The novel will always be associated in my mind with a law partner who died of AIDS. I was the only one of his partners he allowed to come visit him and I brought him the book (the film was announced but not yet released). I was speaking at his memorial service a few weeks later. Obviously, he never got to see the film.
New Law Requires Texans To Show ID To Buy Phallic Foods
AUSTIN, TX—In an effort to crack down on the statewide proliferation of adult foodstuffs, the Texas Legislature passed a new law Friday requiring all residents to show identification to buy phallic foods. “From bananas to cucumbers to submarine sandwiches, obscene foods will no longer be allowed to fall into the hands of minors in the Lone Star State,” said Gov. Greg Abbott, adding that an officially issued driver’s license or passport would be needed to purchase a baguette, which is defined in the legislation as “any elongated breadlike object used to simulate male genitals.” “No decent person should be buying lewd produce and baked goods, which is why these items need to be safely placed behind locked plexiglass cases or in an adults-only section of the supermarket where innocent kids can’t see them."
"In a statement emailed to its members on Saturday, WHCA President Eugene Daniels said his organization's board unanimously decided to do without a comedian at this year's April 26 dinner in Washington, D.C.
"At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division, but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists," he said."
The criticisms of the WHCA go back years (over being too close to the WH, etc.) but this appeasing shit is just disgusting. And the WHCA President Eugene Daniels is a gay Black man who no doubt is on some Trump target list. WTF, Eugene?
Amber Ruffin is a bright and energetic comic who works on the Seth Meyers 'Late Night' show. I actually don't enjoy her comic style very much – she is of the "loud and shouty" type of stand-up comics – but she is very good at what she does. It is really offensive that the WHCA cowarded out on her.
I've liked that Eugene Daniels for a while because I love his look--I know, but I'm shallow. I like that he'd go on tv with his nails polished to coordinate with his turtleneck. But I just don't know what everyone's doing.
The press saw what Trump did to the AP and it scared them, so instead of "hanging together" they are appeasing separately (ABC paying off Trump, WHCA canceling the Trump-critical comic, etc.)
"At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division, but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists,"
I love that they seem to think anybody ever thought this fucking ridiculous wankfest was anything other than back patting and mutual masturbation. What's it called when you believe your own fantasies?
I have always had an issue with "roast" comedy because it has always struck me as just being a court jester- the point is to show the roastee in a good light because of how well they can take a joke, you burnish their image rather than actually satirising them.
The White House Correspondents' Dinner has always been this at its worst- because often the comedian is in earnest, telling them honestly how they suck and why, and all they can see is that roast comedy form, where people will be watching and praising them for being good sports. It's fucking ridiculous.
I will now observe that nobody talks about the Friday night dumps any more, those furtive releases of the bad news at the very end of each week. These days, the bad news continues on through Saturday and Sunday and on into the next week without any real slowing.
Flood the zone with Trump shit . . . break ALL the laws and the courts will never have a chance of catching up. It's how Trump beat the rap in his criminal cases.
Trump doesn’t give a damn about hiding it with a Friday night news dump. The Killing Puppies Executive Order? Do it up with a press event in the Oval Office, with puppies.
So now even Israelis and American Jews who protested against Netanyahu back before Oct 7, as I did, are going to be targeted. After all, authoritarians have to hang together or they will assuredly hang separately to paraphrase the forgotten forefather.
@Tamir114
Here we go: Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Brian Mast and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan have sent official letters to Eliad Shraga, Chairman of the Movement for Quality Government, and Eran Schwartz, CEO of the Blue and White Future organization.
Mast and Jordan informed them that they are under investigation by Congress on suspicion of undermining the democracy of the State of Israel a U.S. ally - through the alleged illegal use of grant funds received from the Biden administration for that purpose.
It is pathetic and disgusting that "antisemitism" has been turned into a Joe McCarthy/HUAC type authoritarian weapon by pro-Israel and Zionist Americans and the GOP.
