Gary Alexander

Yesterday I spoke to both my democratic congresswoman and my republican governor in person. The congresswoman said she's trying to make a deal with Republicans. The governor told me he's not afraid of being sued while pursuing his goals

Hmmmm

when andi was younger she had a pink part on her nose that was sort of heart shaped

Xi Jinping unveils sinister "tangping plot" to lie down completely still as Trump destroys the US for him

we are literally besieged in all aspects of american life by unrestrained plutocrats who themselves are surrounded by toadies and sycophants, not one person there to tell them that their hair looks idiotic, their plan to invade portland is insane, that their AI does not work. bring back hard truths

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

I initially drafted this with "it was illegal to free any enslaved persons without fully funding their expulsion to Africa, something heirs would almost always successfully block," a typical antebellum South law, but remembered South Carolina was The Worst and double checked.

Of course Ross Douthat gave this guy a friendly and credulous interview.

In South Carolina in 1850 it was illegal to free any enslaved persons without a majority vote in the state legislature, and state laws did not recognize the concept of a free Black person anyway. If you were Black in Charleston in 1850, you were legally someone's property or about to be.

boy it would be nice to have an opposition party reacting to this in a way that suggests there’s going to be justice for it someday

User 1 I'm like pretty pro Palestine for a lefty Zionist lib Jew but man do l ever have ms Rachel derangement syndrome and I hate myself for it •• User 1 her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character ••• User also I get it the Palestinian side has seen the disproportionate majority of the bloodshed and suffering at this point but if you didn't shed the same tears for innocent Israeli civilians I think you at best have an agenda and at worst are an unrepentant antisemite but that's a whole can o worms ... User 2 Dude it's a fucking genocide User 1 that's kind of a non sequitur

Because hes old not because he felt he failed

I don't think Janet Mills specifically is an example of this, I'll defer to Mainers on her, but generally it is noteworthy that our Chucks Schumer and Dicks Durbin etc etc haven't fallen on their own swords. Nobody in the old Democratic leadership ever takes responsibility for failure and quits.

Fucking listen to yourselves

The Soviet Union was widely ridiculed for their ancient General Secretaries. The oldest of them died when he was 75, which is TWO YEARS YOUNGER THAN THE PERSON YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

While implicitly asking him to invade your country after praising his war crimes against it.

There's a sort of teachable moment here, "hey we do a lot of shit that sucks normally too," but nobody wants to hear that or will internalize what it suggests.

Right. It's related to the then-obvious point that self-interest alone should have compelled Biden, but he was selfless about his blood-soaked Zionism; whereas Trump is self-interest personified.

The thing is a wholly instrumentalized propaganda tool anyway

If im on the committee I leak to him he gets it if he doesnt start or escalate any wars and leaves office in 2028. Why not.

After going on keto I missed buttered toast.

A very sleepy, drugged, and partially shaved dog post-surgery to install a pacemaker

An old but normal looking dog looking around in a yard

two years since andi became a cyborg dog (pacemaker)

my neighbors (MIT) have been reading my posts, clearly

it is almost impossible to communicate how racist and colonialist this entire episode is lol

Why Hamas Agreed to Release the Hostages And why it might not matter much for Gaza’s future, or for Palestinian statehood.

Khaled Elgindy proving that you can in fact talk to Isaac Chotiner without sounding like you've recently been lobotomized with a cheese grater

There is a style of management which does this, almost entirely defined by its lack of sufficient theory of mind to understand how other people would react to this.

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who is begging Trump to start a war of choice with her Latin American country, but doing it with a little swipe at Trump -- that's the excellence I'd expect from a body that bestowed the same award on Kissinger

Blue MAGA's essential characteristic is solipsism, exhibit #900

tbf i dont know anything about her but "it's good that Trump kills people from my country for political reasons" isn't a good first impression

seems like a new Juan Guaidó just unlocked