I'd love to have a social media platform that could actually keep me in touch with my friends, but unfortunately it seems all platforms either are *terrible* (lile Instagram), or literally incapable of doing what I'm looking for (like Bluesky).

I miss 2008-era Facebook.

I'm fortunate to have the right voice, accent, vocabulary, and gumption to be able to bully my way through the "customer service" agents and get this fixed for myself, but it doesn't take away from the point I've made above.

Mike Johnson should commit seppuku.

Oh man, it's genuinely comical how desperate Trump is to be told he's a good boy.

Someone should've just hired a dominatrix for him back in 2015 or so, and maybe he never would've ran for office.

Ugh, typos are the bane of my life. Why is there no edit function? (With a clear marked "edited" tag and an option to see previous versions of the skeet?)

I've been following you for several years now, thank you for your excellent reporting! I've really appreciated the way you chase down details and present things accurately.

Enjoy your well-earned retirement!

You can politely speak to whatever agents are there through your door or a window, & tell them firmly but without being rude:

"I'm sorry, unless you have a warrant you can't be here, and as a matter of principle I do not talk to LE without a lawyer present. Please leave the property. Thank you."

Of course you don't have to be polite, but for many people (perhaps for you!) it's not realistic to be rude to law enforcement, especially when the LE agents are being polite to you.

But remember: DON'T TALK TO COPS.

MAKE THEM GET A *JUDICIAL* WARRANT.

This isn't okay.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but my goal is to convince the choir to do more than sing.

Get radical. Choose to get out of the way of radicals.

We cannot afford to pursue success only through normal channels anymore.

Imperfect solutions will have to be good enough.

For reference, Hitler had access to zero nuclear weapons. Stalin had (at most) 100 A-Bombs. Mao had ≈200 nukes.

Trump has ≈5,177 nukes, of which there are about 1,770 currently deployed.

Trump is also actively veering the world off track w/ climate crisis, exposing us to biological risk, & more.

If we've actually seen enough, then it's time to seriously consider secession, or at a minimum greatly expanded autonomy for California.

So, Governor Newsom, have you ACTUALLY seen enough? Or is this just talk? I've seen enough, let's leave this dying empire.