KaliDestroyer

This author loves to kill off characters. Thank goodness I read GoT. 😂

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PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”

(2) seems to be an even more dubious point than (1). first because agencies are shaped by congress as well as executive appointments, and second because the agency rule-making process is more transparent and democratic than top-down decrees from political appointees

Artifice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - The American Prospect To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination. Silicon Valley elites apply a different standard to themselves because, quite simply, they believe that they deserve a di...

"These are people who so ravenously crave power and control that they will say and do whatever it takes to acquire it. They believe that, to paraphrase Peter Thiel’s infamous claim about competition, the truth is for losers."
Adam Lowenstein reviews 2 books on Silicon Valley's finest

I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔

Did you read the whole series? They just get better, imo. This last one had me laughing out loud.

I should say, start with the Slough House series. The Oxford series *starts* slow and depressing, though it gets better.

They are smart and funny.

Have you already read Mick Harris’s 2 series? So good, tho the audiobooks are even better because narrator 👨‍🍳💋

CPD Should Revise Promotions Policy After Officer Under Investigation Promoted, Johnson Says “We have to revisit our promotion policy,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “We don’t want these types of archaic approaches to set us back. So, it is something that we are looking into.”

NEW: The Chicago Police Department should change the way it promotes members after an officer who shot a 16-year-old in September 2017 in what investigators ruled was an unjustified use of deadly force was promoted in June 2025, Mayor Brandon Johnson said. @wttw.bsky.social

Also doesn’t acknowledge that Richman’s appointment had lapsed in June 2016 and he was technically never reappointed, per docs I reviewed.

But gov’s concession re: Feb. 2017 is important bc most of its public evidence against Comey post-dates that period

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...

YouTube video by Robert Reich Trump’s Mental Decline Is a Danger to Us All

Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse.

Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?

And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...

I have more respect for the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at George W Bush than any of the cowards in the current White House press pool.

If this is what we know about the place, imagine what hasn’t even come out yet

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Competing with Schumer for worst lawmaker

Pick Your Financial Crash - The American Prospect What are the risks of a financial crash in the coming year? Let us count the ways.

A fun game these days is trying to figure out which sector of the economy is going to cause the financial crash. Bank leverage? Crypto? AI infrastructure loans? Start a deadpool with your friends! Bob Kuttner gives a forecast here:
prospect.org/2025/12/09/p...

And forgot the ruling that every portion of a law has meaning and must be considered.

I think of this sometimes when I hear scientists talk about junk DNA . . . just because you don’t understand what it’s for doesn’t mean it’s junk.

It’s like they jotted down every misreading they heard from fellow 1Ls.

Weaponizing bad reading skills . . . a *new* trick for what are just plain bullies

Yes, and what if your access to affordable healthcare was considered a right guaranteed to everyone by the government and not a bauble of certain types of employment or friggin club store membership? What then?

Autism

Trust in mainstream media is at rock bottom. Can it be fixed? Why so many news consumers are turning to individual voices and away from institutions

"Many of you mentioned how much you have come to rely on independent — not institutional — voices. Many of you mentioned writers like Heather Cox Richardson, Paul Krugman, Judd Legum and Marisa Kabas, among many others."

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

Trump is using your taxpayer dollars to fix a mess he created after his tariffs nearly put so many farmers out of business.

And meanwhile, his tariffs are still inflating your grocery bills. The American people deserve better.

Good for you. Seriously.

tonight while recording a guest spot on a podcast i experienced an unacceptable level of disrespect from one of the hosts. so i decided to do what felt right for me and i left. i didn’t need to stick around to show i’m “tough” or “thick skinned.” i reminded myself that no one is owed my time.

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

These days, it's notable whenever a major media company ignores Trump's pressure and stands with talent. So let's note that Disney has renewed Jimmy Kimmel's contract for another year