Leon Czolgosz 🤘

And ask former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg what happens when you ride union support to power but then go corporate.

Teacher: “Good job Snot Flickerman, here’s a jar of paste you can eat.”

Wake up babe, new Covid treatment is about to drop.

Ask Charlie.

If there are going to be multiple humans in the dog’s life giving commands and setting boundaries, make sure everyone is on the same page about what those commands and boundaries are. Everyone uses the same word for the same command, everyone has the same boundaries.

Single word command. It’s “sit” and the dog sits, not “sitsitsitsit”. They read body language as much as they listen to your vocalizations, and posture is more important in their own dog to dog language. Use your body to your advantage. You shouldn’t intimidate your dog but posture with calm confidence that projects control of the situation. This works great for shy/fearful dogs who appreciate someone they trust making decisions for them about whether or not to panic, as well as with headstrong dogs who are debating whether or not they actually have to comply.

Reward compliance swiftly, under 3 seconds. “Sit”, dog sits, “good” + treat. As the response becomes normalized you can begin to wean out the treat and just say “good”. In the mid treat intermittently, then eventually just as an occasional reward. In high stress or temptation scenarios you can jackpot good obedience. For example, if your dog loves to bolt after squirrels but sits and waits patiently for the squirrel to run by, reward the hell out of that.

Dogs and humans are both keyed to pattern recognition. Some behavior issues can arise due to humans being creatures of habit. If you leave for work the same time every morning, after filling your travel mug, grabbing your keys off the table- they’ll know those signs mean “you’re leaving”. If you have an anxious dog those will cue the anxiety to start. Sometimes correcting that requires intervention, and is case by case, but know that your dog is always watching and your idiosyncratic behaviors become triggers whether you want them to or not.

Dog parks are shit for early socialization, whether it’s a puppy or a rescue. You have no idea how well behaved the other dogs are going to be nor how decent of a person they have. Try and find local puppy or established pack play groups to ease your dog into it. If a dog park is your only option, go without your dog at different times to see what the people/dogs are like (a lot of folks go the same time every day), then avoid the times where the dude with the unneutered beast that terrorizes everyone while dad vicariously lives out his dominance fantasy of “he’s just an alpha” isn’t there.

Even the best socialized dogs deliver corrections to one another in a manner that can look harsh to humans. But that’s their language, we choose not to use force/harshness. It is acceptable for them to do so when they do it correctly because dogs “speak” two languages, dog/dog and dog/human. A proper harsh correction from one dog to another should come after the dog being pushed uses body language to set a boundary, continues to be pushed, and sets a hard boundary swiftly but does not escalate or pursue after the other dog has disengaged. If you get a puppy, being able to socialize with confident older dogs who recognize “puppy” but will define their limits with appropriate force is great. You will often see that a puppy who gets “told” they went to far will take the correction, sulk, then seek approval from the dog that corrected them, and a well balanced older dog will reward the toned down behavior by playing with them when their energy is right.

Training is not programming. It’s never a one-and-done, “I taught you to sit at 6mo and that’s good enough for the next 15yrs”. It is a perpetual process throughout their lives, both maintenance of the trained behavior and adjusting to performing it in every new circumstance. It’s not difficult to master “sit/stay” when you’re in the comfort of your home, but that doesn’t mean it’ll automatically work as well when they’re over-stimulated by people/dogs/smells in the pet store.

Finally- you’re the human, use your brain. We should always strive to give our dogs the best life and set training/socialization goals, but we can recognize when they’ve hit their limit. Dogs have their own individual personalities, quirks, and varying levels of drive/intelligence. With rescues you might not know what trauma or bad conditioning they’ve had, and some can leave scars where managing their environment rather than training it out of them is the solution. Not every dog enjoys the pack play of daycare or a dog park, or a house full of screaming 10yos for a birthday party. Don’t give up before you try and work through issues, but at some point if you can see that your dog has reached it’s limit, then you as the human make the call about what situations to put your dog in and which to avoid.

Bad Religion, Propaghandi, Dropkick Murphys, Good Riddance, Thought Riot, Regan Youth, Crass, T.S.O.L., MDC, The Nerve Agents, Earth Crisis, Dead Kennedys, NOFX, Body Count, Pussy Riot, Death By Stereo, and Cattle Decapitation are all social-politically outspoken punk/hXc/metal bands that have plenty of songs that would fit your list.

Dropkick, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, Eyes of Salt, and the Boss all have anti-ICE specific songs out recently.

Gimme wolves devouring the sun and moon, drunk warriors with sword and spear, screaming Valkyries, a boat made from the nails of dead men hauling the forces of the underworld to the battleground, a venom spewing world serpent, a god-killer wolf, and a fire demon that just burns it all down in the end. Nobody apocalypses like the vikings.

