Bill Jank

The stardust episode is SO GOOD!

One by Willie Music writer John Spong talks each episode to one notable Willie fan about one Willie song they love--then runs down the kinds of rabbit holes that open up when the subject is Willie Nelson. Starting ...

Yippee! @onebywillie.bsky.social and John Spong are coming back!

Listening to One by Willie (Introducing One by Willie, Season 7)

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

A white Ford Transit van that is labeled "Midwest Plumbing". This is not a real company.

We saw an uptick in ICE activity today.

ICE continues to be spotted around the metro area - dining, driving, and hiding in between events.

Current vehicles on the short list include Black Chevrolet Tahoes, White or Silver Jeep Wagoneers, and White Ford Transit vans with fake branding.

Donald Trump is using taxpayer funds to bomb Iran while he jacks up health care costs by thousands of dollars.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

A screenshot of a Bluesky post from @thefateofcassandra.bsky.social reading: "Talerico = Fetterman, and I give it about 3 months after his election before he flips. We have 30+ military complaints that commanders are telling soldiers this is happening to "bring on Armageddon". But y'all want to go ahead and elect another religiously-led politician. Yup. That'll work."

There is a certain segment of the left that would rather lose every election than be represented by anyone with sincere religious beliefs, and they need to be, if you'll pardon the term, excommunicated from the Democratic Party.

By the time of Gorbachev’s visit in May 1989, the Soviet Union and China had been engaged in a detailed, decade-long conversation about how their centrally planned communist economies could be made more efficient. Few people today remember the links between Soviet and Chinese politics during the 1980s, but they were obvious at the time. This was most true during Gorbachev’s visit to Beijing, on the eve of the Tiananmen crackdown. While meeting in Beijing, Gorbachev and the soon-to-be-deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang shared advice about economic reforms.China’s protesters, 200,000 of whom assembled on Tiananmen Square, embraced Gorbachev’s decision to link democratization with economic reforms. They invited the Soviet leader to speak at their universities. They asked, “Where is China’s Gorbachev?” One woman on Tiananmen Square carried a copy of Gorbachev’s book Perestroika and New Thinking. “This is an excellent book,” she told a journalist. “I have read it twice.” In a speech in Beijing, Gorbachev told his Chinese audience that “economic reform will not work unless supported by a radical transformation of the political system.” This is why, he explained, the Soviet Union had held contested elections the previous month, for the first time in generations. “We are participating in a very serious turning point in the development of world socialism,” Gorbachev explained, in which many socialist countries were embracing freedom of expression, protection of rights, and democracy. Hardliners in the Chinese government prevented the broadcasting of Gorbachev’s speech.

poor Gorby

a cartoon of pinky and the brain with the words " the same thing we do every night pinky try to take over the world " ALT: a cartoon of pinky and the brain with the words " the same thing we do every night pinky try to take over the world "

Same thing we do every year.

2027 is the year of the Linux Desktop.

Save the Americans stranded in the Persian Gulf with Starship, Elon, you’re their only hope.

one funny thing we could do to the supreme court is take the power to deny cert away from them, and their clerks

Suck up to oligarchs, tho, and they’ll bail you out even if the government won’t.

I hate it here.

Holy shit. LFG.

Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlights industry's vulnerability to physical disasters — The Associated Press Iranian drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services sites in the Middle East, exposing how vulnerable cloud data centers are in conflict.

Even the IRGC hates enshittification.

Brother, tell me how I can help.

Go Navy, Beat AirForce

All hail the mighty state.

Apparently, Toth is even more batshit than Crenshaw.

Is Trump finally gonna let the Kurds have their way?

(I’ll let myself out)

Official answering machine at the state department: “Do not rely on the US Government”

What, you can’t afford a charter out of a war zone on your AmEx Black card? Tough luck, peon. Bet you can’t even afford the basic $1m Mar-a-Lago membership.

I still feel my soul trying to leave my body whenever I am in Crystal City.

Privatized military housing has achieved the incredible - increased costs for service members, and in many cases delivered worse housing.

I thought patriotism was a good thing.

Is that where the old Naval Reactors HQ was before they moved to the Navy Yard?

If so, then absolutely tear it down - it is suffused with the smell of fear.

Thanks for the consistency in documentation.

Maz Jobrani was a surprise to me, too.

Nothing but truth all the way through.

Thanks, @robshum.bsky.social

It’s as if 🇺🇸 industrial policy 100 years ago had committed itself to propping up the firewood and horse-powered transportation sectors. (15/n)

Thread about the spectacularly bad business decisions the GOP has encouraged in the last few years.