard way, Trump trying to run the whole thing on ship money, and eventually the voters get to decide whether they want a parliament or a king while the economy goes sideways. An unwelcomely interesting proposition.
On the other hand, if you want to see Donald Trump drop to Nixon '74 numbers, if you want to see a president declare that an illegitimate Congress can't impeach him, etc., you may be in for some good entertainment. I think he's unlikely to push it that far, but you never know
White House correspondents have an opportunity to do the funniest thing here and not show up.And sure, the MAGAverse will be all, "See? They're too chickenshit to show up!" So what? It's not like they'd respect their bravery for going. Let him shout to an empty room. The optics alone will be gold.
No. No no no. Stop doing this. Phelan wouldn't know one end of a battleship from another. This is about internal palace politics, Game of Thrones stuff. Stop looking for *interesting* explanations and go for *simple*, and *likely*, and very *human* explanations.
…I mean…what faith are you even keeping…that…you say is yours…I’m agnostic…I shouldn’t know more doctrine than anyone’s reverend…that’s…not how that’s supposed to work…like…random civilians should not know more about the big boats with the boom-abilities than a sectretary of the navy…in a nation that hasn’t been pretending to have run out of grown ups, anyway
The SECNAV is not a senior officer, has no operational role, does not issue orders. He was a rich, art-collector donor who probably got sideways with Hegseth by just not liking him.Stop looking for the Tom Clancy movie version of everything.
You guys are way overthinking this. I'd be surprised if Phelan was shitcanned over some big issue of programs or principles. This is Hegseth at war with everyone in the Pentagon, and especially some plutocrat like Phelan who probably snorted at him when he did his tough guy routine.
…uh…sorry tom…I meant me…I’m the random civilian…didn’t mean to call you names…trying to agree with you, here…who was it who gets credit for the one about being friendly with the enemy of my enemy?
Written by THE BULWARK. court expansion is absolutely a 2028 litmus test
…but…just…I dunno…please…for the love of all that’s holy…at least look up the concept of perspective…even if you aren’t really gonna do the math?
At its peak in 1966 this figure was 4.41 percent. “Whitey on the Moon” was never the reason we weren’t spending on social programs.
It was the Vietnam War, which at its height was consuming HALF of Federal Government spending.
While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy…The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
…I mean…at this rate we gonna have to adjust the saying…because the implication used to be that knowing the value of nothing still left an option of knowing the cost of everything…but…both of those depend on understanding the definition of at least one out of those two…&…I mean…c’mon
I really want a senator, rather than explaining the math, to just say "We all know what's going on here, Mr. Secretary. Trump said a moronic thing and now everyone in the administration, including you, has to pretend it's real. You know it isn't real. But you can't say that because you're a coward."
…at some point “dude, that is objectively evidence of you being too stupid not to count as talking yourself out of the actually serious job you’re lying about doing” needs to become a plausibly self-enforcing concept…president that’s-not-an-F-it’s-an-A does not determine what “percentage” means…much less how operations operate in the field of mathematics…& that “admission I do not grasp basic math” thing…in a fucking “president”?
I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society.You do not want to live in that kind of society.
I think that we should simply run on prosecuting the rich for their crimes instead of creating a low trust society that will sow the seeds for further fascism
…maybe we cut people some slack on some definitions…because they are petty…in some defining characteristic kinda ways…& it is theft…but…in an aggregate basis…what’s being stolen is the farthest from petty you likely get…&…the misleading lack of superlatives in the suggestion maybe undersell it to the instincts people are being forced to hone to triangulate on how fucked up today looks like looking & all…but…universally consistent application of law is…aside from possibly mythical as an absolute phenomena in the manner of “true justice”…but…like…money don’t shield you from the kinda consequences that are the reason eye-watering-ly-expensive lawyers exist in the first place…would be some radical shit & no mistake
fuck yes, only the sum total weight of an affluent society as inequitably cruel as ours could produce sentences as beautifully broken and sick as these
And I’m not in a cult, by the way. I am tired of people critiquing my unyet published novel theory of the human consciousness being divided into independent units of processing determined by a system of rational humors whose operations contribute to the revelation of the collective human species.
