Erik of Portland, Governmental Lawlessness Disliker

Help us, Janet Mills. You're our only hope.

And providing Iran with equipment to fight us, while we fail to provide equipment to Ukraine. And the economy takes a good solid thwack from oil prices rising, hopefully that doesn't get too awful because we just gave [checks notes] RUSSIA permission to sell its otherwise-sanctioned oil to India.

Well, maybe at lest he'll vote right on judges?

well I effed that up good.

Justice Dept., Under Pressure From Trump, Fails to Build Autopen Case Against Biden

Oh look at that it was a nothingburger after all. Quelle suprise.

As for "temporary," the next census is only 4 years away, there will be new maps for the 2032 cycle no matter what.

IDNGAF what Ruffini thinks is fair or deceptive, GOP decided that whoever is in power can change the rules and the maps whenever they want for nothing more than their own advantage, and they can call it whatever they like to boot.

Their rules. Maybe they should have picked different ones.

Some of us lawyers have a "You know what? That's morally objectionable, we're not going to do that," component to our case acceptance rubrics.

But not all of us, apparently.

This is a joke, right? I can't be sure anymore, there is so much Stoopid in circulation.

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This didn't work out well the last time we tried it, folks!

Nixon: Treat hostile reporters with contempt - UPI Archives President Nixon told aides that his policy for dealing with unfriendly reporters was to treat them with 'considerably more contempt' than other journalists,...

Here's what I think her real job is. Bear in mind who mentored Trump into what he is today.

"...treating them [reporters who ask critical questions] with considerably more contempt is in the long run a more productive policy..." Richard M. Nixon, 02 June 1971.

a black and white photo of a man and woman with the caption " i have always depended on the kindness of strangers " below them Alt: Blanche DuBois' tragic final scene from the 1955 film "A Streetcar Named Desire." Vivien Leigh, hair dyed blonde, plays Blanche. A kindly gentleman in a suit, with his back mostly to the camera, has shown up and offered to take her to a new home where people will look after her (which we know is the looney bin, where she will probably be lobotomized), but she's so far gone she looks at him innocently and wide-eyed, saying, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," and you just want to cry it's so awful how the world is crashing down around her and IT'S ALL STANLEY'S FAULT!

I think we need to rely upon the kindess of strangers, which is to say, West Ham and Nottingham Forest being even more wretched than we are right now. #COYS

I say, EVERY CEO needs to communicate that they personally like the product, they consume the product, the product is good.

Are you the CEO of a car company? Better drive that company's car. CEO of a clothing company? Wear those clothes. CEO of McDonald's? Make sure you're seen eating them nuggies!

Indeed, isn't this pre-WWII stuff?

FDR positioned himself as a middle path between corporatist proto-fascism of Herbert Hoover and the dangerous radical syndicalism of Eugene Debs. Not exactly the same as today, but it feels pretty analagous.

The difference is FDR promised to do it ENERGETICALLY.

Relegation Probabilities (Bottom Half Teams) Team -- Points (Pld) -- Relegation Odds (%) -- Status / Outlook Wolves -- 16 (30) -- 99.9% -- Virtually guaranteed to go down; 19-match winless run. Burnley -- 19 (29) -- 99.5% -- Nearly certain; 9 points adrift from safety. West Ham -- 28 (29) -- 40% – 50% -- Currently in 18th; slight improvement under Nuno Espírito Santo. Nott'm Forest -- 28 (29) -- 26% – 33% -- Precariously above the drop on goal difference; on their 4th manager. Tottenham -- 29 (29) -- 16% – 33% -- Most shocking slide in EPL history; 11-game winless run. Leeds United -- 31 (29) -- 8% – 11% -- Three points clear of the drop; looking more stable recently. Everton -- 43 (29) -- ~5% -- Likely safe, though technically in the bottom half.

Odds of relegation as reported to me by the all-knowing Opta Supercomputer. Wolves and Burnley are all but locked in.

Tottenham is somewhere between a 1 in 3 and 1 in 6 chance of getting that third journey to Championship; but West Ham remains the strongest candidate to join them.

9 games left.

No question she was the one whose shit was best put together. But that's why I'm pegging her as the Professor.

Definitely in top 5 of the unplugged. Candidate for top spot.

A Historic Best Picture Showdown - Ordinary Times The biggest night in cinema is coming down to two masterpieces that will likely be revered for decades.

"Both boast some of the year’s best audience scores. One comes from a veteran director still chasing his first Oscar; the other from a Black filmmaker who has emerged as a defining modern auteur with a chance to make history" - @mendezmovierpt.bsky.social ordinary-times.com/2026/03/05/a...

Japan not only has the best player in baseball, they also have cool jerseys.

Great Britain can only envy.

Michael J. Fox and Jennifer Parker watch, dumbfoubded, as Christopher Lloyd feeds trash into the "Mr. Fusion" engine on the back of the time-traveling DeLorean at the end of the original Back To The Future.

Vault boy from Fallout

I can't warp my mind far enough for this to make sense.

Dole whip!

Will 100% take Kirkland Brand Politician over the incumbent. High quality, good value, robust supply chain backing it up if we need another.

Coincidentally that country was considered an industrial and military powerhouse whose might was thought to dwarf most if not all of its neighbors and competitors, until they banded together. And they too had a democratically-elected leader who disliked democracy and preferred to govern by fiat.

But what if the developer has no functional conscience at all? Anthropic has some lines in the sand, but seems to be an outlier in that respect. I don't want to rely on Sam Altman's or Elon Musk's senses of macro-morality to protect us from the harms at risk here.

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Uh, yes it does. It is contributing to harm coming to American servicemembers. Sone of whom have DIED.

We should be doing everything in our power to stop it.

A repeating pixellated pattern of navy blue lines and squares with orange and hot pink pixels as well on a field of teal, reminiscent of the layout of runways and terminal buildings at Portland International Airport when viewed from overhead.

I have a tie with this pattern. Don't wear it much, because, not much call to wear ties these days and when I do, it pretty much isn't a fun sort of event. But when there is one...

Yeah, I don't get it. No ninjas here.