“let’s break the world and see what happens.”

i like to think these are targeted.

there was a fire in the kitchen and just when mom put it out i left the shower on in the bathroom i am so awesome i saved our home.

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@ItsThatDeafGuy each of us individually have very little likelihood of rubbing shoulders. but all of us collectively run the restaurants they patronize. we caddy their golf games. if many of us collectively choose to shun and express disgust towards them, they will experience that.

we can’t boycott everything, no. but we can condition our purchases. i can’t never buy amazon, but i avoid it. online you and i both obviously seek alternatives.

we can impose costs. we’re not powerless.

Should people who openly bribe the President, even if they are “respected” lawyers or CEOs or whatnot, doing it because “it’s in the best interest of shareholders” be welcome in polite society? Should you serve them in your restaurant? Speak politely with them at conferences?

This is fine.

Musk wanted access to the literal spigot of Federal money in a way that made the totally nonpolitical guy who supervises it, a guy Trump and all his Project 2025-ers had been happy to reappoint, feel like he had to resign. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/
ht @emptywheel @marisakabas

We are all so proud of our great American corporate champions. cf @40Years https://40yrs.blogspot.com/2025/01/ecch-tweet-of-day_30.html

Good idea or bad? "Ensure every Congressional Democrat in 2028 faces a meaningful primary challenger."

(at first blush: upside is accountability for people some of whom seem to worry about more about risking their jobs than risking the country; downside is primary challenges might cripple in the general.)

Anyone here work for Oracle? No shade.

Sometimes I want to download old JVMs from Oracle. It makes me checkbox some licensing stuff then sends me to a sign-in. I have an account, I know the password, but every time I try to login I get an error, "A federated user can't perform local authentication."

Seems bad! Haven't found a workaround, don't understand the issue. There's no one to contact, so I'm sending out this message in a bottle in a toot. (Better I suppose than a toot in a bottle.)

Normie white dude: This renaming shit is just stupid. Let Ulysses S. Grant Elementary stay Ulysses S. Grant Elementary. Yes, the Black Hills. It was 150 years ago. I mean, even Robert E. Lee Elementary. Who cares? Let's get real stuff done.

Trump: Have I told you about the Gulf of America?

9/11: “They hate us for our freedoms.”

1/6: “They free us for our hatreds.”

is there a list of domains where Congress has imposed mandates the Trump Administration would characterize as DEI, so we can monitor the degree to which it is “tak[ing] Care that the laws be faithfully executed”, at least until it can persuade Congress to change the laws, as is its right to try?

“it turns out that most Americans are uninterested in acting like a belligerent asshole on the global stage.” @dandrezner https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-pretty-prudent-american-public

we have to learn to appreciate the small pleasures.

it might not be right to say the Trump Administration's garish chaos-monkeying contributed to the crash. maybe. but we don't really know that.

nevertheless, it's a whole lot less ridiculous a claim than any attribution of blame to "DEI".

ferchrissakes.

it was just a bunch of kids who liked to twirl around.

what kind of due process would apply to Guantanamo detainees?

"the Supreme Court ruled that the NLRB needs three members to have a quorum. Thus, until Trump appoints a third NLRB member, the NLRB will not be able to issue decisions. Trump could opt not to fill any NLRB vacancies and prevent the agency from issuing decisions for his entire term." #MattBruenig https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/trump-fires-democratic-nlrb-member