JD

we are in the process of finding out if “ah! well. nevertheless,” works for us on a global scale or if it is just a personal thing

it’s not looking great folks

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Hey, remember how I said that my third friend in the oil industry didn’t respond? Yeah they got back to me.

It’s not looking good, team

feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

Supernatural meme

“How Good Intentions Helped Pave Trump’s Road to Iran”

Trump lying about murdering children

this new york times headline stopped me in my tracks. I am stunned. They posted this on the same day trump lied about bombing a girls’ school. And this isn’t even an op-ed. This is supposed to be news. These people desperately want to be doormats to power. My god. I am at a loss for words.

The problem with foreigners is they always want to know what love is

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."