Collateral damage is the point. Administrative error is the point. Cruelty is the point. Stochastic terrorism is the point. Random disappeared is the point. This is 1970s Argentina.

They are performing AS IF they were but they are sure hedging their bets by pulling out the stops to rig the mid-term elections they are terrified of losing ... can't have it both ways ...

Kinda hard to fire a guy who never worked for you. Try again?

I have thought for a long time that radical right fundamental evangelism will also converge with radical left environmentalism. The two movements have more in common than not.

Well bless his heart, did he really say this?

We could call it "Mayor Pete's Playhouse." He rides in on his special bicycle. I know there's videos somewhere of Buttigieg in a talk show format taking calls from from listeners with transportation related issues in his official capacity as Secretary. Its funny, informative and Pete is razor sharp.

Schumer urges Trump to eat his broccoli

He dropped the nth decimal into a private account let it accumulate to a large sum and delivered his “research” at the conference to show how compromised the German banks were. This was before the Euro.

Saw that happen once in West Germany in the ‘80s at the then famous/notorious Chaos Computer Club annual conference. Hacker by the handle Dr Vow got into currency transfers between countries which were never whose numbers.

No wonder he wants to slap tariffs on that handsome dude. What a wimp.

Call your peers, worldwide and go deal with Musk right now on his level in the manner he’ll understand. Stop your Bluesky platitudes and go out there and do something necessary right now.

I was thinking later how long it’s been since I read a nice long novel. So part of the not reading thing is no longer reading literature