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Other Things John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt Wished People Shouted at Him

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/other-things-john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmid…
Created
Tue, 04/03/2025 - 00:10

“Do you mind me shouting at you like this, or would you prefer I let you pass without shouting at you?”

“I’m a medical doctor who just looked at your health records, and good news! You’ll never get cancer!”

“Your parents were wrong to name you that!”

“Your name is NOT my name too! I just like shouting at people I don’t know, because I am a small, empty garbage person! I’m gonna stop right after this!”

“How can I make your life easier!?!”

“What does that song even mean!?! Is it just about two guys with the same name? It doesn’t make any sense! Who’s the main character in the song? You or the person who is singing? Is someone walking with you with that name or does the whole world have the same name as you? You don’t have to answer! These questions are rhetorical!”

“Is it okay if I throw you a bag with enough money in it to pay off all your credit card debt?”

“Hey! I have a picture over here that definitively proves who shot JFK, if you want to come see!”

“I understand how all this constant shouting must be a living nightmare for you!”

Repeated Mistakes Lead to Unfair OSI Elections

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/03/03/osi-board-elections-problems.html
Created
Mon, 03/03/2025 - 22:00

Update 2025-03-21: This blog post is extremely long (if you're reading this, you must already know I'm terribly long-winded). I was in the middle of consolidating it with other posts to make a final, single “wrap up” post of the OSI elections when, in the middle of doing that, I was told that Linux Weekly News (LWN) published an article written by Joe Brockmeier. As such,I've carefully left the text below as it stood it stood 2025-03-20 03:42 UTC, which I believe is the version that Brockmeier sourced for his story (only changes past the line “Original Post” have been HTML format fixes). (I hate as much as you do having to scour archive.org/web to find the right version.) Nevertheless, I wouldn't have otherwise left this here in its current form because it's a huge, real-time description that as such doesn't make the best historical reference record of these event.

sherlock holmes and the case of why this one dinosaur he's never even met writes about him so much

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4302
Created
Mon, 03/03/2025 - 19:00
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A five-minute scroll

https://johnmenadue.com/a-five-minute-scroll-96/
Created
Mon, 03/03/2025 - 10:48
The Australian media continues its hysteria over the China warships. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledges all support for Ukraine, while Israel’s Netanyahu thanks Donald Trump for his support. Meanwhile, our US alliance has been in crisis for longer than we think. Everything the Australian media says about the Chinese warships is hysterical and twisted. Continue reading »

A Useless Waste Of Space

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/02/a-useless-waste-of-space/
Created
Mon, 03/03/2025 - 10:00
Mike Johnson has long been a Ukraine supporter. But he loves Trumpy more. Here he is spinning like a top: In a stunning exchange on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Johnson took umbrage with the notion that President Donald Trump and others on the Right are “on Putin’s side” in the wake of the chaotic Oval Office meeting with Zelensky on Friday “It’s pretty absurd for anyone in the media or Democrats to somehow proclaim that President Trump, the White House, or Republicans in Congress are on Putin’s side,” Johnson said. “It’s a joke. We understand that he is a dangerous adversary and he is the one that provoked the war.” Of course, Trump expressed the exact opposite sentiment in a Feb. 18 statement — making clear he believes Ukraine, not Russia, was the aggressor which sparked the war. “You should’ve never started it,” Trump said of Ukraine. Welker promptly referenced Trump’s comment. “But Mr. Speaker, you’re saying that we all know that Putin provoked the war,” Welker said.

Woe to You Who Deprive the Poor of Their Rights

https://tomdispatch.com/woe-to-you-who-deprive-the-poor-of-their-rights/
Created
Mon, 03/03/2025 - 09:03

“There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana lawmaker and president of the Family Research Council, about freedom of religion and the actions of the second Trump administration. I have to admit that such a statement from this country’s third-most-powerful politician and an avowed Christian nationalist almost takes my breath away. Of all the people facing hostility, discrimination, and violence now and throughout history, Christians like Mike Johnson rank low on the list. Still, his comment is consistent with a disturbing religious trend in the country right now. As an early act of... Read more

Protests!

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/02/protests/
Created
Mon, 03/03/2025 - 09:00
They are happening all over the country along with town halls full of angry constituents. Yesterday people lined the streets near the Sugarbush ski resort to protest JD Vance on his way to a ski weekend. People reportedly yelled at him on the mountain as well and he ended up leaving early: Of course the MAGA cultists, including Mike Johnson, say these are all George Soros paid protesters but that’s a lie. The Vance protest was completely organic, coordinated on Reddit and Facebook. People don’t need to be paid. They are trying to save the country. And the protests are about everything, Musk and DOGE, veterans, Medicaid, Ukraine, federal workers, Tesla all of it. I don’t know how long it will take people who aren’t tuned in to politics to fully grasp what’s going on but this is the important first step. Here are just a few moments I happened to bookmark over the last couple of days: Republican Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas QUITS and LEAVES town hall early — after being criticized about Elon Musk and Donald Trump firing VETERANS.

Somebody’s Fuming

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/02/somebodys-fuming-2/
Created
Mon, 03/03/2025 - 08:00
Remember this? It was the middle of Donald Trump’s presidency, and he was—yet again—mad at Saturday Night Live. And he wanted the federal government to help him settle the score. In March 2019, the then-president of the United States had just watched an episode of the long-running, liberal-leaning NBC sketch comedy series (it wasn’t even a new episode, it was a rerun), and grew immediately incensed that the show was gently mocking him. “It’s truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of ‘the other side,’” Trump tweeted, long before he was banned from Twitter for inspiring a violent mob. “Like an advertisement without consequences. Same with Late Night Shows. Should Federal Election Commission and/or FCC look into this?” Don’t be surprised to see Trump’s new stooge at the FCC, Brendan Carr, actually “look into” it. I can’t imagine how anything could be done but with the way things are going I won’t be surprised.

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 02, 2025

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Mon, 03/03/2025 - 06:25
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 02, 2025

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 02, 2025

By Tony Wikrent

Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie — We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.

Greg Sargent, March 1, 2025 [The New Republic]

It has a dry, bureaucratic name, but Ready to Use Therapeutic Food has functioned for over a decade as a lifeline for countless starving children around the globe. Manufactured in the United States and distributed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, it’s a paste made of peanuts, milk, and vitamins that alleviates a form of acute malnutrition known as “severe wasting.”