Dave
@policywank.com
Photography at @flowstateneworleans and this is for other things. Former Latin American historian. Opinionated. Hates Nazis and not just the Illinois ones.
#nolasky
#nolasky
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anyone know how to bust someone out of jail for one last job before retirement
United Health wants its ‘swagger back’.
How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage
Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.
How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage
Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
anyone know how to bust someone out of jail for one last job before retirement
But if you send that to someone on an iPhone, they may think you made a very different suggestion. 🙂
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
But if you send that to someone on an iPhone, they may think you made a very different suggestion. 🙂
It’s still not as good as Google once was, but Duck Duck Go is definitely better than google now. Plus privacy. Now if we could come up with a pithier way of referencing it than saying “Duck Duck Go it”.
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It’s still not as good as Google once was, but Duck Duck Go is definitely better than google now. Plus privacy. Now if we could come up with a pithier way of referencing it than saying “Duck Duck Go it”.
I’m bone on bone in the left. Thank Bob for cortisone shots. 🥸
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I’m bone on bone in the left. Thank Bob for cortisone shots. 🥸
Jester. Though I worry about the long term viability of knees, jig dancing wise.
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Jester. Though I worry about the long term viability of knees, jig dancing wise.
You’re an absolute moron. I’ve followed both for decades, possibly longer than you’ve been alive.
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
You’re an absolute moron. I’ve followed both for decades, possibly longer than you’ve been alive.
This big man won’t allow responses from dirty little people like me nor actually respond to what I actually said, but he’s happy to send his sycophants in my direction.
Yes, if it's something that James Carville and I have in common, it's that we both watched Fox over the past few years and totally absorbed its message.
(Another person who clearly didn't read the article.)
(Another person who clearly didn't read the article.)
These people uncritically accepted the Fox News, right wing narrative around what constituted "woke" and now they're out here lecturing us on something they either intentionally misunderstood or never understood in the first place.
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This big man won’t allow responses from dirty little people like me nor actually respond to what I actually said, but he’s happy to send his sycophants in my direction.
Based on your several comments on this post, I can’t tell whether you have any clue who or what I’m talking about. Carville and Nicholls both have long records of lying about and sabotaging every single thing progressive dems say or do, especially if it originated in non-white communities/cultures.
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Based on your several comments on this post, I can’t tell whether you have any clue who or what I’m talking about. Carville and Nicholls both have long records of lying about and sabotaging every single thing progressive dems say or do, especially if it originated in non-white communities/cultures.
Random masked strangers have no right to demand your ID. Let them prove they have a right to ask for it before you show them jack.
Don’t show anyone claiming to be ICE any identification unless they show you theirs. And even then, tell them to go fuck themselves. Do not answer them and do not acknowledge them when they speak to you. Unless you see a warrant or an ID, that’s nobody.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Random masked strangers have no right to demand your ID. Let them prove they have a right to ask for it before you show them jack.
These people uncritically accepted the Fox News, right wing narrative around what constituted "woke" and now they're out here lecturing us on something they either intentionally misunderstood or never understood in the first place.
A lot of people are going to love that Carville said this. (They will not love him saying that the performative moral preening has to go.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | James Carville: Out With Woke. In With Rage.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
These people uncritically accepted the Fox News, right wing narrative around what constituted "woke" and now they're out here lecturing us on something they either intentionally misunderstood or never understood in the first place.
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This thread produces a lot of branches with a lot going on in them
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This thread produces a lot of branches with a lot going on in them
I do not have cable or a streaming package. I watch OTA digital and get about 40 stations.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I do not have cable or a streaming package. I watch OTA digital and get about 40 stations.
As I transition my other account to photography only, I am haphazardly transitioning fun follows to this one (though that account might stay in both). Thanks for the reminder.
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
As I transition my other account to photography only, I am haphazardly transitioning fun follows to this one (though that account might stay in both). Thanks for the reminder.
