Stoicism is my Charm

At this point it's simply inconceivable that anything in the Epstein files could be worse than stuff we already know, including things Trump has been criminally and civilly adjudicated for. They don't need "distractions".

We're at war with Iran simply because they're stupid, cruel, and incompetent.

THIS.

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

It's worth noting that he's claiming that a company which was only founded 5 years ago is vital to U.S. national security.

Another (perhaps final) thought about the Thiel-Vance-Musk school of civilizational thinking: It may start with an impulse to reinforce barriers and expel out groups, but it ends in imperial expansion of barriers and subordination of out groups to subservient/slave status.

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I'm about halfway through @josephinequinn.bsky.social's How the World Made the West, and it made me realize why Vance, Thiel, Musk, Bronze Age weirdo and in his own way Macaes have always struck me as the dumb person's idea of smart.

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Republican Judges Are Using Imaginary Voter Fraud to Empower Real Voter Suppression Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones says mail-in balloting is a “rich field for fraud” in Texas. The numbers tell a different story.

to justify her claim that mail ballot fraud is a real problem, Judge Edith Jones claimed mail ballot fraud made up 72% of election prosecutions by the Texas AG from 2004 to 2021

the thing is, THAT TELLS YOU NOTHING ABOUT THE ACTUAL PREVALENCE OF MAIL BALLOT FRAUD
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Nice reference to Hitchhiker's.

Son of Saul. Incredible, but never again.

Excellent news.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

"Women who carry water for the patriarchy just so they can have a slightly longer leash and stand a few rungs up in oppression from other women, particularly marginalized women, make me a special kind of angry. Being master’s favorite dog is still having a master and being a dog." Allison Floyd

Emptywheel excerpt with my highlights

"I fear this is a dry run, testing what 2020 would have looked like if Trump had replaced Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, if Trump had turned DOJ into his own election-theft organization" @emptywheel.bsky.social #FultonCounty emptywheel.net/john-roberts...

On the brink of potentially astonishing breakthroughs in immune therapy, up to and including curing cancer, and instead we’re going to re-litigate germ theory and vaccination. Unreal, world-changing levels of stupidity

Wow.

I'm listening . . . .

ICE has completely broken our social contract.

They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

I don't know, but my art history prof Linda Schele is having flashbacks from beyond the grave. She said she had to be able to recognize any cathedral from any angle both inside and out for a college class.

Great. A game I cannot play because it's in FP. 😐

America has its own "opo" generation.

Hating the Game The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

You know who else tried to you about Trump, Ms. Mangu-Ward? Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. They were effing prophetic with their warnings. I doubt you give them any credit for being right.

Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.

This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

"One day, everyone will have been against this." 🙃

But you see, that's how you know you're not a troglodyte. You're interested in learning things you don't know. 😉

My son's view. Naka-snow-ji.