Is it going to change their vote? Is it going to get them on their phones to demand action from their senators and representatives? Is it going to drive them into the streets to demand change? Then why the fuck should I care what they think?

I believe he said that he logged out of the chat as soon as he verified the texts were real, and that the texts in the chat were set to auto-delete in 1 to 4 weeks (different texts set to expire at different times).

Based on an article I read over the weekend: There’s a treaty where they get a certain amount of water from the Colorado and we get a certain amount of water from the Rio Grande. It’s supposed to be roughly the same amount of water per year, but they wrote the treaty to operate on a five-year cycle so things could be adjusted if there was a drought.

The US government is claiming (and I have no idea if this is true or not) that Mexico regularly undersupplies water for the first four treaty years and then desperately tries to make up the deficit in the fifth year, leaving US farmers with farms suffering from insufficient water for four years and then too much access to water the final year.

Why do these things seem to happen so much in Pennsylvania? From the Toynbee tiles to the steel furnace letters, why does it seem we get so much weird shit?

Sure. Outraged over an inadvertent leak, but totally fine arming a country committing genocide, trying to strong-arm the victim of relentless aggression into giving up 1/5th of it’s territory, letting disease spread freely in the nation, detaining people without charges, kidnapping people off the streets and deporting then to violent foreign prisoners without due process, weakening our defense industry, alienating every ally and partner we have on the planet, threatening to annex countries, starting trade wars, taking away women’s healthcare, threatening the most vulnerable members of society, etc etc etc. All that other stuff is fine, but sure, let’s raise holy hell over an inadvertent leak.

If you scream, you’re a fraudster and don’t deserve the money; if you don’t scream, we won’t know about it to reinstate it and you probably didn’t need it anyway. Either way, we win!

I swear, this sounds like dunking witches ‘logic’ …

Trump administration lawyers have determined that an 18th-century wartime law the president has invoked to deport suspected members of a Venezuelan gang allows federal agents to enter homes without a warrant, according to people familiar with internal discussions.

His order took aim at Venezuelan citizens 14 or older who belong to the Tren de Aragua gang, and who are not naturalized or lawful permanent residents. “All such alien enemies, wherever found within any territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are subject to summary apprehension,” the proclamation said.

Senior lawyers at the Justice Department view that language, combined with the historical use of the law, to mean that the government does not need a warrant to enter a home or premises to search for people believed to be members of that gang, according to two officials familiar with the new policy.

If she’s not going out now, fighting and making the case against and rallying the troops against Trump and fascism now, I’m not interested in her.

I mean, I hate everything about RFK and his actions, but surely the US pharmaceutical business has enough money to invest in an exciting new and very lucrative new technology …

For the lathe-end stubs, are they big enough to glue together for either bottle stoppers or maybe even small egg kaleidoscopes (with layers going up instead side-to-side)?

For the long ones, can any of them be used as pen blanks? Either top and bottom as separate pieces, or a mini-pen like this or this?

I’ve also seen where they trimmed down the outside of a pen blank like it was a pen (it had a top and bottom piece joined by metal), but didn’t drill out the center. Instead, they drilled a small hole into the top and placed a soft alligator clip into the hole. It’s to hold the end of a bracelet while you clasp the ends together.

I do recognize that each of these requires sourcing the metal, glass, etc, bits needed to complete the project, but these are the things that I thought of.

Afraid to face the people he’s betrayed.

You are allowed to toast people who aren’t present, you know that, right?

sigh. Of course he did …

Fetterman has been increasingly right-wing since his stroke, I fully expect him to switch parties.

The headline means, “one day after the second US measles death in a decade, New Mexico reports 30 cases of the measles”.

He went through his last term with a whole bunch of ‘acting’ officials without them being approved by the Senate; he’s going to rely on that precedent here.

Elon isn’t a natural born American citizen. Hell, if they start revoking citizenship for people who lied, he’s first on the chopping block.

She’s already gutted the Constitution. She helped evolve the argument that (and then voted that) he’s immune to anything he can claim as an “official act”, and now everything will be an “official act”. She helped him get back into office, now he can ignore the courts, including the Supreme Court - we already know no one is going to stop him. She had the chance to stop this and she failed.

This ‘poll’ assumes a level of awareness and self-reflection that I’m not sure most Trump voters actually have.

Edit: the feelings quoted in the article seem to mostly be a reaction to the effects of his policies, not (generally) a dissatisfaction with the policies themselves or him personally. That means they’ll find some way to justify both him and the Republican party in future. Nothing’s changed, nor will it.

So was I!