Fabulous, thank you, a fun fact to share with my geography-loving son! 🌎

Please do! At your leisure

This is going to bother me all day, I don't have the time to pore over a map like I did when I was 10

Oh my fucking God these fucking fucks

This one hits.
Whenever I reread, I'm in floods of tears when the Chinook comes

This is their circular “bootstrap eugenics” ethos: if you’re poor, you’re lazy. If you’re poor & working 3 jobs, you’re stupid. If you’re sick, you didn’t take care of yourself. If you took care of yourself & got sick, you’re weak & expendable. And on & on.

Yes, I'm convinced whatever is there, it's really fucking dark, and I'll probably hear something I wish I could unhear. My heart aches for these women and the girls that they once were.

The Onion is the only legacy media I trust

Every single crisis, failing, misfortune of the ordinary American (can't buy a house, can't pay loans, can't get ahead no matter how many right decisions you make, etc) reflects the chasm between the haves and have nots -- and this email tranche really shows it in intense contrast.

This is the reason I've held onto this Galaxy S10 for I'm not sure how many years. External storage is way too important to me. Enshittification.

Honestly thought this was a reference to Linda/Constance/Martha Taylor, the original "Welfare Queen".

we all started thinking better things are possible and they had to nip that in the bud immediately

This is how I feel about sewing machines. I've worked on an industrial machine since 2003, and every time I use a home machine it feels like trying to eat rock hard ice cream with a plastic spoon. The industrial machines feel like using a warm antique silver spoon in comparison

Man. Trump's crimes against taste are the least of his crimes but they are still terrible

Three former detainees testified today, I think that's the only evidence they have of conditions at Broadview in particular. But videos of other locations are grim as well.
I'm with you, I'd love to see more reps etc make a scene about not being able to inspect/do oversight for themselves.

That last paragraph reminds me of that Hilaire Belloc quote:
"Behold! You have mistaken the hour of the night. It is already morning!"

Absolutely a step worth taking, he has a lot of goodwill and support, whatever he does 💛