Dan Meeps
@onekneedjacks.bsky.social
Generally set apart from a sentence by an explanation point (or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong).
He said it in July, not today. Still very bad, but not as atrocious as it's being made out to be.
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
He said it in July, not today. Still very bad, but not as atrocious as it's being made out to be.
Fetterman is on the wrong side of all sorts of things, but the contentious quote here is from July, not today. Stay onside.
January 25, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Fetterman is on the wrong side of all sorts of things, but the contentious quote here is from July, not today. Stay onside.
The song accompanying the DHS post is by an artist called Pine Tree Riots. (The Pine Tree Riot refers to a pre-Revolution conflict associated with the An Appeal To Heaven nationalist flag notoriously flown at Samuel Alito's house.)
From their Genius (neé lyricsgenius?) page:
From their Genius (neé lyricsgenius?) page:
January 10, 2026 at 5:32 PM
The song accompanying the DHS post is by an artist called Pine Tree Riots. (The Pine Tree Riot refers to a pre-Revolution conflict associated with the An Appeal To Heaven nationalist flag notoriously flown at Samuel Alito's house.)
From their Genius (neé lyricsgenius?) page:
From their Genius (neé lyricsgenius?) page:
My recollection was that peak serial killer was the 80s-90s, and the first couple search results I found seem to back that up.
December 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My recollection was that peak serial killer was the 80s-90s, and the first couple search results I found seem to back that up.
The district is still almost entirely South Dallas, which is the bluest part of the city. (Dallas is very big.) The new TX-30 is just as overwhelmingly blue as it used to be.
December 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The district is still almost entirely South Dallas, which is the bluest part of the city. (Dallas is very big.) The new TX-30 is just as overwhelmingly blue as it used to be.
Their "Breakfast Basics Index" actually did fall 14% from March to September.
(Check which fruit the basket includes, and guess why they measured from March 2025 instead of September 2024.)
(Check which fruit the basket includes, and guess why they measured from March 2025 instead of September 2024.)
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Their "Breakfast Basics Index" actually did fall 14% from March to September.
(Check which fruit the basket includes, and guess why they measured from March 2025 instead of September 2024.)
(Check which fruit the basket includes, and guess why they measured from March 2025 instead of September 2024.)
Hope everyone here enjoyed their daily three-egg avocado omelette bagel sandwich with a glass of milk.
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hope everyone here enjoyed their daily three-egg avocado omelette bagel sandwich with a glass of milk.
Here on Columbus Day 2025, a solemn judgment echoes:
Colonialism is bad.
This according to... three Trump cabinet officials.
Colonialism is bad.
This according to... three Trump cabinet officials.
October 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Here on Columbus Day 2025, a solemn judgment echoes:
Colonialism is bad.
This according to... three Trump cabinet officials.
Colonialism is bad.
This according to... three Trump cabinet officials.
When everything's going great
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
When everything's going great
A shower and shave for ol' Steve Bannon here.
September 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A shower and shave for ol' Steve Bannon here.
Criminal intent and mens rea components of specific Michigan criminal statutes notwithstanding, I would not ever want to say or imply anything like this from thr bench:
(From the WaPo board editorial regarding "Democratic lawfare in Michigan")
(From the WaPo board editorial regarding "Democratic lawfare in Michigan")
![The fact that the Michigan case failed does not necessarily mean the federal case against Trump would also have failed. Simmons said that Trump’s election lawyers withheld meaningful information from the would-be Michigan electors. But her ruling still highlights a real problem with all of these cases: [Next sentence highlighted by OP] Though the Trump campaign’s challenges to the 2020 election were destructive and culminated in violence on Jan. 6, 2021, they were not a secret.
