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Philosophy prof, able to bore people on any abstract topic. Aghast at the horror show that is U.S. politics. Fleeing into books, walks, horse time, and viola. None of this is working at the moment.
Join the U.S. armed forces! You will never know whether your commander-in-chief is sane; you will have to take wild guesses about the legality of your orders; you will be used as political pawns; and then on retirement you can fight the VA for basic health care. 🇺🇸
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
White House defends strikes on boat survivors, but it's unclear where the buck stops
In the face of charges that these strikes amount to execution without trial, the White House is sending a confusing message about who exactly gave each order to use deadly force.
www.npr.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Join the U.S. armed forces! You will never know whether your commander-in-chief is sane; you will have to take wild guesses about the legality of your orders; you will be used as political pawns; and then on retirement you can fight the VA for basic health care. 🇺🇸
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
Pete Hegseth's levels of misogyny and moral rottenness have to be way above 'normal' human psychological health, however that's defined. Right into psychotic territory.
www.jezebel.com/female-navy-...
www.jezebel.com/female-navy-...
Female Navy Captain's Historic Promotion Inexplicably Blocked by ~Someone~ at the Pentagon
Pete Hegseth is accused of ensuring that a decorated officer did not become the first woman in a Naval Special Warfare command to oversee Navy SEALS.
www.jezebel.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Pete Hegseth's levels of misogyny and moral rottenness have to be way above 'normal' human psychological health, however that's defined. Right into psychotic territory.
www.jezebel.com/female-navy-...
www.jezebel.com/female-navy-...
Many hands make light work, as my (ruining things) mother used to say.
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Many hands make light work, as my (ruining things) mother used to say.
Right-wing efforts to dismiss yesterday's world-wide rallies are pretty 'sad' this morning. I've seen:
1. There weren't that many people.
2. There were a lot of people but they were all old-looking.
3. And anyway Trump in an AI video drops sewage on them from a plane so har har; Murica!
1. There weren't that many people.
2. There were a lot of people but they were all old-looking.
3. And anyway Trump in an AI video drops sewage on them from a plane so har har; Murica!
October 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Right-wing efforts to dismiss yesterday's world-wide rallies are pretty 'sad' this morning. I've seen:
1. There weren't that many people.
2. There were a lot of people but they were all old-looking.
3. And anyway Trump in an AI video drops sewage on them from a plane so har har; Murica!
1. There weren't that many people.
2. There were a lot of people but they were all old-looking.
3. And anyway Trump in an AI video drops sewage on them from a plane so har har; Murica!
They are going to make a horrid mess out of the Super Bowl, aren’t they?
Kristi Noem tells Bad Bunny that ICE will be at the Super Bowl and the event should only be for Americans who “love this country”
October 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
They are going to make a horrid mess out of the Super Bowl, aren’t they?
"The single garment of destiny to which we are all tied"
It’s possible to condemn the summary execution of a loathsome individual who greatly harmed the single garment of destiny to which we are all tied without Disney-fying the loathsome individual or the great harm.
Condemnation all around: it’s not that hard.
—biologist who has required security
Condemnation all around: it’s not that hard.
—biologist who has required security
September 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"The single garment of destiny to which we are all tied"
The Washington Post sweating to beatify Charlie Kirk this morning, with fawning essays by George Will and Marc Thiessen. Will actually compares Kirk to Socrates. Anyone needing an emetic? Gift link: wapo.st/4gfHvDm
Opinion | William F. Buckley Jr. would recognize Charlie Kirk as a kindred spirit
Kirk was killed at the start of what was to have been a Buckley-like college tour.
wapo.st
September 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The Washington Post sweating to beatify Charlie Kirk this morning, with fawning essays by George Will and Marc Thiessen. Will actually compares Kirk to Socrates. Anyone needing an emetic? Gift link: wapo.st/4gfHvDm
It is very consoling to me that the Minnesota State Fair has a large competition for 'crop art', art made from agricultural seeds, and that this gorgeous thing is one of the entries:
August 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It is very consoling to me that the Minnesota State Fair has a large competition for 'crop art', art made from agricultural seeds, and that this gorgeous thing is one of the entries:
Beautifully written article, asking some deep questions about ways we think about dangerous physical challenges.
