Oh come on, can’t we use the Trump Train highspeed rail? Counting on it being so shoddily built it falls apart on the first trip.

#2 depends on whether righty can call down Mjölnir and the lightning.

The Catch-22 to that is it gives Trump and the GOP the excuse to declare martial law, as they’re already itching to do, hugely extending the power of their autocracy.

Better to protest in peace and ignore the parade. Just drawing a larger crowd and some good media attention will troll him enough. Concentrate on signs showing ways the money could have been used for good.

Useful for someone like me who saw this in All. You know the “Granny lowers her glasses and peers into the computer screen” meme? That’s me, except I have progressive lenses (to match my politics) so I leave my glasses up.

“Oiligarchy”

But Trump says tariffs will bring the jobs back home!

More like YOU fly at dawn. Generalissimo Penguin here is gonna sit on a rock.

Most vegetables and fruit not imported from Mexico are grown in California. Enjoy your scurvy.

Texas? Unlikely

Problem is, 47, his henches, the entire GOP and cops in general have zero ability to feel shame or remorse, and nobody who does has the power to stop them. I think protesting peacefully but being ready to run and scatter seems to increase the likelihood you’ll live to protest again.

Signal? Found Hegseth, guys!

Paraphrasing the way it was explained to me as a child in a mainline Protestant denomination:

With action figure = “crucifix” = Catholic = reminder Jesus died for our sins.

Bare cross = Protestant and post-Protestant churches = reminder Jesus rose again.

I’m not sure about Anglicans.

Thank you for your service! More valuable than military work IMHO.

If you really can’t bear to be without a phone, get 2 burners. Put the number of each on the other. Nothing else. Bring one, and give the other to the person who might need you urgently or might be able to bail you out. You can write their burner number on yourself for EMTs to call, without giving police any justification for getting into their real phone.

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Remember, folks: avoid attempts by bad actors to turn your peaceful legal protest into a riot, 47’s itching for an excuse to invoke martial law and seize more power. Disable biometrics on any phone you bring. Make sure someone knows where you’re going and is waiting to hear you made it home. Don’t post pictures or videos that identify people, who may be risking a lot more than you by being there. You don’t want to be the reason ICE disappears someone. Protect yourself from teargas but also from plain old sunburn and dehydration.

Malaphor, my new favorite word Also: “she looks like she’s been through the run of the mill”

“I don’t have any skin in this game”

Who’s betting pieces of skin?

43% of responders are idiots

There’s a bit of “strange bedfellows” involved here. Two women, one D and one R, realized they and anyone like them could lose their opportunities to vote on legislation (ie do their job) if childbirth or neonatal complications kept them away from the Capitol Building. So they sponsored this bill.

Democrats like it because it makes the job fairer to women. I presume some of the Republicans feel it fits their pro-birth agenda, and helps against women’s tendency to vote more left than their spouses.

They may also like the part that Johnson hates, which is that it opens a door to further proxy voting. Which he says is bad because legislators need to be in the same building interacting with each other, (which we can all see isn’t doing shit for bipartisanship) but mostly that rule is used for partisan gamesmanship, timing votes according to who will be present. He doesn’t want to have to learn how to work with a change in the rules.

Three bills got linked together as part of his shenanigans, so now all three are stuck until at least Monday.