James Welcher

CVS STORIES: Part 6

Scuba Diver: “This is not what I ordered!”

Simulations and the Gamification of our Reality We do live in a simulation just not the one you think

Cool article covers a lot of ground on Gnosticism and Simulation Theory and this modern Digital Lyfe

Pete Hegseth @ 2 @PeteHegseth • 52m So "Captain" Kelly, not only did your sedition video intentionally undercut good order & discipline...but you can't even display your uniform correctly. Your medals are out of order & rows reversed. When if you are recalled to active duty, it'll start with a uniform inspection. x.com/senmarkkelly/s... Notes suggesting context to be shown with the post • Needs more ratings 6m • View details $ Not shown on X Medals are reversed because it is a mirror image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-facing_camera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_image Is this note helpful?

There is a reason Pete Hegseth never advanced meaningfully through the military ranks during his service. His record reflects routine service, not distinguished leadership or operational expertise. The promotions he failed to earn in uniform, were handed to him in politics. This is dangerous cosplay

You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.

That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.

Wow.

Morning Crescent

An idea:

“This soil and the air space extending above it shall not be a part of any nation and shall not be subject to any entity’s jurisdiction.”

It's much easier to do a genocide if nobody sees it happen

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Are we still talking about J̷e̷f̷f̷r̷e̷y̷ ̷E̷p̷s̷t̷e̷i̷n̷ the fact that the president of the United States is a serial (and adjudicated) sexual abuser?

DCCC 2026 DISTRICTS IN PLAY NICK BEGICH AK-AL DAVID SCHWEIKERT AZ-OI ELI CRANE AZ-02 JUAN CISCOMANI AZ-06 DAVID VALADAO CA-22 YOUNG KIM CA-40 KEN CALVERT CA-41 GABE EVANS CO-08 CORY MILLS FL-07 ANNA PAULINA LUNA FL-13 MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR FL-27 MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS IA-OI ASHLEY HINSON IA-02 ZACH NUNN 1A-03 ANDY BARR KY-06 BILL HUIZENGA MI-04 TOM BARRETT MI-07 MIKE LAWLER NY-17 MAX MILLER OH-07 MIKE TURNER OH-10 OPEN SEAT MI-IO MIKE CAREY 0H-15 ANN WAGNER MO-02 DON BACON NE-02 TOM KEAN JR. NJ-07 BRIAN FITZPATRICK PA-OI RYAN MACKENZIE PA-07 ROB BRESNAHAN PA-08 SCOTT PERRY PA-10 ANDY OGLES TN-05 MONICA DE LA CRUZ TX-15 ROB WITTMAN VA-O1 JEN KIGGANS VA-02 BRYAN STEIL WI-OI DERRICK VAN ORDEN WI-03

IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW

DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES

CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB

Scripts here: 5calls.org

Ogles: "I had a Democratic member of Congress come up to me on the House floor yesterday. And he said, 'This is officially where I'd say you're a horrible human being for targeting Zohran, but the reality is we as Dems hope you're successful b/c he's the worst thing that ever happened to our party'"

A contender for the most “Show me your budget and I’ll tell you who you are” bills in modern history.

An act of breathtaking moral monstrosity and nearly unprecedented self-sabotage for the country.

"Can't stop thinking about Ursula K Le Guin's essay about the carrier bag theory... she's like, maybe the first human tool was not a weapon, but rather something that holds, a bag, a pouch, a vessel, something for gathering and storing and sharing. Let's shift the narrative of humanity from that of violence to that of safekeeping." -- remnantglow "and THEN she's like, a novel is also a carrier bag. there's the Hero's story, sure, but there's room enough in fiction for every experience, for every little thing, and it's that other story, the life story, that she seeks." -- souldagger

Once again from my brilliant and talented (and anonymous) colleague, some dramatic moments from today's hearing:

It's 2p here in Boston, and we're back on the record in the NIH grant terminations case.

It's possible Judge Young could issue some sort of ruling here in the next few minutes, or he could provide more context for case management going forward.

Stay tuned.

When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest." 2/2

#Truth #Reality

"I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. ... 1/2

I think we’ve found the new GOP motto:

By their own words...

YouTube video by James Welcher The Air Up There

Over Utah (somewhere)

Walkabout Berkeley Hills

Those lies are now predicated on “reports” from the last two years of Congressional investigations.

Crimes in broad daylight. Trump and his friends are getting rich off this chaos. Market manipulation doesn’t even begin to describe this.

Trump has signed an executive order targeting Susman Godfrey, the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain its $787 million settlement from Fox for the network's 2020 election lies.

Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.

“Mommy, no. Mommy.”

Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.

The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

> @jamellebouie.net today:

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

Yale Budget Lab: Lost IRS revenue from information sharing with DHS could cost the U.S. $300 billion

Politico: IRS losing third chief this year amid agency turbulence

Washington Post: Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRS

Reuters: IRS starts laying off 20,000 workers, eliminates civil rights office

Easy to forget as Bessent looks helpless amid the growing economic carnage that he's also in charge of the IRS. He's in way over his head

There was an episode of Star Trek:TNG where holodeck character Moriarty has some “control stick” such that when angry Moriarty randomly yanks that one lever, the entire ship shakes and lurches and is threatening to blow up.

Hm. I don’t know what I’m thinking of that right now.