My Chihuahua has seen things

Wish this was just a repub problem. Around here there are otherwise liberal folks that voted for Trump specifically because of RFK and his anti-vaxx stance. Medical science is so successful there are now generations of people that think it was unnecessary.

Most of the media is demanding that everybody supports the war effort. Well, sod that. This is an illegal conflict, launched by a decrepit American to distract from his domestic problems, which has already killed hundreds of women and children. I didn’t back the Iraq war in 2003. Nor this one!

Her writing was hard for me to get into, so dense, but was very much worth the effort, and for me it was an effort. Great books.

I mean, Spotify platforms Nazis and exploits artists, and now even cuts out artists by backing AI, so as far as I'm concerned the algorithm can kiss my ass. #boycottSpotify

They cannot comply with returning the tarrif collections bc they have already stolen it

There's a hubris I've seen over and over again, over decades, in some young tech professionals, particularly those who are good at coding. It's like mastery of a single niche aspect of STEM confers laurels of wisdom in all things, and the self perpetuating insular bubble they thrive in doesn't help.

Djembe Funk - Wales, The Song | Free Bandcamp Codes

Some codes for free downloads of great jam band tracks Kelly Kintner just released, a collab with some folks in Wales. I didn't work on this, but if you like Phish or the Grateful Dead you'll like this. getmusic.fm/r/djembe-fun...

Don't even have to boil it down much, lol.

Exactly. And on top of that, not even people who study intelligence have great definitions of what that means, so I'll take the coder-bros breathless statements with a heavy dose of salt.

I'm confused about who the audience is? I guess Donald Trump only?

They are getting smarter, all those clips are so short they probably fall under fair use.

we went through over a decade of people claiming the iraq war issue was complicated, all to avoid the very simple response that should have been offered. no, the war was bad, we should end it, and it shouldnt be funded. period.

and all of that is the same with iran. its not a tough one.

Economic abuse by a partner contributes to one death every 19 days, report finds Financial abuse is a factor in more than half of deaths related to domestic abuse but is often misunderstood

One of those facts about UBI that should be obvious to anyone who gives it any real thought is how significantly it will reduce domestic abuse. In Kenya, unconditional basic income cut domestic abuse in half. In Canada's Dauphin pilot, it dropped by about a third. Everyone needs the power to say NO.

Nice!

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Disband ICE.
It is terrorizing us domestically
as it shoots citizens (like Good & Pretti)
while calling them domestic terrorists.

He suffers from main character syndrome.

Watercolour, monoprint and oil pastel self portrait of a pink (white) blue eyed long nosed middle aged woman with glasses

Self with squiggly hair and face

Guns? These armed gangs, that call themselves militias today, are not regulated at all, yet the 2nd Amendment specifically uses the words "well regulated."

David Baerwald - Triage

Norman Rockwell's First Freedom, portrait of a ban in a brown jacket and a blue plaid shirt speaking up at a town meeting (all white people).

It's the right to BEAR arms not break them.

I would pay good money for a complete Foghorn Leghorn collection.

The fund raising texts I got were a lot less numerous this go around.

A collage of images from #Nosferatu of 1922 - on the left a dramatic poster portraying Count Orlok, on the top right the iconic scene of his shadow ascending a staircase, and in the lower right Orlok is fatally exposed to the sun.

On this day in 1922, German director #FWMurnau released the iconic expressionist silent movie #Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror).

How we honor our veterans

Civil and criminal charges against the senator immediately.
This is a perfect example of "And then, they came for me"

Because we only pay lip service to the Constitution in this country, and only when it suits those in power.

@smith.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com anyone in the Senate going to get this colleague charged with a crime? A US soldier using his first amendment rights has his arm broken by a US Senator.

Black ink drawing of a boxy old CRT television

More Objects from Films (E. T. the Extratresstrial [1982])

Original drawing for sale by me at my store
8" x 10", black ink on paper
$200

marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/e-t-...

"This whole industry fucking sucks and this little get-together you guys have here is like a private boys' club and it's a bunch of jackasses and jerks and fucking gangsters and crooks who've fucking stolen everything from a fucking artist. Telling the artist to come out here and tap dance.

Steve Miller's quote about being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 is the hardest shit. What a legend.