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I know I have been doom spiraling (with good reason!), but the article linked in my comment below makes some great points about how we need to keep pushing back. “[T]he fraction of the public that is happy with the agenda currently being enacted is going to get smaller for the foreseeable future.”

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Saw "I'm Still Here," the last of the 10 Best Picture Oscar nominees I had to see, and the best. Set in Brazil in 1970, during the right-wing military dictatorship, you get to know and love this big wonderful family, which makes it all the more powerful when things take the inevitable tragic turn.

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In positive news, I'm at the lowest weight I've been in 20 years or more and I'm using the last notch on my belt. So I've got that going for me.

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I had been planning to make a semi-joking post today about being one month through Trump's term, with 47 months to go, but I don't know if our constitution can survive another 47 months of this assault.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The United States is committing suicide as a democracy and the strangest thing is that it is all over...nothing. We're not in a massive war, our economy didn't collapse. It's just enough people believed enough lies that scared them so much they decided having a democratic republic was too much work.

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Senate Republicans don’t care if their grandchildren get polio.

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With all that's going on, I keep thinking of this line from my favorite movie, "Little Murders": It's dangerous to challenge a system, unless you're completely at peace with the thought that you're not going to miss it when it collapses.

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I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

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I'm sure that in their search for waste, fraud, and abuse these DOGE goons are looking really closely at the federal contracts for SpaceX and Starlink. I wonder how much of that money goes to Apartheid Clyde's personal ketamine budget?

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Last night, I checked my email and saw an alert from the New York Times: "BREAKING NEWS: Trump orders Treasury to stop..." I thought, "What fresh hell is this?" and opened it to see the full headline: Trump orders Treasury to stop minting pennies. And I was stunned because...that sounds reasonable.

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My wife and I are more than half way through watching all ten movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, having seen six. So far I like 7 or 8 of last year’s nominees better than any of these movies. 2023 was just a great year for movies. I’ll talk about the ones I’ve seen below.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Back in 2010, we got together with a bunch of friends for a game night. It just happened to be the week that the Citizens United decision came down from the Supreme Court. My friend Cheryl and I were gloomy, saying: It's the death of the republic, man. Everybody else said we were overreacting.

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"Why didn't somebody tell us it would be this bad if he was elected?!" "We did. Repeatedly. You ignored us." "We didn't like your tone." "Tone?" "You sounded shrill and alarmist." "Are you alarmed now?" "Yes!" "Well..."

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In cheerier news, I was very happy with the new Baseball Hall of Fame inductees announced today. Ichiro and CC Sabathia are both deserving of going in on the first ballot and I was glad to see Billy Wagner get in on his tenth and last ballot (he was fearsome in his prime).

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C'mon arteriosclerosis, do your damn job already!

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RIP legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who passed away last Friday at the age of 95. He began his career at 17 as an assistant to the great Will Eisner on his seminal comic "The Spirit," eventually taking on the writing and drawing. /1

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

One day down. 1,430 to go.* *assuming free and fair elections continue to be a thing

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

RIP Garth Hudson, organ player and last living member of the Band. Here he is at his finest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_7q...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Trump wants to appoint Herschel Walker ambassador to the Bahamas. Herschel probably accepted the job because he always wanted to see Asia.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s a bit of unsolicited advice: live your life so that if someone shoots you in the back most people don’t think you probably had it coming.

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Something I thought of today that made me feel slightly better is that, while people keep pointing out that Trump learned from his first term, the opposition also learned lessons about how to jam him up. If it comes down to a learning arms race against that guy and his goons, I like our chances.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Millie has a boo boo on her tail and needs to wear this doohickey to keep her from chewing on it. I call it the Inflatable Travel Pillow of Shame.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

I’m new to Bluesky, so I thought for my first post I’d go with a cute dog pic on a Monday.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment