I gotta stop.being late to these Great White North parties. It turns out that "skookum chuck" is an incredibly rich bit of Chinook slang, and it only adds to the hilarity that it also matches the diminutive of a foreign King's name. Clearly, Andrew is the best Canuckistan correspondent Wonkette has ever had.
I humbly suggest "skookum" is either an ironic adjective, or straight as a noun; this from an Pennsyltuckey Amero who loves English royalty yet does so with at-arms-length realism to severely curtail said love 😏. Also, yet another quality piece, Lord Andrew of Fleming!🙇♂️
I've got a better source. It turns out that "skookum chuck" is an incredibly rich bit of Chinook slang, and it only adds to the hilarity that it also matches the diminutive of a foreign King's name. Clearly, Andrew is the best Canuckistan correspondent Wonkette has ever had.
Last night I watched “The Mountainhead,” a new movie released on HBO. It’s about 4 techbros who spend the weekend at the new mountain retreat of the poorest guy in the group, who is only worth hundreds of millions of dollars (the rest are multi-billionaires). The one who is identified as the richest man in the world has just released an AI program on his social media site, which causes worldwide destruction as deepfakes circulate and cause conflict every fucking where. NPR has a good review:
Not as good as Mickey 17 (also streaming on HBO), which absolutely skewers MAGA, but still pretty good. This shitshow of an administration is apparently inspiring a lot of new entertainment.
I can give a real example of what happens when high end tech people meet. We had a bit of a get together a couple of weeks back, people from my first US job. I hired Mr S there ... well, I hired most of them, really, apart from Rick.
When we got bought by shit company, most of us transferred over, apart from A. He stayed with another company. Dude was getting paid six figures and didn't really have to work, so he was loving that.
I got let go from shit company and spent eight months unemployed (that got hard after about five months) then got hired again and immediately started trying to recruit people I'd worked with before. J was difficult be she'd been put in charge of changing shit company's backend to microservices, and she was feeling it. I got Mr S and D almost straight away. I also asked A but he was just living the life of a young chap with a high salary and no real work. Rick was doing similar. D had similar but was getting bored, so he came over.
Shit company booted J off microservices because they didn't know a goddamn thing, so I managed to get her the second time. OK, here we go. We transformed that bastard company. Oh we were a great team. Went through a NASDAQ float and all kinds.
Me and J are millionaires now. She owns two houses in SF, which is no mean feat. She wants to sell her Tesla because Enlo. She's probably worth more than me. Everyone else is doing well also too, but they regret not listening to me when I said "hey, come here, this is good" but hindsight is 20/20.
So what really happens is that J complains about her husband and kids, A says that dating is hard, Rick complains that Brentwood is too far from SF, I whinge about a broken racing car and Mr S hates Hamazone and wants out. We're whiners.
That's life, but it's too boring for television. Now if Mr. S had some grudge against you and rigged Mr. 27 to blow up when you hit, I don't know, 3rd gear, and J thought there was something hinkey about your death and got together with Mr. S (with whom she's having an affair and whom she doesn't suspect) and Rick (who's got an unrequited crush on J) to solve your murder, now you're talking. Also A whines about dating one time too many and the other three kill him. We should take this to MAX.
I realize that domestic terrorists promoting foreign interests are not acting from a place of rationality, but this kind of act helps no cause whatsoever and just provides grist for ghouls.
Not a great news morning. Antisemitic hate crime in Colorado, six injured one critically. North’s Carolina had a mass shooter at a frat house party, one dead, eleven injured. And the conservatives won the Polish elections.
I think we're only paying attention because of everything else going on in the world, and what happened here seems like a natural (if stupid) result of electing a president who has no real power except blocking the prime minister at a different time than when they vote on that prime minister.
Well, yesterday started off rough but ended pretty good. After a long morning nap, I got my nails done, replied to a work email, and then picked up the condo and put away the groceries Walmart delivered. I watched a movie called The Deep End from 1970 and had my dinner and sat with my dog and cat until bed time. The movie was okay, not sure I really "enjoyed" it, but I can see why it's considered one of the greats. Plus it had music by Cat Stephen's who I LOVE LOVE LOVE.
