Bluejack / Blunt Jackson

Defending democracy is easier when you listen to voters The worst outcomes are less likely if Trump is less popular. So Democrats need to win the battle of public opinion.

I have mixed feelings about Nate silver, but this is spot on.

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People say banning guns won’t work: but I notice very few mass shootings in airports.

We are the Baddies You know the meme. You know it's us.

Some thoughts on the identity of the USA:

open.substack.com/pub/bluejack...

Relevant.

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Yeah. Those sorts.

The texts thing is absurd, but it’s a distraction. It’s the very very least of the bad things happening right now.

Me: “what did they call that dish?” (Eating K’s leftover leftovers, and thinking “potato cheese slime.”)

K: Poutine.

Me: thinking: “nailed it!”

I want to believe we are in that fragile space where the paycheck of racism and xenophobia has just been spent, but the bills have not yet come due.

Best lines from music: “born to be a god among salesmen.” - Blue eyed devil by Soul Coughing

For all the high minded words of the founding fathers, let’s not forget that the revolutionary war was started by people who didn’t want to pay taxes. Not much has changed since then.

Do you remember when spontaneous human combustion was a thing? Those were the days! Quicksand everywhere…

Is there any single episode of tv better than the x files “Humbug” circus geek episode with Jim Rose?

I wonder what happens when Musk gets bored of thrashing around in the federal government. At some point the sheer weight of it is going to become tiresome.

Rewatching X files. It’s incredible how *well* it ages. I can’t tell you the number of times I have sat down to rewatch old favorites and clicked them off in horror. X files was well written then, and it’s still great, great stuff. At least through the first two seasons… which is where I am now.

Universities as a Tool of Control Haven for Free Thinkers or Tool of Oppression?

Bluesky is too twitterish for me. Sometimes I write long form. Like here: open.substack.com/pub/bluejack...

Tracking a shipment from San Francisco to Seattle, via usps, it has now been to post office locations in Texas, Utah, and Colorado. Still no delivery date after two weeks of travel. Someone could walk from San Francisco to Seattle faster than this.

The degree to which Trump, and his spineless followers, and his gutless judicial appointees, and now his miserable sycophantic media controllers are all serving Putin's agenda make me nauseous.

The fact that Bezos is playing sycophantic second fiddle to moronic Elon Musk only twists the knife.

I can't begin to say how heartbroken, disappointed, and ultimately disgusted I am by what has happened to the Washington Post, and what Jeff Bezos has allowed himself to become.

Opinion by Mark Thiessen: "Zelensky must mend the breach with Trump or resign."

YouTube video by DontMakeItComp Grandma grabs goose by it’s neck

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Looking for work; prior employer does not qualify for cobra extension if healthcare. Buying that same plan on the market would cost me almost twice as much as rent.

Yep.

I understand the distress… but not the shock. Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do. Anyone who is surprised right now REALLY wasn’t paying attention.

Tyler Hamilton on Substack “Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”

Albert Camus

Animal chip company’s silence has worried pet owners seeking answers Pet-chip maker Save This Life has stopped responding to entreaties even as its data has disappeared, according to animal shelters and others in the industry.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I would love to understand why the "number" embedded in these chips is not the phone number of the owner. Good god.

All of a sudden every single app on my laptop “wants to find devices on the local network.” No! Stop it! Mind your own business app!

Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not? Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing ever

Denmark petition to buy California: “we need more beaches.”

denmarkification.com

Trump legalized bribery.

Not the slightest effort to hide their corruption.

When they made this artistic lamp container they never asked: “How we gonna dust that thing?”

Some things feel like they are in the last stages of decay and collapse, but there are always sunrises.

What I heard from AOC: we need money to fight Trump, please send $3. What I did not hear from AOC: here are the protests happening and ways to take action.