Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹

the Framers were not fools. they knew of their own contradictions. they knew the promise of liberty was incompatible with the horror of human bondage. they knew what they wrote was, as King said, a check marked "insufficient funds."

and yet those words existed to be redeemed by a future generation.

the Constitution explicitly states that the Framers were forming a "more perfect Union."

implicit in that wording is that they did not form a perfect Union.

it is, rather, for each succeeding generation of Americans to pursue the unending task of perfecting it, just a little bit more.

the founding document of our modern nation explicitly says that the Framers were founding a "more perfect Union."

implicit in that statement is that it is not a perfect Union.

it is the task of each succeeding generation of Americans to continue the unending task of perfecting it.

and ADC interceptors sat on five-minute alert waiting to fire them.

UHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The Obama Team to Shithead pipeline isn't determinative but damn is it strong

owl pfp solidarity follow 🤜🤛

all that snow is supposed to melt in June and July and August, not early March 😬

we got three feet of snow in the high country two weeks ago, putting the Wheeler Peak SNOTEL at 41 inches on February 20th. snowpack's down 25% since.

yeah, suboptimal.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Great idea, let's kill our <checks notes> ...trade surplus? with Spain?

I immediately think back to 2002 when Pres. George W. Bush, in a campaign speech about how dangerous Iraq was, said re: Saddam Hussein, "After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad.”

And now we have an Iranian Supreme Leader whose own Supreme Leader dad was killed by an American president.

Russian Navy gonna have to start escorting their merchies. Red Storm Rising, but in reverse.

He looks like a divorced meerkat

lawyer followers, is it good if the judge calls your federal legal brief "a high school term paper"?

Read the ruling. It's from a Trump-appointed judge, and it's fucking scathing. ICE is lawless and must be abolished.

This footnote... man, DOJ is not sending whatever's left of its "best."

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kix FOR MEN

there is no getting around the reality that we collectively chose this path.

correct, because people will have made poor choices.

that's the shitty part of democracy. shitty peoples' votes count the same as ours :/

the reality is that this is what the American people voted for, and now we are all getting it good and hard, and if this makes the Republican Party more toxic and results in more Democrats elected this November, that's the only path to fixing the problem.

The thing is that the only way for people to learn that what they voted for is bad, is to feel the effects of that badness.

Yup!

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Iran will be mostly (but not entirely!) out of offensive firepower by the end of the week one way or the other

Of course that also means we'll basically be out of useful targets to hit besides, I dunno, gatherings of goons, so

woof. tracked it down. instant unfollow. thanks.

You can be critical of Israeli policies without stooping to rank antisemitism. there do need to be some clear lines drawn.

I have not seen this kind of antisemitic garbage in my timeline, but let's be absolutely clear that such language is the language of Nazis. Period.

so uh I'm trying to watch the Warriors game on Peacock but the stream freezes literally every single commercial break. anyone else dealing with that, or is it just me?

He retired in 2020 after 40 years of teaching journalism and coaching women's basketball at CCC - he's now the women's hoops coach at Napa Valley College.

Like, he would tear it into pieces and throw it in the garbage in front of all of us.

God bless Paul. Have no idea where I'd be or what I'd be doing if not for him.