I use both Twitter and Bluesky in the vain hope that my insignificant presence will moderate the extreme and calm the overexcited, but in reality I'm probably just depriving myself of real-life experience.

Rubio's likely being set up to be the future fall guy to insulate Trump from the ire of MAGA diehards when his policies inevitably cause them economic pain.

I’ve been in many Starbucks that have code locks on the doors, codes that have to be obtained from staff. Inconvenient, but how else can you ensure that the washrooms are available and safe for customers, and not occupied by people injecting themselves with drugs and destroying the fixtures?

Shouldn't you start from the bottom of the slope?

Journalists, editors, etc. need to be paid, web server space must be leased, paper must be bought to print magazines, office electricity bills need to be paid. The money has to come from somewhere.

I know how you feel - I refuse to eat dinner in restaurants that charge money for food.