Serious Mark

Gotta say, if I were Tate I wouldn't do anything to draw God's attention

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Unabridged Silmarillion

"But the people refused to listen to Samuel. 'No!' they said. 'We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.'" 1 Samuel 8:19–20

Do you even thresh bro

and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?"

I'm tired of people saying "Silicon Valley" when they mean like "the inhabitants of Larry Ellison's hot tub". Trump got 28% in Santa Clara County in 2024 and that's a relatively conservative area. *Billionaires* in SV tend to support Trump, as do billionaires everywhere.

"Now that you've seen the idiotic ragebait, please consider our nuanced argument." No, I don't think I'll do that.

I mean, the point isn't to create jobs, it's to produce a service. But data centers are unusual in doing almost nothing for the community they're located in. *Your* economic development is still a Dollar General and three vape shops; at best, the data center is an inert box.

Targeting a food subsidy "just to the people who need it" is nonsense. Everyone needs food. The administrative burden to separate out "people who need it" (1) denies aid to people whose needs are not legible to the bureaucracy, and (2) wastes money that we could spend buying more food.

But they were all of them were deceived, for a fifth loco was made

It's his horse, isn't it?

I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!

Trump's appeal makes more sense if you see him as a Ferris Bueller-style character.

We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack. Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it. So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn't complicated. He’s weak. Finish him.

The libertarian rhetoric I grew up on relied a lot on the caricature of "the statists", who just think the state should meddle in things on general principle, like the mirror universe version of libertarians. And it turns out some of these guys really exist.

It must have been great back then when nobody misused guns, Mr. Kennedy

Time for Judge Cooper to rent a lift truck and take the letters down. There's due process, and then there's letting people dick you around forever.

What gets me about this is that usually, a reporter asking you for evidence is a gift. They're giving you space to lay out your case to the public. But that only works if you're not a fucking liar.

God *is* nonbinary, dude, that's why they're called the Trinity

Turns out there are California laws against kidnapping. if they're not going to identify themselves a state could always presume that they are not federal agents at all and let them prove their identity later.

Watch, this will be the next Gulf of America / Department of War bullshit loyalty test. We'll get an executive order titled "Addressing Risks From Disloyal Use Of Percentages".

Also--you guys know how 25A works, right? The President can say "no I ain't" and then *a supermajority of Congress* would need to overrule him. The only reason to prefer it over impeachment is if you want to blame the Cabinet, instead of Congress, when it falls.

The line he's upset about is "even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood" and it is the Pope quoting Isaiah quoting God.

Have we forgotten the Obama era already?

Literally on my website and designed myself, @jamellebouie.net

The meta-idiocy of it: rather than getting real results by playing madman, a real madman conceals the unreality of his results (due to his really being a madman) by playing at only playing at being a madman. Which he has the disinfotainment savvy, riding the madness, to manage.