James Hedrick (he/him)

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.

“Love Spreads” is an all time banger too.

Texans who want to help have a simple way to do so: offer to drive these folks home. Make as few or as many trips as your time, gasoline budget, and conscience allow.

a man singing into a microphone with the words in the fields the bodies burning above him . Alt: Ozzy Osborne singing, War Pigs…”in the fields the bodies 🔥 “

Today seems like a Black Sabbath day.

The elder millennial existence consists entirely of alternating geopolitical and financial crises

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war.

Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing neighborhood characteristics of movers

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
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You heard the man, folks.

Songs About Fracking, by Sting Pain Index 11 track album

My band of misfit dads named our group “Sting Pain Index” in honor of the tarantula hawks (#2 on the sting pain index) that lived right outside the recording studio in El Paso where we recorded this blight on music history. stingpainindex.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

“Upends” is such an interesting choice there. “Their relative being an unrepentant pedophile that they sheltered for years finally being called to account really has the Royal Family a-scramblin’ to fix their talking points. Anywho, the Olympic Village is a hotbed of boning.”

What the actual…

This seems real bad.

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.

While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started

Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

As my Dad says, “People in hell want ice water. What’s your point?”

Completely wrong headline from CNN. The report from a 2006 police interview with Trump ANSWERS questions. Specifically, it proves that (no surprise) Trump is lying when he says he had no idea what Epstein was up to.

CNN should not perpetuate the lies.

Sadly, this is why Democratic leaders needed to act when the iron was hot — to lead, get out on the streets, and mobilize public opinion.

It may now be that their moment has passed and the public has moved on. If so, what a shame; what a lost opportunity.

Their left tackle got blown off the line the whole game.

I’ve rarely seen such a perfect example of the banality of evil.

Stop, stop! I can only love curling so much!

Consumerism is the only way to maximize utility, Dav…I mean, Jeff.

Billie Holiday avoids making political statement, sings Strange Fruit instead

I have never, ever, *ever* worried about "competition" for my writing from LLMs. An LLM might theoretically create a music history podcast someone might listen to. It could never create *mine*.

LLMs can create "content" but they'll never create art.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

This is not an issue that needs much analysis. It’s pure power politics. GOP can’t win on an even playing field - or, to be marginally more accurate, their preferences are wildly UNpopular & without primaries/gerrymandering, they’ll end up with a minority of rt wing business Rs & less fascists.

Republicans could just agree to some form of proportional representation, where the number of seats vaguely equals a party’s percentage of the vote. But they will loose power under such a system - & likely be forced to address problems like gun control favored by large majorities - so they resist.

As a native Texan, now happily ensconced in MD, can I just say, “You lost in Tarrant! County!?! You managed to make FORT WORTH reject you, you absolute maga weirdos. If y’all weren’t dedicated to killing nurses, moms, and making sure more kids died of measles, I’d almost be impressed.”

When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?