impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat. we don’t have to put up with this.

DOGE doesn’t have to search far to find waste either!

If DOGE wants to find fraud in government, they don't have to look very far. I suspect the restrooms in most Federal office buildings have mirrors.

"When reporters called this out, the DOGE team made a fascinating choice. Instead of fixing their error, they actually removed the correct document from their website and replaced it with the old, incorrect one. They are now deliberately posting false information to support the narrative."

Called my Congressional delegation to express my disgust at the President’s turn against Ukraine. Two Senators’ voicemails, one exasperated House staffer. Doesn’t take long. Can’t hurt. If we act like we live in a democracy we still might.

they just test our theories of mind, these people. it's not just that they make evil choices, choices which they seem to know and understand to be evil. they do. but they baffle us, because there is no particular reason why. he's retiring. he's not long for this world. why?

ha! perhaps, in some normative sense of citizenship. in any case, they constituted residents? subjects? as social creatures.

the one norm the "international community"—especially the United States—has pretty consistently enforced post WWII is that recognized borders, however historically contingent and artificial, are sacrosanct and not to be violated by military force. letting this one go is opening the gates to hell.

microsoft always astonishes me. it's allegedly an IT company. i renewed my Excel subscription yesterday, after i let it expire. today they write me — twice, same e-mail — "Your Microsoft 365 subscription has expired" asking me to renew. it was queued yesterday or whatever. information technology.

in many languages, the slang word for testicles is "eggs". so you can see the Trump Take Eggs things has hit Congressional Republicans particularly hard.

can we just call him Benedict Donald?

the democrats are now the party that favors robust military expenditures and peace through strength. the republicans favor self-castration with a lot of masculine energy.

the UK thrashed around in years of controversy over retrograde plots to ship migrants to Rwanda, while in a matter of weeks the US starts shipping migrants to camps in Central America with hardly a whiff of scandal. i’m sure conditions at these rushed camps will be stellar. i’m ashamed.

fantastic demonstration that the state constitutes the people as much as the people constitute the state. east germany disappeared nearly 35 years ago, but the citizen it constituted remains, and remains distinct from the citizen west germany constituted. image from www.dw.com/en/east-germ...

i wake up, feel stateless, naked, vulnerable. maybe i’m too online, too connected to the news. but the supposed normalcy seems feigned, fake, forced, doomed. which of us are being irrational? it feels like we are in one of @pkrugman.bsky.social’s wile-e coyote moments. some of us have looked down.

G6

the real freedom fries are poutine.

Consider Pascal's Wager, and do what you can.

They should win elections. But Democrats work with such sophistication to focus group and consult in order to win elections they are so busy following the data they forget to lead and they lose.

Trump said he was going to bring peace quickly. Yes, people who pay attention understood that could only happen by selling Ukraine out, but most voters do not pay attention and prefer peace to war. Blaming voters is useless, and dumb, and diffuses accountability from where it is owed.