hattusilas.bsky.social
Musician, writer, teacher, gardener, lover
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Thanks so much! I've been a Dana Stevens stan for a while, so knowing you liked the video means a lot to me. And also a comment of mine got a like from James Fallows. It's a good Bluesky day.
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My latest music video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMOp...
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"What happened?" takes journalistic boots on the ground. "How will it play?" can be done working from home over coffee.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOp...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOp...
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What happens to the tanks after the parade? Back to their Texas bases—or kept in position near DC to occupy the capital if called on?
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Do the tanks go home after the parade? Or do they stay in the DC area, ready to occupy the capital if so ordered?
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She was a riveting speaker at my college graduation.
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Marisa, someone needs to ask this question: After Trump's birthday parade, do the tanks go back to Texas? Or do they remain in the DC area to seize control of the capital if so ordered?
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It's "hibakusha" not "hibokusha."
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"I disapprove of it / So does Dave"—Gang of Four, "Armalite Rifle"
"Who cares what you think?"—George W. Bush
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Please, some reporter ask this question: When Trump's birthday parade is over, do the tanks and howitzers (some brought in from Texas) go back where they came from, or will they stay in the DC area on call in case the regime wants to occupy the capital and take over the Capitol?
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Ghouls on Film
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When you say "protest," it seems like something planned and organized. Mostly what I see in videos is people suddenly confronted with an armed force invading their neighborhood and making a split-second judgment to react. This is *always going to happen* no matter what an organized movement does.
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I thought AI needed us to train on.
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Yep, I was in Moscow in 2019. It felt like any big city, indeed an extremely well run city. Clean, almost no graffiti, no homelessness or slums, amazing metro, markets overflowing with food. Unless you thought about it, you might not notice the lack of political activity and the paucity of art.
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Reading is so much faster than video, at least for me (a retired editor). Krugman frequently posts transcripts of his video interviews and I can digest the whole thing in about 1/3 the time it would take to watch the video.
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But the federal courts are slow and DoJ has figured out it can delay and stall forever. SCOTUS seems to want to avoid a ruling against the regime that will be ignored and then the rule of law is done. Maybe next year they'll have to address birthright citizenship; Trump loses; no consequences.
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I don't know anyone currently serving, but my impression is that the armed forces are overwhelmingly MAGA. They're high on Hegseth's new warfighter–screw the Geneva Conventions ethos and delighted to see trans people drummed out of the Army. Shooting up L.A. would make them stars of an action movie.
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The regime faces no consequences for illegal activities. If the Guard exceeds its authority, maybe there will be a sternly worded opinion from a judge that has no real-world impact. Americans eat up copaganda and will be force fed rhetoric about how the terrorist-loving woke mobs needed killing.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=W43l...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmyD...
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There is a loud crackpot named Loomer
Who dishes out falsehoods and rumor
She takes gossip as fact
And gets people sacked
And her influence spreads like a tumor
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Seal Team Six.
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Yt shall put lye in the bread
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We've seen over and over how easy it is for leaders to inflame the public into hatred of foreigners. White Americans may not be inherently racist and xenophobic, but when their government, their business leaders, and their pastors all preach hate, the dumbass majority just starts marching along.
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Endless appeals and government delaying tactics mean this won't be settled in time for the fall semester. Trump wins again.
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Might be a problem for the L.A. Olympics.
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But will any of this ever have a practical effect? Hold 'em in contempt? DOJ won't arrest, Trump pardons all. Endless delays and appeals till maybe the next SCOTUS session. Meanwhile these men rot in a gulag while sternly worded papers are issued, one after another.
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It doesn't seem to matter how often rulings go against the government. An endless gauntlet of delays, appeals, up to a higher court, back down to a lower court, and maybe SCOTUS will take it up next year. By that time most of these men will be dead or untraceable. DOJ won't enforce, pardons for all.
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What does Mom think of this? Either way, I guess we now know Zuck would kick Elon's ass in a cage match.
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Even if MAGA were gone tomorrow, we'd still have a congress that does not function and a corrupt supreme court that has made a dog's breakfast of stare decisis.
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Expulsion from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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"You are number 6."
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Wars the aristocracy refused to pay for, instead raising taxes on those least able to pay who had no stake in their foolish wars—famously the tax on salt.
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As a former editor and English teacher, it bothers me that it isn't the Big Beautiful Act.
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Here in Texas they're pushing this on us even though our power grid is rickety as a gift to oil & gas (and coal). Renewables have been growing and the power of the oilogarchs diminishing. How to get it back? A state-backed data-center frenzy and the gas- and coal-fired plants to stoke those centers.
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Dale Watson recently moved to Lockhart, and McMurtry's been here for a decade. (I say "here" meaning Lockhart; I'm in the country a few miles away.)
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That's literally happening. Older, hipper people selling their now-valuable property in Austin and one of the places they're moving to is here. Certainly not Round Reich.
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Saw 'em last night at the benefit (and 1-year birthday party) for KLKT-FM, Lockhart.
The attendees were a sophisticated, artsy, lively bunch, just like Austin at its best. We're not a cow town anymore!
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Is there a link to this video?