This is better than the album version — and I love the album version.

the “calm down, the GOP won’t do THAT” crowd will always be with us, but they’re increasingly making smug noises at cavernous, empty rooms

it is also nice to know that this is absolutely driving them nuts.

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) April 8, 2023

One of the reasons I like Faine is that she always makes fun of the idiotic “But that could never happen” narrative. It’s always been false but it was the accepted worldview for 15-20 years on a lot of things. Now those people are fewer but still out there.

This Friday night’s news dump is a biggie: Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an antiabortion Trump appointee, has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug mifepristone in 2000 was flawed and must be suspended.

I told you they were coming for contraception (yes, I know mifepristone is used for drug-induced abortion). This is just the beginning; it will only get worse from here. I hope a state like California just starts ignoring this sort of thing altogether.

Abortion was always more about other things, mainly putting women back in their place socially and sexually. Another thing that “could never happen” is beginning to happen.

And how half of them were like these trust funder Ivy Leaguers who spent the whole time being like "8 year olds don't need math instruction, or supervision, or socialization, YOU MONSTER."

And Twitter (took sociology in grad school) was like "yes! 10,000 hearts."

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) April 7, 2023

Yeah, that was some fucking weird shit there. I still can’t understand it. And there were so many of those people! According to them, anyone from two years old on up was just fine in solitary confinement, and needed no education or other normal stimulation. And if you didn’t believe that you were KILLING GRAMMA.

What a bizarre time and what an oddball set of ideas and practices that developed around Zero Covid nonsense.

It’s not just in my head that I get treated vastly different by women now, and vastly differently than my partner gets treated. Here’s the proof. A few weeks ago I went to an optometrist to get my eyes checked. She was young (28ish?) and cute and was obviously attracted to me. During the course of the exam, completely unnecessarily, she touched me 6-8 times. My arms, shoulders, my leg. I have very nice muscles so I understand — even though as a man, I could never get away with that.

My partner (a woman, to be clear) went to the same optometrist and the doc did not touch her even once during the course of the exam. My partner and and I do not share the same last name so the optometrist would not have had a way of knowing we were associated (I doubt she’d be checking addresses).

Also to be clear, I did not feel harassed or even bothered by the optometrist’s casual touches. She was fun and cute so could pull it off. But that never would have happened to me a few years ago and didn’t happen to my partner.

Interesting how we have double standards on male/female behavior that no one can admit, though.

If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed.

Yes we are. But large companies and politicians want it to be destroyed because it threatens existing power — there is little more dangerous than having an accurate and unbiased record of the past that also prevents the corporate “steal all culture, rent it back to you” approach.

I’ve always thought its days were numbered and I’m surprised it’s lasted as long as it has.

AR-15s and $55K ChildCrusher 5000 GTX pickup trucks are the dual murderous, idiot symbols of the American right. https://t.co/vlDyA5Oo92

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) April 6, 2023

Goddamn I cannot fucking wait to see these mooks and their stupid trucks in little pieces beside the road after an A-10 makes short work of them. I just cannot wait.

Armed men everywhere, government travel restrictions on pregnant women, an incarceration rate well above the (high) national average = a certain American vision of freedom https://t.co/pOpErTRFFf

— Chase Madar (@ChaseMadar) April 6, 2023

As I’ve said a million times, red states are only gonna get worse. This will be a very American version of the fascist authoritarian nightmare. Get the fuck out now while you can.

Exactly this:

I really like Louisville and its people, culture, restaurants, schools. But I think often about whether my family and I will end up moving somewhere else in a few years.

If you’re in a red state and not a conservative (aka fascist), leave now. It’s only going to get worse. Far worse. Those will not be livable places in a decade. This is not going to be something that reverses anytime soon and you won’t make it better by staying in or moving to a red state. Just leave them to the cretins. They deserve what’s going to happen to them.

On the left, a 250 pound woman. And on the right is a 120 pound woman’s colorized tomograph:

Yeah, 250 pounds, really HAES uh huh, sure thing buddy. Look at those knee joints of the woman on the left. They are — in the very latest medical parlance — FUCKED. And the musculature of the 120 pound woman does not imply athlete, either, so she’s just got a fairly regular presentation.

Fat Acceptance needs to be destroyed.

Can someone name for me a single legitimate purpose that this licence plate cover serves? pic.twitter.com/Ai4fOlmc1D

— Socially Foolish Ryan 🇺🇦 (@ryan_hassett) April 1, 2023

Yes. It’s to keep the police from getting your license plate. I see that as a very legitimate purpose.

I love how angry space stuff and the new Moon mission makes pseudo-liberals. That’s like 20% of the reason to do it, how fun their idiotic anger is to observe.

They mean well but the problem is that they are very, very stupid.

This point he makes here 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

We’ve been missing the forest for the trees. pic.twitter.com/qg1VAyayJd

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) April 2, 2023

Yep. Tell me again why I should be COVID-paranoid and not concerned with those other issues?

Chinese spy balloon gathered intel from sensitive military sites and had a self-destruct mechanism.

The intelligence China collected was mostly from electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel.

Here’s what I said about it on February 6:

Here’s what SIGINT is. I mean, I am used to being right. I typically am. But it still makes me happy every time even if no one cares. I have the receipts.

Y’all clowns believing it was some weather balloon. Dang.