The scariest part of climbing the famous Half Dome cables is not the difficulty of the climb, the steepness of the slope, the dizzying exposure or the altitude.
The scariest part of Yosemite’s famous Half Dome cables isn’t the climb itself
The scariest part of climbing the famous Half Dome cables is not the difficulty of the climb, the steepness of the slope, the dizzying exposure or the altitude.
bit.ly
July 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Beautifully written article, asking some deep questions about ways we think about dangerous physical challenges.
The US small-business retail site Etsy has already got hundreds of "fun" items featuring Trump's newest concentration camp; this one, from a spelling-challenged entrepreneur, uses a hateful phrase for black people that I often heard growing up in the segregated south:
July 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The US small-business retail site Etsy has already got hundreds of "fun" items featuring Trump's newest concentration camp; this one, from a spelling-challenged entrepreneur, uses a hateful phrase for black people that I often heard growing up in the segregated south:
Trump and Noem, cackling about their new concentration camp in Florida, tap in to a long racist tradition of "alligator-bait" rhetoric & practice in the US. jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/201... They are monsters.
July 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Trump and Noem, cackling about their new concentration camp in Florida, tap in to a long racist tradition of "alligator-bait" rhetoric & practice in the US. jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/201... They are monsters.
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In more news, anything that can kill you is now allowed, and anyone who can stop you getting killed is fired.
April 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
In more news, anything that can kill you is now allowed, and anyone who can stop you getting killed is fired.
Everybody please follow this hilarious account from Heard Island, now newly a target of Trump's laughable tariffs and only occupied by penguins. bsky.app/profile/hear...
bsky.app
April 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Everybody please follow this hilarious account from Heard Island, now newly a target of Trump's laughable tariffs and only occupied by penguins. bsky.app/profile/hear...
Uh oh! According to Herr Doktor Professor Musk, western civilization is doomed. On Wisconsin!
www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
Trump and Musk's backing wasn't enough to flip Wisconsin Supreme Court
National Democrats sent in millions for the liberal's campaign while Trump endorsed — and Musk financed — the conservative's. Abortion, redistricting and Tesla could come before the court.
www.npr.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Uh oh! According to Herr Doktor Professor Musk, western civilization is doomed. On Wisconsin!
www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
In case you'd like to send thanks to Senator Cory Booker for his extraordinary effort yesterday and into today, here's the place:
www.booker.senate.gov/contact/writ...
www.booker.senate.gov/contact/writ...
Contact Cory | U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey
www.booker.senate.gov
April 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In case you'd like to send thanks to Senator Cory Booker for his extraordinary effort yesterday and into today, here's the place:
www.booker.senate.gov/contact/writ...
www.booker.senate.gov/contact/writ...
I worked a 3-hour shift at my smallish town's Trans Visibility Day event yesterday. I was on Safety Team, and we were told to walk around & try to address any troublesome "guests". I saw only beauty, mutual love, support, and joy. So much joy. Also great tacos! Trump/Hegseth: Leave them alone.
March 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I worked a 3-hour shift at my smallish town's Trans Visibility Day event yesterday. I was on Safety Team, and we were told to walk around & try to address any troublesome "guests". I saw only beauty, mutual love, support, and joy. So much joy. Also great tacos! Trump/Hegseth: Leave them alone.
How soon will Musk's band of evil little serpents start announcing their book contracts?
March 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
How soon will Musk's band of evil little serpents start announcing their book contracts?
My payment into Social Security (US) started age 16. I was so very proud to be part of a program where the government had planned a retirement program for us. I've paid into it continuously since. It is the best idea ever. You work, you pay in, you retire with some safety. DOGE is killing it.
March 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
My payment into Social Security (US) started age 16. I was so very proud to be part of a program where the government had planned a retirement program for us. I've paid into it continuously since. It is the best idea ever. You work, you pay in, you retire with some safety. DOGE is killing it.
