Yeah, so do traditional science field notes, at least in my training. Still, after hearing about the overseas servers for federal agencies, nothing would surprise me.

Why is the date on this post done European style - day, month, year? Is the "War Department" (itself a giant institutional cosplay) posting from somewhere like Hungary?

He just consistently flunks "POTUS 101".

Stopped by REI this week to pick up a couple of Coast Guard approved distress whistles. Equally good for when you're lost in the wilderness or dealing with masked thugs abducting people from your neighborhood.

At no point did they say "Trump is giving illegal orders." They said if you are given illegal orders, don't obey them. That shouldn't be controversial.

I guess I never really appreciated how much cowardice is baked into established institutional positions. From universities and law firms rolling over at the first sign of trouble to elected officials running rather than do their job. "Land of the brave" definitely comes with asterisk.

Most of those kinds of things but also a whole mini-museum of natural history objects (anybody need a spare raccoon skull? Never mind, I'm not parting with it.) Also I've relentlessly removed every obsolete cable in the house (well, at least on first floor), so there's that.

A sharp escalation in Trump's efforts to be Putin's stooge.

Somebody didn't get the memo.

I score literally almost exactly at the bottom of the RWA scale (theauthoritarians.org/wp-content/u... page 16)

there are people who have somewhat of an authoritarian lean but aren't too far gone