Packing the court doesn't feel so radical now, does it? I'm just imagining all the good that could've been done if Biden had been allowed to do the extremely reasonable things, like on student debt, that this same court said presidents couldn't do when he tried it. Breathtaking partisan hypocrisy.

The police militarization debate is over Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force

Radley Balko is always worth reading, but when he talks about police militarization, he’s speaking as one of the most qualified journalists we have. He’s rather apocalyptic about where we are with a huge ICE force. He’s right.

open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

But what if we gave them more money?

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

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"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

-Omar El Akkad

It's not anti-semitic to oppose genocide.

I'm at work, and about to get back to work, but before I do, I'm yelling into the void at how INSANE it is that it seems like we're about to have WW3, yet I STILL have to be concerned with my day job building cloud-based marketing software.

TBF, if WW3 DOES break out, I'mma take a personal day. 🫤

Until these ICE officers face arrest for criminal behavior, you know they'll keep doing it. What really upsets me is that the ICE officers were clearly outnumbered. If the crowd had actually resisted instead of just filming, they would've been forced to leave without arresting anyone.

Remarkable.

MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."

Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.

Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

I watched the trailer, but as I have an android, there was no haptics.

That's why he's fighting?! Awesome! But then, if she's about to emerge, why blow up the castle? Was he somehow using his free will to try to stop her, and now he's enslaved again, or was someone else responsible? Either way, WOW! What a great twist! Can't wait to see how it goes.

The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

Now is a good time to bump this. It makes it extra hard for the National Guard and soldiers to fire at you if you are literally waving the fucking stars and stripes flag.

Honestly, that's the gentlest version of the Great Filter theory I've ever heard. Better that than we nuke ourselves or turn the planet into Venus. Extinction is extinction, sure, but there are certainly better and worse ways to check out.

A bit uncharacteristically ominous from our extra dimensional baker dude!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Well, whatever. I just used Kofi instead. I wasn't signing up for the rewards. Thanks for the 10 years of comics, and counting!

Corey, I genuinely do not know - is it suspicious when people support you?

Sorry to hear this, seriously. I tried signing up for your patreon, but it wouldn't let me. I created a new account, selected the $5 level, and got an error when I put in my credit card. Then it said my account (that I'd just created) was deactivated for suspicious activity. I've submitted a ticket.

Trump says he'd like to deport US citizens to El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get out of the country"

I would snap up one of those Chinese EV's in a heartbeat if I could, but I live in the United States, where both major parties, albeit for different reasons, would rather blow up the country than ever allow me to do so.

That's good to hear. I thought maybe there'd been a change. Dude, you got me all upset for nothing! 🤣

Just put a frikkin' credit card reader on your charger! Don't make me download an app and create an account just to fill up. This should be a legal requirement. Imagine if gas stations did this. Electrify America was one of the ones that let you use a CC tap, but I guess they finally succumbed.

Bees play a critical role in U.S. food production. In addition to making honey, they pollinate 75% of the fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the U.S. That's $15 billion worth of crops. Shook said the current losses are unsustainable. "If this is a multi-year thing, it'll change the way we consume food in the United States," Shook said. "If we lose 80% of our bees every year, the industry cannot survive, which means we cannot pollinate at the scale that we need to produce food in the United States."

Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.

Here is what this means:

Also Easter this year. Seems far fetched that he'd declare martial law on Easter Sunday.

This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.

Coyote vs acme is going to be released?

I like your optimism! I figured we were in for a rough time regardless.