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I once sang, “From where I stand you look like ants / and there’s an aardvark in my pants.” It wasn’t literally true at the time. Starting to think we need to recalibrate for extreme solutions to current problems. Past talent: soundcloud.com/johnpontoon
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This is a brief and bracing article about a particularly brutal method that TrumpMuskMAGA is using to destroy the rule of law in the USA.

John Tyler’s grandson has died! Here's the rundown: The 10th US President, John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790. When he was 63, on August 24, 1853, he sired Lyon Gardiner Tyler. In turn, when he was 75, Lyon begat Harrison Tyler on November 9, 1928. Harrison died yesterday at the age of 96.

A song whose actual meaning came clear to me years after I recorded it.

This piece takes Musk's putative pov at face value, assuming that his disillusionment" and inability to "upend bureaucracy" (whatever the that means)was a worthy mission that failed because of "obstacles" rather than recognizing DOGE was a disaster from the outset. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

A DELIGHTFUL thread about the fact that Stephen Miller is so repulsive that his wife left him for a man with a surgically broken dick. Although she obviously is a craven opportunist to marry Miller in the forest place.

I… advocate… violence.

So we got all of the negatives of the tariffs in empty ports and job losses, and none of… well there never were benefits to be gotten.

right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled

This kind of thing needs to be met with violence. As always, I zealously advocate destroying kidnappers' ability to walk the same ever again.