MAGA is investigating the pro-democracy demonstrations against Netanyahu that occurred a few summers ago here in the US when Netanyahu tried to take away the independence of the Supreme Court, there were massive demonstrations all across Israel and in cities in the US. So Trump is doing his pal a favor by moving against the organizers.
Now, the Trump administration is considering revoking the status of all Ukrainians who found refuge in the US, leaving them vulnerable to deportation and an uncertain future.
Don't Send 240,000 Ukrainians Back to War. Protect Their Humanitarian Parole.
Not to get too hair-splitty here, but it is important- which Orthodox church is she part of? (The Autocephaly thing is a big issue for each of them- my Baba and Deda were not Greek, nor Russian, nor Bulgarian Orthodox but Serb, for instance).
Entirely accurate. My mother, also raised Catholic, became close friends with a rather pretentious women she met at the coffee shop. Vivan was a well travelled woman whose husband was a "business" man often involved in the buying and selling of precious gems from abroad. Mom started going to church with her and one thing lead to another, ultimately resulting in Mom's conversion followed not long thereafter of my late father's.
Mom tried VERY hard to compel my conversion as well, but as they say in the vernacular, THAT'LL be the gawd damned day.
I DID, however, design the gardening plan for the front of their new church purchased a few years ago. Abundant with hardy pernnials and bright seasonal blooms it will continue to blossom and grow like the faith of those within.
Look, if foreign students can't speak up without being deported it's on all of us US citizens to speak up even louder. I'm not going to wear a mask to hide my identity. I'm not going to buy a burner phone to go to a protest. If the government wants to persecute me for my speech I'm not going quietly.
The threat of clamping down on protesters is meant to create anxiety which inhibits the desire to protest. If they can keep the number of arrest targets down to a manageable number they can increase the anxiety with public arrests and disappearing people.
But the size of the available law enforcement personnel to effect the arrests is finite. Law enforcement lives for the iron clad procedure of showing up with a 4 to 1 numerical advantage for any one arrest (one suspect to be arrested = four arresting officers minimum.) It is referred to as "overwhelming force". This is why you never see just one SWAT officer show up to grab the bad guy, it is ALWAYS a whole squad.
(Take a look at the arrest of the Turkish Grad student at Tufts. ICE had no less than SIX arresting officers to apprehend one tiny college student. Were they afraid she might have a book on her person to use against them?)
Our advantage is to create a pool of arrest targets so vast that the people tasked with the midnight raids become stretched so thin that they break. Exhausted and demoralized they will start to miss their target quotas and start to call out sick more frequently. Who knows? They might quit.
The riot squad has no problem with wading into a crowd and busting heads when the crowd is of a manageable size. But if the crowd is too big the order will be to retreat and wait for the National Guard.
Of course, since there’s no due process they could just point a finger at you and say that guy goes on the next plane to El Salvador. US citizen, you say? Shrug, I don’t believe you, get on the plane.
"A New Jersey police chief has come under fire after colleagues accused him of defecating on the station floor, attempting to drug co-workers by putting Viagra and Adderall in their coffee, and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis"
I think he stabbed the officer through his uniform. I've read a few articles on it, I'm horrified this guy thought ANY of this was acceptable and how long this kind of crap has been going on
"NJ.com reported that Robert Farley, chief of North Bergen police, repeatedly harassed his co-workers with a series of so-called pranks..." "So-called pranks"? Yeah, the old "hypodermic needle in the penis prank" always a favorite, right?
I continue to think the reporter was included on purpose. The narrative was from the start: a) see what consummate professionals we are, and b) that reporter sucks. Both fit this administration's goals.
I hadn’t heard that theory before. Interesting but I’m not sure I buy it on account of these people are stupid, like really stupid, like dumb as a post, village idiot level stupid.
I get their apparent stupidity. Yet somehow they have achieved the highest levels of power, essentially, in the world. There are a lot of stupid people out there, but these are stupid in more cunning ways. We mock them at our peril (obviously).
