Today's Tweet

I get a little queasy a lot lately.

Pay attention to the long-term, cumulative damage of the shutdown, including the effect on the census.

The Trump admin has long sought to manipulate the census in an effort to reallocate resources and annihilate rights. This isn't just a shutdown -- it's a hostile restructuring. https://t.co/1CHsbx1BUk

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 11, 2019

On MLK Yesterday

Tim Wise, at Univ of Michigan:

The Baldwin quote (Jet Magazine, 1965):

People who imagine that history flatters them - as it does indeed, since they wrote it - are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin, and they become incapable of seeing or changing themselves or the world. This is where it appears to me most white Americans find themselves - impaled. They are dimly, or perhaps vividly, aware that the history they have fed themselves is mainly a lie. But they do not know how to be released from it, and they suffer enormously from the resulting personal incoherence.

If we want the world to be a better place, the first thing we have to do is to stop insisting that it can't be.

Beau Knows

Beau Of The Fifth Column (Justin King):

In The Face Of It All

Avery Anapol, The Hill:

The U.S. Coast Guard acknowledged the partial government shutdown and its impact on Coast Guard families as a cutter and crew departed for a multi-month deployment on Sunday.

The Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf and 170 crew members left Alameda, Calif. to support military operations in the Indo-Pacific region.

In a video about the deployment, Coast Guard officials noted that due to the lapse in funding, there has been increased “tension and anxiety” among crew members.

“Our [U.S. Coast Guard] members sail across the world to protect U.S. national interests while their loved ones cope w/ financial challenges & no pay at home,” Coast Guard commandant Adm. Karl Schultz tweeted.

Today's Today

Today's Tweet

Live in the moment, but be aware of what you might be making inevitable for down the road.

Girl: "Grandpa, what did you do in high school?"

Grandpa: "Well, sweetie, I wore a MAGA hat, mocked Native Americans, and yelled 'build the wall' at pro-life rallies."

Girl: *pulls plug*

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) January 20, 2019

Overheard On The InterToobz

Ann Coulter: We voted for Trump and got Jeb.

America: We're feelin' ya - we voted for Hillary and got Putin.

Products

Twitter pal Eve The Potter recently walked away from a pretty solid tech gig to follow her dreams.

Stonecrop Pottery

I ordered a tankard last week, and it's become a permanent fixture in the daily routine (ie: semi-OCD nut-ball morning ritual) that supports and reinforces my rather sever coffee jones.

Every piece is handmade and unique - built to last.

Bless You, Charlie

Charles P Pierce, Esquire Mag online:

There simply is no more loathsome creature walking the political landscape than the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. You have to go back to McCarthy or McCarran to find a Senate leader who did so much damage to democratic norms and principles than this yokel from Kentucky. Trump is bad enough, but he's just a jumped-up real-estate crook who's in over his head. McConnell is a career politician who knows full well what he's doing to democratic government and is doing it anyway because it gives him power, and it gives the rest of us a wingnut federal judiciary for the next 30 years. There is nothing that this president* can do that threatens McConnell's power as much as it threatens the survival of the republic, and that's where we are

All of McConnell's fuckery is in service to the effort to displace American democracy and establish a new regime - the Daddy State - using 45* as a beard.

Today's Tweet (NSFW)

Someday maybe.

Netflix: Are you still there?

Us: pic.twitter.com/9URnhVD9FZ

— Weed Humor (@WeedHumor) January 6, 2019