Fraud and forgery charges are therefore a poor fit for the alleged behavior. “Typically, [rest of quote sentence highlighted by OP] people who are seeking to defraud or deceive do not gather and make a spectacle of that,” Simmons said. That’s why it took prosecutors more than two years to bring indictments. These were a useful complement to Democratic political efforts to keep the 2020 election front and center. (Nessel got a prime speaking slot during the party’s national convention last summer in Chicago.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppappkmqzwohcsveymatn76q/bafkreihoyfrn6rf76vgmw2cwlf3aaeqx7c65yuf5rgebdmaffj7kep6hka@jpeg)
September 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Criminal intent and mens rea components of specific Michigan criminal statutes notwithstanding, I would not ever want to say or imply anything like this from thr bench:
(From the WaPo board editorial regarding "Democratic lawfare in Michigan")
(From the WaPo board editorial regarding "Democratic lawfare in Michigan")
Also, zero consideration of the Voting Rights Act, compliance with which one would presume is important for democracy.
August 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Also, zero consideration of the Voting Rights Act, compliance with which one would presume is important for democracy.
She spends the rest of the article refuting that same suspicion and concludes that private companies are the actual problem.
Where she falls short is failing to extrapolate that Republicans are lying about other "fraud" (e.g., elections) and that many other businesses are screwing their customers.
Where she falls short is failing to extrapolate that Republicans are lying about other "fraud" (e.g., elections) and that many other businesses are screwing their customers.
August 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
She spends the rest of the article refuting that same suspicion and concludes that private companies are the actual problem.
Where she falls short is failing to extrapolate that Republicans are lying about other "fraud" (e.g., elections) and that many other businesses are screwing their customers.
Where she falls short is failing to extrapolate that Republicans are lying about other "fraud" (e.g., elections) and that many other businesses are screwing their customers.
Yup, gotta include the immediate surroundings to capture the raw feel
August 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Yup, gotta include the immediate surroundings to capture the raw feel
O/U 6.5 months before this AUSA working on "land condemnation" along the border goes after the National Butterfly Center?
![Screenshot from the Wikipedia article for the National Butterfly Center.
Section: US-Mexico border wall
Text: The proposed US–Mexico border wall is slated to pass through the grounds of the National Butterfly Center.[7][8] Filmmaker Krista Schlyer, part of an all-woman team creating a documentary film about the butterflies and the border wall, Ay Mariposa,[9] estimates that construction would put "70 percent of the preserve habitat behind the border wall."[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppappkmqzwohcsveymatn76q/bafkreieth66ro4hkb5yvkypygzfnq7logozzyncvmjkmmtplz3vxswcxhy@jpeg)
![Screenshot from the Wikipedia article for the National Butterfly Center.
Section: QAnon
Text: After a QAnon conspiracy theory spread on social media that the National Butterfly Center was smuggling migrants into the US, in late January 2022, Republican Congressional candidate Kimberly Lowe and her purported Secret Service Agent[17] visited the center referring to "the rafts with the illegal crossing" and to child rape, then reportedly injured the director, Marianna Trevino Wright, and almost struck her son with their vehicle. In response, the center closed for three days the following weekend as a precaution during the We Stand America rally nearby, and announced on February 3, 2022, that it would be closed indefinitely for "the safety of our staff and visitors".[1][18] The center reopened on Earth Day in 2022.[19]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppappkmqzwohcsveymatn76q/bafkreidkzpdtieqqa5gx3wq2rmscrvfsqchekjlkf5jf65zc6fhvdk73wa@jpeg)
August 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
O/U 6.5 months before this AUSA working on "land condemnation" along the border goes after the National Butterfly Center?
Close, but not quite
May 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Close, but not quite
Expected a different style, but of course this was coming
May 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Expected a different style, but of course this was coming
The blue region doesn't appear on the balance sheet or the income statement, so it... uh... doesn't exist.
May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The blue region doesn't appear on the balance sheet or the income statement, so it... uh... doesn't exist.
Uh-oh, Mr. President, Fox News is sending the people subliminal messages to support Ukraine
April 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Uh-oh, Mr. President, Fox News is sending the people subliminal messages to support Ukraine
Taken at 12:01 and 12:24 ET
April 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Taken at 12:01 and 12:24 ET