Remember that week like 4 years ago when everyone was freaking out about drones in New Jersey? I guess Ukraine has given people something to fear. How's that gold dome going to stop an attack like this, I wonder, not that I spend much time worrying about International acts of war, I'm from Oklahoma, it's the domestics you have to worry about here.
Work this week will be catching up from last week when I was buried in fixing the mess my boss and I made out of some data. I messed up the data entry (oops) and she messed up the scoring of the materials. Specifically, she messed up the checking of MY scoring and managed a shit ton of summing errors. I NEVER have summing errors because I run everything through excel and check my data entry twice, so I am VERY confident in my scoring. Of the 30 or so scoring errors she said I made, I found 2 transormation corrects, pretty good on a set of 315 cases, better than our usual 99% scoring accuracy.
Climate change has brought really rainy June's to OK the past few years, and this year even more so. It looks like rain all week, including this weekend when I have training for my new volunteer job. Enough rain already.
It's just the opposite here in Central Texas. Climate change has made it way drier. We've been under some degree of drought here for several years now.
wish we could bottle up our moisture and ship it out to you guys. The humidity is outright oppressive most of the time. Makes for luxurious plants, I'll grant you
Oh we still have the humidity, just not the rain. I was thinking yesterday while I was doing my miles that I might be better off with gills than lungs.
The Alaska Republican senator has no qualms about criticizing the president. She could play a make-or-break role in pushing back on the legislation carrying his agenda.
Senator Lisa Murkowski was listing all the ways that President Trump’s efforts to slash the federal government had harmed Alaska, from the funding freezes on programs the state depends on to the layoffs of federal workers who live there, when she delivered something of an understatement.
“It’s a challenging time right now,” she recently told a crowd at a state infrastructure conference here in the state’s largest city. “I could use nice words about it — but I don’t.”...
She had her chance. She could have used her influence as the only Senator to have successfully overcome a party ouster with a write in vote. That is not nothing: they're afraid of her. Instead she meekly went along with the party line time and time and time again, from bills to appointments, much like her other concerned colleague from Maine.
𝗔 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗞𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗵𝗶, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 — Armed with a federal license and allies in Trumpworld, the tech start-up is pushing prediction markets across America into a legal gray zone: sports betting.
I think it will be that Ukraine has betrayed their word to the US and that orange bag of shit is walking away from peace talks because of it. That would probably be doing Ukraine a favor.
Trump must be angrily confused- he was convinced Ukraine had to roll over, and he was convinced that he was Charlie Big Potatoes that was going to preside over its partition and exploitation and that his big hero Putin was going to win and reward him for his help.
Good morning, Wonkers. Kittehs have been fed their 1st breakfast and garbage bins have been taken out to the curb. Per my Apple watch, I only got 3 hours and 20 minutes of sleep, so maybe I can take a nap soon.
Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say
I would not be able to help myself if she called to tell me how she lost her job. I'd have to say something like "I guess you were the fraud and waste"
She’s probably safe because she’s been there over 20 years and provides direct patient care. But she has to do the “5 things” email.
I knew that her husband voted for the asshole, but I wasn’t sure about her until I said something negative about That Fucking Guy and Elno, and she cut me off to say she wasn’t going to listen to me talk bad about anyone. That was about a month ago, and we haven’t talked since.
Thank FSM that my elderly parents aren’t idiots and voted for Harris/Walz. I don’t think I could handle it.
I doubt she is safe though she may think it. There have been a lot of career feds who have gotten axed, including some they had to scramble to recall because of silly things like "nuclear scientists" and such what.
https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyjhall/p/the-speech-from-the-throne-slithers?r=17jzu2&utm_medium=ios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAB1BQUTze4
BBC's Have I Got (A Bit More) News For You from Friday, innit?😂
I gotta stop.being late to these Great White North parties. It turns out that "skookum chuck" is an incredibly rich bit of Chinook slang, and it only adds to the hilarity that it also matches the diminutive of a foreign King's name. Clearly, Andrew is the best Canuckistan correspondent Wonkette has ever had.
https://chinookjargon.com/2022/10/12/skookum-chuck-means-different-things-be-sure-to-stress-about-it/
To late. The minions TACO put in charge are as petty, ego driven, and pathetic as he is. And as dumb with the exception of Miller, god help us.
