The Nerdy Lawyer

He voted for Kristi Noem to give her a chance. How did that work out?

Oh, Dad was definitely rightwing (at least for the time); he had OPINIONS at home. He just never brought it to work.

In contrast, my current church has an openly leftwing bent (though if there wasn't a need to counter the Christian nationalist heresy, I don't know if they'd be so blunt about it).

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

Indeed.

company: INTRODUCING OUR NEW AI FEATURE!

everyone: damn, this is dogshit.

I guarantee you that, after 3/9, some aide whispered to him that actually, Tomahawks are our thing, whereupon he immediately wanted to share this amazing knowledge to everyone to show what a smart boy he is.

"Horse d'oeuvres."

If irony weren't already dead, this would kill it.

The development of SSRIs (anti-depressants like Prozac) and related medications came in the middle of my adult life, so I've lived in the Before and After times, and I can assure you this is true.

This is a major reason why my dad, a retired pastor, never touched politics at work: he knew that being non-political was part of the reasoning for tax-exempt status and he wasn't fool enough to alter the balance.

(The other reason: why push people away from God based on political stance?)

It's also a baseline for how cowardly and feckless these people are. If you don't have the guts to say, "Appreciate the shoes, but they don't fit", you sure as hell won't have the guts to say, "Maybe we shouldn't have bombed Iran."

schoolkids 500 years from now are going to be learning or reading about these inanities from Trump in the same vein as those Roman Emperors.
"Caligula wanted a horse as senator. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Donald Trump made his courtiers wear shoes he picked out, but in the wrong size"

You either die a hero, or...

DOJ’s conviction rate (not counting plea deals) in normal times is north of 90 percent. A stunning and humiliating series of failures.

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL. kristi noem is doing a live speech right now and doesn't know she was fired. 🚨

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

And part of the reason I'm skeptical but not certain is that I already knew the beliefs in question are a real thing.

Are they rampant in the current military? Perhaps not. Is there SOME commander who believes them? Undoubtedly. General Rippers exist, and these are conditions in which they thrive.

I'm keeping my repost of the original story up because the below article isn't necessarily more trustworthy, nor does it claim to be sure even if it is. (If I get more information, that may change.) Nonetheless, a reminder to myself and to others to be skeptical and willing to reconsider.

Objection: What Happened in Dallas County Was Not a Glitch What happened in Dallas County tonight should scare the hell out of you.

What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.

In March. Imagine November.

I broke it down here:

open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

Song for the day: Shia LaBeouf!
Stuck in my head, Shia LaBeouf!
Now it's stuck in yours too...
Genuine earworm Shia LaBeouf!

So, there’s this thing called the Total Munitions Requirement and it doesn’t give a fuck if you can bench press 315.

OMG. Terrorists have struck DC. In a preemptive attack, they have completely demolished the East Wing of the White House. America mourns. 🇺🇸

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

These commanders are heretics. I have no gentler word that is still accurate.

all previous endless wars have been based off lies with no official off ramp or plan i think the iran war under trump is more notable because they’re admitting theres no plan less than 2 days in

And it's not that Trump has a considered theory of governance that leads to feudalism or personalism or whatever. He's simply never thought deeply about it, or anything, and is continuing to run the government the same way he ran his real estate business - badly.

"...has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years..."

Trump is already bored with all this “what comes next” egghead strategy talk and looking for a way to move on.

US: "We don't negotiate with terrorists"

Iran: "We don't negotiate with leaders who think a 600% price drop is real"

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US
since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

The number of times Trump warned that Obama, Biden, or Harris would start a war with Iran, and it never happened.