They have achieved the highest levels of power because America has a weird electoral system that the founders warned would end in a populist demagogue being elected who would become a dictator. Sadly this was always a possibility. All it took was one person who refused to follow the conventions incorrectly assumed to be laws. Conventions aren’t laws.
I feel terrible for our American friends (because y’all still are friends in spite of Cheetolini) and I’m not trying to shame anyone but there should have been some work done on making conventions into law. And yeah I know the Dems didn’t have the votes but after January 6 they pissed away their chance to change because they were timid. They really needed to solidify the conventions into law and have a serious discussion about updating the constitution while people were still freaked out. They wasted their moment in the early days of Biden’s presidency.
Google is no longer letting me hide or block Fox. I found that irritating so now I spend my time reporting each and every offering as "misleading" information
Wildfires have been burning in North and South Carolina for two weeks and they've barely been covered in national news. But one fire in South Carolina -- Table Rock -- became the largest recorded in the state, and the ones in North Carolina are slowly getting controlled. There have been evacuations and curfews in both states. I can't smell the wildfire smoke today here in Richmond, but it was evident for the previous three. Yeah there have been a lot of things going on, but are red state natural disasters not news?
As to your question, no, because they cover every tornado and what not all the time. But the press do tend to ignore east coast wild fires in general (including in purple and blue states) because they are not so spectacular as the ones in the SW and west coast.
The novel will always be associated in my mind with a law partner who died of AIDS. I was the only one of his partners he allowed to come visit him and I brought him the book (the film was announced but not yet released). I was speaking at his memorial service a few weeks later. Obviously, he never got to see the film.
New Law Requires Texans To Show ID To Buy Phallic Foods
AUSTIN, TX—In an effort to crack down on the statewide proliferation of adult foodstuffs, the Texas Legislature passed a new law Friday requiring all residents to show identification to buy phallic foods. “From bananas to cucumbers to submarine sandwiches, obscene foods will no longer be allowed to fall into the hands of minors in the Lone Star State,” said Gov. Greg Abbott, adding that an officially issued driver’s license or passport would be needed to purchase a baguette, which is defined in the legislation as “any elongated breadlike object used to simulate male genitals.” “No decent person should be buying lewd produce and baked goods, which is why these items need to be safely placed behind locked plexiglass cases or in an adults-only section of the supermarket where innocent kids can’t see them."
https://theonion.com/new-law-requires-texans-to-show-id-to-buy-phallic-foods/
The latest "Obeyers in Advance". . . (aka "Appeasers")
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"White House Correspondents' dinner cancels comedian Amber Ruffin's appearance"
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5344487/white-house-correspondents-dinner-amber-ruffin
"In a statement emailed to its members on Saturday, WHCA President Eugene Daniels said his organization's board unanimously decided to do without a comedian at this year's April 26 dinner in Washington, D.C.
"At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division, but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists," he said."
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The criticisms of the WHCA go back years (over being too close to the WH, etc.) but this appeasing shit is just disgusting. And the WHCA President Eugene Daniels is a gay Black man who no doubt is on some Trump target list. WTF, Eugene?
Amber Ruffin is a bright and energetic comic who works on the Seth Meyers 'Late Night' show. I actually don't enjoy her comic style very much – she is of the "loud and shouty" type of stand-up comics – but she is very good at what she does. It is really offensive that the WHCA cowarded out on her.
I've liked that Eugene Daniels for a while because I love his look--I know, but I'm shallow. I like that he'd go on tv with his nails polished to coordinate with his turtleneck. But I just don't know what everyone's doing.
Well, you will get the chance to see more of him – apparently he is getting a show on MSNBC.
Yeah, well, since he's decided it's too spooky to dare risk insulting the current occupant of the WH, I'm liking him less.
I say do what you've always done and if he doesn't want to come, like he didn't the first time around, so be it.
The press saw what Trump did to the AP and it scared them, so instead of "hanging together" they are appeasing separately (ABC paying off Trump, WHCA canceling the Trump-critical comic, etc.)
That statement is quite a mouthful, especially tough to deliver while holding your arm out, giving the Hitler salute.
