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King of the Hill screenshot stylized to look like it is on a Game Boy Color using a custom red color scheme. Hank Hill and others from Rainey Street are dressed up in costumes. Hank is wearing a devil costume. Text reads "C'mon, Bobby, Halloween's just no fun without you."

Game Boy Color Fridays

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Tara, it is literally Shut the Fuck Up Friday, what are you doing.

Opinion | ICE lowered its standards and is still struggling to hire officers DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it's not getting nearly enough applicants.

The Daily Signal got a DHS spox to "disagree" w my recent @msnbc.com piece on hiring challenges (not going to link to it), and their entire attack was to repeat and confirm what I said, or disagree with a claim I never made while affirming the one I did.

I appreciate DHS and DS confirming my piece.

god it's awesome to finally see a legislative policy time bomb detonate in the hands of Republicans for once

it sucks so bad lol

this is a bizarre response to this situation.

devastating. “Trump take Super Sentai” wasn’t on my bingo card this year!

it also has to do with a general discomfort around politics imo. I see it in my students, where any sort of “bias” (their term) is treated as negative. I have to teach them that ideology and having a take is okay!

this type of rhetoric hit a high for me in 2020 when I saw (completely well-intentioned) friends say stuff like, “it’s not about politics, it’s about racism” and I was like THAT IS POLITICAL, EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL

this is true

Resuming nuclear testing is a massive giveaway to China and Russia because we basically have the supercomputers to simulate them (look into why the DOE owns so many….) no and they don’t, so physical nuclear tests would give them a lot of data that they currently don’t have access to.

HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE:

-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick

Caught in the rain in The Frasier Companion (PC, 1995)

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

*breached oops

not even war! people also hate when you test nukes! lmao this is so stupid

John Ganz called him a “clown” which is basically the best way to put it. we can do better! I don’t want this norm broached, period!

Tbh I think it's extremely relevant and I'm starting to think this might be a critical filtering function of local government, above and beyond just running that local level competently to address constituents' immediate material needs

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I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

I am literally begging you to read the very short book. that's what the book is about. that's literally what the book is about. Mary Shelley's Frabkenstein is the first book about not building the torment nexus. you're as bad as the fucking Sun. it's a short book you're supposed to be fucking journ–

This is a masterclass in repeating carefully workshopped robotic talking points that miss the forest for the trees and are irrelevant to the question at hand: Trump chose to build a ballroom instead of funding programs that would feed those kids.

“What I need you to know is we are organized.

What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.

What I need you to know is they are coming.

What I need you to know is you can stop them.”

Also this isn’t how elections work. Narratives about candidates are driven by moneyed interests and the narratives drive people’s votes. Big Ag turning on Orange Shitler is a mark of him losing elite support, and losing elite support is the simplest path to him going away.

There oughtta be a mode where you’re Flanders with a sniper rifle versus 99 Homers

Good idea - and its sorta payback for all the times Reagan quoted Truman.

Americans need to reconcile that this is pretty much what the Obama-era drone strikes were. Any time a prior administration abused its power and it was greeted by a shrug because “we’re the good guys” - this is why you shouldn’t do that.

It's notable that "an authentic working class party" isn't referring to "how can we encourage more Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans to become political candidates and address the reasons and challenges why they don't run and get elected?"

this isn’t difficult!! why are people fumbling this so bad!