Jason Ripcity

“A Republican is somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew someone else was hungry.”

~Mary Karr

Bill Walton used to tell this joke:

The doctor walks in, tells me “good news, the surgery was a success!”
I replied, “what does that mean? My payment cleared?”

South Park has updated their profile pic to Kristi Noem

Anti-corruption has so clear a lane right now that it's hard not to assume anybody who isn't eager to jump into it isn't just corrupt themselves.

Operation Trojan Horse Quote Matt Finn @MattFinnFNC · 29m Breaking: DHS arrives in Penske trucks at a Home Depot in McArthur Park area of LA for early morning immigration enforcement. The area was filled with migrants who scattered. DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they’re carrying out the highly. Underneath is a screenshot of an 8 second video showing agents lifting the door of a rental truck from the inside as they get ready to jump and out and grab people.

This morning, Border Patrol agents hiding in Penske rental trucks raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles to grab day laborers standing around, which the Border Patrol's current CA lead Gregory Bovino called "Operation Trojan Horse."

Raises very serious questions about violation of the court order.

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

Maybe the best way to explain how LLM’s work is to ask people “what word comes after ‘ensuing’” and when they all say “kickoff” you can point out they perfectly understand GPT.

6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape.

The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape. Get details:

Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

Congress is Closed again today because of the Republican Jeffrey Epstein. Sad!!! 😢 🍊 🌮 💩

RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.

RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Like me, the monks visit Costco each week and pray for the return of those sinfully delicious cinnamon rolls.

Hochul: "I will put saving democracy as my top priority at any cost. Bc it's under siege. Just like those who put on uniforms to fight battles across the ages. For centuries we stood up & fought. Blood has been shed. This is our moment in to stand up for all we hold dear & not let it be destroyed."

Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.

It’s a bow-down-before-the-one-you-serve situation.

So, basically, going forward, we're going to have:
☑️ fake economic numbers
☑️ fake census numbers
☑️ fake public health numbers
☑️ no education numbers at all

I’d like to thank everyone who gave me a cigarette outside of La Luna.

I cannot imagine American children growing up without Sesame Street, but that’s exactly what will happen to the next generation.

OPB, the greatest of them all. Thursday nights with Oregon Field Guide + Oregon Art Beat, endless episodes of Rick Steves, and Sunday nights with All Creatures Great and Small, my girl Lucy Worsley, and GBBO.

Print out the past five years of BlazersEdge and get it hardbound.

Congratulations to Kevin Goblin-Robinson

We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans.

Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

Maybe Trump will release the Epstein file to distract from the jobs report.

the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring

They ended cancer research for this.