Dan McDonough

Fighting the gloomy weather with video games and we loaded up Breath of the Wild after not playing it for six years. I think there *might* be some meta-commentary in the fact that Link wakes up after a hundred-year slumber and immediately reaches for his phone.

The last time she did that it launched a thousand memes. 🦗

Sheehy's gonna have a lot on his plate, covering both his AND Mullin's thug duties.

Markwayne Mullin has his own line of velcro shoes.

Primary colors confuse Markwayne Mullin

I'm not saying we *should* do this, but as a nation we definitely *can* afford both.

This is the NPS in 2026, though, right? So they're just going to make something up?

It's not that AI is useless.

It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.

Gonna go out on a limb and assume Sheehy hasn’t been arrested yet?

my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy

Blowing stuff up! Big booming!

Middle East produces 40–50% of intly traded fertilizer. Closing Straight of Hormuz at start of planting season is driving prices up globally. Unless this resolves quickly, it will be big price shock, might affect production. Fertilizer is 15-30% of the cost of most US major crops (corn/wheat/soy).

ghoticians are everywhere.

I absolutely want to live in a world where weirdos like this exist. It can be kind of amusing! Like the crazy guy on the subway who is otherwise harmless but will talk your ear off about vapor trails.

I just REALLY don't want them in positions of power.

well that's as nerdy as we're gonna get on bluesky today.

Does he fail to understand football as badly as he fails to understand how military operations work?

You’ll always win a piece prize from me, big guy. 😘

FIFA?! Say it ain’t so!

Used to work in Kendall, including the entirety of the hellscape that was early 2015, and I will second this.

Sorry I can't hear what you sowed over the sound of all that reaping.

Pretty sure I lit a bowl with one a time or two, in a pinch. Ah, youthful stupidity.

It was all there in the subtext. 🔴🚗

McKee's attitude about the primary challenge reminds me of a couple decades back when a friend was talking about the way enemy combatants were being designated as "terrorists." "We invade their country and they shoot back? Shooting back is terrorism now?"

‘Disgraceful’: What McKee’s remark says about his warped view of primary elections • Rhode Island Current When Gov. Dan McKee called his primary election challenge from former CVS executive Helena Foulkes, “disgraceful,” it spoke volumes about his view of the democratic process and himself.

Good piece from @phileil.bsky.social about the head clown driving the Rhode Island clown car. He was nicer about it but the point stands.

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I’ve seen polls indicating Americans approve of this action at something like 25%, on average. So what’s the actual dig here?

I am reminded that a startling number of people believe that if you’re a member of the military and you don’t like something your government did, you can just throw up your hands and quit the next day like any other job.

It Does Not Work That Way

Fetterman has him on reach, but Platner probably has the edge on speed.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best: