As we stand against the efforts to impose Authoritarian rule on the US, let’s remember on MLK Day that slave society was a top-to-bottom system of totalitarian oppression.
And the Movement existed to undo the Jim Crow version of that system. @martinlutherkingjr.bsky.social

Let me see if I understand this.

He’s going off on Denmark over Greeenland because the Nobel Prize Committee — IN NORWAY — declined to award him a medal.

Whelp, I’m sure once that little misunderstanding is cleared up, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Some people, Very High in the Executive Branch, seem never to have studied competitive strategy.

This need to happen: Snoop Dogg & Clyde Frazier on the mic together for a showcase game. C’mon @nba.com! Let’s go!

So, a distraction from the falling approval ratings.
But I thought we were done with these foolish foreign engagements. I’m sure we can turn V back into the shining democracy it was before Maduro.

Just clicked the site on repeat to hope for an opportunity to buy tix to Michael Heizer’s City this year.
Ended up number 1887 in line.

It’s open about 75 days per year and they take a max of 6 people a day.

Maybe next year!?

@natesilver.skystack.xyz I think your latest missive on Vegas is missing the forest (the massive rise of online/mobile gambling) for the trees (lower income gamers getting squeezed on The Strip). How does March Madness weekend stack up? There’s your “tell”.

Is Sleepy Donald the New ‘Sleepy Joe’? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...

#drowsydon strikes again!
@frankabruni.bsky.social gets it. We deserve leadership that is wide awake to the challenges of today’s United States.

#drowsydon at it again! Chasing Biden. Or are we in the Andropov / Chernenko phase of our gerontocracy?

Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

I found an AI that’s writing pretty good one-liners.
Unfortunately they’re all in assembler.

I met John Beam a dozen years ago & worked with him to host SF Flamethrowers games at Laney.
A gentleman through & through. A sad day for Oakland.
#JohnBeam #LaneyCollege

I am trying to decide if I love my country or hate venal corrupt governance more.
Fortunately, they are aligned!
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A nation born in Liberty
Will never bow to Tyranny

“Buttoned up” and “Buttoned down” are practically synonyms.

Do we need other buttoning descriptors?

We have arrived at the place where those on the bottom are struggling to survive with dignity, while those on the top have so much excess savings that the equity risk premium is negative.

“Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance […] of the Rule of Law.”
—F.A.Hayek