Dana Houle

damn rich kid who told me all about the working class

Having grown up with an authentic white blue collar dad (acknowledging there are many nonwhite working class guys who get ignored) who grew up on a farm and ended his career working on literal launch pads I have very little interest in hearing about how we need to understand Platner. He’s every

Not sure about popularly understood, but it’s roughly three different sections, w the residence in the middle.

Iran has a long and ugly history of famine. It basically had no long-term population growth in the 19th and early 20th century, because every so often a catastrophic famine wrecked the country.

One partially bad luck and in part self-inflicted. Two the result of great power wars it didn't start.

Israel, meanwhile, appears to be betting that it has a veto button on Iran's ailing water infrastructure.

And unfortunately it looks like they might have one.

This whole war is just one giant escalation spiral into ever-more-horrifying consequences.

That part is the executive residence, the West Wing (cut off in that graphic) is where the executive offices are.

There are so very many ways this can go wrong in desperately mad and uncontrollable ways, the perfect clusterfuck to blow up the world.

Millions of could die from thirst vs. No they won’t.🧵

It’s five years? I thought it was six. If only five years then yes he’s vested.

In the last two days the GOP now has two more Senate vacancies & two more House vacancies. And both House vacancies & one of the Senate vacancies may create very competitive races.

Also, doesn’t he need to finish this term to qualify for his pension?

And citizenship, man, sorting that out would be a mess

Also, gravity is kind of important.

Agreed.

And it’s not like there’s privacy.

Pete Hegseth is a grotesque evil rapist clown.

On MS NOW @radiofreetom.bsky.social talked about Hegseth & the deaths of service members. Reminds me of when I worked in the House & what the Army did to help us honor a request from the family of a fallen soldier. The seriousness & solemnity of their commitment was moving.

The opposite of Hegseth.

Makes me think of the former Tina Smith social media intern who successfully sold himself as “I know more about Senate rules than Chuck Schumer,” & even put “senate” in his social media name, but didn’t know shit about Senate rules, & whose only Senate experience was as social media intern.

What a life.

Read this. Whenever we make progress there are Bernard LaFayette’s doing the work.

And there are Bernard LaFayette’s today, in Los Angeles, in Chicago, in Minneapolis, & across the country.

Maybe stop sabotaging EV adoption and gutting fuel economy standards?

No, they would never.

I’ve seen him 5 or 6 times. One of the best performers I’ve seen, always with a different but outstanding band.

Nothing stops that, although depending how long until someone decides to drop they may not come off the ballot. But think about the optics of Mullen having to show he’s not confident he’ll be confirmed, or roll the dice & possible lose out on both Senate & DHS

I'm blaming Oklahoma Senators resigning for messing with perceptions of when their terms actually end (Inhofe resigning 2 years into his last term, Coburn resigning 4 years into his last term, leading to two different cycles where both seats up). So, 4 of their last 6 Senators have resigned.

This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem

I know i'm not a big important pundit or commentator, but its seems pretty clear that the Trump era GOP coalition is an incredibly shaky house of cards that has been held together at key moments mainly through a bunch of disparate elements momentarily buying the con that Trump wants what they want.

There wouldn’t have been a special election. This is the final year of the term. But great job of repeating the Repub talking points!

Gotta say, she sounds credible to me.

D’oh. Risk of reading big documents on my phone.

Thanks for correcting that.

I want no votes, but since he seems to have forgotten I will remind Dave that our 46th president was Joe Biden.

Long story short, the people who think you can't love Jesus unless you hate LGBTQ folk and feminists are already going to the mats to claim James Talarico (and other mainline Protestants like me) aren't Christians at all. It's going to get savage. Gird up your loins.

You’re close. Obama got us (mostly) out of Iraq & nobody cared much, Biden got us out of Afghanistan & got attacked for it. Because, you know, 20 years wasn’t long enough or something.