The Black Cat

Why can’t I just be fucking normal?

God I hate being autistic.

This was on the way to Vegas yesterday. :D

Ignorance is how we got here. Sigh.

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

Fine I'll go to Defcon. Well, sort of. Going to barcon. Anyone in aerospace wanna meet up? #defcon

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Things that will happen when he's gone:

* we're going to learn about shit he did that's so heinous, it makes the stuff we know about look tame

* his many minions will claim to have "always opposed" him and demand sympathy for their suffering at his hands

* dancing in the streets, worldwide

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

Imagine this in Russian on Russian state TV

The word for what Jesse Watters is describing here is un-American. A shredding of the constitution.

There nothing funny about it.

These tough choices include going beyond sending strongly worded letters, going beyond multi year investigations, and basically taking a hatchet to the fascism rooted in the right wing of our country.

To be fair, we’d still be staring down the barrel of fascism if Harris became President.

Democrats and others on the left are going to have to have a serious inner monologue conversation about some tough choices we’re going to have to make to salvage and protect our democracy.

It's time to end DEI and bring the meritocracy.

by Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, and RFK Jr.

Yall don’t really read the Constitution do you? It doesn’t mandate that a Census occur every 10 years, it mandates that a census occurs no later than every 10 years. So Trump might have a Supreme Court arguable case for ordering a new census.

I don’t think Americans are prepared for what it will take to fix this mess. Just an FYI.

Fact check:

mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).

This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.

Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

California cannot redistrict until the voters grant the ability to do so. This is required by law. And there’s no guarantee we’ll do that. Which is why he’s waiting on Texas to move forward, to gain the political will to make this happen. But it is possible it fails.

This isn’t going to be feasible right now so what’s next? This is why elections have consequences.

Florida Expected to Follow Texas GOP’s Lead on Mid-Decade Redistrict Power Grab Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Florida Republicans have opened the door to redrawing the state’s congressional map mid-decade — joining Texas and potentially other GOP-led states in a national push to secure more Republican House seats ahead of 2026. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Only politicians who know they are unpopular and who don't care about the Constitution or our democracy would do these things.

-Calling for a mid-decade census that excludes at least 11 million immigrants
-Demanding Texas gerrymander their Congressional maps to add 5 Republican seats
-Firing at least 130 workers in Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, which oversees election integrity

The President and his party are trying to steal the 2026 midterms to consolidate power. I don't say this lightly. Here are just some of the ways they are trying to undermine our democratic process:

-Demanding access to the voter files in at least 9 states, including Wisconsin

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VA Just Terminated Most Federal Union Contracts, National Nurses United Included The VA has terminated union contracts for over 360,000 healthcare workers, including nurses—raising urgent concerns about staffing, patient safety, and veteran care nationwide.

NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...

mRNA vaccines are, without exaggeration, one of the greatest inventions in human history.

We basically hacked our immune systems. “Here’s the secret code for this new virus, prep to fight exactly that.” A promising avenue for addressing some cancers too.

And the US is throwing it away. For what?

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "I led the effort to build the IL Holocaust Museum. What I know is that in 53 days, Nazis tore down the constitutional republic in Germany in the 1930s. It doesn't take much. We're seeing pieces of that sort of authoritarian activity happening right now in this country."

Dude. Stop being a putz. We don’t want people who sit in ivory towers at Lake Tahoe. Come host a damn town hall/event in Long Beach or something. Get out and meet real, day to day people. And fight.

Hmmm. @merill.net I watched your YT video on potentially using Entra group write back for PIM to on prem but my write back takes 20 minutes. Any way to modify it? Mark Renoden mentioned his writeback takes ~2 minutes which I’ve never been able to replicate.

They stopped with the DOGE shenanigans publicly because they realized they didn’t have to work as hard to justify the huge tax cut for the wealthy bill.

DOGE was a dog and pony show to get elected. It was never intended to go beyond that.