Porter Clark

Didja know that Russian tax collectors are allowed to use chainsaws to collect taxes?

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

Just from my experience, OH drivers are really bad about lane discipline (the "wandering Buckeye" syndrome). I do not know why this is.

Prediction for next executive order: Christmas will be replaced with Festivus. (Trump already has his poles.)

never get involved in a land war in Asia

I'm glad that Congress reasserted its Constitutional rights to regulate tariffs! Oh, wait...

"What's Canadian for NO DEAL." :-)

The head of IT at work several years ago said, "If a vendor comes to us with a product that he claims will save us a million dollars a year, we just *have* to try it."

A few weeks ago, there were people (James Carville was one) publicly stating that the Trump Administration would crumble within a month. Is there a way I can sue for false hope?

I was a civil servant from 1980 to 2018. The whole time, the outside world was firmly of the belief that we were society's parasites, grossly overpaid, had way too many benefits, could not possibly be fired or punished in any way for poor performance, and merely sucked at the government teat.

AG Bondi claims that the information was not classified. This is hair-splitting. It had not been yet submitted to a classification authority and marked TOP SECRET. It would have been TOP SECRET during the group chat.

I set up a Signal account maybe a year ago and have never used it, because (1) nobody I want to talk to is on it and (2) I have no Top Secret (or even just plain old Secret) intelligence to share.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

This is one of the biggest threats to Americans' personal data in decades. If you're a 23andMe customer, I strongly urge you to delete your data to protect it from whoever the new buyer might be. Here’s how:

But where are the cards? The beautiful cards?

Be advised that some of their data has to be emailed to you, and you might not want to wait. (I don't know how long it takes.) Of course, you could skip that data anyway.

PSA: If you've ever used 23andMe, delete all your data. They're going bankrupt, and who knows where your DNA will end up?

IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

I keep thinking that one teensy improvement in Democratic messaging is to stop using the term "hollowed out." Joe Biden used it a lot, usually with "middle class." I think Joe SixPack is confused by "hollowed out." He thinks "I'm not hollowed out! I weigh more than ever!"

NASA dropped plans to put the first woman on the moon.

DEI RIGHT?!?!

Anyone wanna guess which administration originally planned the first woman on the moon?

Hint: he smells bad mostly

Who makes a so-called truck with glued-on body parts?

When is Moody's Analytics going to reduce the U.S. credit rating again? When this happened during Obama's administration, it was like he had dropped a bomb on Wall Street. You couldn't turn on TV or radio without copious hand-wringing.

Just my opinion, but I think that the main reason that the rich want income tax rates close to zero is that they want to liquidate their investments without paying taxes. Whether this is good or bad is left as an exercise for the reader.

Clearly, from what I have seen, he is a born dancer. 💩

"Chuck, you'd better vote for this bill or else we will be mean."

He's trying to give a snapshot of how someone who calls himself a centrist thinks.

Anyway I just sent a fax to my senator.

faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.