Twitter diaspora. Agamemnon sucks: we do the fighting, he gets the girls. (Oregonian. Mediator/lawyer/writer; bylines in The Guardian, Alternet, HuffPost/OffTheBus, more.) Dad of the best adult kids ever; 3+ decade husband to the best woman ever. Ex-mountain rescue volunteer, USFS firefighter, aircrash litigator, prosecutor, swimming pool digger, bartender. Other stuff. 317.1 ppm. Kindness is king.
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Last Notes npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Except they won't *admit* to the others. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Ageism is the only bigotry liberals consider acceptable. Aaargh. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. You're too good to me. Will you keep me company when I wake up at 2:00 a.m.? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. If it's 6:00 p.m. where I am but 9:00 p.m. on the East coast, am I still allowed to go to bed or nah? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. "Playboy founder Hugh Hefner notified the FBI of Jeffrey Epstein and reported that a Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by the late financier, according to new court documents reported this week. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. You: "spiders are scary and probably want to kill us! Snakes, too!" npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. I think they're just knots. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Whoa! I have COMPUTER MEMORY! It's almost like finding an early Bitcoin you thought you'd lost! I’m rich now! npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Going through a big Rubbermaid bin from the garage holding old electronics. Anyone need a CAT-5 crossover cable or some S-video adapters? How about an internal A: drive for reading floppy disks? Or proprietary printer cables? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Sir Richard Francis Burton "was a searcher, a shifter of interests. Burton’s writings have been criticised as being unstructured, cluttered and self-indulgent, almost as if he had not the time nor inclination to properly revise and edit, but simply wanted to get the current project out of the way in order to get on with the next. This is borne out by the fact that, towards the end of his life, he had eleven desks set up in the study of his home in Trieste, where he was consul; each desk was for a different project and, when he tired of one, he would move to another, as if restlessly seeking for something." npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. This has depressed me for years. Years. I keep hoping physics will discover something new that restores the more Hindu concept of a universe that expands, contracts, and is reborn, over and over, instead of this dissolution into unmitigated loneliness. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. What size fish with water like that support? (I love learning.) npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. You have a little 3-wt or something? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Yeah, reported and blocked. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Trying to think up a new sign for tomorrow's #NoKings protest. There's so much wrong I can't even begin deciding which one to point out. Open to suggestions. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Wow. The same guy who instantly caved to Trump's threats to big law firms finally resigns – not because he's a quisling, but because it turns out he's also associated with Epstein. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. "[N]ew documents confirm in the government’s own words that what prompted the raid was more pedestrian [than Tren de Aragua]: allegations that immigrants were squatting in the complex. And the landlord had given federal officials, who were already targeting immigrants in Chicago, the blessing to search the building. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. It's a beautiful planet we inherited. I feel lucky. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. whYDOn'T yOu usE Ai??? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Bad news: there is erotic Trump fan fiction. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. And also for killing Indians and keeping enslaved people in line, of course. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Take a handling/safety class; then take a bird hunting class; buy a shotgun for [waves arms wildly at current events] and for food hunting in the event the economy completely collapses; then store it in a locked offsite location with keys to facility + trigger lock held by two different people so just one can't access? Reasoning in comments, please. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Heads up: eBay just sent an email updating their terms of service to add mandatory arbitration of any disputes. To opt OUT of arbitration, you need to send an opt-out notice, on paper, by mail, within 30 days. Here's the link to the notice form: https://pages.ebay.com/policies/arbitrate-optout.html npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. I mean, he was paid to make LPs like this: Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Against_Socialized_Medicine npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. People forget that the Boomers were the hippies. They were the antiwar protestors. They were the kids mowed down at Kent State. They were the greatest generation of musicians of all time. They invented Earth Day. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Look, I'm not saying Canada should surround and seize Washington D.C. to save us from fascism. I'm just saying that in case they *do*, I've plotted out three invasion routes they could use without being cut off from certain critical supplies. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Okay, you're doing terribly. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Location list/map for tomorrow's nationwide "ICE Out for Good" protests endorsed by the ACLU: https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132&utm_source=aclu npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. And The Catcher In the Rye is garbage, absolute garbage. I love everything else Salinger wrote but this novel belongs in the shredder. