“American prosperity and security depend on the development and promotion of competence” Does this mean early elections then? It certainly leaves the Trump cabinet out of the running. 🙄
Low carb Saturday (except for the beer I'm nursing). Stir fried pearl onions, broccoli, mushrooms, chili crisp, grated ginger root, a mashed anchovy, a shot of tamari, and some leftover chicken (cooked in chili crisp). Plenty left over for lunch tomorrow.
Perhaps helpful to note here that Republicans are ALWAYS fond of quoting the line "Good fences make good neighbors" from Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," without ever having read the poem, in which this is the dopey refrain of the NIMBY neighbor who is described by the narrator as a "stone savage."
The suspected drug traffickers, the lone survivors of a U.S. airstrike, were sprawled on a table-size piece of floating wreckage in the Caribbean for more than 40 minutes. They were unarmed, incommunicado, and adrift as they repeatedly attempted to right what remained of their boat. At one point, the men raised their arms and seemed to signal to the U.S. aircraft above, a gesture some who watched a video of the incident interpreted as a sign of surrender. Then a second explosion finished the men off, leaving only a bloody stain on the surface of the sea. Footage of the two men’s desperate final moments made some viewers nauseated, leading one to nearly vomit. “It was worse than we had been led to believe,” one person told us.
The video was part of a briefing that Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command, gave lawmakers yesterday about the September 2 attack. Bradley told legislators that, after consulting military lawyers, he authorized the follow-on strike, judging that the men still posed a threat because of what they could have done: radioed for help or been picked up with what remained of their cargo of suspected cocaine. The video suggested they didn’t actually do any of that, but Bradley defended his decisions in the first episode of the Trump administration’s newly militarized counternarcotics campaign.
As much as the French receive a bad rap for being subjugated by the Nazis, I believe Denmark still holds the record for time of capitulation (≈ 6 hours).
None of the people in the current administration are competent or have any merit. They are either nepo babies or have sold their souls to techbro oligarchs, and they are pushing their agendas, which only help them and not the majority of this country's population. This document is whacked.
Wild how a “national security strategy” can read like a drunk fascist Pinterest board. Every line sounds like he is trying to colonize a globe he bought at Walmart. The whole thing boils down to “we totally reject domination, which is why we should dominate everything forever.”
Blessed be the ones who write manifestos that accidentally confess more than they explain.
Cute cars now legal, thanks to Trump.
𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱: 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘑𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘢, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘳… 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘴.
Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk:
https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3m7drngrqxk2w
That's gonna leave a mark.
What are the chances that prissy princess Elno is going to start a very dumb twitter spat?
“American prosperity and security depend on the development and promotion of competence” Does this mean early elections then? It certainly leaves the Trump cabinet out of the running. 🙄
Italian pasta tariffs to hit 107% starting in January?
Why 107? Was 100% too boring?
it's metric
;)
𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘:
https://substack.com/profile/157154942-oneyieldregular/note/c-185011800
Michael Henderson, "Non-Violence," 1967
yikes!!!
I couldn't get past the first paragraph of that manifesto, it's such bullshit.
Low carb Saturday (except for the beer I'm nursing). Stir fried pearl onions, broccoli, mushrooms, chili crisp, grated ginger root, a mashed anchovy, a shot of tamari, and some leftover chicken (cooked in chili crisp). Plenty left over for lunch tomorrow.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! If you want me, I'll be crouched in my dark closet, muttering, "Mad king, mad king, mad king..."
Mad Lord Yam, or MLY as he's known in these here parts.
I guess Auschwitz in America is fine now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGa4PnYLtco
America as Auschwitz is also fine: the walls fuckface wants to build are meant to keep people in as much as they are meant to keep them out.
Perhaps helpful to note here that Republicans are ALWAYS fond of quoting the line "Good fences make good neighbors" from Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," without ever having read the poem, in which this is the dopey refrain of the NIMBY neighbor who is described by the narrator as a "stone savage."
"You're going to buy that crap?" Bodega Caturday https://bsky.app/profile/bodegacats.bsky.social/post/3m7cwhmge422h
"Over your dead body," looks like.
Jesus Christ
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/pete-hegseth-strikes-venezuela-congress/685156/?gift=OeT_GxaR0YTfvHbXCiSG2JJHFgIDv-WzlQYJ5rE0krY
The suspected drug traffickers, the lone survivors of a U.S. airstrike, were sprawled on a table-size piece of floating wreckage in the Caribbean for more than 40 minutes. They were unarmed, incommunicado, and adrift as they repeatedly attempted to right what remained of their boat. At one point, the men raised their arms and seemed to signal to the U.S. aircraft above, a gesture some who watched a video of the incident interpreted as a sign of surrender. Then a second explosion finished the men off, leaving only a bloody stain on the surface of the sea. Footage of the two men’s desperate final moments made some viewers nauseated, leading one to nearly vomit. “It was worse than we had been led to believe,” one person told us.
The video was part of a briefing that Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command, gave lawmakers yesterday about the September 2 attack. Bradley told legislators that, after consulting military lawyers, he authorized the follow-on strike, judging that the men still posed a threat because of what they could have done: radioed for help or been picked up with what remained of their cargo of suspected cocaine. The video suggested they didn’t actually do any of that, but Bradley defended his decisions in the first episode of the Trump administration’s newly militarized counternarcotics campaign.
I read somewhere that Bradley is/was a big Trumper.
It all makes sense now.
I said earlier: St. Peter ain't gonna buy that bullshit.
It bears repeating that the first country the Nazis invaded was Germany herself.
As much as the French receive a bad rap for being subjugated by the Nazis, I believe Denmark still holds the record for time of capitulation (≈ 6 hours).
None of the people in the current administration are competent or have any merit. They are either nepo babies or have sold their souls to techbro oligarchs, and they are pushing their agendas, which only help them and not the majority of this country's population. This document is whacked.
Wild how a “national security strategy” can read like a drunk fascist Pinterest board. Every line sounds like he is trying to colonize a globe he bought at Walmart. The whole thing boils down to “we totally reject domination, which is why we should dominate everything forever.”
Blessed be the ones who write manifestos that accidentally confess more than they explain.
There are few things more tiresome than arrogant nitwits telling other, smarter people what to do and how to be.
The banality of evil.
Hannah Arendt is spinning in her.... well, you know!
𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗴𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗳 ‘𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝘀’ 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝘁. 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘆
https://archaeologymag.com/2024/12/sarcophagus-of-santa-claus-found-in-turkey/
Interesting. Some time next year I have a trip planned in that area, w/ 3 nights in nearby Kaş.