I humbly suggest "skookum" is either an ironic adjective, or straight as a noun; this from an Pennsyltuckey Amero who loves English royalty yet does so with at-arms-length realism to severely curtail said love 😏. Also, yet another quality piece, Lord Andrew of Fleming!🙇♂️
skookum — adjective
1 Excellent, impressive.
2 Big, strong, durable, reliable, trustworthy, doughty.
— noun
1 An evil spirit or woodland monster/giant.
[Source: Wiktionary]
I've got a better source. It turns out that "skookum chuck" is an incredibly rich bit of Chinook slang, and it only adds to the hilarity that it also matches the diminutive of a foreign King's name. Clearly, Andrew is the best Canuckistan correspondent Wonkette has ever had.
https://chinookjargon.com/2022/10/12/skookum-chuck-means-different-things-be-sure-to-stress-about-it/
Last night I watched “The Mountainhead,” a new movie released on HBO. It’s about 4 techbros who spend the weekend at the new mountain retreat of the poorest guy in the group, who is only worth hundreds of millions of dollars (the rest are multi-billionaires). The one who is identified as the richest man in the world has just released an AI program on his social media site, which causes worldwide destruction as deepfakes circulate and cause conflict every fucking where. NPR has a good review:
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5413129/mountainhead-review-hbo-movie-steve-carell
Not as good as Mickey 17 (also streaming on HBO), which absolutely skewers MAGA, but still pretty good. This shitshow of an administration is apparently inspiring a lot of new entertainment.
I can give a real example of what happens when high end tech people meet. We had a bit of a get together a couple of weeks back, people from my first US job. I hired Mr S there ... well, I hired most of them, really, apart from Rick.
When we got bought by shit company, most of us transferred over, apart from A. He stayed with another company. Dude was getting paid six figures and didn't really have to work, so he was loving that.
I got let go from shit company and spent eight months unemployed (that got hard after about five months) then got hired again and immediately started trying to recruit people I'd worked with before. J was difficult be she'd been put in charge of changing shit company's backend to microservices, and she was feeling it. I got Mr S and D almost straight away. I also asked A but he was just living the life of a young chap with a high salary and no real work. Rick was doing similar. D had similar but was getting bored, so he came over.
Shit company booted J off microservices because they didn't know a goddamn thing, so I managed to get her the second time. OK, here we go. We transformed that bastard company. Oh we were a great team. Went through a NASDAQ float and all kinds.
Me and J are millionaires now. She owns two houses in SF, which is no mean feat. She wants to sell her Tesla because Enlo. She's probably worth more than me. Everyone else is doing well also too, but they regret not listening to me when I said "hey, come here, this is good" but hindsight is 20/20.
So what really happens is that J complains about her husband and kids, A says that dating is hard, Rick complains that Brentwood is too far from SF, I whinge about a broken racing car and Mr S hates Hamazone and wants out. We're whiners.
And that's the reality of Silicon Valley.
That's life, but it's too boring for television. Now if Mr. S had some grudge against you and rigged Mr. 27 to blow up when you hit, I don't know, 3rd gear, and J thought there was something hinkey about your death and got together with Mr. S (with whom she's having an affair and whom she doesn't suspect) and Rick (who's got an unrequited crush on J) to solve your murder, now you're talking. Also A whines about dating one time too many and the other three kill him. We should take this to MAX.
I'd even sign up for the first month for $3.99 to watch that!
They are going to beat this one into the ground, aren't they.
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲 [𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿] 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 '𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻'
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Trump-aide-says-Colorado-attack-suspect-'illegal-alien'/64210431
I realize that domestic terrorists promoting foreign interests are not acting from a place of rationality, but this kind of act helps no cause whatsoever and just provides grist for ghouls.
Oh yeah. Already it's as if Biden personally invited him here.
