Waldo Jaquith

If you're with a government agency, I can help!

Five years! That's so bad!

Phone-spammers have started getting through Apple's call-screening, making my phone ring. I can see at a glance that it's spam, thanks to the requirement that they state the reason for their call, but I still don't love this.

U.S. Gas Prices, Up 11% in a Week, Pile Pressure on Trump

I give it a week until Trump says these are the lowest gas prices in the history of money.

Health Care Has Become the Lifeblood of the Labor Market

Good news, everybody! We’re all chronically ill and it’s costing us a fortune!

Why would Joe Biden do this

It's amazing what it says about income inequality that the math on this proposal actually works.

“We’ve tried everything except stopping being shitty, and we’re all out of ideas!”

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

New NY Times ’visual investigation’ strongly suggests that the US fired the missile that hit the Minab school Saturday. (Though is very careful with its language to not say it conclusively.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Again, the people who attempted to violently overthrow the country are perverts and criminals. They were locked up safely until Trump released them to continue harming Americans.

I have rarely ever heard Rogan speak. This is either ignorant or malicious, and it’s dangerous. Chromosomes aren’t complicated? I can’t boycott Spotify any harder than I always have. It’s appalling that they give him wheelbarrows of cash to say this shit.

the poet David Larsen captured this same sentiment here

When your speechwriter hates you

Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh

Lindsey Halligan Is Under Investigation by the Florida Bar

BREAKING NYT:

Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.

Shout-out to oranges for making winter bearable. Keep it up, oranges.

Apple Intelligence, but solely for preventing me from receiving notifications from both Calendar.app *and* Google Calendar about a meeting. Or...is that too computationally demanding...?

See, but now I just want to play banjo

OK I have heard one (1) compelling argument for not tearing down Trump's ballroom immediately, and that's to use it for our Nuremberg trials.

We gotta host our version of the Nuremberg trials in the right place so that they'll have a good name. Like, obviously Crystal City is right out, despite its location. It's never too early to start planning for this.

Secretary Markwayne

People don't just attack Congress and attempt to violently overthrow the government as a lark. These are terrible people who committed crimes before and will keep right on committing crimes until stopped forcibly. We stopped them, but Trump threw open the prisons so they could commit more crimes.

We are cleverly avoiding the problem of norovirus in my kid's school by keeping him at home for the past two days, with norovirus.

If that sounds absurd, wait until you hear about people wanting to get covid in 2020 so that they wouldn't get covid.

Is it a problem to have a DHS secretary who has not graduated from college? I don't know! Let's find out together, as a nation!

Congratulations to the Cherokee National for having an enrolled tribal member running DHS, which I'm sure won't be a cause for abject humiliation and years of recriminations.

I mean...uh...we elected Trump

Look, what those crazy kids have is special—their bond is too strong to be broken by a silly little thing like her no longer being Secretary of Homeland Security.

Whelp