Grumpy D. Kelson

Blueberry is too nuanced.

Outstranding

I have to laugh or else I'd have to go live off the grid in the woods for the rest of my days.

I for one am not proud of the confederacy

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans said we weren't supposed to collect applicants race.

“But since January, political appointees ‘have been successfully clogging up the system in every place it could be clogged’”

God help us, because NIH won’t be able to

Your regular reminder that neither Kevin Warsh nor Kevin Hassett should be allowed anywhere near the Federal Reserve:

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Make one coherent post about how tariffs work challenge: Failed

I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Really looking out for working class voters.

"The Department of Veterans Affairs appeared to be the first agency to begin terminating union contracts, affecting more than 400,000 workers."

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

sometimes i do just want to say i told you so

The reason why Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple isn’t because he’s a product person or designer, it’s because he is a legit genius at supply chain economics. Watching Trump try to extort him over manufacturing is actually kind of funny because you can tell he’s like “ok” and announces existing spend

Such much uncorruptible democracy.

so is this “vote blue no matter who” or

Not to mention the fact that it's a machine that has a few (albeit insane and not credible) people arguing that it is sentient.

Like even if there's a 0.0001% chance that it's true, combined with these other facts, you SHUT IT DOWN!

the thing i don't get about this is that sure, you're some groyper who thinks the posters look cool. but, like, you must know that the nazis lost, and they didn't just lose, they lost to the people they *deemed inferior*: a polyglot nation of shopkeepers on one front & russian peasants on the other

three deleted fundraiser posts for gazans

ah, bluesky

Damn, "The Kraken Wakes" is really fucking good.

You got a fucking free, fully furnished house and you're still complaining about not having a servant. I despise these people.

And in no way builds any resentment in any communities we have to worry about. At all.

Isn’t this just Newton’s First Law?

I wonder which country will be importing—or already has imported—that capability into its surveillance of Americans?

This is explosive. Or will be as the full import of what it encompasses starts to be understood by outsiders.

Some of us are old enough to remember when you could just call librarians and ask them ANYTHING.

My Google:

This is neither here nor there, but:

It is ludicrous that NYT calls MARK PENN "a pollster who worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton" instead of "a private-equity funded CEO of a PR group, who co-runs No Labels, the org that tried to run a third-party candidate which would have helped elect Trump..."

The number of people who will find ANY reason to just not pull the lever for the Democratic Party Platform is too damn high.

The Aristocrats!