The Weeping Somnambulist

Check out the number of votes.

Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

I just left a classified briefing on Iran, and here's what I can say: it is so much worse than you thought. You are right to be worried.

Reagan appointed judge: "If nobody’s going to enforce the Constitution, it becomes like the Constitution of Russia."

Genuine conservatives within the judiciary stand as one of the final bulwarks against authoritarian rule in America.

New Trump statement:

"Three US Military service members have been killed in action... There will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is."

Found: The 19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.

A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema. n.pr/3N9XSav

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"

Boycott OpenAI! OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, announced Friday that the company reached an agreement with the Department of Defense to deploy its AI models on a classified network just hours after Trump ordered federal agencies to phase out rival Anthropic.

Theodore Roosevelt picture with the text "I hear you've got a new media trust. It'd be a shame if someone busted that in a few years."

JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."

Headline poster: DEMOCRATIC WIN DEMS WIN PENNSYLVANIA SPECIAL ELECTIONS, PROTECTING MAJORITY IN THE STATE HOUSE

While Trump blabbed endlessly last night, votes were being counted and Democrats just continued to win special elections.

He can blab from now till cows jump over the moon.
Failure to deliver has its consequences.

The Other Red Hat (You'll like this one better)

The Other Red Hat
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When the going gets tough, the imitation tough attack a marginalized ethnic group with next to no ability to defend themselves.

A reminder: almost all crime in America is committed by our fellow Americans; often by our neighbors and folks we know.

Fascist Failure The State of Trump

From one of the preeminent experts on authoritarianism.

Fascist Failure open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’ Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland.

Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M.

America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech.

This is what integrity looks like.

Check the temperature, the water is boiling and we need to jump out. 198 Things the Trump Regime Exposed, Broke, or Burned Down in 13 Months, With Receipts

Check the temperature, the water is boiling and we need to jump out.
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ICE Is Using Phone Extraction Software Linked to Russia’s FSB-Connected Network Over the past decade, federal agencies have dramatically expanded their use of digital surveillance and extraction tools, embedding mobile forensics software into immigration enforcement, criminal inv...

"A company whose technology traces back to Russia’s digital extraction industry — and whose related products have been supplied to agencies including the FSB — is operating inside U.S. immigration and law enforcement systems"

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Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any res...

It's wild that the Pentagon is trying to bully Anthropic into letting it surveil Americans with their technology. Who wants that?!

Good statement from @eff.org. More should be making noise on this. And tech workers, keep speaking up too: you hold real power.

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Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk. A recent literary genre imagines what happens when our climate changes—and so do we.

“If you want to nudge people toward a better tomorrow, start with art. The point, said Jay Springett, a writer who co-manages a popular solarpunk Tumblr, is to give people “permission to imagine a future.”

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I’m done hearing about the Epstein files, I want to hear about the Epstein trials.

ICE at the polls: Arizona Republicans push plan to require agents at all polling places | Arizona Mirror Arizona Republicans push bill to station ICE agents at polling places, despite a federal law that bars armed troops at voting sites

Last week, I posted about Trump's machinations to steal the 2026 election. Some replies noted that it is unlikely ICE would be able to police the polls, given their large number.
Here's what the AZ Mirror posted yesterday:
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I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

A male Eastern Bluebird looking like an angry bird in the blowing snow. I too am ready for the snow to be done and am ready for Spring!

I'm tired of less than mediocre men talking calmly through podcast microphones about what a woman needs to be or give up so that she can attract a mediocre or even abusive relationship.

What is it called when the government seeks to impose state control of the means of production?

Almost 250 years after we broke with George III, the question must now be faced: Are we a monarchy or a nation of laws? [Cartoon by Bill Bramhall]

Wife is rescinding her request that I give her bar study flashcards because I asked her to name the elements of assault, and after she listed them off, I said, wrong, it’s sodium and chloride