Derek A. Michaud

I still feel like none of this nonsense would be happening if we'd just have let Conan O'Brien keep The Tonight Show.

Majestic.

TAPS THE SIGN

(learn the history of how these beliefs came into being and suddenly it all fucking makes sense)

With a population under 2 million.

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What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.

So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.

Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
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‘First feline’ Larry marks 15 years as Britain’s political top cat Larry the cat is marking 15 years as Britain’s Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street, a symbol of stability in turbulent political times.

Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as the British government’s official rodent-catcher and unofficial first feline, a reassuring presence who has served under six prime ministers. Sometimes it seems like they have served under him.

"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." December 12, 1861, Abraham Lincoln, (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865),

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Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...

It's the aerobic activity that ruins it for us.

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

The Israeli ethnic cleansing militias in the West Bank have succeeded once again | Editorial This Is What the Normalization of Ethnic Cleansing Looks Like. We Must Not Look Away. If the Opposition and the Public That Is Not Ideologically Aligned With the Far Right's Vision Do Not Wake Up, the...

Settler pogroms ran out the last 2 of (once) 120 Bedouin families in Ras Ein al-Auja in the Jordan valley.

The settlers graffiti'd the horrifying "Third Nakba 2026" on abandoned structures.

This, from the editorial board of Haaretz, a large center-left Israeli paper:

Unpaywalled, next skeet

The Trump administration talking about illegal immigrants but make the footage federal agents

Police in elevator detaining religious leaders. The man of the right, Reverend Will Green, is looking directly at the photographer. All of the police are looking away.

This is just a great photo from the local coverage in Portland, ME. This is a group of religious leaders who were arrested after holding a pray-in at Susan Collin's office to get her to defund ICE. The look on the face of the man on the right, really says "judge not lest ye be judged."

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Amid raids, vitriol and violence, the great replacement theory rears its head in Minneapolis In Minneapolis, the poisonous mix of antisemitism and anti-immigrant rhetoric of the great replacement theory is becoming newly clear.

I wrote about the increasing use of overt Great Replacement rhetoric in ICE recruiting tools, and why American Jewish organizations like the ADL should be a lot more frightened of ICE than they are of Zohran Mamdani. forward.com/opinion/7983...

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

"We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad." Martin Luther King Jr.

Shaxs from Star Trek Lower Decks is pictured. He's a cartoon, because Lower Decks, besides being the best effing show ever, is a cartoon. Shaxs is a big burly man wearing his gold Star fleet uniform and also an apron over the front like he's doing some sort of art project or baking a nice sourdough. In each hand he's holding a broken bottle like that thing you do where you take a bottle and break off the bottom and then use it as a weapon. His eyeballs are bulging large, his brow is furrowed, and he looks absolutely unhinged with rage and fury. Closed caption reads, "Fighting fascism is a full time job!"

Editorial | Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand. "What we are witnessing is the storming of the state by the federal government," the Editorial Board writes.

Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board: Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand.

"ICE presence has disrupted all aspects of life in Minnesota, and led tragically to the death of Renee Good. It’s the outcome of government overreach that favors force over legitimacy."

PLEASE ARE THERE NOT TEN RIGHTEOUS SENATORS IN SODOM WHO CAN SHOW UP AND GRAB THE WHEEL HERE

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He really is doing all of it.

Statement from Dr. Leonard Bright concerning the Bush School of Government and Public Service

ETHICS IS NOW CANCELED AT TEXAS A&M


Statement from Dr. Leonard Bright....

Any provost suggesting we use AI to prepare our lectures should be immediately subject to a no confidence vote.

YouTube video by PettyYou007 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

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