Did one of the soldier angels get his head blown off, only for it be replaced with the crown of the statue of liberty?

Less and less. As a thrift shop junkie it’s always interesting to watch how long it takes consumer trends to fizzle and the shelves fill with the must-haves of yesterday year. Currently it’s Baby Yoda, Squishmallows, and MAGA/Trump gear.

Just slingin’ excommunications back and forth, calling each other anti-Pope, finally reconciled through their mutual love of burning witches…. Welcome to the new Dark Ages.

“Bombshell Report: Trump tells his staff no one will be getting a pardon.”

Now there’s a headline I didn’t see coming.

I wholeheartedly believe that there are many on the left that would go as hard against MAGA and their supporters as Zion goes against the Palestinians. A lot more on the left would be comfortable watching people like ICE and the Proud Boys get back as good as they’ve given. They might fundamentally oppose brutality (and seeing others enjoy dishing it out), but people are fed up and revenge is… pleasing. Long term, sustained, no excuses genocide against every MAGA supporter though? The left would turn on itself if it industrialized eliminating them all. It’s much easier to stomach the idea of a middle aged Oathkeeper getting wiped in a fire fight than it is to toss someone’s MAGA loving granny into the meat grinder because it’s her turn in line.

Recognizing that straight up genocide or mass incarcerating all of them is not going to be an option, at a bare minimum: disenfranchisement, bar them from any office, confiscate wealth and property, liquidate their businesses, take their guns. Let them spend the rest of their miserable lives dependent on the good graces of society to get by, and if they still refuse to abide, then we opt to remove them from the picture. We’re also going to have to strip our democracy down to the bare bones, keep what was good, bring other parts out of the 18th century, and be vigilant in closing up the loopholes they make for themselves. There’s some that need to be Nuremberg’d, but logistically and realistically we can never bring them all to heel. We just need to do as much as we can to set the example and make sure they don’t adopt a new “lost cause” narrative.

🤗 yeah… yeah. I’d pit our wild spaces and backcountry up against any in the Union. Mountains, high desert, old growth, rivers, lakes. Wolves, grizzlies, bison, elk, deer, sturgeon, and migratory birds. Millions of acres we fight to keep for nature and leave-no-trace human enjoyment right outside our back doors. And thousands of ugly exploiters trying to capture their own “private Idaho” and turn it into the Aryan dream. Ain’t gonna happen.

Conservatives have always valued the 2A over the 1A because they know violence or the threat of it can intimidate or suppress what they don’t want to hear. So remember, you’re not going to win with verbal appeals, condemnation, facts, or strongly worded letters. If option one is failing, use option two.

It’s a Bible verse.

John 20: 14-16

At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?Who is it you are looking for?”

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

Jesus said to her, “Open the fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “WTF!” (which means “what the fuck”).

Maybe. If Jesus comes out of his cave tomorrow and sees his shadow it’s only six more weeks of Armageddon.

Being middle aged is a weird position to be in. The boomers have refused to let go of their positions of power and have both their “news” outlets plus some level of digital adoption. The youngest generation that’s now adults grew up with digital in their hands before they could read. We may have ridden the divide between analog and digital, but we definitely dropped the ball when it came to voting out career politicians from the silent film era and failing to realize how influential online cults of personality could be in shaping the youth. It’s worth analyzing where we went wrong, what we can adopt, and what shouldn’t be adopted because grasping at what made them successful and trying to copy it is reactionary and desperate. I do think we really, really need to take one last shot at democracy (if we still have it) and run the dinosaurs not just out of their elected seats, but out of the behind scenes positions of power that dictate what “left” is in the US, because what they’re trying to maintain is left only because the right is fascist.

Sort of an opposite approach to the Goebbels method. Instead of top down control, allow various flavors of hate to vomit their message and see what resonates. It worked, because now you’ve got hate groups and individuals who might otherwise not be on exactly the same page as their fellow bigots onboard for the common cause, sometimes in the face of their own self-interest or contrary to what their own “beliefs” should push for (ie Latinos for Trump, Zionist neo-Nazis). They didn’t have to indoctrinate people into hate, they just had to make sure haters knew they were all welcome. And most of the haters will never get what they want, their personal desires are irrelevant. They’ll get deported, ground under, discarded like Noem and Bondi, or driven into poverty by the people they enabled because whatever their personal goals, all that mattered was their emotions were a path to power.

“Could Hitler have escaped the fall of Berlin and currently be hiding in a secret submarine base with two million of his most loyal troops? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.”