I’m losing my fucking mind. The world is so fucking evil and bad and wrong and full of immense suffering that was not previously here just two years ago and these people are somehow tightly coupled with the material reality that brought us to this moment
This is so fucking funny, I’m losing it
the psychic damage I took from the sentence "I'm Gwen Danielson, a neuroscientist and bioengineer, who decided as a child that I would end Death (and bring people back if I could) and that I would become a dragon and help generally facilitate a fantastical transhumanist future." I need to lie down
…need to lie down…I barely got up to begin with…& coffee is good…but…it can’t work a fucking miracle…just…look…between nobody-here-but-us-chickens…if that’s good for the goose…having given it a gander…I’m pretty sure it’s at odds with the shit I’m on the hook for actually getting done today…according to the quaint social contract from my…uhhh…training data…under “if you’re a grown up, then…”
thursdays, am i right?
…like…if you’re a grown up [& are supposed to be somewhere other grown ups are expecting you to be in less than two hours], then [do not start trying to talk to jerry about chesterton & the man who was thursday]
It is, somehow, semi-annual reflections time at work againFriends, I cannot articulate in words how much I disdain this exercise
…while you’re at it…until these assholes learn how shame works again…can we go on ahead & bring back the full measure of disdain?
If you want to get a sense of how thin the GOP's national security bench is, the 29-year-old CT official at DHS who was suspended for seeking sugar daddies was their first pick.
…yeah…so…anyway…if I still had the usual amount of time & coffee available to me before I’m supposed to be out of a door so when I get in another I don’t have to start with “sorry I’m late”…about here is probably when we’d say I “got started”…but…here I go trying to “leave it, love – they ain’t worth it”…or…as it goes…in at least one case I know of where command of the idiomatic bits of english lagged on the cognitive abilities underlying that…”doesn’t worth it”…that person was still smarter than all these assholes & a bunch of cut&paste fruit-machines with wheels so big the scale breaks our grasp of the metaphor…god-fuckin’-damn-it
As FBI Directors normally do in totally legitimate criminal cases, they go discuss the prosecution on Hannity
…the sheer number of people who are gonna turn into the fucking joker if we keep this up is clear evidence that whole paradigm is a flawed analogy…&…sigh…I promised not to do the chesterton thing…so…fuck it…nobody means the joker…I get it…it works for internet purposes & everyone gets what it means…but…wrong comic…& nearly none of us is a fucking protagonist…we all evie in V for vendetta…& the sheer number of dudes that read that book & failed to notice alan implicitly cast the reader as the girl…well…ok…the girl & the cop that has to take a heroic dose of hallucinogenics to trip hard enough to fill in the backstory of the enigmatic protagonist…well…that might be a trifle embarrassing, if we’re being honest…but it’s also a way smaller number than it might seem if that was the way you went about asking people the question…you don’t *have* to “identify with” a specific character to grasp the form & function of how they mesh into the operating machinery of the story…or the plot wouldn’t make sense…to…uhhh…more viewers, let’s say?
I mean. They’d be innocent even if they WERE related, because that’s not how guilt works.
…look…I’m not the boss of you…maybe you don’t have to be a grown up today…maybe you can go look in the cupboard for the childish things you put away that one time
…but…both…both doesn’t so much work as birth a million elevator pitches every time you take a fucking meeting
It would have to be a rich guy who couldn't admit to having owned the art in the first place because it was all stolen or inherited from a nazi relative, so that he can't sue the institution, but has to just seethe sbout it.
…I…was always gonna riot if they killed irony…but…like…there’s other ballgames…& I’d probably throw in on principle if they come for #art that way, too?
Periodic reminder that our public health policy is being managed by the crunchy granola version of the Khmer Rouge.
