Jord / Sister Pirate Jenny

The day after right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk's assassination, Patel reportedly refused to disembark from the FBI jet in Utah without an FBI raid jacket. Agents working on the Kirk case were sent scrambling to find one, and when they did, it was a female jacket. He reportedly threw a fit when he saw the sleeves were missing Velcro patches. Patel refused to leave the plane until he got the missing patches, which ended up being taken off the jackets of actual SWAT team members.

Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

I'm old enough to remember when the prevailing argument against affirmative action was that it failed to consider the "real" form of unfairness, which was income disparity

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

A good line to turn public opinion: “if the USA is a free country it should not have a higher number of people in prison than China when their population is 4x ours” repeated over and over to pierce through the ~policestategood~ propaganda matrix - all likely rebuttals immediately lose the argument

Such a good point on SCOTUS hypocrisy when it comes to Trump vs Biden:

They let a nationwide injunction kill Biden’s student loan relief when they had a chance to rule on it.

5 months into Trump’s presidency, suddenly nationwide injunctions are a grave threat to executive power and they must rule.

Part of the story about the war on US higher ed right now is university board members who want to see changes for the school that they can’t achieve structurally or politically – their power not in fact being unqualified – inviting and enabling federal incursion to make those changes

Breaking: Army soldiers in period uniforms at President Trump’s birthday military parade mistakenly told they are to reenact British troops in the War of 1812 and proceed to burn to the ground the White House and U.S. Capitol.

[waking up on Saturday the 14th] HAHA I LIVED! NICE TRY, BAD LUCK, BUT
ONCE AGAIN I’VE *grand piano somehow falls through roof onto me*

I'm at the housing crisis
I'm at the Third Amendment
I'm at the combination housing crisis Third Amendment

The average member of the Trump administration has more felony convictions than the average Angeleno.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Effective Corporate Tax Rates

1950: 50%
2025: 13%

Top Marginal Tax Rates

1950: 91%
2025: 37%

If you’re curious as to why the rich have so much and you have so little, these are good places to start.

G1 Transformers back-of-the-box mural by David Schleinkofer. It shows multiple Transformers characters (most prominently Optimus Prime and Starscream) battling in deep space.

SimCity 2000 box art by David Schleinkofer. A UFO hovers over a large city.

I'm saddened to learn that we lost David Schleinkofer earlier this week. He created lots of incredible sci-fi artwork, including the box art for SimCity 2000 and one of the most incredible pieces of Transformers art that many 80's kids still have seared into their brains.

Calling for the Return of 'Truth and Sanity to American History' is a Child Wailing for Attention President Donald Trump’s Executive Order to ‘Restore Truth and Sanity to American History’ has already succeeded in one respect.

Calling for the Return of 'Truth and Sanity to American History' is a Child Wailing for Attention 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

same cover-up that the beleagured Dad is a fashion photographer who cxck-blox’d Vinnie Chase

the plug is the global economy

his approach to tariff policy

the burbs. older man clutching his little dog.

silence of the lambs. she was buffalo bill’s dog

here she is again in batman begins

today i learned that this is THE SAME DOG! (her name was Darla)

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network.

All 2469 miles of it.

Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

thanks to the NBA for reminding me that Kevin Hart should be muted at all times - but why do you hate your fans and players with this all-star commentary? @thenba.space

Amy Woolard's poem "Laura Palmer Graduates" I can't love them if their hands aren't all tore up From something, guitar strings, kitchen knives & grease Burns, heaving the window ACs onto their crooked old Sills come June. Fighting back. That porchlight's browned Inside with moth husks again & I can't climb a ladder To save my life, i.e., the world spins. Even when it's lit, It's half ash. Full-drunk under a half-moon & I'm dazed We're all still here. Most of us, least. For the one & every Girl gone, I sticker gold stars behind my front teeth so I can taste just how good we were. I swear I can't Love them if they can't fathom why an unlit ambulance On a late highway means good luck. I hold my cigarette- Smoking arm upright like I'm trying to keep blood From rushing to a cut. What's true is my shift's over & I'm here with you now & I'm wrapped up tight On the steps like a top sheet like the morning paper Before it's morning. Look up & smile. What does it matter That the stars we see are already dead. If that's the case well Then the people are too. Alive is a little present I Give myself once a day. Baby, don't think I won't doll Up & look myself fresh in the eyes, in the vermilion Pincurl of my still heart & say: *it's happening again*.

David Lynch has always & will continue to be an oracle for my writing self. He is tuned in to a collective dream frequency & that's where he continues to live for me. This one was for the Laura Palmer(s) in all/some of us.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

starts low chant to do Colfax Massacre with Cruikshank in second season kicker … Intimate Violences National Interests

Incredibly pleased to see SOMEONE writing about this strong correlation.

Prior or current US Military service and domestic violence charges are two of the stronger predictors of a potential mass shooter.

perhaps the screams from the modems in the 90s were pleas to take the internet no further

[50yrs in the future]

Grandson: Grandpa, what was 2024 like?

Me: [motioning to america] This used to be aaallll assholes, as faaaar as the eye could see

Selling young men who feel like they’re not masculine enough on the idea that they’ll be basically samurai or cowboys or whatever if they put their money in a speculative financial asset that’ll surely make them rich and tough and desirable sounds like such a classic scam holy cow.

Seen a couple posts where people are surprised that Flavor Flav has opinions on politics and I feel like I need to remind you all of Public Enemy and what Public Enemy is