they finally took away our avocado toast. it is for our own good.

i guess i anticipate things breaking to a degree that renders prior experience of stability except at the margins perhaps less reliable. i agree they’ll try to scapegoat. but they’ve been so boldly breaking things, their success pretending later they didn’t break anything may be limited.

all crypto is now $TRUMP.

remember when we were going to help out red states, bring forward the “left behind”, overcome divisions between rural Americans and “Washington”, by dispersing Federal offices throughout the nation? i thought it was a pretty good idea.

i never strangled you. i simply effectuated a pause on your breathing. if you choose not to restart after the pause, that’s on you.

“trade unionist.”

didn't they campaign on bringing back the romance, that sense of surprise, when, um, the tornado demolished your home?

"The murderous insanity of all this is scarcely possible to describe." @ryanlcooper.com speaks plainly about what one is doing when one purposefully shatters the global public health system with no transition or replacement. prospect.org/world/2025-0...

this is so beyond Donny's mere incompetence. Musk is running the show, and the GOP is encouraging it. i don't think they walk away so innocently. if everything breaks, they will find themselves in competition with one another for some path to redemption.

public opinion is a fickle thing. right now, no. but in the teeth of the depression, despised by erstwhile friends, all of our true claims about the lawlessness and Constitution-shredding of this administration — high crimes and misdemeanors if ever there were — might get a stronger hearing.

north korea? where there's a will there's a way. certainly any developed country, if not hindered by adversaries, could afford a nuclear program. serious enough to be an effective deterrent, while adversaries may be provoked by the greater threat? that's a hard question. some will calculate "yes".

and it is having exactly the effect that we told him it will have.

Libya in particular was a catastrophic mistake in that regard. Iraq you could argue was a special case, the first Iraq War had not really ended, with the continuing no fly zone and sanctions. But Libya had just made a deal. But now nothing matters. Everything is a protection racket.

"A week ago, Atlanta Fed’s nowcast of consumption was 2.2% q/q annualized; now it’s zero… In the 11 or so years of nowcasted consumption growth, there have been no instances of negative values (or zero values) outside of 2020…this is a somewhat remarkable occurrence." econbrowser.com/archives/202...

nuclear nonproliferation is dead. the scaffolding upon which it was built was enforcement by great powers of norms against predatory militarism. with that gone, unless it is improbably resurrected, every state that means to survive must find its own nukes or a close ally's nuclear umbrella.

impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat. impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat. impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.

it's all the same if you find yourself in the path of the axe.

"You Can’t Put Too Much Water into a Nuclear Reactor"

this is a lie. we know the names of people who have died. Wah K’Ler Paw. Pe Kha Lau. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...