Once upon a time, billionaires built libraries - literally thousands of them are thanks to Andrew Carnegie - dedicated to "the improvement of mankind". Now another couple of billionaires, who are sick in their souls, want to destroy them, for the opposite effect.
dp.la/exhibitions/...
dp.la/exhibitions/...
Carnegie Libraries
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
dp.la
March 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Once upon a time, billionaires built libraries - literally thousands of them are thanks to Andrew Carnegie - dedicated to "the improvement of mankind". Now another couple of billionaires, who are sick in their souls, want to destroy them, for the opposite effect.
dp.la/exhibitions/...
dp.la/exhibitions/...
Scary thought I had this morning: U.S. Republicans know that mid-term elections have them vulnerable. In the face of that, they are cheering on Musk & minions as they wreck the government and inflict suffering on all of us. How will they behave AFTER mid-terms, when they have nothing to fear?
March 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Scary thought I had this morning: U.S. Republicans know that mid-term elections have them vulnerable. In the face of that, they are cheering on Musk & minions as they wreck the government and inflict suffering on all of us. How will they behave AFTER mid-terms, when they have nothing to fear?
Curious what the Trumpskies have against the Department of Education? One clue to almost all U.S. politicsI have found reliable: Always look for the racism!
www.josh-cowen.com/book
www.josh-cowen.com/book
Book | Josh Cowen
The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers, by Josh Cowen, is a deep investigation of education privatization.
www.josh-cowen.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Curious what the Trumpskies have against the Department of Education? One clue to almost all U.S. politicsI have found reliable: Always look for the racism!
www.josh-cowen.com/book
www.josh-cowen.com/book
Why are they longing for a subserviently grateful Zelenskiy, and raging at his refusal to play that game? Because they themselves are grovelling mewling puking bully-cowards, and his courage shames them to their rotten little cores.
March 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Why are they longing for a subserviently grateful Zelenskiy, and raging at his refusal to play that game? Because they themselves are grovelling mewling puking bully-cowards, and his courage shames them to their rotten little cores.
Vivek Ramaswamy just discovered physical education and school playgrounds. Given enough time, these brilliant tech bros will also discover how fun it is to eat paste in class. And then: Musk will invent & patent the spitball. (thanks to Jim Wright for the Xitter quote).
February 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Vivek Ramaswamy just discovered physical education and school playgrounds. Given enough time, these brilliant tech bros will also discover how fun it is to eat paste in class. And then: Musk will invent & patent the spitball. (thanks to Jim Wright for the Xitter quote).
Ever wished for an almost-infallible "Stephen Miller wrote this" detector tool? It's his rhetorical triples. He can't resist them!
- dangerous, demeaning and immoral
- deny, discredit and undermine
- unlawful, corrosive and pernicious
(All from Trump's DEI EO of Jan 21)
- dangerous, demeaning and immoral
- deny, discredit and undermine
- unlawful, corrosive and pernicious
(All from Trump's DEI EO of Jan 21)
February 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ever wished for an almost-infallible "Stephen Miller wrote this" detector tool? It's his rhetorical triples. He can't resist them!
- dangerous, demeaning and immoral
- deny, discredit and undermine
- unlawful, corrosive and pernicious
(All from Trump's DEI EO of Jan 21)
- dangerous, demeaning and immoral
- deny, discredit and undermine
- unlawful, corrosive and pernicious
(All from Trump's DEI EO of Jan 21)
Just attended a fantastic talk by a faculty member/scientist who works creating robotics for many types of disability therapies. Her recent NSF grant is now in limbo, because "DEI" shutdown. She showed solid evidence of massive life improvements. The U.S. is sprinting backwards into hell.
February 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Just attended a fantastic talk by a faculty member/scientist who works creating robotics for many types of disability therapies. Her recent NSF grant is now in limbo, because "DEI" shutdown. She showed solid evidence of massive life improvements. The U.S. is sprinting backwards into hell.