Keith Orejel

I would respond to this nonsense but I’m too absorbed with the war in Iran to waste the time and energy.

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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Persian Gulf desalination plants could become military targets in regional war Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

“The region’s monarchies are often described as petro-states, but they have also become what I call saltwater kingdoms, global superpowers in the production of human-made fresh water drawn from the sea.”

theconversation.com/persian-gulf...

Me and the boys about to make bank

*rips up speeding ticket*

I’m glad the economy doesn’t have anything to do with the economy.

Is the bad lady gone?

So the US and Israel are now just carpet bombing Iranian cities. Unbelievable.

lmao DAN GOLDMAN is saying ABOLISH ICE? that's so funny. amazing work from Lander and proof the act of primarying matters, no matter the outcome of the election. some really influential people could stand to internalize that.

He’s still talking about the fucking ballroom. Right now? With all *this* going on?

Sometimes I worry my country is not entirely pure of heart

The “opposition” in Israel is just as insanely right-wing as Bibi.

If people were worried about Bari Weiss taking over CNN, don’t worry. It won’t be all that different.

If you are wondering how our country got to this point all you need to observe is the feckless response of the Democratic leadership to this act of military aggression.

How many countries have the US and Israel attacked in the last year? Genuinely lost count

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

A dying empire ruled by bad people.

An almost total collapse of support among Democrats

A complete and total sea change in American politics.

I think we should stop listening to all the centrists urging the Democratic Party to embrace what basically amounts to Starmerism

Dad what did you mean when you called me a “content adoption”?

George Washington inspecting the Continental Army

I’m someone ever sympathetic to the trade offs of rural economic development but they are trying to put a data center in the small town where I teach and it’s such a phenomenally shitty deal. I’ll post a thread tomorrow laying out how bad it is.

Boomers angling for another tax

You have six cats?

Oh god no. It’s more like two sets of three.

My baby boy used to have to be dragged into daycare and now he excitedly runs in. He’s got friends and he wants to see them.

US Men’s Figure Skating

I think I accidentally adopted a chupacabra

The Political Economy of the Urban-Rural Divide Though the urban-rural divide can sometimes appear like a primordial fault line in American political life, it is a relatively recent development. The Democratic Party’s collapse in the countryside…

I’m deep in NY21 (Stefanik’s district) and this checks out. Decline decades in the making and no one seems to have a plan for it. I come back to this excellent @keithorejel.bsky.social piece on all this: lpeproject.org/blog/the-pol...