Ray Radlein

LEAVE THEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAVE THEY DUG FOR YOU

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Breaking news: Jim Comey has a trial set for January 5, 2026 — but his lawyers will try to disqualify Lindsey Halligan, the attorney President Trump appointed at the very last minute to indict the former FBI director.

Comey's team will try to have the case dismissed for "vindictive prosecution."

NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING SIDE BY SIDE SO THEY CAN BOTH WEAR A PAIR SUNGLASSES AT THE SAME TIME.

NANCY AND SLUGGO PANEL
By ERNIE BUSHMILLER

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU “Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
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CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

a shrivelled mummified hand in a case made of brass and glass

the shrivelled holy relic hand of margaret clitherow

If saying LLMs shouldn't exist is eugenics, kicking a rock is animal abuse.

The widespread use of Signal in the Trump Admin -- even within the WH and DOJ! -- is a devastatingly under-reported story.

If you're a reporter in DC lobbing questions about who's gonna perform at the Super Bowl to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, you're just a shit stirrer and a hack.

Plenty of things in Mike Johnson's wheelhouse you should be asking him about. Bad Bunny ain't one of them.

It doesn’t help that TikTok and instagram have decided I have adhd and constantly push me adhd influencers all the time LOL 🤪

Sooooo many people have tried to tell me I have ADHD and I’m like no actually I have clinical anxiety and a mood disorder and surprise we share a shit ton of the same symptoms not everything is ADHD and perhaps if we stopped gatekeeping our diagnoses we could help each other.

As a neurodivergent person who has a SHIT TON of ADHD symptoms but does *not* have ADHD I very much appreciate this conversation and I wish more people would acknowledge this.

our brains do a lot of things and sometimes they do things because of the environment around us and those things are a pretty natural response to what is happening!

it's just sometimes our brains do them when it's not a natural response and you know it's not better/worse just different!

I think that the thing that made this starkest for me was when covid lockdown hit and suddenly no one around me had any executive function and I was like "oh no they don't know how to cope with this after a lifetime of practice like I do" and it wasn't that everyone else suddenly had ADHD!

Similarly, if a neurotypical person recognizes a characteristic of themselves in a neurodivergent person doesn't mean that they are neurodivergent!

People contain multitudes and that's ok! we don't need to internet diagnose each other!

I'm going to say something that is going to get me cancelled probably but IDC.

Neurodivergence exists on a continuum of human behaviors. If a neurodivergent person recognizes a characteristic in themselves that they see in another person that doesn't mean that person is neurodivergent.

But yes, cutting wages is sure a strange economic response to a labor shortage!

I think agribusinesses are secure in the belief that the indentured servants they bring over and house (and now charge for that housing) will get to cycle in and out, just as Trump's Mar a Lago guest workers did.

As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.) The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI. In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.) But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Imagine if the Times were this bold with political headlines.

Much of this is not entirely fair to Arch Manning, who, while certainly having his struggles so far, has shown occasional flashes of brilliance, is dealing with a wobbly offensive line and, we should probably try to remember, remains only 21 years old. (When I was 21 I was mostly hiding from gas stations where I’d bounced checks.) I don’t want to overdo it with a pity party here — his name is Arch Manning, I suspect his life is going to work out just fine — but I do wonder if it might behoove us to give a 21-year-old a little bit of grace and some room to grow. He does, after all, have two more seasons of college eligibility left after 2025 if he wants to use them. But one thing is clear, and it’s something we’ve never really seen in college football but should probably start getting used to: Arch Manning, so far, is a flop.

The author inserts a whole "we shouldn't be so quick to judge this kid after 5 starts" paragraph and then proceeds with a thesis that could not be proclaimed by someone who has any memory of college football before 2010.

If you don't remember Joe McKnight or Jimmy Clausen, much less Ron Powlus...

The idea that Arch Manning is "college football's first flop" is so odd I thought this piece (or at least the headline) was satire.

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

Book cover for THE NONBORN KING by Julian May, published by Del Rey Books.

Cover illustration for THE NONBORN KING by Julian May (Del Rey) 4/4

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Mid-leap, a black war horse is captured regal in profile against a backdrop of gray-clouded sky. The claw-like hooves and furry lower limbs of the mount suggest an alien world. Turning in its saddle, a red-haired man in gold armor, black cloak, and feathered cap holds a smoldering ball of fire in one hand and a mace in the other. In the low background, a city rises constructed of tall white towers topped with gold spires. Green grows throughout, nature in harmony with the classical architectural detail that includes spired domes and elegant columns.

THE NONBORN KING (1983)
Mixed Media on Watercolor Board - 28” x 18”

Once or twice a year, for a change of pace, I work in watercolors as I did in this painting. Sometime later I decided that I should have used acrylics instead. 1/4