@vacheestfachee
Writer/editor. Covid-cautious homeschool parent. Michigander & MSU alum. Christian; definitely not nationalist. Anti MAGA, fascism, genocide. Pro Ukraine, BLM, democracy, rule of law, civil/human rights, refugees, vaccines, science. Words mine only. She.
If you are planning on traveling anytime soon, go ahead and book those tickets tonight.
I just checked Delta, and the prices were pretty much the same as a month ago. But with oil prices skyrocketing, thanks to Donald's useless war, that is forecasted to change quickly.
Obviously *far* from the most important thing here, but the fact that oil prices are shooting up has in fact meant that I just spent the last couple hours purchasing flights for a Dutch friend's wedding this summer *way* sooner than I was anticipating doing that before flight prices skyrocket
we are going to win.
chat is it a bad sign if the economists are like "we're hurdling off a cliff", the IR scholars are like "this is august 1914 redux", and the military analysts are like "there's no way for anyone to win without escalating"
how bad can it be, it only fuels half the world's population
Someone trying to devise the best possible stop-him-with-time-travel AU, perhaps?
“I have no intention of starting a war with you” I say as I airstrike your entire government into dust, sink your whole navy, destroy your air force, and demand your unconditional surrender
Gosh if only someone had loudly warned about how an entire popular "left" influencer scene was a pipeline to the far right.
I'm sure if that person had existed she definitely would not have faced a year of misogynistic harassment and ridicule from much of the rest of the online left.
You won't be able
to fix it all.
You will be able
to love.
- Helms Jarrell
man if only a massive green energy infrastructure package had been passed like five years ago
on of the oil bros points out to me: "you know what an energy crisis is really bad news for? AI"
Oil up 13% just today.
Trump did that!
If other people's children are fair targets in war, then so are yours.
zero percent chance that Susan Collins doesn't immediately drop all of this the second the general election starts if this guy wins the primary - the DoD is 100% sitting on the file on this guy and will send it to her the second he wins the nomination
I mean, my default position is that an 80 year old should not be starting a first term in the Senate, and probably not up for reelection either. But that's a preference, not an ironclad rule like the one about guys who had a Nazi tattoo for decades that only ended within the latest electoral cycle.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
I’ve started sayin “He’s wearing a wire!” when I see these glasses.
One man overheard and pulled them off. 😭😭😭
Chat, is it good that everyone in the oil industry seems to be freaking the fuck out?
Waiting for the administration to say the spike in gas prices isn't actually a big deal because so many Americans are losing their jobs and won't have to drive to work anymore.
We’re 7 days into something that looks like a war, feels like a war, costs like a war, has the same economic effects of a war, but we’re not supposed to call it a war because it would require the President to follow that annoying thing called the United States Constitution.
I’m a little confused because the economists on my timeline are like “oh yeah we’re facing a generational energy crisis because Trump is a madman who started a war he can’t control” while the politicians are like “it’s important to make clear we support the troops until it all blows over next week”
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
That Trump repeats calls for Iran's unconditional surrender on same day he's got the defence industrial chiefs round for an emergency meeting on military supplies perfectly sums up his grasp of ends & means.
mr president, i think we’ve found a way to combine the iraq war with hurricane katrina
Nintendo also probably has better health care policy; Dr Mario believes in germ theory
A small thing here that was striking to me was Pres. Obama's closing: "God bless Rev. Jackson. May he rest in eternal peace. God bless you."
He *doesn't* say "God bless America" as presidents usually do. And I don't blame him at all.
Sort of anecdotal, but my time in the auto insurance industry has convinced me that a LOT of the dudes with the jacked up $80K Ford F150s are paycheck to paycheck, have staggering commutes, and get absolutely killed by quickly rising gas prices
If there were credible allegations against a Democratic president that he had punched a 13 yr old girl in the face after she bit his penis while he was raping her, Fox would be running that shit on a loop 24/7 and calling for his arrest/execution let alone his impeachment.
yes. i was told all my childhood that the way i am was not acceptable for a girl: my interests, the way i talked, sat, dressed, my eyebrows…
it's not the same. & just getting older made a huge difference for me
but i've always known nobody should be treated like that, & especially not 1,000% worse