"At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division, but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists,"
I love that they seem to think anybody ever thought this fucking ridiculous wankfest was anything other than back patting and mutual masturbation. What's it called when you believe your own fantasies?
Huffing Ur Own Farts
Malignant narcissism.
"Journalism"
Apparently.
I saw this early this morning.
It THOROUGHLY fucking enraged me.
I have always had an issue with "roast" comedy because it has always struck me as just being a court jester- the point is to show the roastee in a good light because of how well they can take a joke, you burnish their image rather than actually satirising them.
The White House Correspondents' Dinner has always been this at its worst- because often the comedian is in earnest, telling them honestly how they suck and why, and all they can see is that roast comedy form, where people will be watching and praising them for being good sports. It's fucking ridiculous.
Yeah, this is some real "Don't make daddy mad. . . ." shit.
I am NOT kidding when I say that I really, REALLY want to hurt somebody.
This will NOT end well.
They say violence will get you nowhere. Does that mean it will get you somewhere?
I will now observe that nobody talks about the Friday night dumps any more, those furtive releases of the bad news at the very end of each week. These days, the bad news continues on through Saturday and Sunday and on into the next week without any real slowing.
Flood the zone with Trump shit . . . break ALL the laws and the courts will never have a chance of catching up. It's how Trump beat the rap in his criminal cases.
Trump doesn’t give a damn about hiding it with a Friday night news dump. The Killing Puppies Executive Order? Do it up with a press event in the Oval Office, with puppies.
"Obey this EO or we'll kill this puppy."
"We'll do it live!"
Ah, yes. Puppies putting their pawprints on their own copies of the order.
So now even Israelis and American Jews who protested against Netanyahu back before Oct 7, as I did, are going to be targeted. After all, authoritarians have to hang together or they will assuredly hang separately to paraphrase the forgotten forefather.
@Tamir114
Here we go: Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Brian Mast and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan have sent official letters to Eliad Shraga, Chairman of the Movement for Quality Government, and Eran Schwartz, CEO of the Blue and White Future organization.
Mast and Jordan informed them that they are under investigation by Congress on suspicion of undermining the democracy of the State of Israel a U.S. ally - through the alleged illegal use of grant funds received from the Biden administration for that purpose.
It is pathetic and disgusting that "antisemitism" has been turned into a Joe McCarthy/HUAC type authoritarian weapon by pro-Israel and Zionist Americans and the GOP.
here he is even turning on generally Pro-Israel American Jews for opposing his "ally" Netanyahu, has nothing even to do with Gaza or Palestine
Predictable events occurring in a predictable time frame and with predictable results.
And the results will be predictably dreadful.
Fascism Intensifies.gif
I'm sorry, what now?
MAGA is investigating the pro-democracy demonstrations against Netanyahu that occurred a few summers ago here in the US when Netanyahu tried to take away the independence of the Supreme Court, there were massive demonstrations all across Israel and in cities in the US. So Trump is doing his pal a favor by moving against the organizers.
thanks
Now, the Trump administration is considering revoking the status of all Ukrainians who found refuge in the US, leaving them vulnerable to deportation and an uncertain future.
Don't Send 240,000 Ukrainians Back to War. Protect Their Humanitarian Parole.
https://www.change.org/p/don-t-send-240-000-ukrainians-back-to-war-protect-their-humanitarian-parole?recruited_by_id=880dd020-0947-11f0-8738-1511e291ac44&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&utm_medium=facebook
There are quite a few Ukrainian families living here in Spokane. Quite a few attend the Eastern Orthodox church my mother attends.
I will fight fiercely to protect these good people from this derelict deportation.
Not to get too hair-splitty here, but it is important- which Orthodox church is she part of? (The Autocephaly thing is a big issue for each of them- my Baba and Deda were not Greek, nor Russian, nor Bulgarian Orthodox but Serb, for instance).
Your mom is Eastern Orthodox? I thought you were raised Catholic before you became an apostate.
