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  1. You sound like an NFL fan who posts on SECRant or TexAgs Latte shoe don't need no book lernin' cuz collage is for nerds.
  2. I’m old enough to remember when “conservatives” were spreading conspiracy theories that Obama was planning to get rid of habeas corpus and Jade Helm Americans in abandoned Walmarts in Midland or some other stupid shit about Bastropo.
  3. I wonder if it’s worthwhile to frame the discussion about how the Democratic Party should communicate with the public around something like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. At first glance, that might seem a bit esoteric, but its fundamental building blocks really are rather intuitive when it comes to policy priorities. One way of looking at policies could be that the government does its best to shore up the bottom two through direct assistance or regulation, while, the top three could be supported through providing public education and non-discrimination laws. I guess it doesn't really affect what we, who actually believe in good governance, expect the various layers of government to do, per se, but I can see how it could help shape public discussion around specific policies and their priorities.
  4. It's been a couple of weeks since I last posted an update. It seems like the number of new cases is diminishing (hopefully peaked), but at the same time, the geographic spread keeps increasing. Since my last post, the official list includes the following new counties: Carson (up by Amarillo), Collin, Hardeman, Rockwall, and Atascosa. Of course, there's also the Hays County one on the previous page. I guess they determined the ones in Denton and Scurry (posted a month or so ago) weren't linked to the Gaines County outbreak.
  5. Wordle 1,432 3/6 ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #710 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🙂 Daily Quordle 1213 8️⃣4️⃣ 5️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  6. cachet (pronounced cash-ay): prestige cache (pronounced cash): hidden stuff
  7. I can't find any quote from her that would match but did a Google Lens search, and that screenshot appears to be from when she made an announcement about the State of Maine and Title IX stuff from a few weeks ago. It also seems you copy/pasted that image from Facebook. Given all that, it appears to be fake news. If it's a satirical account, okay. If not, stop following it or block it from your feed. Or, if you subscribe to the view that we should lie, that's also your prerogative, I suppose.
  8. Investigators are looking at why the boat was going in reverse and why it sped up toward the bridge. https://archive.is/4bmHY
  9. Wordle 1,431 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #709 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1212 4️⃣8️⃣ 6️⃣9️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  10. What's the penalty for illegally seizing a building? Like, what would happen to me if I took over my neighbor's house and said it was mine?
  11. My gawd, this is all so fucking stupid. Energized by Kennedy, Texas ‘Mad Moms’ Are Chipping Away at Vaccine Mandates A measles outbreak in the state has not stopped “medical freedom” activists from pushing forward with their goal. They now have an influential ally in Washington: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rebecca Hardy and Michelle Evans helped found Texans for Vaccine Choice with a group of like-minded women in 2015, as measles was spreading in California. They defeated legislation tightening Texas school vaccine requirements, and helped oust the lawmaker who wrote it, earning a catchy nickname: “mad moms in minivans.” Now, as a measles outbreak that began in West Texas spreads to other parts of the country, the “mad moms” have a slew of new allies. The 2024 elections ushered in a wave of freshman Republicans who back their goal of making all vaccinations voluntary. But no ally may be as influential as the one they gained in Washington: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s most prominent vaccine skeptic. More than five dozen vaccine-related bills have been introduced in the Texas Legislature this year. Last week, the Texas House passed three of them. Those bills would make it easier for parents to exempt their children from school requirements; effectively bar vaccine makers from advertising in Texas; and prevent doctors from denying an organ transplant to people who are unvaccinated. The Association of Immunization Managers, a national organization of state and local immunization officials, is tracking 545 vaccine-related bills in state legislatures around the country, 180 more than last year — evidence, the group’s leaders say, that Mr. Kennedy is changing the national conversation. After peaking at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of vaccine-related bills had come down in recent years. But the big fear of public health leaders that began during the pandemic, and accelerated with Mr. Kennedy’s political rise — that states will undo school vaccine mandates — has so far not come to pass. “For the 10 years that Texans for Vaccine Choice has existed, we have had a federal government that has been wholly irrelevant or working against us,” said Ms. Hardy, the group’s president. “We’re excited about having individuals in the federal government who will actually cooperate with us. But what exactly that means, we don’t know.”
  12. Played too fast and wasted my second guess by putting the same yellow letter in the same damn position. Wordle 1,430 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #708 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🙂 Daily Quordle 1211 7️⃣5️⃣ 4️⃣8️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  13. Based on that photo, they're fortunate that only two died (so far). Yikes.