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Ten years ago: "Trump to declare end to nation building, if elected president." https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-declare-end-nation-building-elected-president npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. I think the Chambord is similar but would be an improvement! npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Sorry, I was thinking of kirsch, but it's not even that. Bols black raspberry liqueur (basically raspberry brandy). npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. On Christmas an adult kid wanted a sweet strong cocktail so I invented one: blackberry kolsch + grenadine + brandy + soda. To my family's dismay and amusement and because it's fundamentally tacky yet stimulating, I named it "The Carny's Third Sidepiece." npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. I gave both adult kids copies "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers, with an inscription saying that I'll keep fighting to leave them a better world but in the meantime here's one they can live in for at least a few hours. #MonkAndRobot npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. How did you keep her out of the water? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. I can't get past it running the Oscar over the infinitely better Pulp Fiction. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Thanks for sharing that! Also, fun fact: for 19th century young people, the "one horse open sleigh" was the equivalent of the later "Little Deuce Coupe": it was fast so they'd hold races (ergo the bit about getting flipped over on a snowbank), AND it could only hold two passengers (so young men and women could talk – and maybe more – without a chaperone sitting in the back seat). npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Here, have still MORE Christmas stuff. We all getting in the right mood now? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Here, have some more Christmas stuff. Ho ho ho and yippie kay-yay. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Here, have some Christmas stuff. Ho ho ho etc. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. I think you're exactly right, and also it's hilarious that she just gave it away instead of writing a tell-all sure $$$ whenever she ended up getting fired as she eventually would have anyway. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Oh no!!! Soldiers on elephants are crossing the Siskiyous and converging on Sacramento!!! Turns out the "C" actually stands for "Carthage"!!! npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Wonder if you could do the old fraternity house trick and inject a watermelon with Pedialyte instead of vodka. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Aw, man, the accused DC pipe bomber was a *Black* Trumpie. I'm pretty sure that right there would make a successful insanity defense. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Happy Krampusnacht to those who celebrate. It's the most magical night of the year! npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Taps mic, points to sign: npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Nice to see him up and about! npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Our local Home Depot operates a Flock license plate reader camera. Because of course they do. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. A perfect beach break like that, and yet you and Summer didn't surf? Wimps. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. John Oliver is holding an online auction to raise money for public media (in response to Trump's fzcking budget cuts), and the items up for auction are amazeballs! npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Okay but what if in our personal experience he actually is that person? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. This is the correct answer: npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Because Himalayan blackberries are both prolific and invasive here. No one needs to buy one, and if they do, it will consume their garden and then their neighbor's garden and then gardens a mile away. (And Luther Burbank, who actually was a great horticulturalist, is who imported them to California, not realizing birds would spread them everywhere.) https://positivebloom.com/risks-of-growing-invasive-blackberries-you-shouldnt-ignore/ npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Damn, I love being more literate than they are. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Capitalism at its very worst (at least to gardeners in Oregon's Willamette Valley): #evil #gardening #EffLutherBurbank npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Imagine one person at the Jamestown colony having more wheat in his barn than the poorer half of his peers PUT TOGETHER, and not distributing it to his starving community. What would the starving people have done? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/115/521/739/455/258/033/original/8e2316a6167384a2.jpg npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/115/521/736/974/908/999/original/37cc69fc1745731d.jpg npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/115/521/732/397/702/606/original/c49a1728aff45f08.jpg npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/115/521/729/931/856/753/original/7c6b07b45b48c52f.mp4 npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Damn: "Michael Wolff, a longtime chronicler of Trump’s White House who conducted extensive interviews with Epstein prior to his death, told The Daily Beast last month that Epstein had shown him photos of Trump with half-naked 'young girls' in his lap." npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Okay look all I really need to know is, when my mom pulls out that orange studded with cloves thing over the holidays, can I stay in the room or should I run like hell? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Oh, my God, no. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Any idea what the appeal is? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Halloween status update: doing a brisk trade in raw potatoes. 31 y.o. offspring is boggled. Boggled! npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. This is how to do Halloween. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Wait, so you put up your Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving and take them down before Christmas? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Thanks for being open instead of defensive! Usually I just do a keyword search then look for reputable sources among the garbage. In this case I just searched for the first few words from the plaque to see if I could find an independent description of where it's located (eg a Wikipedia page about it), and the factcheck was in the top few results. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Not actually true. Factcheck things, people! npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Among other things, Trump tore down the East Wing because one time the coward actually bugged out to the emergency shelter beneath it, and probably was offended that it's isn't as opulent as Mark Zuckerberg's End Times bunker in Hawaii. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-george-floyd-politics-a2326518da6b25b4509bef1ec85f5d7f npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. The Bay Area has a lot of tunnels and bridges, especially around Alameda. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Inadvertent upside: when a good person becomes president again and rips out Trumps horrendous balls room, the rebuilt East Wing *won't* have been built by enslaved people! npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Ice axes are what we do with our hands now that no one smokes cigarettes anymore. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. I've been a litigator for nearly four decades. This is a horseshit move. Defendants get to choose their own lawyer. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. What I'm trying to say is, your dude is a cool dude and you were right to choose him even if times now are challenging. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. SO. FUCKING. COOL. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Also too? Tanker} pilots are SO. FUCKING. COOL. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. In my 1982 training they told us that a USFS inspector found a pot field and was confronted by the grower with a shotgun but talked his way out of it by explaining that he only was interested in fire conditions and obv. the grower didn't want his crop to burn but then a week later the Mendo sheriff launched a pre-planned raid so the grower assumed the USFS guy had narced and a month later a FS helicopter was downed by rifle fire that hit the engine and the FS elected to report it as merely an engine malfunction because they didn't want to do Hatfields & McCoys. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. I fought fire in the Eighties in Mendo. We received as much training in not pissing off the dangerous pot growers and how to avoid their booby traps as we did in fire science. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. We're not big pot smokers, but Lyricdancer *is* an inveterate gardener and thought, what the hell, and planted one cannabis plant. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that to "celebrate the anniversary of their founding" (read: fzck with Gavin Newsom), the Marines would fire live artillery across I-5. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Stolen from Pastor Brandon on (sigh) FB: npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. You know who DIDN'T hold naked bike rides on cold rainy days to protest fascism? 1930s Germans. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Perfect. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Gonna fish that with a dropper? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. "Thinking of taking a break from methamphetamine? Heroin is ready to impress!" npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. It's surprising how well the 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel "It Can't Happen Here" holds up today. Trump is a mixture of clownish populist blowhard Buzz Windrip and creepy sexual predator Shad Ledue; Stephen Miller clearly is his behind-the-scenes advisor Lee Sarason. I wonder who Gen. Dewey Haik will turn out to be? And how long before we get to the happy part where the fascists start assassinating each other? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Every writer about #resistance has noted that #fascism asks us to comply in small increments, none of which seems so terrible that it's worth losing our job or social standing over – so that once we finally reach the line we cannot cross, it's too late for noncompliance to make a difference (and possibly fatal to do so). npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Trump is sending troops to Portland because the previous night Fox News ran "B-roll" footage of the huge, sometimes violent 2020 protests behind a story about the current (small, peaceful) protests at the ICE facility here, and he BELIEVES WHAT HE SAW ON TV IS HAPPENING TODAY: npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Today in #TIL: I knew that a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey. But I *didn't* know that the mule's father (sire) must be the donkey; if the cross is between a horse sire and a donkey mother (dam), then the result isn't a mule, but a "hinny." npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Yesterday Lyricdancer and I engaged in a Swiftboat-style river patrol just outside Portland with our Antifa unit (the "Manbun Kerrys"). How are *you" contributing to the war effort? npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. On this calm, beautiful Saturday morning, the President of the United States illegally declared war on my peaceful city: npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. The most dangerous man on earth is billionaire defense/spy agency/surveillance contractor (and JD Vance's sugar daddy) Peter Thiel. Here's more reason to believe that: npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. This is a helpful and frightening perspective on why Americans have such different views of who Charlie Kirk was. Screenshot from FB; original poster's name is in the screenshot but I'm not typing it because she might not want it searchable outside FB: npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. P.S.: For the blessedly innocent uninitiated, here's Sean Connery (the original James Bond) in "Zardoz": npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. We just watched Zardoz (1974) with Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. But I hate people who are not only intolerant, but are acting on that intolerance. One side is taking away women's rights and deporting people and in the process of destroying our democracy, and I hate them for that. But my hate is appropriate and righteous, and it seems privileged to ask me to stop hating them before they stop acting out their hate against others. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Charlie Kirk's entire career was, as you put it, "selling hate," which you say (and I agree) is wrong. Ezra Klein literally wrote that it was "right." That's the headline. And David Corn, like you and I, disagreed. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. David Corn > Ezra fucking Klein. npub1fdxkhtc8y07vch8nxzjk4v64sslyvmlnk8ldr99ktav5qcj8mvesny5qau M.S. Bellows, Jr. Except we ain't shocked and we ain't awed. We're pissed.
