Be a quaint café in a world full of Starbucks.

if you think what i say out loud is bad, you should see what i keep to myself

The Rich Control the Media: Whining Is Not a Strategy CBS’s decision to pull a 60 Minutes segment highlights how wealthy owners shape media coverage and silence dissent under Trump.

the standard line is that we counter lies with more speech; but when the right owns all the major news outlets & social media platforms, the idea that the truth will magically overcome their lies is not serious. We need to remake the system @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

a four panel comic in dark green, about starving people and gardening

Harvest season

Rebecca Solnit said respectability is dog shit

“The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing ‘the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.’"

Gotta say that this is some extremely creepy language. And the argument basically is... that if the prevent people from treating gender dysphoria (adults, in this case), that they'll just... stop having it? That's not at all how any of this works.

this is a bad ballot measure for a variety of reasons, but the language has two potentially competing clauses in it that is important to sus out.

1. set policy to fund at least 2 officers per 1k residents.
2. divert 25% of PCEF to a restricted fund for that purpose and others.

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.

It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

So mad this will be true for a second time

An image of Amalia and the desire demon Kitty in Dragon Age Origins. The text reads, 'one thing I like saying to my cats in admonishment is "you know the rules" when they very clearly do not know and will never know the rules'.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

lots of history is told by the victor and they lie, but there’s a few truths out there

This is a bad policy that would help incumbents retain their seats in the upcoming midterms.

Why Democrats want do that when out of power in the White House, the Senate, and the House is another question.

Republicans control everything and every bad thing is their fault. Say it until November 3.

That Dem consultants told Gov. Walz to stop calling them “weird” still has me miffed.

How many alternative rationales have been offered at this point?

This is the guy from the Cato institute?!

Posting on Bluesky is very Christian in that Jesus was also surrounded by prositutes, the poor and the mentally ill

having lived in a Pinnacle building I can honestly say this would be incredible.

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

Interdict! Interdict!

Since the days of Henry II, the right to a trial by jury is one of the common law’s greatest gifts to the world. It would be a terrible shame if Labour threw it on the dustpile of history for many offenses.

In light of the Mercury article I guess I’ll just name this was Laurie Wimmer.

Standing up for Palestine early on had consequences, and I don’t regret it. I have to face myself in the mirror each day, despite politics and consequences.

I believe if we do that, the people will rally behind us.

Leaders of both parties should be calling for Witkoff's immediate resignation after these remarks. He is a Russian patsy, a traitor, and this has just gone for too long. It is has to end.

A shocking number of people responding to this video clearly did not watch the video. David is extremely opposed to the Trump administration's terrorization of immigrant communities. He is describing serious problems with the current laws which make accountability difficult.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

The first step in the road to removal of all of our rights was Brexit. The next is the abolition of juries.

This is so important we must ALL do everything possible to prevent it, regardless of politics or anything else.

To think, Starmer used to be a #decent lawyer.

My new Purity Litmus Test for any Democrat in politics is to at least talk like uhh this cato institute gentleman