  14. Wordle 1,429 5/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #707 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1210 4️⃣5️⃣ 7️⃣8️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  15. If anyone is inclined to see an update to the NY Times's Extremely Detailed Map by precinct for the 2024 election, below is a gift link. It includes almost every state, except California, Oregon, Missouri, Indiana, and Alabama, with some exceptions. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/elections/2024-election-map-precinct-results.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H08.BknN.zVsFv-VPupqu&smid=url-share
  16. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/new-orleans-jail-escape.html The rectangular hole in the cell wall was just big enough for a person to squeeze through. Right next to it, a metal toilet and sink had been ripped from the wall. Above the hole, someone had scrawled a picture of a face with a tongue sticking out and taunting messages for Sheriff’s Office officials, saying it was all too “easy. LOL.” Ten inmates, who may have had help from jail workers, broke out of a New Orleans jail early Friday, escaping through that hole in a cell wall, the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office said. The inmates were then seen on surveillance video leaving through a door on a loading dock, having shed their orange jail uniforms and wearing civilian clothes, before scaling a wall and running across an interstate, Sheriff Susan Hutson said. The Louisiana State Police said on Friday that one of the escapees, Kendell Myles, 20, had been arrested in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Another, Robert Moody, 21, was captured Friday night in the Central City neighborhood in New Orleans. Another escapee, Dkenan Dennis, was also arrested, Anne Kirkpatrick, the New Orleans police chief, said in a news conference Friday night. The Sheriff’s Office warned that the remaining escapees should be considered “armed and dangerous.”
  17. Lies and corruption are all that Trump and this regime offer. It’s all out in the open for anyone to see, and it takes very little imagination or exaggeration to explain. It’s a clear, concise message that should be easily comprehensible to the masses.
  18. For me, corruption is the all-encompassing message. Trump, his oligarch buddies, and a complicit GQP are rigging the country’s entire socioeconomic system against average Americans in plain sight. Frankly, it’s pretty fucking apparent and straightforward to point out with inumerable examples across the board. Plus, it doesn’t require a lot of higher thinking or complicated explanations. Finally, as a phenomenon, corruption doesn’t have an inherently liberal or conservative bias, and it’s not racially tinged or about any marginalized group. Every ad, speech, or argument should begin with the thesis statement: “You are getting fucked by the most corrupt administration in US history.” Then, follow up with umpteen examples based on the specific concerns of whichever audience is before you, whether it’s made up of old people (Medicare/Social Security), small businesses (tariffs/preferential tax breaks for megacorps), families (tax break for billionaires/environment and safety regulations) marginalized groups (they already know this), young people (education/student loans), etc. Again, their corruption is widespread and out in the open, but Americans are too stupid or blinded by their hate to see how it hurts them. The gift is just sitting there, wrapped in a bow under the tree. Even if you have to grab, unwrap, and set it in their lap, do so.
  19. Agree with all the above. In the aftershow thingie, someone was trying to explain Ellie's behavior by saying that there's tension between Dina's ex-boyfriend and Ellie, with her trying to prove she can protect Dina as well as anyone, but instead, here comes the ex-boyfriend to rescue both Dina AND Ellie, saving the day. Still doesn't make sense. I guess what would work is saying Ellie's an immature teenager suffering through PTSD/trauma and has never been in love. Because of that, she displays erratic behavior, has poor impulse control, and is kind of a dumbass. That explanation might not suck if it were better written. Right now, Ellie isn't the most sympathetic character, to say the least.
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  21. US Ambassador resigns over Trump’s fealty toward Putin In a candid op-ed published today, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink explained her resignation, citing profound disagreements with the Trump administration’s Ukraine policy. Brink, a seasoned diplomat with nearly three decades of service under five presidents, expressed that the administration’s approach—pressuring Ukraine, the victim of aggression, rather than confronting Russia, the aggressor—was untenable for her. She emphasized that such a policy amounted to appeasement, which history has shown leads to further conflict and suffering. Brink highlighted the atrocities committed by Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, including the deaths of thousands of civilians, the abduction of 20,000 children, and over 150,000 documented war crimes. She underscored the moral imperative for the United States to support democracies and oppose autocratic aggression, arguing that the U.S.’s response to such conflicts has global implications, potentially emboldening other authoritarian regimes if left unchecked. Her resignation also followed a controversial Oval Office meeting in February 2025, where President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, leading to a suspension of military aid to Ukraine. Brink’s departure reflects the internal tensions within the U.S. diplomatic corps regarding the administration’s stance on the Ukraine conflict . Brink’s decision to resign underscores the challenges faced by career diplomats when political leadership diverges from established foreign policy principles. Her departure signals a significant shift in the U.S.’s approach to international conflicts and raises concerns about the nation’s commitment to supporting democratic allies in the face of authoritarian aggression. U.S. President Donald Trump took Putin’s bait after encouraging Ukraine to enter into direct talks with Russia. Meanwhile, Russia made a mockery of the talks in Istanbul.
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  23. Don't you dare drag me and my misfit maidens into this abomination of a thread.
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