Dave Lemen

I don't think ICE will be abolished, because doing so would force America to admit that black people were right. And there's nothing America loves more than hurting itself to try and spite black people.

Oooh sounds fun! I've never camped in an RV, but Maryland has some nice state parks I'd consider, starting with Deep Creek Lake and Assateague.

So proud to be represented by you. Wishing you and your family peace, health, and happiness in the new year ahead.

Merry Christmas, and let’s meet up IRL in 2026!

Wow! I feel like I just won some type of prize! You’re one of the most organized people I know, so this means a lot.

2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. It’s not too late in most places! runforwhat.net

Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Historian here OTD a day that will live in infamy we need to point out that the reconstruction of Japan and Germany proved to be successful after WWII but the Reconstruction of the misbegotten Confederacy was brutally overthrown. We still live with the legacy of that history in the United States.

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Is there any point, when you’re threatening to break a judge’s car windows so you can detain the teenage Supreme Court intern he’s driving home for protection, that you’re like huh, maybe I’m the bad guy?

🤔I had a college football teammate that would often drink to excess, then pass out and wet himself. He did not make good choices.

One thing I never saw him do though, is wake up, notice that he was wet, complain that someone had urinated on him, and demand that someone else exchange pants with him.

Congratulations! Outstanding work on your part, and I’m sorry you’re catching flack from those idiots.

I’m amused that many complain about people on SNAP but then ignore the fact that U.S. tax payers built Elon Musk’s wealth by essentially giving $7,500 to everyone who bought a Tesla.

He is literally America’s biggest welfare queen.

This is a little too on-the-nose for a satire piece.

Man, if you're a *Canadian* billionaire who's going to demand an audience from a New Yorker who was elected 48 hrs ago at least don't wear your comically on brand attire to do it.

[Exit Clown.]

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Stop calling for resignations and start calling for arrests.

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

Whoa!

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Gender of Game Designers: Board Game Geek Top 500, January 2025 A pie chart: 92% of the pie is Designed only by men. They made 461 of the top 500 games. 6% of the pie is Designed by a mixed-gender group. They made 28 of the top 500 games. 1% of the pie is Designed only by women or non-binary people. They made 5 of the top 500 games. Data are for January 1, 2025, using the names in the Designer field on BGG. Not shown are 6 games in the top 500 that have uncredited designers.

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6)
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