Dean Gloster

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Seems less than ideal.

US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs, Unemployment Rises February data call labor market stabilization narrative into question

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🤣🤣🤣

Markwayne Mullin, cowering on January 6, trying to look even shorter.

Markwayne Mullin comes from a family where they couldn't even decide on his first name.

I'm sure he'll be a great, decisive head of DHS. (Sarcasm font.) 🙄

When your nickname is "Bald Eva Braun" because you don't mind f**king Nazis in power.

When you get ground under the "well-oiled machinery" in Trumpestan.

So far today, on news that DJT may still be President, the Dow is down over 1,000 points.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Life, under the Republican form of government...

When even (*checks notes*) Pro-Trump stooge Bari Weiss's CBS reveals the DOJ is trying to hide previously released Epstein file documents...

"I will end inflation on day one" said Mango Mussolini.

It was, of course a lie.

So. I guess it's going to be called our "All-Quaid...uh" war?

Kristi Noem's DHS gave a $143 million no-bid contract to Noem's former assistant and her husband.

GOP government: It's not just a swamp. It's a sewer.

It's pretty sad that Trump had to go half-way around the world to find a senior government official to kill who wasn't in the Epstein files.

"I think the only reason Marco Rubio isn't in the Epstein files is that a 14-year-old girl can kick the %#&t out of him."--Comedian Gregg Rogell

Although, in fairness, it was actually 3 U.S. F-15Es that they shot down. So there's that.

Devastating.

Once upon a time, I gave a seminar to the entire Oracle legal department on treatment of software licenses in bankruptcy. So yeah--that's probably what I'm going to be stuck discussing in hell for eternity.

The weirdest thing about Girl Scout cookies is that they're produced and packaged in a parallel universe: The box says serving size is "4 cookies".

Not on _this_ planet, extraterrestrials.

Try: "One sleeve".

Bay Area guy here. Hell is where they make you talk about the freaking Dodgers, for eternity....

www.startribune.com/judge-orders...

F-15ex Strike Eagles cost about $97 million each. So about $300 million. That would have covered average Affordable Care Act subsidies (since cancelled) at 2024 rates, for 387,000 Americans. Sigh. 😢

At least they were shot down by our "Patriots".

(And "stable" condition doesn't mean well or recovering--it means their vital signs are not continuing to deteriorate.)

This is a self-inflicted nightmare.

Oh, I don't know. We didn't vote for Trump or decide to not vote in order to give the Presidency to Trump or vote for Jill freaking Stein, seen here lunching with Vladimir Putin and Michael Flynn. So there's that. (And we might do better than Newsom. I hope.)

Just submitted my first packet for an MFA post-graduate semester at the new USF writing for young people program: cover letter, 40 pages of the new YA draft, a 10-page critical essay on incorporating backstory, and bibliography/annotations.

I'm happy. But exhausted.

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

When even (*checks notes*) Trump toady Jeff Bezos's Washington Posts reports on how the U.S. just murdered children. 😢😭