Even with all the shit Hegseth and Elon and Trump have done I think RFK Jr. takes the cake for most evil person in this admin.
RFK Jr. thinks that the world would be less literally polluted if all the inherently ‘sick’ people succumbed to disease and left only the ‘healthy’ ones to live in harmony with nature.
Because he wants a substantial fraction of the human species to die and he’s working hard to make it happen.
…just…hooo, doggie…I…see you going through those motions but
they're calling it the most obvious fedpost in history
if you are "healthy" — which appears to be a function of race, class and the purity of your body, as defined by what you eat and drink — then you cannot be truly sick and you do not need modern medicine.
if you are "sick" — which, again for RFK is a function of race, class and perceived purity — then there is nothing you can do in the face of disease and death, you are destined to succumb. the upshot either way is we do not need vaccines or most modern medical interventions.
…&…you know…the faith I was raised in has it that if you do that dance…then I not only don’t got to respect a motherfucking thing about you…it might just turn out to be my historic obligation to see you driven to some equivalent of extinction for the sake of the soul of humanity
I wrote this with @jimalwine.bsky.social in July 2025, in fact, and have repeatedly posted about RFK Jr’s eugenicist streak. But I suppose it’s just the nature of the internet so www.commondreams.org/opinion/repu…
…but…if I don’t get to goof off & do zero thinking you could call joined up all the livelong day while the cows never come home & the chickens cease to roost because the ostriches have all buried their heads in the sand…then…as a baseline requirement for any social contract worth the paper it’s unwritten on…if it don’t want to be hearing from the lawyers about getting sued for “breach of…”
…acting like these positions aren’t currently fucking worse-than-vacant need to be reflexively disqualifying
This is the President of the United States posting an entire rambling transcript of a wildly racist rant by Michael Savage. This is UNACCEPTABLE. Has everyone just gone completely numb to it all?
…I dunno…I know he’s not called that…&…this isn’t even miami…wait…no…that’s the other one with the sleeves rolled up…which…maybe another thing we need to get good with…but…dano was the hawaii 5-0, no?
…ok…I know @farscythe already covered this part…but…for the record…I have not at the time of typing been committed
…but I do got to see a man about a dog…or…listen to some guys talk about a dog’s breakfast of a mess they’e crunched a bunch of numbers on…it’s…like a meeting…that’s…hmmm…well…not in a van, in my defense…but…might be down by the river in more than one idiom…so…probably time to call it a day & face the music?
…nope…no…nah…uhh…ok…maybe later…but…like
…*considerably* later…gotta go…you know?
…laters?
…sorry…music…meant to be music…c’mon…get it together
…quit scaring the horses…seriously…one of them ponies breaks a leg & you the one gotta buy it the farm upstate…I ain’t signed up for that kinda grown-up deal…ya hear me, reality…take that crazy & go fuck up some other fucker’s day…I’m all stocked up over here
[…there were tunes here when I hit schedule…but the damn draft those show up in is somewhere I won’t be for a while…so…if that turns out to be longer than @farscythe is stuck at work…my bad…but I blame the sodding internet?]
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Translation: We didn’t think Democrats would fight back.
Hundreds of court filings have revealed cringey texts, emails or private diary entries of Musk, Sam Altman, other OpenAI founders and other public figures.
…ketamine is…still ketamine…at small doses they use the stuff as a general anaesthetic in pediatric care because it metabolically breaks down clean…commonly it’s associated with doing that for horses in veterinary scenarios…but rhino ket is (I’m assuming) the sort of “heroic” dosage that could put one of them “in a k-hole”
…maybe after he severed the link from mind to proprioception at burning man musk’s just…never came back?
Few things infuriate me more than the seemingly decent people who think MAHA has ideas worth grappling with because, you know, [voice lowers] there is a lot of obesity in America and it’s just like damn, you’ll endorse eugenics because you saw a fat person? That’s sub-Nazi shit, congrats!
Nutlik is making demands that we (Canada) have to make concessions just to get to your bullshit trade talks on an agreement that will take months to hammer out and days to rip up.
