I said abolish and I fucking meant it

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

"Sorry y'all I forgot for a minute that my big sister is one of those whatchamacallits - an icon? Whoops!"

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Has anyone else seen the video of Stephen Miller on CNN claiming the President has "plenary authority", realizing he said it, and fully glitching? He just stops moving as if freezing will make him disappear, looking caught.

They're discussing plenary power and he didn't mean to say it publicly.

I know we're all just used to the systems we're used to, okay, do what works for you.

But to me the difference between Macs and PCs is the difference between people who like piles and people who like drawers and boxes and I will not be explaining further.

It does explain why I found Mac system organization so infuriating. When I download something I want to be able to find it in downloads. If I take a screenshot I want it in a folder called screenshots. And so help me, Macs, if I edit a photo, I WANT TO FIND THAT SAVED UNDER PHOTOS.

As someone who has only ever used a Mac under protest, this is madness to me. Why would you want everything stacked on everything else on your desktop?

My husband used to claim if he put everything in a pile he "knew where it was" and yet when asked to retrieve something ... turns out he did not.

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Vivent les silly geese!

A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

This photo is of the LA riots in 1992, and is pretty obviously meant to mislead people into thinking it is a photo of the anti-ICE protests in the headline. Please report it for misinformation.

If you ever find yourself needing to fight for disability coverage either through your company or with SSDI: get the lawyer. I don't think we would have gotten through this at all without one, and certainly wouldn't have managed this good an outcome.

(It's hard to be fully enthused when what's happened is the insurance company got away with only paying half what they owed us, and we needed a lawyer who will take a deserved percentage, but: better than nothing by far.)

Well. In good news.

10 months later, we reached a settlement with my company's disability insurance.

It's a huge relief to have it over. And also to not have to sell our house. We got exactly what rhe lawyer predicted, so we're happy and have some room to create long term solutions. Hurray.

Who's got a podcast they like in the vein of Normal Gossip and MBMBaM and Sentimental Garbage? Light, fun, mostly inconsequential in the grand scheme? Just a nice background chat that won't make me sad about the world?

Penny was being unusually pestering this morning. I finally went out to throw a stick for her in the backyard and it turns out all she wanted was for me to be out here with her in the fall sunshine.

You little menace. I love you.

One of the most annoying things that is happening under the Trump regime is that a bunch of grown adults are starting to mimic his stupid reality star cadence. "You will feel it big time" chrissake go home and tell your parents to try raising you again, it didn't take the first time.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Yes.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Weird to have my truck broken into and feel sympathetic toward humanity generally but that's where I'm at. It was a nicer experience getting my truck broken into this way than having a "civil exchange of ideas" with any MAGA who wants to send military force here.

Sometimes that's not the case. I've had windows smashed and stuff taken when the stuff wasn't even valuable. I got my high school AP history notes taken once and I'm still grumpy about that one.

But this was almost apologetic, not malicious. They took about a buck's worth of change and left it.

I had stuff in my truck I'd rather not lose. The manual, for one. I have a terrible pop-out radio which isn't worth much, if anything, but that works and I'd rather not have to replace.

They didn't take anything except my loose change. They didn't hurt anything. They just needed money.

As everyone talks about Portland being a "cesspool" and "at war", they often bring up the homeless and drug users, usually equating one with the other.

Mostly these are just people who don't have money and need money. They're not trying to make your life difficult on purpose. They need stuff.

Found out a bit ago that my truck had been broken into. (I say "broken into" - I left it unlocked, as I mostly do.)

Politest break-in ever. They emptied my glove box onto the passenger seat and piled the stuff on the floor onto the seat too. Didn't find anything of value, left it all there.

I'm fine with going back and rewatching all of those, and finding new ones from that era that I never got around to.

I just want some of that feeling in today's world. I want to feel like just-out-of-the-ordinary stories still happen, and that we want to hear them. I do.

Not everything needs end of the world stakes, and not everything about regular people needs to absolutely rip your heart out of your chest with the drama of it all. Give me a Stand by Me, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Now & Then, Sandlot, Hook, The Lake House, Sleepless in Seattle.

We talk about the loss of the rom-com but that's just one breed of b flick. There's also the slice of life, the flung-together strangers change each other for the better, or the everyday challenge leads to unexpected places. The light supernatural event, like Freaky Friday or Liar Liar.