Smartass. Current Wisconsinite. Formerly lived in a metal tube underwater. Does not suffer fools gladly, or at all. Anecdotes are not data. Come for the snark, stay for the tiny dog photos.
i fucking hate fake service dog handlers soooo much, leave your shitty dog at home. "but the ADA says" i know what the ADA says, and it says your dog has to be under your control at all times but okay
When I see people post shit like this I always wonder if they really believe this nonsense, or if it’s gotten to be like a mantra. I mean, does this person REALLY think healthcare is “eugenicist?” If so, why aren’t you out massacring CNAs and the like?
Today in History: In 1534, French explorer Jacques Cartier made the first European contact with native people in what is now Canada. Among the things he brought back were various animal pelts, some native carvings, a keg of maple syrup, two cases of Labatt's, and the word "eh."
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
Oh boo. Got the ‘rona again. But thank god for vaccines, as this is no more annoying than a cold at this point. Oh, and fuck Donald Trump, RFK Jr, and every other anti-vaxxer right into the center of the Earth.
Today in History: In 1630, Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus and 4000 of his soldiers landed in Pomerania. They were nearly instantly rendered combat ineffective as they all laid down their weapons to play with tiny, floofy doggies.
I say this all the time. The past only looks inevitable because it already happened. It didn't have to turn out this way at all! So stop whining about "livestreaming a genocide," get under that gear, get off your ass, and move out. We have much to do.
/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.
Today in History: In 1776, fireworks manufacturers in China, facing a severe downturn in business, prayed and prayed that something would happen to save their industry.
Taraji P. Henson did a huge public service calling out Project 2025.
Earlier today, Kevin Roberts, chair of Project 2025, threatened violence: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
It's Christofascism. Make no mistake.
She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.
"The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
I know why the Dutch team gets abbreviated as "NED," but just once I want to see them all take the field dressed like Flanders.*
*Stupid Sexy Flanders or Classic Ned, doesn't matter.
The next motherfucker that mentions "originalism" to me is getting their teeth kicked out of their head, crammed up their pee hole one by one, and then thrown down an elevator shaft.
You know, like they deserve.
Just re-upping my suggestion that if you give people lifetime-tenure judge jobs, they probably shouldn't be allowed to rule on whether or not you are above the law.
a thing i really sincerely believe is that both the center left and the left left have got to snap out of peacetime dilettantism and recognize that we are at war.