Mike Whelan, Jr.

Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.

(Though it’s still totally ridiculous that he’s sending troops to Memphis and a form of authoritarianism that shouldn’t be accepted anywhere.)

Pritzker. My governor. Thank you.

Maybe all of the above.

We’ve had chickens for a bit and have debated adding ducks. They’re better at eating bugs without eating my plants.

So we bit the bullet and got four this week. They’re so much more sociable than chickens, which is very stress relieving. They’re just fun and simple.

Feels like it might be another duck therapy day

I never know how to respond to people who think gun control is too hard but curing the evil in men’s hearts is totally doable

Dude this one is art. Well done.

Oh good. A much easier problem. They’ll probably fix THE HUMAN HEART(!?).

Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

They’re doing this to this guy while rolling out red carpets for Putin. There are no principles.

I predict that Chicago will not go for this, which means he’ll get exactly the manufactured conflict he wants.

The secret is to start 70 seeds, plant the 50 plants that survive your awful seed starting setup, then kill half of them outside because you have no idea what you’re doing. The remaining tomatoes have more will to live than I have ignorance. Works every time.

It is a very humbling squash

This is one day, man. One day. Who has the recipes for this abundance??

Particularly because there are a few tromboncino plants among them. Please send help. I have chosen…poorly.

Yeah the borers also got mine so in my revenge I planted 10 more plants and now our house is just made of zucchini

Zucchini the size of the Hindenburg

I need to watch this slate.com/culture/2025...

My god he’d be a totally unbelievable bad guy in a novel

So a nation of engineers will accept a Curtis Yarvin-style autocracy while a nation of lawyers will not? Seems like the nation of lawyers wins that values race.

If I had to live off of what I’m able to grow here I’d need a whole lot more zucchini recipes

Imagine taking fair election advice from Vladimir Putin. We’re so cooked.

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It’s been said

The nice thing about my yo yo weight is every other conference people say “Man, have you lost weight??” It’s my self harming form of seeking validation.

Did my wife tell you to ask that? She wants ducks. I assume she’s conspiring with my friends to make me get ducks.

My chickens won’t eat these hornworms or the Japanese beetles I bring them. Seriously, the least competent chickens in all chickendom.

Underrated soundtrack

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

One of the most interesting things about where I live is how much farmers talk about climate change. They all love Trump (the number of cars I’ve seen with Trump’s face on car wraps would shock you) but they know climate change is real better than anybody (80% of them). It’s fascinating to watch.

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...