Let him
Now we get to demand how Trump Co allowed such a dangerous person to enter the US
"𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘢 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘢. 𝘐𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘵," 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦.
yeah but Miller. Gonna bet that is a pack of lies right there
Miller would deport his own grandmother and lie about it.
It's going to get so ugly. The wackos are chomping at the bit to lynch immigrants and they would LOVE to do it on behalf of Israel.
𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝘁𝗻𝗮 𝗲𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴
Footage shared on social media shows huge clouds of black smoke after the eruption
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mount-etna-eruption-volcano-smoke-lava-live-updates-b2761911.html
Later to be reported in Russia Today as retaliation for helping Ukraine blow up a bunch of aircraft.
Not a great news morning. Antisemitic hate crime in Colorado, six injured one critically. North’s Carolina had a mass shooter at a frat house party, one dead, eleven injured. And the conservatives won the Polish elections.
And I haven't even had my coffee yet.
I believe there's some fuckery going on with the Polish election.
From the BBC article you posted below, it sounds like the Polish just voted for gridlock, and that just barely.
Agreed. There are a lot of good reasons not to get involved with NATO right now, as Vlad is getting desperate. They do support Ukraine, however.
I think we're only paying attention because of everything else going on in the world, and what happened here seems like a natural (if stupid) result of electing a president who has no real power except blocking the prime minister at a different time than when they vote on that prime minister.
We'll know if he starts musing about how they really belong to Russia XD
The new President is anti-NATO, anti-EU, and pro-nationalist. He is, though, for helping Ukraine.
Well, yesterday started off rough but ended pretty good. After a long morning nap, I got my nails done, replied to a work email, and then picked up the condo and put away the groceries Walmart delivered. I watched a movie called The Deep End from 1970 and had my dinner and sat with my dog and cat until bed time. The movie was okay, not sure I really "enjoyed" it, but I can see why it's considered one of the greats. Plus it had music by Cat Stephen's who I LOVE LOVE LOVE.
Remember that week like 4 years ago when everyone was freaking out about drones in New Jersey? I guess Ukraine has given people something to fear. How's that gold dome going to stop an attack like this, I wonder, not that I spend much time worrying about International acts of war, I'm from Oklahoma, it's the domestics you have to worry about here.
Work this week will be catching up from last week when I was buried in fixing the mess my boss and I made out of some data. I messed up the data entry (oops) and she messed up the scoring of the materials. Specifically, she messed up the checking of MY scoring and managed a shit ton of summing errors. I NEVER have summing errors because I run everything through excel and check my data entry twice, so I am VERY confident in my scoring. Of the 30 or so scoring errors she said I made, I found 2 transormation corrects, pretty good on a set of 315 cases, better than our usual 99% scoring accuracy.
Climate change has brought really rainy June's to OK the past few years, and this year even more so. It looks like rain all week, including this weekend when I have training for my new volunteer job. Enough rain already.
It's just the opposite here in Central Texas. Climate change has made it way drier. We've been under some degree of drought here for several years now.
We've been under drought here, too. No sign of an end.
wish we could bottle up our moisture and ship it out to you guys. The humidity is outright oppressive most of the time. Makes for luxurious plants, I'll grant you
Oh we still have the humidity, just not the rain. I was thinking yesterday while I was doing my miles that I might be better off with gills than lungs.
𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘜. 𝘛𝘳𝘻𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘰𝘸𝘴𝘬𝘪, 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘶𝘴𝘬'𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.
𝘕𝘢𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪, 42, 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴. 𝘏𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘜'𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴.
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27897vedno
Only troubles sprout from Brussels.
When I went to bed the good guy was leading. This is disappointing.
𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗸𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗸𝗶 𝗜𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 ‘𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀’ 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽
The Alaska Republican senator has no qualms about criticizing the president. She could play a make-or-break role in pushing back on the legislation carrying his agenda.
Senator Lisa Murkowski was listing all the ways that President Trump’s efforts to slash the federal government had harmed Alaska, from the funding freezes on programs the state depends on to the layoffs of federal workers who live there, when she delivered something of an understatement.
