Is this really a “liberals giving the finger to Trump” kind of secession, or a “libertarian tech bros who don’t like paying taxes and dealing with people who reject becoming cyborgs” kind of secession? Because I thought all the proposed California secession movements were the latter.

This is sickening. I work with refugees, and it should go without saying that they’re running from places where the police/army/militias detain and murder people for no reason (not to mention, the time in camps or “temporary” shanties where violence and corruption are endemic). To land in the place where you’re…

Holy fucking Christ, now people are asking whether Trump’s advisors just handed Putin an American asset in Russia.

Okay, so, in all seriousness what comes next? They can’t keep calling each other’s bluffs forever (can they?), so who backs down first?

As someone who’s old enough to remember “Sandhogs for Reagan,” I’ll never get the fetishization of blue collar unions by certain liberals. The days of of the UAW locking themselves in the plant and throwing rivets at cops died as soon as management tossed them a bone after World War II, and was buried when Nixon and…

Marching down Pennsylvania Ave in the direction of the White House, a few workers and National Guard soldiers kept saying they’d never seen so many people there. I looked forward and back, and yeah, there were a lot of people.

I’ll be there, and I’m equally concerned about people like this dude, who are nominally allies but will try to start some shit to troll or go viral or, worse, live out some half-baked revolutionary fantasy.

What’s almost as galling is the claim that cutting public broadcasting, the NEH, and similar programs (even factoring in cuts to bigger agencies) is going to result in $10.5 trillion in reductions.

On the plus side, my permanent Coachella boycott now has a moral dimension to it.

As was Hitler, keep in mind.

Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hillary Mantel. They’re not exactly escapism at this moment in history, but they’re absolutely superlative. Incredible language and incredible pacing—I stayed up past three AM on a work night reading the final 200 pages of Bring Up the Bodies.

What happens when his account is hacked and tweets something really disastrous? Because it will happen. Like Reagan joking about launching the missiles, but worse.

Could not get past line 1.

O queso, at least they feta lot of people. Still it would have been gouda the organizers to orda take out for the rest.

It makes more sense when you realize Pacman accidentally deleted the word “convictions” before sending the tweet.

Wait, is this the same Louisiana that almost shut down its public university system this year because Republicans had run the state economy into a ditch?

Exactly. What drives me nuts is that people don’t realize that this shit has been going on forever—In the case of plenty of companies (Carrier, Alcoa, and RCA come to mind), cheap peckerwood Indiana labor was the “future” that “took” the jobs of workers in the east decades ago.

There’s an interesting theory that Trump flat-out cannot divest his business interests because he’s so underwater that any loss of income, however small, would send the whole house of cards tumbling down. The Apprentice income is pretty small potatoes in the end, but even a small interruption in his cash flow would…

“Democrats always bend over for it,”