Entirely accurate. My mother, also raised Catholic, became close friends with a rather pretentious women she met at the coffee shop. Vivan was a well travelled woman whose husband was a "business" man often involved in the buying and selling of precious gems from abroad. Mom started going to church with her and one thing lead to another, ultimately resulting in Mom's conversion followed not long thereafter of my late father's.
Mom tried VERY hard to compel my conversion as well, but as they say in the vernacular, THAT'LL be the gawd damned day.
I DID, however, design the gardening plan for the front of their new church purchased a few years ago. Abundant with hardy pernnials and bright seasonal blooms it will continue to blossom and grow like the faith of those within.
Only surprised it took this long when it's CLEAR Trump is Putin's Puppet
Those Ukrainians are mostly White
That's why it took this long
Written by a friend of a friend
Explainer: Some Ukrainians speak Russian language — it doesn’t make them Russian
by Kate Tsurkan
March 26, 2025 10:11 PM
12 min read
https://kyivindependent.com/explainer-why-do-some-ukrainians-speak-russian/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJWN_1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTzJ82CbECi4sIYeHln6IFxhyH5qryU34GJnXdI2VbBUuEx7OuSk1KSnZQ_aem_59toUXYxACFZkysNx1tuGA
Some Americans speak English.
"some"
Millions of Jews who were trapped in the (thankfully former) Soviet Union spoke Russian. They aren’t Russians, either.
Could be an Urban Legend, has the key mark FOAF aspect.
Mountain poem 52 by Stonehouse 石屋, early 1300s. Translated by Red Pine.
The shame of dumb ideas is suffered by the best
but the absence of intelligence means a fool for sure
claiming an object is nothing but illusion
unaware getting rich is simply chance
the leaves in the stream move without a plan
the clouds in the valley drift without design
I close my eyes and everything is fine
I open them again because I love mountains
Imitation of Li Po
.
My feet have led me to this mountaintop
Morning - a morning of walking
Evening - I will depart in the opposite direction
From the summit one can see a thousand miles of territory
But the mountain itself has disappeared
.
-- written by the Blessed Reverend at the age of 18, 1969
Look, if foreign students can't speak up without being deported it's on all of us US citizens to speak up even louder. I'm not going to wear a mask to hide my identity. I'm not going to buy a burner phone to go to a protest. If the government wants to persecute me for my speech I'm not going quietly.
The threat of clamping down on protesters is meant to create anxiety which inhibits the desire to protest. If they can keep the number of arrest targets down to a manageable number they can increase the anxiety with public arrests and disappearing people.
But the size of the available law enforcement personnel to effect the arrests is finite. Law enforcement lives for the iron clad procedure of showing up with a 4 to 1 numerical advantage for any one arrest (one suspect to be arrested = four arresting officers minimum.) It is referred to as "overwhelming force". This is why you never see just one SWAT officer show up to grab the bad guy, it is ALWAYS a whole squad.
(Take a look at the arrest of the Turkish Grad student at Tufts. ICE had no less than SIX arresting officers to apprehend one tiny college student. Were they afraid she might have a book on her person to use against them?)
Our advantage is to create a pool of arrest targets so vast that the people tasked with the midnight raids become stretched so thin that they break. Exhausted and demoralized they will start to miss their target quotas and start to call out sick more frequently. Who knows? They might quit.
The riot squad has no problem with wading into a crowd and busting heads when the crowd is of a manageable size. But if the crowd is too big the order will be to retreat and wait for the National Guard.
Exactly.
People still don’t get that we’re headed for NOBODY getting to protest.
Yep, if you're scared of getting arrested now... wait until the bodies start piling up
Of course, since there’s no due process they could just point a finger at you and say that guy goes on the next plane to El Salvador. US citizen, you say? Shrug, I don’t believe you, get on the plane.
If that's how it plays out that's how it plays out. They can only do that if enough people hide.
My sentiments, exactly.
If they don't like what I have to say then they may try to come and get me.
Remember those truck nuts we used to often see that were popular some years ago?
