Dave von Ebers

It's really frustrating that a lot of the media just sort of frames the Trump admin as "wading into a hot debate over trans issues that have roiled american politics" when it's like, clear that they are motivated by a desire to demean trans people

I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.

Raul Malo of the Mavericks Is Facing a Health Crisis, But You Can Help Happy Friday, everyone. In today’s video, I play a snippet of the Maverick’s “What a Crying Crying Shame,” the title song from their 1994 album — my first introduction to this fantastic band — and …

Raul Malo of the Mavericks Is Facing a Health Crisis, But You Can Help elvisatedynamite.com/2025/12/05/r...

Sean Duffy post on Threads attaching a video from standup comedian Sebastian Maniscalco about wearing pajamas in the airport. Duffy's post reads "The hilarious @sebastiancomedy was right in 2019 ... and he's right TODAY! Don't wear your pajamas at the airport. It's common sense. The Golden Age of Travel starts with YOU," followed by a gold star.

Sean Duffy doesn't know the difference between doing standup comedy and being Secretary of Transportation.

a woman is standing in front of a wall and says that 's the rules that ... i 've just made up . ALT: a woman is standing in front of a wall and says that 's the rules that ... i 've just made up .

District Court: The Court has considered an entire record of evidence and renders a conclusion based on that rigorous examination of facts.

Supreme Court: But you didn’t theoretically presume good faith!

They were trying to flip over the boat, which had just been struck by a missile in the middle of the ocean, in order to _not drown_

Tom Cotton hasn’t thought of a use for the United States military he hasn’t liked.

Says the guy who wanted to do this domestically.

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Upstate New York Methodist minister comes out as transgender to congregation during Sunday service "I’m affirming and saying to all of you that I am transgender, and so the best way to put this is that I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man," Rev. Dr. Phillippa Phaneuf told ...

“The best way to put this is that I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man,” Rev. Dr. Phillippa Phaneuf told her congregation in a powerful, heartwarming 12-minute speech.

You'll want to watch this.

www.advocate.com/news/phillip...

Amazing.

I love this. I have a trans daughter and I've always been uncomfortable with some language about transitioning. My daughter has always been my daughter. Like everyone, as she got older, she learned more about herself and she shared it with us. But she's the same person she's always been.

I’m a cat person and I think your dog is beautiful.

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Black Kos: Remembering and honoring John Brown. A true ally. “Remembering and honoring John Brown” Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez While scrolling through my Bluesky feed yesterday I saw this post:

Black Kos: Remembering and honoring John Brown. A true ally.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

This is a great read and provides really important insights.

Important Feral Cat Update I will, in fact, return to our regularly scheduled program of punk rock and loud guitars, but, in light of the rather heavy content I’ve posted lately — and anticipate posting anon — I thought we c…

Important Feral Cat Update elvisatedynamite.com/2025/12/02/i...

Black cat with a patch of white on her chest and white paws on our deck.

I have very important feral cat news. I managed to pick up the mom cat on two consecutive days and she didn't fuss about it at all. Repeat: I picked up the mom cat on two separate days and she didn't fuss.

This is now my life's work.

I guess they kind of backed themselves in a corner with the "the president's orders are lawful by definition" thing.

They've got the pronunciation right, but, as we all know, the proper spelling is M'waukee.

Please listen to my friend Kevin Jennings and support Lambda Legal!

To paraphrase my brother, "A person's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink."

Ultimately there are just a lot of people who are looking for a politics that allows them to engage in this kind of sadism, but we shouldn’t allow them to turn around and pretend that they have actual morals without pointing out the obvious, that they just want blood bsky.app/profile/acco...

Written by my pal Garland Jeffreys!

Remembering a Friend I promised not to be too serious on this blog, so instead I’ll share this one-panel Far Side comic from about 38 years ago. It’s about grizzlies from hell, but it’s about so much more. As it happen…

Remembering a Friend elvisatedynamite.com/2025/12/01/r...

It's a thankless task, but someone's got to do it.

I don't know, but it seems like we could come up with consistent principles that make sense from a first amendment perspective.

Following up: what if a state university prof is an agent of the state vis-a-vis their students (so, they do not, for example, have the "first amendment" right to deadname), but the student's first amendment rights don't extend to submitting non-complying religious propaganda in lieu of homework?

4/4 right to turn in a substandard response that does not meet the criteria for the assignment. The prof. now has no first amendment rights or academic freedom and the student suddenly has the right to turn in whatever the heck they want.

3/4 Even though the prof. is a state employee and the student is a private citizen, because "academic freedom" or something. But when a state university prof. gives a bad grade to a conservative student, all of the sudden the prof. is a state agent and the student has the first amendment ...