For example: They want us to put back Murrica booze back on the shelves of our stores. Aw. Know who your fucking customers are then. And don’t eat the baby emperor’s diaper like the ass kissing shitheads you are (they donated a million dollars worth of booze to his inauguration.) The fact that the entire Kentucky Bourbon industry is being quickly wiped out and burned to the fucking ground (and seeing the booze execubots shriek is making me happy.) Not so much the workers, but judging by the responses I’ve read a lot of them voted for him so fuck a lot of them too. What’s a matter booze boys? You wanted human suffering and misery, but can’t take it? Fuck you.
Same applies to the entire admin. No fucking thinking. AND NOT EXPECTING RETALIATION! So fucking stupid.
In my own personal war, I knew what I was getting into and knew what it was going to cost me (at the very least) if/when I started swinging. Based on how things have gone since, I’m not crying and don’t miss the moron managers at the company. At least I’m not spending my days in a panic because I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing.
Translation: We didn’t think Democrats would fight back.
Well, first time for everything.
“I wish none of this had happened”: GOP’s buyer’s remorse on redistricting
Wait, you’re going to build it on MY property?
Trump’s border wall deal you can’t refuse
Get your popcorn ready. Today I learned “rhino ketamine” is a thing.
The unflattering secrets revealed so far in Elon Musk’s latest legal feud
…ketamine is…still ketamine…at small doses they use the stuff as a general anaesthetic in pediatric care because it metabolically breaks down clean…commonly it’s associated with doing that for horses in veterinary scenarios…but rhino ket is (I’m assuming) the sort of “heroic” dosage that could put one of them “in a k-hole”
…maybe after he severed the link from mind to proprioception at burning man musk’s just…never came back?
…would explain a few things, anyway
Few things infuriate me more than the seemingly decent people who think MAHA has ideas worth grappling with because, you know, [voice lowers] there is a lot of obesity in America and it’s just like damn, you’ll endorse eugenics because you saw a fat person? That’s sub-Nazi shit, congrats!
Nutlik is making demands that we (Canada) have to make concessions just to get to your bullshit trade talks on an agreement that will take months to hammer out and days to rip up.
For example: They want us to put back Murrica booze back on the shelves of our stores. Aw. Know who your fucking customers are then. And don’t eat the baby emperor’s diaper like the ass kissing shitheads you are (they donated a million dollars worth of booze to his inauguration.) The fact that the entire Kentucky Bourbon industry is being quickly wiped out and burned to the fucking ground (and seeing the booze execubots shriek is making me happy.) Not so much the workers, but judging by the responses I’ve read a lot of them voted for him so fuck a lot of them too. What’s a matter booze boys? You wanted human suffering and misery, but can’t take it? Fuck you.
Same applies to the entire admin. No fucking thinking. AND NOT EXPECTING RETALIATION! So fucking stupid.
In my own personal war, I knew what I was getting into and knew what it was going to cost me (at the very least) if/when I started swinging. Based on how things have gone since, I’m not crying and don’t miss the moron managers at the company. At least I’m not spending my days in a panic because I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing.
Republicans: We’re going to fuck with you for no good reason.
Also Republicans: Waaah! Waaah! You’ve got to stop being mean to us!
I mean, how many times has this played out now in multiple scenarios, from individual to international?
Melania: Amateur.
DHS counterterror official hit with sugar baby accusations after angry ex claims she bilked $40K out of him
That infowars headline reads exactly like mad libs.
The Onion may have to hire that guy.
About that VA redistricting (lets hope it gets to VA Supreme court quickly)…
https://wset.com/news/nation-world/virginia-congressional-map-redistricting-referendum-vote-attorney-general-tazewell-county-court-republicans-enjoins-injuctive-relief-voters-election-democrats-house-representatives
Finally some good news!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hungary-drops-veto-clearing-path-for-106-billion-eu-loan-to-ukraine/ar-AA21v95S