Mark Shore

"if I was really a Nazi I'd have gotten the swastika and SS runes tattoos too, they had a three-for-one deal" says Platner, putting the issue to rest once and for all, he thinks

within his circle of handlers he's probably mused about nuking a city in a blue state (not New York or L.A. though)

I used to think of the members of Trump's cabinet and inner circle as flunkies or minions, but have come around to other people's descriptions of some of them as viziers, with everything that implies

Donald Trump is the worst symptom of the GOP disease so far, but not the disease itself - a healthy political party and a body politic with a strong immune system would have rejected him right from the start

the world's wealthiest and most powerful democracy, *the* global leader for a century and close enough to its 250th birthday to order the cake, teeters on the precipice thanks to two or three hundred of the stupidest, laziest, most transparently corrupt and malignant people imaginable

rebranding to TARG, with one red dot, to save cash

and a windfall for US producers as well

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

not sure how this will actually work out, but assuming Iran cannot play, its three group round opponents (Belgium, Egypt, and New Zealand) should insist they be credited with a 0-0 draw rather than the traditional 3-0 win for a forfeited game

but I plan to boycott this World Cup anyway

depending on how you use Claude Code, it can adopt a tone and style that mimics your own (and also uses first person singular pronouns)

when it runs out of context in long sessions and needs to compress and resume, it's a useful reminder you're interacting with a sophisticated program, not a person

apart from almost every TV show in the history of television becoming dated with the passage of time, everything I've since learned about Joss Whedon diminishes my retroactive enjoyment of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly

it's increasingly dated (and two of the surviving Pythons are now bad) but when Brian tries to stop a battle between two feuding Jewish resistance groups by saying "remember who the real enemy is" and they both stop and say "the Judean Peoples' Front?"

DHS: the *real* enemy is within our borders

oh, not making that assumption at all, just adding some regional evidence in support of your main point that it's not a US-specific trend

in other words, what you're saying is
[no I'm not going to do this]

"confirmed kill of an enemy F-15, Colonel," the pilot says proudly as he returns to base
"Iran doesn't have F-15s, Captain"
"...I never said it did, sir"

basically allowing fringe religious beliefs to trump public health, or at least looking the other way while it happens

Canada lost its status because of massive measles outbreaks in unvaccinated Mennonite communities with members who regularly traveled to and from communities in Mexico and Texas with similar outbreaks

the Canadian government and the two main provinces (which manage health) affected downplayed this

Ohtani hits a 900 foot home run
Me: well that wasn't very nice, not sporting of him at all

I would simply not load the bases before pitching to Mr. Ohtani

it's a skill issue

I'm not sure why "unexpectedly" shows up as often as it does in such announcements

one of the few cases where I'd look the other way at Trump's petty vindictiveness if it happened: "oh, by the way, here's the bill for your back rent, at market rates"

also just thinking of the number of people over here, mainly on the right but to be fair spanning the political spectrum, who lose their minds when restrictions are imposed on how often they can water their lawns or if public water supplies are fluoridated

Perry: This St. Patrick’s Day, don’t forget Irish music’s anti-fascist roots Dropkick Murphys, the iconic Irish American punk band, are headlining a free block party March 6 near where Alex Pretti was killed by immigration agents, contributing columnist David M. Perry writes.

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

there aren't many things where a military can deliberately target something essential for life, food management, quality of life, industry at all scales, and public health all at once, and much of the media and public will give a "so what, no big deal" shrug

that could make a good pinned post

I've always thought the differences between major parties' core voting blocks involve quantitive differences more than qualitative ones

i.e. every party has its share of uninformed, lazy, dim-witted, bigoted etc. supporters as well as the other kind

but decent parties attract more of the good sort

he's just a lil guy, a smol bean, a dumb kid, really, who thought "totenkopf" was just another word for "tattoo"

you know, US senator material

hard to think of any other administration where people can argue in good faith over which particular member is responsible for the most deaths domestically and abroad

"why do you hate my antique WW2 swastika clock when it's briefly right twice a day?"

It Wasn't Fascism All Along Conservatism was a distinct ideology but it is dead and it is not coming back.

trump's fascism is categorically different to previous conservatism

my latest

www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...