Salty Djinn

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

Heard about this on The Daily Beans podcast. Looking forward to it!!

So, consider how this goes:

They deploy ICE to remove people who are “illegal”

Kavanaugh says US citizens will be fine, once they show their IDs (sure, buddy)

Kansas just showed us they can & will invalidate the LEGALLY ISSUED IDs of CITIZENS immediately & without warning

Because they want to

Pike Boys is still on my to-read list; I'm not familiar with your fiction, but I'd love to beta read for you!

This fact-filled, thoroughly cited thread is absolutely bonkers.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

I thought it was the avocado toast that was keeping millennials from owning homes, now you're telling me it's the juice?
What am I supposed to believe?
/S

This really should be a Superbowl ad. And a Grammys ad. And an Olympics ad. And... Sheesh. An everything ad.

The Distance.
My entry into the Super Bowl ad mix.

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and the American economy is crumbling. But some singer I've ever heard of said the US was "stolen land" on an awards show that I didn't watch. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Holy crap.

My kids are grown, but SO MUCH of this story resonated.
Parenting with depression and anxiety was a lot. @deecherrywriter.bsky.social captured it beautifully.

stephen miller told me woke 2 keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to twitter and begs people to apply to become federal prosecutors so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding prosectors to woke 2 and then kristi noem started crying

I was just talking about this the other day.

"I am not a cat." 💀

Screenshot from an article about the impact of over hunting on wild Turkey reproduction with text highlighted reading, "If there are fewer high-quality males because the best males are harvested, females may not want to mate with the lower quality options."

You don't say.

Researchers issue warning after observing concerning change in turkeys: 'Could be an issue over time' share.google/i3koF51wfi1B...

This. Exactly this. It there's no physical barrier, it's just a polite suggestion.

Right on! I'm just north of there, kind of in the middle of the Washington, Baltimore, and Annapolis triangle.

I don't know where @abionsky.bsky.social took their pic, but where I am, we got freezing rain after the snow. It made a layer of ice that had to be broken with a metal shovel. Pretty sure my lazy neighbor used a garden shovel like a snow plow to do 1 single pass and called it a day.

There's one of those on my block, too. I think it's exactly one garden-shovel wide.

Important update: a federal judge has ruled that Russ Vought & OMB were breaking the law & must tell the public exactly how they are spending (or not spending) funds appropriated by Congress.

I wrote this law years ago to ensure transparency and accountability.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:

"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Being home while my partner does his WFH job is eye-opening. The number of Zoom meetings that start with, "I'm going to be off camera BECAUSE I'M DRIVING" is horrifying.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Opinion | I'm a pro-family conservative. Here's why I'm ok with Trump being best friends with a pedophile, Elon Musk creating a mountain of kiddie porn, and ICE abducting five-year-olds.

16 years ago today, SCOTUS sided with big corporations over the American people in their infamous Citizens United ruling.

That decision paved the way for unchecked & secret money in our politics & helped billionaires & special interests buy more elections.

We must reverse it.

I mean, I still am. But jfc... *Gestures broadly*

I really miss being outraged about traffic and lack of bike/ped infrastructure in my suburb. I'd like to go back to that.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

It would be nice if literally everything wasn’t constantly getting worse for a bit