I'll believe it when I see actual proof of life.
However, if this is true, things are about to get a whole lot more fucked for everyone involved. I really, really hope this isn't true.
From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 3: The Bat Bandit of Inferno Gulch Mickey robbing a bank. Mickey: Line up against the wall, and bring your guns with ya - and don't try any funny business!
the problem, fundamentally, is that rural voters don't want the economy to be "good" in the typical sense of being efficient or productive, they want it to be "good" in a moral sense where it rewards the people and industries they like
This is abject cowardice at a level that kind of still shocks me, to be honest
Like, I know he’s an evil, hellbound monster who cares nothing for others, obsessed with his own image.
I still expected he’d either keep deflecting, or claim it was justified for the greater good. Not this.
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
Maine - Here is your alternative to Platner.
Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space
I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.
Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.
it genuinely crazy how chud the teamsters are. you have a president spitting in your mouth everyday and these guys still say “yes sir please more sir i love it sir none of this woke girl college nonsense for us strong union men”
Uh huh. Tell me, what happened to the last US-backed regime in Iran that primarily existed to keep their oil out of local control?
CNN gas tracker: $3.41
vibe check: CNN now has a gas tracker on their front page
They blew up an elementary school Tom
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
what the rurals want is to be given everything they ask for and told that they’re better than the city dwellers and that’s why they deserve it, and while individual dems can run campaigns on it, it’s not a national party responsibility to back them up
this was the IRA, which every senate democrat voted for and every senate republican voted against
Everyone should not have to have a direct line to elected officials in order to ensure that we are not kidnapped by the government.
worse: it actually made politics even more toxic according to an NBER paper
my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy:
1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden
2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough
3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes
Markwayne giving up a seat he could hold for life makes sense in two overlapping set of facts: (a) dunning-kruger syndrome, (b) think Republicans might lose the senate.
I mean this is just another way of saying that Foreign Policy is functionally just a domain of intra-elite coordination and contestation
the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism
it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point
Heads about to roll at the NIC, which was a shell already.
Tulsi can't allow Il Padrino to be embarrassed like this.
(Joe Kent is in the parking garage at LX, chewing on the cables at the Tesla Charging Station)
Screenshot Jamesgurneyart: has anyone else noticed that things look warmer (that is more yellow orange) when you PAINT them (bottom image) compared to how they look when you PHOTOGRAPH them at the same time (top image) ? If so, why? Art-lust-: James, you choose the paints
Facebook gave me this and the fact he stupidly uses ai now makes this even painfully funnier
But even dumber this time.
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
Elected officials can't look at the cameras and tell voters that they're stupid bastards but I'm under no such compulsion
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
with love to many of my mutuals, i don't really feel this "hip progressive national security revolution" thing is going to happen. because it has the same problem that conservative intellectuals have with their base -- who don't want to be all that intellectual
i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.
So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"
This seems like a promising possible answer to "what happens to junior folks as AI coding takes off?"
And everyone's junior at something
any time the government tries to restrict my access to information i think they're bad and wrong.
lots of people ostensibly agree with this until it's about a regulation from the left, then they don't. i actually believe this and the burden for overcoming it is unfathomably high
My Pomeranian Crunchwrap with eyebrows added onto her (with nontoxic black eyeshadow)
did you know? you can just put eyebrows on a dog if you want
