Three people in frog costumes stand outside the Portland ice facility at night. They’re holding a sign that says frog brigade

Tonight in “war ravaged” Portland… a frog brigade standing guard outside the ICE facility.

Trump says there’s “nowhere worse than Portland”… and the frogs magically multiply.

They’re showing that he’s not only a liar, but Portland is still safe, still weird and still full of people resisting.

μολὼν — λαβέ

The thoughts of an economic depression are depressing

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Don’t make plans for Friday night 😖 Mandatory training, y’all

I wonder if this course "correction" is part of what led to the mechh!tler post (which, of course, resulted in another course "correction")

Seems to me like a combination of honesty and reality checking might be the best policy (but clearly not what Elon wants, regardless of what he says).

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

cover of my new book everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection

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Post from Donald Trump on Truth Social: A really deadly weekend in Chicago. 6 dead, 27 hurt in crime sprees all over the city. Panic stricken Governor Pritzker says that crime is under control, when in fact it is just the opposite. He is an incompetent governor who should call me for help. Mayor Johnson is no better. Make Chicago great again!

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago.

8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.

And yet Trump is sending troops here.

Camille Zapata! She’s brilliant! Love it that a bad ass brilliant Latina is the genius behind GCN’s Dump trolling! Follow her—- @camillezapata.bsky.social

Humor is an awesome tool of resistance. Laughing at your enemy is very potent. They react blindly and lose control of their anger and expose more of their hypocrisy. We used to make parody songs and sing them at board of supes meetings, rallies, at their houses. Very effective.

I think a big part is highlighting the double standard. A reporter asked him about it the other day and he threw it back at them for not asking that same question of Trump.

I think the thing that's different is that Abbott and Paxton are pushovers and Raffensperger wasn't.

I just held a rally in Plano, TX — a red part of the state — and 1,000 people showed up.

Many said it was their first political rally ever.

There’s something happening in Texas…

Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits

On Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney said that success in stabilizing and democratizing Iraq would strike a major blow at the "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9-11." And Tuesday, in an interview on ABC's "Nightline," White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said that one of the reasons Mr. Bush went to war against Saddam was because he posed a threat in "a region from which the 9-11 threat emerged." In an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Cheney was asked whether he was surprised that more than two-thirds of Americans in a Washington Post poll would express a belief that Iraq was behind the attacks. "No, I think it's not surprising that people make that connection," he replied. Mr. Bush defended his No. 2. "We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11," he said. "What the vice president said was is that he has been involved with al Qaeda. ... There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties." Despite such assertions, the administration has never proved a prewar link between Saddam and the terrorist network. Instead, officials usually stick to assertions about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a senior bin Laden associate whom U.S. officials have accused of trying to train terrorists in the use of poison for possible attacks in Europe, running a terrorist haven in northern Iraq an area outside Saddam's control before the war and organizing an attack that killed an American aid executive in Jordan last year. Indeed, Mr. Bush cited al-Zarqawi to back up his claim of al Qaeda ties to Saddam. "Al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda operative, was in Baghdad," he said. USA Today reports U.S. officials say they have some evidence suggesting a suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Abdul Rahman Yasin, received money and housing in Iraq. But there is disagreement over the strength of the evidence, and the links between Yassin and al Qaeda are tenuous.

The difference now is that the president is directly responsible for lying, rather than passing it off to the VP
www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-no...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_conspiracy_theories#Other_United_States_polls https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-no-saddam-links-to-9-11/ A poll reported in The Washington Post in September 2003 found that nearly 70 percent of respondents believed Saddam Hussein was probably personally involved in the attacks Distancing himself from remarks by Vice President Cheney, President Bush said Wednesday there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — disputing an idea held by many Americans. "There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties," the president said. But he also said, "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11" attacks. Mr. Bush spoke with reporters after speaking with leaders of Congress about energy legislation. The president's comment on Saddam was in line with a statement Tuesday by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who said he not seen any evidence that Saddam was involved in the attacks. Yet, a new poll found that nearly 70 percent of respondents believed the Iraqi leader probably was personally involved. Rumsfeld said, "I've not seen any indication that would lead me to believe that I could say that." Critics have said the administration has tried to create the impression of Saddam's involvement in the attacks, without directly making such a claim, in order to boost public support for the war against Iraq

Thinking and people just don't go together that well - even before legacy media were destroyed and everybody got their news from T!kT*k
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...
www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-no...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2010/08/10/was-tarp-passed-under-bush-or-obama/ Was TARP Passed Under Bush or Obama? In numerous polls, the public has voiced their displeasure at the much maligned bank bailout, but most don’t know which president signed the controversial act into law. Only a third of Americans (34%) correctly say the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was enacted by the Bush administration. Nearly half (47%) incorrectly believe TARP was passed under President Obama. Another 19% admit they do not know which president signed the bank bailout into law. Notably, there is no partisan divide on the question.Just 36% of Republicans, 35% of independents and 34% of Democrats know that the government bailout of banks and financial institutions was signed into law by former President Bush. And Democrats (46%) are just as likely as Republicans (50%) to say TARP was passed under Obama. Read More

reality is sooooo hard www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

PolitiFact FL: Sen. Markwayne Mullin falsely said Epstein’s plea deal was made under Obama

And another reminder from a few days ago: www.wlrn.org/light/govern...
Republicans (and some Democrats) will hear these kindsa things and believe them and never hear the correction.

YouTube video by CBS News Trump defends Acosta over handling of Epstein case

another reminder (from 2019): www.youtube.com/watch?v=USvb...

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Just to remind people of what's already out there:
black book #s redacted: embed.documentcloud.org/documents/15...
this journo called every #: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
WIRED tracked the island visitors: www.wired.com/video/watch/...

The same coworker (still a good friend) also liked to say: customers don't know what they want until you give them what they asked for. Again, time travel could solve a lot of problems here.

it's an old line, but (as the resident old fart in my last job) I said it many times: good comments(/variable names/code structure/etc.) are a gift to your future self.

They seemed to have difficulty envisioning their future self and the needs of that person. Perhaps this would've been an aid.

Reminds me of a line from a former coworker, as we faced a hideous crunch in a small team: there's no problem we have today that couldn't be solved by hiring 2 or 3 more good programmers a year ago.

Opinion | The Raw Power of Repentance “The Bear” asks the question, how do we live together when someone always seems to be going too far?

“That’s what ‘The Bear’ is really about: How do we live together when someone always seems to be going too far? The answer we ultimately get is that we can’t. We can’t sustain a community when the pain grows too great,” our columnist David French writes.