Melissa Fierce

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of talk of the good and bad of AI, and it covers both bubble & non-bubble arguments.

It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”

Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I will see you in Valhalla. 🫡

Men are on food stamps because they qualify to receive them under the law. Period.

Maybe he just wanted to do your dishes??? I have found that asking men to repeat themselves as if I didn’t understand what they said as a strategy is pretty fun sometimes tho.

Most economists agree by the time you're 50 you should have:
- a robust stock portfolio
- at least 2 enchanted swords
- a tiara of ancient goblin bones
- a secret lair in the old forest
- a steam powered mechanical wolf to ride through the old forest in style and menacing grace

An Online Trove of Historic Sewing Patterns & Costumes As Halloween draws nigh, our thoughts turn to costumes.

An Online Trove of Historic Sewing Patterns & Costumes

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

New policy will dispatch police supervisors to federal agent activity in Evanston The City of Evanston is implementing a new policy to dispatch a police supervisor to reports of incidents involving federal agents in the community.

Chicago fights back with oversight of ICE.

New policy will dispatch police supervisors to federal agent activity in Evanston

“A police supervisor is going to go to the scene immediately try to get identification that this is a federal agent and do what they can to keep people safe"

A small big of normalcy in the SALTiest of cities:

Last night we put a “take one” sign on our candy bowl to step away and talk with neighbors.

On our walk back home we spotted a teenager with our empty candy bowl. I guess the bowl was the only “one” left to take 😂

#chicago #halloween

Good morning from my neighborhood in Chicago where we just played the game “Wait, is that a lawnmower or are those ICE helicopters again?”

Either way - f*ck those guys. It’s 7am and nobody wants that noise.

Well don't I feel stupid

Bright pink desert flowers pop to against a clear blue sky to frame the red sedimentary rock formations in the distant landscape

This is where I am

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"

And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

You look mighty

US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.

Everything works exactly as well as the system was designed to work.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

You can’t mangle what you can’t measure.

So fancy!

Close up of all that tasty cademom and sugar on a perfectly golden sweet bread

Four cardamom buns - still warm

While you were sleeping I made cardamom buns. Come over.

In the median, one artificial dead crow, one Diet Coke with artificial sweetener, both laid out on artificial grass.

Yesterday, after rounding the corner of a magical yellow house with a fairyland of a front yard we encountered a very tall leprechaun with six rescue goslings in his arms
He was taking them to a lake in the suburbs

I didn’t get a picture of that - but did snap one of this curation of the artificial

I don’t even miss all the bullshit I’m not buying from them.

When we started to boycott companies that were openly lockstep with fascist agendas, we were worried we wouldn’t be able to find the things we need elsewhere.

Turns out, we didn’t really need any of the stuff we were buying from Target and Amazon and the like anyway.

wow! joe rogan is being a contrarian — the easiest way for a dumb guy to look smart to other dumb guys — but this time it's smart for real because i agree with him!!

tandy executive decision maker

before chatgpt came along, millionaire executives were forced to use this technology

Easter Locusts poem:

We made the clotted cream and scones
We made the lemon curd
We baked the bread that made cucumber sandwiches
And the cake for tiny petit fours

We put the kettle on for tea
And plated tier after tier

Then we swarmed in our Sunday best
Eviscerated every crumb
"so good, so good"

email headings - Groupon’s truncated subject line reads “Unwind Together During Choice of Coup…”

It wasn’t my choice, thanks.

The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it. To permit such officials to freely "annul the judgments of the courts of the United States" would not just "destroy the rights acquired under those judgments"; it would make "a solemn mockery" of "the constitution itself." United States v. Peters, 9 U.S. (5 Cranch) 115, 136 (1809) (Marshall, C.J.). "So fatal a result must be deprecated by all." Id.

NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt against the Trump administration: "The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Is innocent until proven guilty still a thing?

I went to DoD schools and boy howdy that was one of the two great USA facts drilled into us military brats in every school.

The US is great because:

Innocent until proven guilty
-and-
Freedom of speech

Wait, is freedom of speech still a thing?