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wizard frog is the tank man of Portland and I am so ready for it

if we're doing Season One of Revolutions again, I called dibs on being with the Diggers

Lmaooo I LOVE that the AP picked up the story of Richmond’s very own kitty celebrity Francine now that she’s been delivered back to her RVA Lowe’s home safely. We’re all thrilled with the happy ending

Ah yes so it was a dumb bluff and now they all know it was a dumb bluff.

Master strategy Mr. Vought

Peter Fonda saw Pablo Picasso paint. I know this because he told me when we were in a Thomas the Tank Engine movie together.

Yes, it’s as surreal as it sounds.

So Trump is now going to try to rule like an early modern king - just avoid calling the estates general or parliament or the diet and so rule by fiat.

Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....

There's just not a constituency for that, nobody wants it, nobody likes it. They'd need to come up with a whole system of rewards and incentives to get people to go along with it, but their ideology contains only sticks.

Yes, this is the Personal Rule of Donald J. Trump, and that's one of the reasons they're doomed. It's scary and damaging and awful, but it's not just an attempt to undo the Civil War, and not even to undo the Revolution--it's an attempt to undo the *English Civil Wars and the Glorious Revolution*.

Goddamn, this is some *evil* panicked flailing. Legally laughable, utterly destructive to hundreds of thousands of people and not great for the economy either, makes them look like cackling puppy-killers. Wow.

as the person who kicked off a lot of the modern "civil war 2" discourse i don't think we're past the point where that can be avoided. i do think we are already in a state of mass civil conflict. but many nations (see: Italy) have been through similar upheavals without war.

There’s something here about how, when old institutions fail and new ones are urgently needed, they don’t usually appear de novo, but develop out of existing networks and institutions.

THE AIM OF SECURITY!

PROTECTION

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

I used to be the guy on Twitter reminding people that contractors like me do not get back pay. “And then also contractors experience permanent economic harm because they don’t get back pay.” Thanks to OMB Circular A-76 far more of the federal workforce is contractors than you know.

Honestly? It’s a possibility. There’s very likely not enough government vehicles in the area to support all the federal agents rolling around, and the travel system is already set up to issue rental vehicles for folks on temporary duty travel.

my duty is to remind you and all other posters that by giving them magical powers when they say stupid shit that imply they can bring it into reality, you make them far more powerful than they are.

These people deserve derision, scorn, and mockery, not fear.

Ok, so this sort of thing is kind of how political parties *used* to work—they came along with a whole community network and services and literal parties and such. It’s fascinating to see a candidate trying to rebuild it.

The best damn curation on this site, hands down. Go buy some dope ass games.

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

None of this seems good for our country

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

this is literally the plot of a veep episode

this is a very excellent fluffy coo

Oh yeah, and IMO it’s a good way to practice those skills if someone’s looking for one!

It is a lot of fun for map brained nerds like me—and anyone can do it, though visual/spatial skills, strong local knowledge, and/or research ability help!

My sense is not (or not just) that they don’t know *how* to. It’s that, in their consultant and poll-driven world, the perception is that Harris tried campaigning on democracy and the public rejected it, so better to stick to “proven” messages. IMO this is bullshit but I think it’s the narrative.

The meme of Drake (i think) not liking and then liking things, only with Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth not liking a bucket but liking a bouquet

Major Avengers: Domesday spoilers....

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So after 1066, William the Conqueror realizes he needs a team of heroes to survey a newly conquered England, and there's only one crew heroic enough to compile a complete census of the English polity

It’s depressing that decades of selling off public goods for private gain has become the default state of things! We can do good things together! We’ve done it before!