Interstellar Spitfire

Personal note: Starting over at 36 almost feels poetic somehow. It's twice 18 and half of 72.

I suppose it's a literal midlife crisis. One that feels nothing like the movie stereotypes.

It's the sad sizzle of a campfire quenched with water after burning down to embers... Never to be reignited.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

BREAKING: Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization says it will not halt its nuclear program following the U.S. attack, calling the strikes a “blatant violation of international law.”

To stop what’s coming, we’re going to have to be willing to risk arrest, imprisonment, beatings and even death.

The longer we wait, the worse it’ll be.

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.

So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.

So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

The numbers nerd in me is geeking out about this wild little coincidence:

On 25-04-01, NJ senator Cory Booker set the record for longest floor speech at 25 hours and 4 minutes.

Not sure if someone can calculate it to the exact second, but in my headcanon, it's 25:04:01.

PSA for those who need to know:

14+ hours and counting... What a way to start off the month of April!

#corybooker #floorspeech #goodtrouble

I've lost some sleep already trying to catch as much of Cory Booker's marathon floor speech that's still going on...

What ceasefire!?
Oh, you thought there was one?
Yeah, that was a lie...

“I was hungry” and you cut $1 Billion in funding to schools and food banks.

“I was sick” and you worked to gut medicaid, depriving me of healthcare.

“I was a stranger” and you defined my humanity by legal status.

“What ever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus

If that happens, I'll know that someone watched "Leave the World Behind" and treated it like a vision board rather than a cautionary tale...

Flights in the Caribbean turning away from Starship flight 8 debris.

The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.

I might start alternating between "Premiere Trump," "Minister Trump," or "Presidential Envoy Trump" in all future references, if the right wingers persist in their petty mistitling of Trudeau.

Petty is apparently the hot new trend now, so I wouldn't want to miss out.

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

This isn't him promising to resign. This is him holding over resignation as a condition of Ukraine being allowed into NATO.

This is Zelensky driving a hard bargain that is unlikely to be accepted, because Putin would lose by default and the full force of NATO would be against Russia.

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start

Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

WATCH: “Not even an hour!”

KANSAS Rep. Roger Marshall leaves his own town hall after voters on both sides of the aisle express concern about veterans being fired from their federal worker jobs.

"I want to make it clear: Ukraine gave up the third largest nuclear arsenal in 1994 in exchange for America and Europe's help for the long term. What Trump is doing is destabilizing everyone's security - the world's security." - @repdexteror.bsky.social at today's town hall in Gresham, Oregon.

a series of threaded replies: - my post: who up waning they gibbous - Papa Nurgle's favorite daughter's post: It's a waxing cresent tonight, JERRY - my post: who up waxing they crescent

i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

If you've experienced gaslighting and abuse from a narcissist parent or partner, maybe don't watch the press conference between Zelensky and Trumputin. If you do watch it, be prepared for some recovery time. Have a supportive loved one nearby.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

bsky.app/profile/cweb...

"Yer gambling with world war three. Yer GAMBLING with WW3!"

Oh, really?

And who decided to force this "card game" and become the dealer, mister president?

#ukraine #minerals #trump

Pete Hegseth on FOX NEWS with headline chyron that reads: Tracking Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine.

This you?

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