The Random Professor

I've been aggressively hiding FB ads (randomly callin them "Irrelevant", "Already bought", "Too personal") and getting my feed down top posts and groups I actually care about, ads started popping up with a vengeance after Blackout Friday. Coincidence?

Spoiler: kids started dying

“DO YOUR JOB!”

TEXAS: @RepKeithSelf’s turn

It's very reasonable for normal, upstanding Americans to make clear that they won't stand for unAmerican trash like JD Vance. Everyone has their limits.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Character limit.

Trump 1 happened because people thought complex issues could be explained in 160 characters.

One of the recommendations to avoid burnout is to find your role in the resistance. I have some experience with the federal grant process and the history of science (and what happens when politics interferes with science), so here are a few thoughts on the issue:

www.facebook.com/share/p/155x...

What I was able to stomach of it basically gave me the impression that they wanted to return to the America of the 1950s. There's a good chance they'd get it. Too bad the rest of the world would be in the 21st century.

I wouldn't do that (because, among other things, it would be nearly impossible). But certainly know your suppliers and buy products from blue states.

The only thing that can affect Trump is impeachment and conviction, and it's pretty clear that nothing, INCLUDING treason, will make the Republilcans take that step.

Zelensky Says Ukraine Is Unlikely to Survive the War Without U.S. Support (Gift Article) His comments came on the first day of the Munich Security Conference, where anxious European officials had hoped to learn more about U.S. plans to broker peace talks.

At a conference in Munich, J. D. Vance said:

"“But we want to achieve a durable, lasting peace."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

Given that they find "DEI" programs by basically doing CTRL-F searches for "diversity" (so researching biodiversity in forest habitats is DEI, and a lot of financial programs are going to be under attack), a simple renaming is going to go a long way...

Voters in red states have been brainwashed into thinking the blue states are sucking up their hard-earned tax dollars.

So if the blue states wanted to secede, red state voters wouldn't lift a finger to stop us (and they certainly wouldn't fight a war to keep us).

The big question is...is she still MAGA?

The Trump administration has just destroyed the American economy.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1e5L...

Different? It will cease to exist.

I'm certainly not going to vote for President Musk...

I haven't seen anyone talk about this, but cutting $1 trillion in government spending is likely to produce a recession.

www.facebook.com/share/p/19w6...

bsky.app/profile/resi...

We're the largest producer of natural gas in the world, so it's a pretty safe bet that the propane being dispensed isn't actually coming from Canada.

BUT because of the tariffs, domestic producers can AND WILL raise prices to be just under the cost of imported gas.

Republican voters knew EXACTLY what they were voting for.

They just think it won't hurt them.

Now is a good time to re-evaluate your choices and make a virtue out of...honestly, what we should have been doing for a long time:

Giving up bourbon? Check.
Giving up Amazon? Double check.

Shop local? Triple check.

We've boycotted Goya products since Trump 1.0

Anyone remember "Dark Angel" (the James Cameron series with Jessica Alba)?

Anyway, you might want to get paper copies of your social security earnings over the years:

www.ssa.gov

So I know I have MAGAt "friends" and relatives on Facebook.

They are very, very, very quiet right now, posting about the most innocuous things possible.

It's tempting to reach out to them...but are they quiet because they're appalled, or are they quiet because they're happy?

Just a quick note to our international friends:

Wine is mostly made in blue states (CA, NY).

Distilled alcohol is mostly made in red states (KY, TN).

You know what to do...

New York (also blue) is a major wine producer as well...

Earlier the Canadians were working on "targeted tariffs": American wine is primarily produced in blue states (CA, NY, and WA). Whiskey and distilled spirits, on the other hand, are red state products (TN, KY). Hit'em where it hurts.

An old joke...

I have a darker view:

If they crater the economy, billionaires can buy everything at fire sale prices.