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  • 💲= ☠️ The policies which allow this to happen will, eventually, look as barbaric as doctors not washing hands between patients.

    → 1:57 PM, Dec 30
  • 📚 I finally read Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. I have no idea why I hadn’t read this before, but that’s fixed now.

    Rating: 👍

    → 4:06 PM, Dec 28
  • 🍿 I watched two movies recently. Rating as such:

    The Midnight Sky: 👎
    Soul: 👍

    → 11:59 AM, Dec 28
  • Laying on the bed explaining how to wrap presents while my wife actually wraps the presents is going over as well as could be expected.

    → 1:24 PM, Dec 24
  • How in the world has Trump not been impeached again? Also, at this point, I also have no idea why our constitution has the 25th amendment. Did the folks who wrote and ratified that amendment have someone worse in mind?

    → 9:27 AM, Dec 21
  • For about a third of the episodes of The Mandalorian I’ve literally stood up to watch. I would go from sitting back on the couch, to sitting up straight(ish), to sitting on the edge, to standing. What a fantastic series.

    → 11:00 PM, Dec 18
  • Looks like I’ve just become a fan of someone I’ve not heard of until right now.

    Some advisers close to President-elect Joe Biden are frustrated over a Glamour magazine interview in which incoming White House deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon referred to Republicans on Capitol Hill as “f*ckers.”

    Go, Jen O’Malley Dillon!

    → 8:26 PM, Dec 16
  • So Trump and the GOP spent money on a wall to protect from a made-up problem and passed on buying a vaccine to a problem that is literally killing thousands of us a day?

    → 11:21 PM, Dec 10
  • Only one side doing this.

    → 1:05 PM, Dec 5
  • Only one side doing this.

    → 10:07 AM, Dec 5
  • The Mandalorian is such a good TV show that 1) I can’t believe it’s a TV show and 2) If it was a person, I’d hug them. It really puts the prequels and sequels to shame. We really need a lightsaber emoji. And Mandalorian helmet.

    → 8:57 PM, Dec 4
  • One quibble with this

    It’s impossible to overemphasize just how much the White House has failed all of us. Everyone left to fend for themselves. War-scale death. No support. No help. Nothing.

    Is it wasn’t just the White House. It was the GOP. Every damned single one of ‘em.

    → 9:26 PM, Dec 2
  • I don’t understand why so many Dems retweet (or rebroadcast) those on the right. Even when you agree with the sentiment, these are the folks that got us to where are today. They will take us back in that direction as soon as they can.

    → 7:30 PM, Dec 1
  • My daughter is home from college and is thrilled about being back here with us. That reinforces we did an OK job making a decent home1. In this trying time, I proud of my little family for making a good home.


    1. I’ve had my share of poor parenting moments… Really. ↩︎

    → 5:16 PM, Nov 30
  • I’ve long said NYC isn’t as pedestrian-friendly as it should be. When the pandemic first took hold here it was actually much easier to walk around. