James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

Q: Why do mountain climbers rope themselves together?
A: To prevent the sensible ones from going home.

This is mind boggling. Half of the GDP of India is from the districts marked in Red.

I know people *exactly* like this. It's creepy and horrible.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/how-can-a-cartoon-be-so-true/

Right wing idiots in meltdown saying they would rather move away than live in a Labour run UK.

Where are they going though.

Not an EU country obviously.

I hear there are some well decorated flats in Rwanda.

In hindsight, training *anything* on what human beings write or say or especially do was a bad idea. Because you know, humans are idiots. 🤷‍♂️

Memo to the media:

If you're trying not to "take sides" in a struggle between democracy and fascism, you've taken the side of fascism.

Fellow introverts

Do it. Leave your headphones in. Deadpan stare them down. Don’t feel guilty. It’ll never be just once and they are the oppressive ones.

I don’t look for someone who is clearly dying for forced conversation and force them to be left in peace.

“What if it were like Google, only a little bit worse?”

— Google, every day since 1999

"You don't come to Ontario, no matter what culture you are, and stir things up." -#DougFord

"A reminder that the 'Freedom Convoy' folks illegally occupied downtown #Ottawa for 3 whole weeks terrorizing residents, impeding traffic, causing businesses to close while politicians & police stood by."

The premier had no comment & went snowmobiling at his cottage when "that culture" was "stirring things up" 🤔

#ontario #onpoli #cdnpoli

Donald Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad second term

Millions of us are justifiably focused on seeing that Donald Trump is held to account for what he’s allegedly done in the past.

Scheming to flip the legitimate 2020 election result and resisting the peaceful transfer of power, a first for U.S. presidents.
Making off with top-secret documents and conspiring to hide them from the feds.
Falsifying business records to keep hush money paid to a porn star a secret from voters in 2016.

We mustn’t lose sight, however, of what Trump will do, if
— despite all that baggage
— he defeats Joe Biden to become president again.

His fever dreams are no secret.

He’s told us,
and his henchmen have, too,
in interviews
and in exhaustive, scary detail
in their so-called Project 2025 blueprint for a second Trump term.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-05-05/donald-trump-time-magazine-second-term-project-2025

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 30/n

Wow. As Bregman says: Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

Look at 1980 - I do continue to think that *everything* could have been different if Carter hadn’t lost to Reagan.

Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road?
A: Because it was on the other side.