PHMSA is really just the pipeline owner protection bureau. Their regulations are indecipherable. Now they’re taking a page out of the pet industry playbook that shut down PETA protests with ten year mandatory sentences. Protest a pipeline go to jail, but if the owner of the pipeline negligently operates the pipeline…

Moving David Tracy to CA would be like one giant rust rehab clinic he couldn't escape from.

I wish I had not read Dark Money. I sort of knew what was going on, but the book left me feeling utterly hopeless. They played the long game and won. Not sure that tanker can be turned around in my lifetime.

His administration doesn’t give a fuck about birds. Since the 90s DOJ had been prosecuting corporations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for “taking” (killing) birds in industrial processes including wind farms. Those prosecutions were routinely upheld by appellate courts. Trump had DOJ put in place a policy…

Not only that, but under US v. Henthorn, 931 F2d 29 (1991) the cops would have to give up Guyger’s personnel file in those other cases. I’m betting they don’t want that info out. If for no other reason it may screw with their prosecution of Guyger.

I stopped watching PBS because of him. I figured if he was their go to pundit on Fridays the rest of the week can’t have much worthwhile content.

But her truants... y'all going to hand Mango Unchained a second term.

Is there a German word for this? Schaudentügen?

In fairness Barr did put it right up top on his resumé under the "Objectives" bullet- coverup crimes.

He would have resigned in February, but he couldn't remember which of three agencies he worked for.

Had to scroll back up to see where this happened. Oh.. OK. OK, I get it. MAGAland.

It is a positive thing in Trump’s circle if the goal is not to run a casino, but to run it into the ground, then have the trustee pay off the co-conspirators (aka secured “creditors) all that money people delivered in wheelbarrows, some, maybe lots, from shady sources. Judge approves the payments to the creditors. Now…

When I worked for the feds we were not allowed to take side gigs like teaching because doing so would (allegedly) interfere with our very busy day jobs. Apparently they don’t have enough to do at the SCOTUS.

There's a few pitchfork and torch ETFs out there that are better bets for your 401K.

Look no further than Idaho, the Appalachia of the West. Half the legislators claim to be farmers. Even if they aren’t they run out and buy a cow to tick the farmer box. The education system ranks one higher than Mississippi. Kochs keep em stupid and down on the farm. The farms being kept in business by hard working…

Check the vent filters on your microwave above the stove if it functions as an exhaust fan for the stove. The filters get filthy from airborne grease. Dishwasher cleans them up perfectly. 

There’s a couple of Australian budget airlines (Jetstar and Tiger spring to mind although I’ve tried to block them from my memory) that are sticklers for time limits on luggage. You have to weigh the bags yourself and put them on the conveyor before you get to the counter. Or something. It was all very confusing. The…

Oh so now we’ve got Russian trolls telling the democrats how to run their campaigns. Worst part is they’ll probably take his advice. 

Never been to Sibiu, Romania I take it.

Look, I’m certainly not an ex-airborne bro, but even I have a GPS/beacon I can use to text anyone in the world who has a cell phone from anywhere in the world. It costs $26 a month. So I’m slightly perplexed as to why these bros didn’t have one. Terrible movie/screenplay.