I prefer your prediction to Sarah Kendzior’s. Sadly, she has been fairly prescient for the last decade. There’s an excerpt of her latest book in Vanity Fair, in which she warns that the oligarchs are licking their chops at the money they will make after they drive this country into a second civil war. Edit: Her book is titled “the Last American Road Trip.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/civil-war-mark-twain-fiction-trump-reality-excerpt?srsltid=AfmBOorXhApp-8m_4q1IMdXhGwDfi0-WfJMSqS-YG7asYpI3qUKwBTEJ
France joins Brazil in immediately holding their right wing nut politicians accountable for their crimes. Add Garland’s DOJ to the list of why we can’t have nice things.
The number of measles cases in Texas has reached 400. All but two sufferers were unvaccinated.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-measles-outbreak-hits-400-cases_n_67e80e69e4b051cf99eaad34
Edited to say that, due to the year I was previously vaccinated, I got revaccinated last week.
Whelp. Say goodbye to one of our wildlife preserves. Scientists estimate 18 million tons of lithium can be extracted from under the Salton Sea. Street value $540 billion.
https://www.chemanalyst.com/NewsAndDeals/NewsDetails/massive-18-million-tons-of-lithium-deposit-found-under-california-salton-sea-35561
Twice explained the scenario turnip brings up in conversation, while also saying there are other scenarios.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/g-s1-57231/trump-third-term
Edited to say that Thiel wouldn’t go for being two steps removed from calling the shots, if he were able to be one step removed.
I was pretty surprised to see that sticker on our youngest’s car when she was a junior in high school. It wasn’t until she got a job at the wildflower center that she felt enough shame to scrape that off her bumper.