K. M. Peterson

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

This is outstanding: “That combination of capability and relentless, misdirected optimization is a harbinger of incidents to come.”

“If there’s a lesson here, it might be about the importance of listening hard to the people telling you what you don’t want to hear.” Michelle Goldberg, NYT today, on Platner. Invaluable advice… @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Every day it's like "Republican-Appointed Supreme Court to Decide Whether the FDA Can Stop People From Selling Ground Glass as Flour"

Jan has been working on a project to publicize a worthwhile effort to register support for our federal judges: there’s a YouTube channel for Support The Courts! https://youtube.com/@supportthecourts?si=uVw2aogYwrnE9DmJ

Seconded. Strongly seconded. Thank you, Mark!

Will Selber on his service as a casualty notification officer. www.thebulwark.com/p/remember-t...

Desolate.

To get the word out, we wore special hats, spoke to people at our table, and circulated wearing sandwich boards.

At Boston No Kings, we spread the word about our Capture the Congress campaign. Volunteers will have lots of options for working with our grassroots partners in swing states to win this thing. For more about our strategy, join our Monday kickoff in Brookline, or sign up for more info. #NoKings

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

"From her roughly $50,000 annual salary as a data processor in San Diego, Ms. Reedy, 34, spends at least $200 to $300 a week on food delivery." If you're spending at least 20 percent of your salary on *delivered* food, maybe affordability isn't the main issue. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...

“The Wedding Gift” 🫢

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social I'm in for the book!

Jargon is always a way of signifying in-group status :(

Just want to Lay out this word to the Wise: No ifs ands or Utz, this is crisply written and reported, but for all its saltiness it's still just a story about small potatoes with no evidence of a chip pro quo, and no one should get too Ruffled up about it.

Um… so basically renaming themselves after a feminist magazine and a feminist advocacy organization. Well then. I am expecting some big changes then. BIG CHANGES, I tell ya.

systemd (unit) is “dead” – why? Here's a quick one. Quick because it's easy to describe; it wasn't easy to debug. I'm containerizing services. This week's fun is getting BIND (DNS server) into a container in a way that I can more easily maintain and distribute critical services. It's been... fun.…

Boston Globe reader tells Montreal's La Presse: Richard Nixon was an 'altar boy' compared to Donald Trump. New at Media Nation. dankennedy.net/2025/07/12/b...

WhenTrump ripped children from their parents during the first administration, he showed us the depths of his cruelty. I am horrified to the depths of my Jewish soul to see this concentration camp built. And yes, I believe this is a concentration camp. My Jewish soul requires me to call that out.

In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social quoted an opinion on this question, so I asked what I assumed would be the least favorable AI to weigh in on what is the difference between a prison and a concentration camp.

If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

Phones and Weather and … I like phones. Not really using them, mind you, but a telephone was the first "computer" that I ever encountered - maybe that's still true for most people, though today phones are computers. But the "telephone" has for most of it's history been a terminal (another loaded…

Arbitrary executive power wielded for personal enrichment and retribution. State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim. Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates. Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.

Never forget.

Meanwhile, aboard the U.S.S. Metaphor

Hands Off Boston, 5 April 2025. Not my sign, but very much my city!

“We’d all better remember that there’s not a single NPC in the entire world right now. Everyone is a player character like you and me. Everyone has feelings, and it actually is wrong to make them suffer.”

“Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

Dear Canada and Mexico, We’re so, so sorry. — Sane America

I sure do wish more of my fellow citizens - and elected representatives - would read this from @hcrichardson.bsky.social: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-26...

Happy holidays start with keeping your friends and family safe — including online. Truly the gift that keeps on giving, pass this on 🎁✨

A compelling explanation of how we’ve arrived at this point of “alternative reality” and how to move past it. Kudos.

Oh, this is _too_ good: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/t...

Happy Birthday @k8em0.bsky.social !

Okay, then! Happy to be here, and should and of the six people who actually know me from the Other Place (as @kmp), good to see you. In the meantime, here’s my own Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/81JXNLV