rev heather

b/c all folks in charge hate women, regardless of party

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

As it stands, Oracle is a company in decline that has attached itself to a low-to-negative margin business with extensive, debt-ridden setup costs, with a primary customer that required over $140 billion in funding just to stop itself falling over and dying by the end of 2026. Oracle continually misses analyst estimates, swindles customers into expensive contracts and then sues them to bleed them for more money, has employees that tell me that life there is utterly miserable, and is inarguably an enterprise in sharp decline, one accelerated by the desperate, egoistical predilections of Larry Ellison, a guy who allegedly stepped down a decade ago but fully intends to drive the entire company off a cliff. If allowed to, Oracle will be swallowed whole by its debt, and won’t have much of a business to fall back upon. In writing this piece, I have tried to look for something resembling an Oracle fan — somebody that appreciates the software or will defend it on any level. All I can find are the most wretched AI boosters, desperate to kiss up to anybody who will incinerate billions of dollars to build data centers. Perhaps I’m trashed off hopium, but I see no scenario that ends with anything other than the near-destruction of Oracle, and even if a government bailout exists, it will take decades — if it’s even possible — to recover from what I believe will be an historic destruction of shareholder capital, all borne of the hubris of one of the most nakedly anti-consumer companies in the history of capitalism.

I hate Oracle. I’ve spent hours and hours reading about Oracle, learning all about Oracle, thinking about Oracle, philosophizing about Oracle, and never before have I witnessed a company that’s so thoroughly debased its products, customers and shareholders. This company has taken the piss for decades, and I think it’s finally its time for a reckoning. Could Larry Ellison be rendered penniless? Doubtful. But the outcome of decades of fucking over customers and terrible financial decisions may finally tear down his rotten legacy.

I’ve tried to be charitable in this piece. I’ve tried to look for cause for optimism for Oracle. All I found was a company in decline after decades of profiting off of stagnant products and contempt for its customers. It's a horror show.
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🌲 GIF for at least next 1,048 days.

Also…

:: sighs ::

…this opening line is wildly untrue, although it is true that they've gotten less *attention,* which may be why they aren't *known* for discussing their faith.

To name a few:

· Pete Buttigieg
· Chris Coons (who NYTimes quotes after this)
· Elizabeth Warren
· Sarah McBride

9 days in, the most basic question about the Iran war remains unanswered In just over a week, Trump and top administration officials have given at least 17 different responses about why the war began

WE STILL DON'T HAVE A CLEAR ANSWER ON THE MOST BASIC QUESTION ABOUT THE IRAN WAR

WHY did the U.S. go to war?

A Popular Information review of public statements over the last 9 days found 17 DIFFERENT EXPLAINATIONS. Many of which contradict each other.

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But that would make sense, so we're not gonna do that

I want yall to know that everything happening in the Epstein files is as American as Apple Pie.

What I mean is literally everything those affluent white men and women are doing to children is the same exact thing they did to slaves during the American Slave Trade. Welcome to my TedTalk.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Jesus Camp (2006) An unsettling glimpse inside an evangelical summer camp where young children are subjected to extreme and abusive workshops to achieve spirituality.

if you don't understand what's happening with the war & why it seems like it's moving so fast and doing so much destruction.

i implore you to watch this movie. much of it was recorded very close to where i was raised. it's horrifying but you need to know. these people exist & want to sacrifice you.

The thing about having a 3D printer is you can use it to make stuff you’d be too embarrassed to buy in a store, like the container shaped like giant tooth I just put my child’s old teeth in

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

This is a well argued editorial about political violence by @jburcum.bsky.social. I especially appreciated that she does not implicate ordinary if divisive political speech, as almost every other take on this topic does. Gift link: www.startribune.com/mn-political...

If we are being honest: Claude didn't do any of those things.
People USING Claude as an excuse for greed extraction are.

• Claude didn't choose to work for the military.
• Claude didn't build data centers.
• Claude didn't defund mental health.
• Claude didn't refuse security protocols.

Humans did.

Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Other animals could be pink too if we could have some of that shrimp.

But flamingos are greedy.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Montana's Gianforte Pleads Guilty, Won't Serve Jail Time In Assault On Journalist The representative-elect was given a six-month deferred sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting a Guardian reporter. He also was sentenced to community service and anger management counseling.

Where are the fathers of these broken men? What's going on in their homes that led them to this life of violence? Has society been coddling them? That's what I want to know.

The film follows an Irish refugee girl and a Choctaw boy who meet in 1847 New York and journey across America together, drawing on the real historical bond between Ireland and the Choctaw Nation.

“The hearing today is about ‘Fraud in Minnesota,’ which is serving as a pretext for the terror the federal government has brought to the people of Minnesota,” Tollgaard said in her opening remarks. (her opening remarks: oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...)

As Israel Pounds Lebanon, Thousands of Syrians There Flee Back Home

Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor”—Tupac

YouTube video by GOP Oversight Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II

tune in to watch walz, ellison, and rev tollgaard (pastor in st paul and my head of staff) stand up for minnesota: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87f...

Good answer.

right? terrible... they are saying phrases like "somali pirate" and saying "illegal alien murderers" w/o blinking an eye.

The House hearing nominally about "fraud" is just so profoundly racist. Like just so incredibly stunningly racist.

He's on fire today.

Mariah Tollgaard bringing the power of truth to DC