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Seattleite, hiker, love all animals but currently live with just one cat, reading is my fave thing (history, mystery, historical mysteries, scifi, science, nonfiction generally), big fan of Deep Space and Deep Time. Liberal Democrat.
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Luscious. Startling. Hypnotizing. Very nearly pornographic.

MAGA sure do like shooting dogs.

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

First step is voting. That's how you get change. Oh you don't want that? Then there are no more steps. Nobody has to coddle you and waste their time caring what the fuck you have to say. There are plenty of places you can move where they don't make you do horrible stuff like vote. Go live there.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Most political commentators are too polite to say this, but Trump won because of his appeal to the most important voting bloc: morons. If the Democrats want to win again the answer isn’t becoming more left or more right, it’s coming up with dumb policies that morons like

I would have voted for Joe Biden if he had been laying in the ICU. If you don't understand why, you're part of the problem.

Me heading into another week.

If ANYONE tries to employ Biden's cancer diagnosis in an argument about the 2024 election, I will block you. Twice. Miss me with that shit.

We need his name