“It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity,” says Hillary Clinton. I am one of those saps who is more bothered by the hypocrisy. Hillary can’t afford to be, I suppose.
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The Signal chat seems to be evidence of a war crime, right?
Given the lack of urgency and predictable civilian deaths, does the Signal chat not constitute a war crime!? Does this leaked conversation provide the proof?
I have to hope that enough enthralled by fascism are not fascists
Jason Kottke quotes A.R. Moxon and follows-up with: Yeah, this is basically why I don’t waste time anymore railing against the many hypocrisies of conservatives — they’re not gotchas that you’re catching them in, they’re part of the domination. True, but I have to hope their hypocrisy, as evidence of domination, is revealing to those who are not in fact fascists in their hearts then they realize they will be on the short end of the stick.
USAID shutdown reportedly styming anti-human trafficking direct service efforts
I worked for nearly a decade with the organization that currently runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline. I do not know the current specific details, but I believe it and am saddened by this news. I and my team supported some efforts to engage with some of the international partners alluded to if not mentioned in this reporting. I have all kinds of feelings about the space (and Polaris's unfortunate support for some very flawed legislation in the US), and I do not have an uncritical view of USAID, but it pains me to understand the many ways people just trying to help people are being crippled, seized-up and disrupted.
I hear the ghost of Ed Sullivan: “We have a very big shew today!”
I watch us
in our last, most honest minutes
putting bread on credit, double-
bagging bleach and ketchup, trying
to keep what we love alive.
What good comes out of increasing the void of help for the innocent?
I’m not really making an effort at being a news blogger. I have little to add of any unique value. I do not want to sound self-important. If there’s anything to when I do comment on the larger world I do not control or have particular expertise in, it is to assert as much agency as I think we all might have due to any way we might relate to the world, to care about things and to ask for justice.
The Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts can suck it. The vertical playground at Swampoodle is one of The Childe’s favorite places to play.
It is near several places we make regular errand runs to and, in addition to climbing fun, it provides him a vantage point to observe the train traffic coming in and out of Union Station (The Childe is a trainspotter, although he does not yet know this term).
Like many park areas with something interesting for different groups, it is a small oasis in the city. We need more such things for all of us. (We also need the city to keep the drinking fountains in clean, working order in all the parks. I did just put in a 3-1-1 request with regards to Swampoodle’s drinking fountain.)
This says nothing about me (except to significantly explain my stint of SAHD duty in the latter case), but I am proud to know people directly involved in each of these efforts:
- San Francisco Moves to Lead Fight Against Deepfake Nudes — San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is a former colleague (and let’s be clear, boss— a co-founder, and CFO and CEO over time) of mine.
- My partner has been directly involved in facilitating this work: Biden administration reveals Medicare negotiation drug discounts
I don’t have to let go of my broader and deeper political critiques to appreciate some of this progress.
Caught up with the most recent episode of Maron’s podcast & enjoyed the bit in his usual rambling opening where he called out Trump on not citing his sources, being a coward for not giving credit to Hitler.