You would have make the average economy class seat as roomy and wide as the average business class seat is to get me to wear anything more confining that sweatpants or shorts and a t-shirt or hoodie. Even when I flew 80-100k miles a year for work, that was how I dressed on planes.
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You would have make the average economy class seat as roomy and wide as the average business class seat is to get me to wear anything more confining that sweatpants or shorts and a t-shirt or hoodie. Even when I flew 80-100k miles a year for work, that was how I dressed on planes.
Making me wear confining, uncomfortable clothes while being packed into a flying sardine can guided by understaffed air control towers is supposed to cheer me up. GTFO, Real World boy.
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Making me wear confining, uncomfortable clothes while being packed into a flying sardine can guided by understaffed air control towers is supposed to cheer me up. GTFO, Real World boy.
So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun
These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun
These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
The Scout Traveler is an offroad EV w/ a solid axle, axle mounted electric motors, 150 miles range and a gas generator. You could drive it as an EV 95% or more of the time, only filling up to go on long road trips.
New cars aren't a thing I'm likely to ever buy again, but I hope it succeeds big.
New cars aren't a thing I'm likely to ever buy again, but I hope it succeeds big.
2027 Scout Traveler First Look: A Proper 4x4 Off-Roader?!
The first of Volkswagen's resurrected Scout models get body-on-frame construction, a live rear axle, and tons of capability.
www.motortrend.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The Scout Traveler is an offroad EV w/ a solid axle, axle mounted electric motors, 150 miles range and a gas generator. You could drive it as an EV 95% or more of the time, only filling up to go on long road trips.
New cars aren't a thing I'm likely to ever buy again, but I hope it succeeds big.
New cars aren't a thing I'm likely to ever buy again, but I hope it succeeds big.
On the other hand, that format probably also does mean never having to hear Winger's "Seventeen" or Benny Nardones' "Into The Night".
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
On the other hand, that format probably also does mean never having to hear Winger's "Seventeen" or Benny Nardones' "Into The Night".
I've been very happy with Avenues Animal Hospital on St. Charles for the last 2 or 2.5 years. They are also an emergency vet if you ever need that, which I did, at one point.
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I've been very happy with Avenues Animal Hospital on St. Charles for the last 2 or 2.5 years. They are also an emergency vet if you ever need that, which I did, at one point.
Alt text and post text, damn it. But, yes, definitely the alt text. I made a post today where the client I was using didn't respect my setting to force it and it was embarrassing.
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Alt text and post text, damn it. But, yes, definitely the alt text. I made a post today where the client I was using didn't respect my setting to force it and it was embarrassing.
There was a definite moment in the 2000s when it seemed like half the best people I'd known in grad school were going into marketing.
November 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
There was a definite moment in the 2000s when it seemed like half the best people I'd known in grad school were going into marketing.
Does he have the self awareness not to run again in 4 years or do we get a tied senate at some point where he switches parties trying to keep his seat? It's clear that his former base rightly despises him.
#schadenfreude #fetterman
#schadenfreude #fetterman
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Does he have the self awareness not to run again in 4 years or do we get a tied senate at some point where he switches parties trying to keep his seat? It's clear that his former base rightly despises him.
#schadenfreude #fetterman
#schadenfreude #fetterman
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In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
83 in Nola right now. The 30 year average for this date was 65 yesterday. Probably the same today, but weather bug won't load the data for me to verify. It should be cool and comfortable, dang it.
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
83 in Nola right now. The 30 year average for this date was 65 yesterday. Probably the same today, but weather bug won't load the data for me to verify. It should be cool and comfortable, dang it.
And then they replied to my reply with the exact same text, which ends with "If you have any questions or need further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact us." Kafka-esqe, Almost hilarious. But more maddening.
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
And then they replied to my reply with the exact same text, which ends with "If you have any questions or need further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact us." Kafka-esqe, Almost hilarious. But more maddening.