“It’s a challenging time right now,” she recently told a crowd at a state infrastructure conference here in the state’s largest city. “I could use nice words about it — but I don’t.”...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/politics/murkowski-life-under-trump.html
I wish she would recognize that her party is a cult, become an independent, and start caucusing with the DEMs. Won’t happen, but a girl can dream.
I agree.
Love America, Lisa. Leave the h8rs
So brave.
So ruddy, bloody brave.
I can feel the furrow of the brow from here.
She had her chance. She could have used her influence as the only Senator to have successfully overcome a party ouster with a write in vote. That is not nothing: they're afraid of her. Instead she meekly went along with the party line time and time and time again, from bills to appointments, much like her other concerned colleague from Maine.
...𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘩, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘒𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍.𝘉.𝘐. 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘔𝘳. 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴’ 𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘳. 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 “𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧.” 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘔𝘳. 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘖𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘺𝘮𝘺𝘳 𝘡𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘬𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 “𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩,” 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘧𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘦𝘴 “𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘭.”...
ooo she opposed two whole people, voted against one thing, and mentioned how bad things are.
Mind, I am very cynical anymore, but idk, that seems hardly anything compared to how much she has supported him both last time and this time
𝗔 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗞𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗵𝗶, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 — Armed with a federal license and allies in Trumpworld, the tech start-up is pushing prediction markets across America into a legal gray zone: sports betting.
https://archive.ph/3Jabx [Bloomberg]
I thought they just made cereal.
Honestly, that's what I was thinking.
Wait.
A federal license for online gambling?
What do we think the White House's response to yesterday's Ukrainian badassery is going to be?
I think it will be that Ukraine has betrayed their word to the US and that orange bag of shit is walking away from peace talks because of it. That would probably be doing Ukraine a favor.
Except that mineral thing. Trump is now invested in Ukraine innit he?
He only wanted for it to be signed so he could claim a victory. He's always only interested in the optics, not the follow through.
Besides I'm sure that once Ukraine gets through it's rough patch with the neighbor it will tell the US to go pound sand as it was signed under duress.
Like he keeps his agreements.
Who cares, they're irrelevant.
Easy one. They don't want peace. Just when they were getting Putin agreeing to my beautiful plan. etc etc etc
It’s almost like you were in the room…
I get no points for something so predictable XD
It is so suspiciously quiet.
Trump must be angrily confused- he was convinced Ukraine had to roll over, and he was convinced that he was Charlie Big Potatoes that was going to preside over its partition and exploitation and that his big hero Putin was going to win and reward him for his help.
Good morning, Wonkers. Kittehs have been fed their 1st breakfast and garbage bins have been taken out to the curb. Per my Apple watch, I only got 3 hours and 20 minutes of sleep, so maybe I can take a nap soon.
I’m apparently turning into my 80 yo dad.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴, 𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 80,000 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘫𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘷𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 – 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘯𝘢𝘮 𝘷𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘲 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘧𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦.
𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗨𝗦 𝘃𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲
Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/01/us-veterans-affairs-agency-doctors-scientists-research?utm_term=683d2545cc3f11d2c1da7685e5c4c791&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email
My sister is a physical therapist for the VA. But she apparently voted for the Orange Chicken, so it’s more difficult to drum up sympathy for her.
I would not be able to help myself if she called to tell me how she lost her job. I'd have to say something like "I guess you were the fraud and waste"
She’s probably safe because she’s been there over 20 years and provides direct patient care. But she has to do the “5 things” email.
I knew that her husband voted for the asshole, but I wasn’t sure about her until I said something negative about That Fucking Guy and Elno, and she cut me off to say she wasn’t going to listen to me talk bad about anyone. That was about a month ago, and we haven’t talked since.
Thank FSM that my elderly parents aren’t idiots and voted for Harris/Walz. I don’t think I could handle it.
I doubt she is safe though she may think it. There have been a lot of career feds who have gotten axed, including some they had to scramble to recall because of silly things like "nuclear scientists" and such what.
True that. They’ll probably decide that vets can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and do their own PT.
Oh, PT is right out. They should get that privately.
The end goal of course is to kill the entire VA :(
Wow, that's some insanity.
All those fine minds will be seeking opportunities in other countries.
The rot is seeping into everything.