I lived in Florida for a little over a year. Flew to move back to my home state on Sept 8th 2001. And then the next day...
Moving out was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
During covid Rebekah Jones warned about Ron DeSantis and Joseph Ladapo hiding data. And now they're doing it again.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
The day begins with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at the media over his own failings and ends with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at a judge over her own failings.
Girl…we know.
Hegseth: Why do the headlines say inflammatory things like “war intensifies”?
Pentagon official press release 3 days ago: Hegseth says war intensifies
First of all, we have to assume now that they are lying about even “dozens.” Second, this is like re-establishing the eastern direction of the sunrise. Mass voter fraud doesn’t exist in 🇺🇸, & anyone who lies that it does should be shunned from polite society & no longer taken seriously in the media.
NEW: The DOGE operative accused of telling colleagues he planned to exfiltrate sensitive SSA data for use at a private company is John Solly, CTO of the health IT division of Leidos. (Leidos denies he put any such data on its systems.) @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social have more:
March 12, 1974: John Lennon and Nilsson get drunk and disorderly at a Smothers Brothers show at the Troubadour in LA. Nilsson takes heat in the press for being a bad influence on Lennon. Said Nilsson: "It ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get 1 Beatle drunk and look what happens."
I did RE appraisals 2002 to 2006. The regs that came out of the S&L scandals were being stretched to the max by 2006 and that was a factor that got me to quit the business.
Serlingfest for Rod Serling / Twilight Zone fans. Bill Mumy making a virtual appearance.
I was assigned to go with McKay to Vegas and teach him the ways of darkness. Best assignment I ever had - and included as a story in here.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ?
TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged
LANDERS: It wasn't though
TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know?
LANDERS: Your own AG said it
TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter
LANDERS: Where's the evidence?
When I did my cover story in 2024 on George Washington, I asked the people at Mt. Vernon: "What did he sound like?" Like, we think London. And the best I could get was probably more like Stephan Dillane in "John Adams" - the way *Virginians* sounded in the 18c.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
According to @status.news, another senior journalist, reporter Scott Macfarlane, has quit CBS rather than head in the direction Bari Weiss wants to go. A big factor: the network's meek treatment of January 6th. www.status.news/p/scott-macf...
MacFarlane covered the Justice Department.
"He taught us to persevere, to look for the hope running beneath the surface of terrible events...even when hope seemed preposterous."
"Lessons Rod Serling Taught Us"
~Steve Trimm
Schlossberg: If this becomes the new normal and the president is able to trademark America’s birthday and issue his own currency while weakening the dollar, having gold skyrocket, and increasing prices on every commodity and input cost in our economy, we’re getting screwed and he’s getting rich.
I have to admit, seeing 3 Tesla cyber trucks parked side-by-side is pretty cool
Sometimes Twitter delivers. Very rare, but it can still happen.
stzl.ink/5wesb0
Even if they don’t surrender, we will call that an unconditional surrender and declare victory. bsky.app/profile/atru...
You know how American intelligence was pretty excited to do to the USSR in Afghanistan what Soviet intelligence did to the US in Vietnam?
The US Agency for Global Media, which is run by Kari Lake, has just failed an audit. The organization's finances are too chaotic even to assess.
www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-f...
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
Of course they are
“You’re a U.S. senator!”
Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽
This should go great
Meet the new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin:
While the quote is not Orwell's, in the context of imperialism and then pacifism he used similar rhetoric to make a point.
But just about everything Orwell wrote in the 40's leads me to think he'd puke were he alive to hear Noem invoking his name.
After Trump’s pardon freed him from prison, Jan. 6 rioter Andrew Paul Johnson repeatedly sexually abused two young kids.
“We were scared,” one victim testified.
Johnson tried to buy their silence - promising to share J6 restitution money.
Today, Johnson got life in prison.
