They low key tell you that the reason you’re not closer to your family is because you’re too close to society. The sort of person that appeals to has a very fearful psyche, perfect for the lead role in a cabin horror film.

In this case I don’t think it would hurt to have a popular vote decide (the next president)

It also explains why he treats the GOP the way he does, he’s remembering a much older Senate.

For instance, it’s impossible to have an apartheid system against another country. Israel is, by definition, not an apartheid state.

What other country has their roads, electricity, water, trade, and police controlled by another?

Like there are words, and then there are facts on the ground. It walks and quacks like an apartheid.

The Abraham Accords is often cited as an escalation towards the situation we are now in that it tried to politically isolate Hamas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords

Maybe the orange man wouldn’t make a difference on the arms front, but he is really good at planting seeds for conflict.

I wonder if there will be another lawsuit over bombing / shooting the hostages. Just horrific.

My pixel phone had a wave of salt water from the ocean get into the USB-C port. The phone detected the moisture and disabled the port until it was clean and dry. The port still works.

Doubt you’ll find something on this site: https://www.mutualaidhub.org/

Locally for me it has been getting involved in the local community: maker space (we made masks during COVID), bicycle group, and a very radical church with a community pantry. But it sounds like those things might not be available where you are, so it might instead be getting involved in a foraging group or other local activities that make sense. Sharing local knowledge outside the Internet is a good habit in case if shit goes south.

What’s the saying? “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

People with guns still need a support network. Get connected to your local mutual aide network if you can.

And that’s how COVID became the #1 cop killer for two years. But to hear my cop brother in law recount it: “COVID doesn’t exist for us.”

Fun fact, the vast majority of the fentanyl is smuggled in by our own citizens!

Hell, you can’t even invent something stylish without it being co-opted by fascists. Hitler ruined the toothbrush mustache.

You should familiarize yourself with project 2025, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

The plan would perform a swift takeover of the entire executive branch under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory

This should be bigger news, but I guess with everything else going on it gets lost in the noise…

Well the tanks sold without congressional approval is legally questionable, but not like Congress is going to investigate him over it.

Yes the Environmental Protection Agency. The Heritage foundation is taking applications and they vet by looking at whether their social media accounts supports Trump: https://www.project2025.org/

Last time Trump did their best to push responsible people out of government jobs, but that was just a test run. This time around it would be a speed run.

Edit: per Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

The plan would perform a swift takeover of the entire executive branch under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory

That’s what tanking the EPA is for. Without any oversight of externalities, dirty energy becomes cheaper.

To be fair, Trump trust is based on favors, and the intelligence agencies weren’t doing him any.

Love it. Often I’ll frame “better” in terms of individualism. Licking a boot as an individual is better than bargaining as a group I guess 🤷

It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

• George