That was only 8 of the 23 military flights. 15 were classified for personal use, meaning $80k per flight.

So the gas giant can have a gas giant.

The only good thing about this article is that I get to read it in Bernie’s voice. Everything else is crushingly depressing. Things can get better, but it’s a slog. Never give up.

She claimed public school kindergarteners were practicing anal sex by putting carrots up their butthole.

Sounds like a woman I went out with. At least she shared her true colors within half an hour. Unfortunately that was not the most off the wall conversation she started.

the law firm that helped set up Elon Musk’s super PAC has created a(n)…. election integrity organization … called the Association of State and Local Election Officials.

Diabolical.

…FOR SCIENCE!

Sorry if this is obtuse. Trump has been polled for at least 10 years. Corporate media often points to the polls as a bad sign. Then Trump defies the polls and the pollster goes whoops and assumes next time the poll will be correct. But it never is. Trump has so often defied polls I’m surprised it’s not a meme. Anyway. I realize the number is never going to be 0 because some people are so fanatical they need to be deradicalized. Those people will always support Trump and they’ll also support the next snake oil salesman.

“The schools offer a liberal conservative arts education”

It’s not 0% approval, which is the only number that matters.

Rooted in 20th century eugenics, which is not surprising. Nazi gonna nazi.

Trump isn’t acting in an official capacity.

Business as usual for those in power, damning to everyone who’s paying attention.

Yes that was the status quo. And now we have the status quo times 1000 worse. Democrats have not been shocked into compliance either. A systemic overhaul is required and it’s bigger than one person.

I learned that a significant majority of the US voting population will torch the country if the candidates in our inherently flawed voting system are not good enough for their moral or ethical standards. Status quo vs driving the country off a cliff are not the same thing.

Tell me what you learned from the 2024 presidential election.

Ranked choice voting would allow more political parties to have higher clout and name recognition. Then federal legislature would be less easily deadlocked.

I had a radical idea to make government service like jury service. A core group of admin workers are full time, but people who implement policy decisions are pulled from the public based on expertise. You serve part time for six months and then go back to full time work.

“Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn’t mean I don’t have [opinions about the germicide] and it doesn’t mean I don’t care,” [Sheeran] said.

Lack of action is complicity.

How about make better public transit? LA is famous for horrible traffic.