Uncomfortably Numb

Gasoline prices have remained largely unchanged since Trump entered offer, at just over $3.00 per gallon.

Crazy Grandpa’s rants don’t catch on as easily when his rubes are starving and going broke.

Sure, let’s go to war with all of Africa, where this ends.

You’ve been on vacation for literally nine months, except when screwing America with your Big Beautiful Bill.

Just checked out the Medicare Part D plans in my area, and they’re mostly shit. I wonder why I bother sometimes.

⚠️ BREAKING:

Japan 🇯🇵 Closes Over 1,000 Schools as Early Flu Surge Triggers Mask Advisory

Influenza cases in Japan have doubled in a week, prompting Tokyo to issue an advisory as infections rise early in the season.

The trains already run on time, you piece of shit.

My prediction: The GOP and mainstream media just shrug and motor on.

Cruelty has been the point all along, since the Tea Party in 2010, for those of you who weren’t paying attention back then.

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead.

IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.

IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.

(Story from when the pilot launched.)

Court,

Lindsey Halligan here. You are ordering things that are simply not going to happen.

Thought you should have a heads up.

This website makes complex machines surprisingly easy to understand Animagraffs uses 3D animations to explain complex machines in simple terms. Jake O'Neal's videos make learning engaging.

This website makes complex machines surprisingly easy to understand.

You’re welcome.

boingboing.net?p=1096786

This engineer winces painfully to public displays of embarrassingly bad or poorly developed technology. All these clown robots are good for is preening themselves.

Every country on earth has to face the challenge of organized crime and its influence on politics. It's foolish to think otherwise.

12 helpful terms to understand American chaos Want to know what ‘agent provocateur’ and ‘Streisand effect’ mean? Read on.

My Stop the Presses newsletter defines some terms to help you navigate the current chaos. They include:
Self-coup
Brandolini’s law
Agent provocateur
False flag
Streisand effect
Concern trolling
Toxic empathy
Uncanny Valley
Red pill
and Accelerationism.
But I can’t help you with "6-7."

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Never become numb to the hypocrisy and lies.

My email request earlier today of Democracy Docket free subscribers who can afford to pay. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Brilliant.

That’s a dog whose butt could use a trailing string of cans.

The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI.

Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.

AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.

Moses Mike Johnson “has to protect those people whose names appear in those files—or at least one person’s. After all, who can forget the imperishable New Testament chapter wherein Jesus said to let the poor children go hungry … for the sake of protecting sexual predators?”

I can’t imagine how worse California air would be without the current air pollution standards.

Growing up in LA in the 1970’s, rare were the days you could see the San Gabriels or Saddleback from Long Beach. You could taste automobile exhaust in the air. On bad days, lungs ached. Fun times.

You can skip the video and just go to defiance.org

How fitting that the most amazing World Series in my lifetime has a game’s pivotal moment decided by a Ground Rule.

That’s baseball.

One of the most unbelievable stories from my 1960’s Believe It Or Not! paperback.

This should have been a Grateful Dead album cover.

You’re air quoting “genius”, right?

The latest Courtyard by Marriott bathroom redesign sucks. They replaced the bath/shower combo with a shower unit. Problem is, you have to be completely inside the shower to turn on the water. While in the shower, the new Leviton sensor switch senses no one, turns off the light, pitch dark. WTF.

It cheers me when deserving shits face their FAFO moment.