This week I saw a big Red Dodge Ram 1500 with a pair of steel ones hanging from the hitch.
Good grief! Bet that dude had the smallest non functioning dick on the planet.
paint one bulb white and the other black. or be creative! stripes! polka dots! hearts! hounds tooth!
btw spray paint now is sold in pocket-size cans. very handy.
Adding truck nuts to your pickup is effectively transgendering it, prove me wrong.
You're onto something there. Don't guys usually give their vehicles women's names?
Ha!!!
Going to add a pair with a rope tied around them to my corolla.
It's certainly gender affirming care
No, that goes to the guy— and you know he’s out there— with a set on a Wankpanzer.
A set of those on a Wankpanzer would be too heavy and bend the frame.
L O L!!!!
Truck Nuts are why I first came to Wonkette.
huge P-ness
I lost mine during Fistalknacht.
Nevar forget!
I remember the P-ness scores. I was still full time lurking then.
I miss the days of my rather large P-ness!
It was the before before time, pre Diksuq.
Were they being given away as a premium for joining?
The Republicans crowdsourced a campaign to find a new direction. The top suggestion was "Truck Nuts" and I found out who was doing it.
I figured as much. I went for a snarky joke.
(throws can of clams)
A monstrous response.
[applauds in vigorous approval]
Sporpsball physics! An MIT physicist on the payroll for the Yankees invented a new torpedo-shaped bat
Did Yankees' physicist-designed 'torpedo' bats play role in 9-HR power surge vs. Brewers?
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/did-yankees-physicist-designed-torpedo-bats-play-role-in-9-hr-power-surge-vs-brewers-224436396.html
'Torpedo' bats.
Obviously described by someone who had never seen a Torpedo at any point in their lives.
Yeah I’d say more like a bowling-pin shaped bat
But increasing the size of the sweet spot on the bat while also increasing the mass at that point probably increases hits and distance yes. 😂
The brewers pitcher was picked up from the Yankees this winter.
The first three Yankee batters hit first pitch home runs in the top of the first inning.
I'd bet a coke they knew what was coming.
I hate to see teams pile on runs like the 20 New York did because it guarantees a thumping is coming in their future.
Oh, the MLB Lawgivers will get right on that.
Article says it doesn’t appear to run afoul of current MLB rules
The MLB Lawgivers will find a way.
“SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever”
https://www.wired.com/story/signalgate-is-driving-the-most-us-downloads-of-signal-ever/
Everybody’s hoping to get in on the classified briefings.
🍒🍑🍆
Who needs hackers when these idiots will just add you to a classified "conversation"
I may have missed this:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/new-jersey-police-chief-harrassment
"A New Jersey police chief has come under fire after colleagues accused him of defecating on the station floor, attempting to drug co-workers by putting Viagra and Adderall in their coffee, and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis"
And it gets worse
“The Township of North Bergen has full confidence in Chief Robert Farley’s leadership,” the spokesperson said.
Yep, he's toast.
Holy crap what the hell?
And the article doesn’t even mention the canned clams.
“scraping fluids from his underwear on to people seated in the chief’s office”
o.0
Wait! How’d he manage to get access to the officer’s penis in the first place? Casual Fridays takes on all new meaning.
I think he stabbed the officer through his uniform. I've read a few articles on it, I'm horrified this guy thought ANY of this was acceptable and how long this kind of crap has been going on
He sounded a fellow officer? KINKY!
.....the actual fuck
This sick and twisted prick has scatological inclinations. He'll be keeping psychiatric professsionals busy for quite a while.
He's also the kid and grandson of former Chiefs… the rot goes deep and it's disturbing
No doubt, what the hell did his parents do to him?
Not excusing him, but something bad happened to him as a child.
He was raised by a cop. 'nuff said.
"NJ.com reported that Robert Farley, chief of North Bergen police, repeatedly harassed his co-workers with a series of so-called pranks..." "So-called pranks"? Yeah, the old "hypodermic needle in the penis prank" always a favorite, right?
