Then do Vance. And flush Stephen Miller’s head in the toilet while you’re at it.

Lives next door to Général Charles de Balls.

Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.

-Prof. William T. Kelley, Wharton

That garden sounds pretty good. A lot of people can’t really help themselves like this though, because they live in city houses or apartments without land, and/or they’re working long hours and don’t have the time.

Every accusation is a confession.

It does make you wonder whether Trump even signs these orders, or whether Stephen Miller just prints Trump’s signature on them in his crypt of Nazi evil.

The first president to use the autopen extensively was Thomas Jefferson. … Since Jefferson, various US presidents have made use of the autopen; some were guarded about it while others were more open about its use. Whereas once the official White House position was to deny the existence or usage of the autopen, today its existence is more of an open secret.

Harry Truman was rumored to make use of the device; Gerald Ford was open about his utilization of the autopen, but it was Lyndon B. Johnson who blew the doors off the entire affair by allowing the device to be photographed in the White House, appearing on the cover of The National Enquirer with the article “The Robot That Sits in for the President.”

John F. Kennedy was so dependent on the autopen, that he became the subject of a book entitled The Robot That Helped to Make a President.

But when Biden uses it, it’s a scandal, and when Trump duplicates his signatures it’s perfectly fine. Good old Republican hypocrisy.

I don’t understand your last sentence. Selection a main mechanism of evolution.

It’s political censorship dressed up as protecting children, as usual. The Trump fascists have been deleting all kinds of information from government websites, and internet archives allow people to see what has been censored, including facts about climate change, Black history and economic trends.

Web archives preserve information the US Government has deleted, like reports on the economy, climate change, and Black history. In general they work against censorship of the internet. This is just another case of using “protecting the children” as a cudgel to kill politically inconvenient sources of information.

it’s selective extinction based on…

As long as whatever trait it’s based on is heritable, that’s evolution.

Nexus criticized the ADL in an open letter earlier this week after the ADL announced an initiative to “monitor” the incoming Mamdani administration for antisemitic bias.

I assume that by “antisemitic bias” they mean being insufficiently fawning towards Israel?

It’s what everyone does. Which doesn’t make all interpretations equal, but anyone who tries to live according to that book is picking and choosing and interpreting in some way.

Meeting people face to face is often a pretty good way to get over hangups about them. The closer you are to a person the harder it is to remain bigoted about them. I hope this will have some positive effect.

Edit: where I live there are Catholic schools that are explicit about being pro-LGBTQ+, with big pride flags on display and a policy of supporting gay and trans kids against bullying and discrimination. I have known trans kids that were happy at these schools. Their school may not be changing the official stance of the Vatican, and we might rather not have Christian schools at all, but I still think it’s worthwhile and important that a Catholic school makes explicit these messages of support and respect for its students. Even without the Catholic church officially progressing, a good number of Catholics and Catholic institutions are.

Wasn’t mine. Mine’s called Crispin.

So you’re saying Trump had sexual relations with a gender-fluid fish? Yeah, that might startle his cult.

Pictures can easily be denied since generative AI became a thing.

Some of the documents mentioned Trump, including one from Epstein’s brother, Mark, which references photos of Trump “blowing Bubba.” “Bubba” is a nickname of former president Bill Clinton,

Eurgh, the mental image. Is this some dastardly plan to make everyone demand they just put the Epstein files back in a drawer and forget about them?

They will ban VPNs for everyone except corporations who can pay a bribe fee for an encryption license. It will only be the little people who will not be allowed to encrypt their communications. And you won’t be able to ignore the law and do it anyway on your phone, because your only options are Google and Apple, and both reserve the right to decide which developers get to distribute their software. (Google will be introducing this restriction next year.) The availability of open operating systems for computers is a situation lawmakers will no doubt want to rectify at some point.

I run DNS blocklists on my network and see no ads on this page. I’d recommend it. For a while I used Pi-hole and now I use Unbound blocklists in OPNsense.