Aaron Weiss (no relation)

Evergreen skeet

In short: It's in the interests of America to bomb anyone and kidnap anyone whenever we need a distraction from the contents of the Epstein files.

In short: It's in the interests of America to bomb anyone and kidnap anyone whenever we need a distraction from the contents of the Epstein files.

I'm generally a fan of Strange New Worlds but this "Ortegas Is The Martian But In A Wormhole" episode is one of the most badly written and directed things in all of Trek. How did it make it out of the writers room, much less into production?

My "this is not a pyramid scheme" shirt is answering a lot of questions posed by the pyramid behind me

The secretary of defense is sure spending a whole lot of time here thinking about kids' genitals

The leopards are so hungry, Brady

I've enjoyed Samoas all my life. This year, after the kids ate all but the last two Samoas in the box, I ate one and realized I can make a much better shortbread/caramel/coconut/chocolate cookie.

Watch this space.

How much of the awarded-contract data from fpds is also covered (or not covered) by usaspending.gov? That's been my go-to for contracts.

Legislating is hard. But specificity matters. This is written so broadly that all sorts of files could suddenly become illegal. Any time legislatures try to criminalize information possession, regardless of intent, it generally goes badly.

Do you want to trust law enforcement to give the law a reasonable reading or a literal reading? Because that's what it says.

By all means, regulate the fuck out of actual firearms and firearm components. But when state legislatures try to regulate information and information distribution, no matter how well intentioned, it generally goes badly.

Distributing digital instructions that may be used to program a 3-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine to manufacture or produce a firearm or firearm component.

As best I can tell, this would make it illegal to upload a shapefile for a squirt gun or prop gun because some of those components (trigger, stock) could also theoretically be used to print components of an actual gun.

Terrible bill, terrible writeup on what it actually tries to do.

Pete Hegseth and most of this administration is psychotic, so

The combination of horribly racist and dreadfully boring is quite a choice for a speech

Sell-Off Steve gets his Senate hearing on Wednesday. Let's see who stands up for public lands.

We need more people like @repdexteror.bsky.social in Congress.

This is true up and down the administration. Comms folks straight up lie to reporters all the time. We've seen it repeatedly at Interior as well.

This is the Bluesky content I'm here for

Fair 'nuf

Here is what I think.

TPS status revoked? cool, you should get US citizenship
Spent any time in Dilley or Whipple? cool, you should get US citizenship
Someone took your bunny hat? cool, you should get US citizenship

Burgum is the most embarrassing cabinet secretary and it's not even close. Imagine debasing yourself like this on a daily basis.

Shorter Niskanen: The bigots succeeded in their mission. Dems need to give up on human rights!

What's the over/under on:

- The first headlines about freedom.gov as a vector for CSAM

- The Trump administration blocking access to freedom.gov for residents Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other nations in business with Trump

A screenshot from Peacock: LIVE started 4 days ago Men's 10,000M Watch Now

Wow that's a long race

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

CBS blocked Stephen Colbert from running this interview with James Talarico on its broadcast stations, so you should definitely not watch it online either.

youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Every word of this.

"An agency, whether the Department of the Interior, NPS, or any other agency, cannot arbitrarily decide what is true, based on its own whims or the whims of the new leadership, regardless of the evidence before it."

"Restoration of the President’s House does not infringe upon the government’s free speech, nor is the government prevented from conveying whatever message it wants to send by wiping away the history of the greatest Founding Father’s management of persons he held in bondage."

Judge Rufe is breathing fire at Doug Burgum here.

"As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not.”

U.S District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe delivered this President's Day smackdown to Trump's Minister of Censorship, Doug Burgum, ordering him to restore panels about the horrors of slavery to the President's House site in Philadelphia.

The truth survives for another day.

First it's distribution, then it's possession. It's a tiny step from there to social media companies agreeing to block anything the administration says is part of the conspiracy.