Worse than sticking a needle in an employee's penis?
What a time to be alive.
He seems nice.
When the information was shared it then became declassified!
There is some major hoop jumping going on this AM.
Was the president on the feed? Or can just anybody declassify secrets simply by sharing them?
Boozehound Pete has the ability to declassify them, so by sharing them he made it so.
I continue to think the reporter was included on purpose. The narrative was from the start: a) see what consummate professionals we are, and b) that reporter sucks. Both fit this administration's goals.
I hadn’t heard that theory before. Interesting but I’m not sure I buy it on account of these people are stupid, like really stupid, like dumb as a post, village idiot level stupid.
Also, it's against DoD policy for them to be using Signal for official communications in the first place.
100% feature not a bug. They think this inoculates them from FOIA , which, ok, but when you get caught in the DUMBEST WAY POSSIBLE it’s not much help.
the oligarchs behind them are using them to distract. tfg is a human sharpie, that's all he is.
I get their apparent stupidity. Yet somehow they have achieved the highest levels of power, essentially, in the world. There are a lot of stupid people out there, but these are stupid in more cunning ways. We mock them at our peril (obviously).
Point.
They have achieved the highest levels of power because America has a weird electoral system that the founders warned would end in a populist demagogue being elected who would become a dictator. Sadly this was always a possibility. All it took was one person who refused to follow the conventions incorrectly assumed to be laws. Conventions aren’t laws.
I feel terrible for our American friends (because y’all still are friends in spite of Cheetolini) and I’m not trying to shame anyone but there should have been some work done on making conventions into law. And yeah I know the Dems didn’t have the votes but after January 6 they pissed away their chance to change because they were timid. They really needed to solidify the conventions into law and have a serious discussion about updating the constitution while people were still freaked out. They wasted their moment in the early days of Biden’s presidency.
Clandestine Covert Stupidity.
...never mind how everyone else, except the journalist, had the clearance then?
Do they or is Trump just ignoring that now?
Don't need the clearance once it's declassified, right? ;^}
On par with unclassifying with my mind, innit
btw, so talking about operations /before they happen/ make them unclassified, do they?
Magical thinking.
Fucking seriously? Which meat puppet show was that on?
This Week. Didn't recognize who the ball gargler was.
There are so many, it's hard to keep track.
Thought this might interest some of you
Essays and Scholarship
Into the Driver’s Seat With Social Media Content Feeds
Using vehicles as an analogy, a proposed classification framework for algorithmic feeds
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/into-the-drivers-seat-with-social-media-content-feeds?_preview_=bf0ffe3b59&ref=dispatch.the-citizens.com
Bring back "newest first" and stop inserting anything into my feed.
Google is no longer letting me hide or block Fox. I found that irritating so now I spend my time reporting each and every offering as "misleading" information
Wildfires have been burning in North and South Carolina for two weeks and they've barely been covered in national news. But one fire in South Carolina -- Table Rock -- became the largest recorded in the state, and the ones in North Carolina are slowly getting controlled. There have been evacuations and curfews in both states. I can't smell the wildfire smoke today here in Richmond, but it was evident for the previous three. Yeah there have been a lot of things going on, but are red state natural disasters not news?
https://www.wyff4.com/article/table-rock-sc-wildfire-largest-in-upstate-history/64325650
I was at my sister's last week and saw national news for the first time in ages and they were covering it.
As to your question, no, because they cover every tornado and what not all the time. But the press do tend to ignore east coast wild fires in general (including in purple and blue states) because they are not so spectacular as the ones in the SW and west coast.
They were in the news early on, but I had assumed they were out because, as you say, no longer covered.
Are they raking the forests? What have they been doing with their water?
I have come to favor my Ames dethatching rake, shorter handle notwithstanding.
Maybe we can send Elno down there since he's sucking all the oxygen out of the country.
One way to not notice how disasters aren't being handled - just don't report on it!
Don't worry, everyone will notice when it finally effects them. I live on the Gulf and it's only a matter of time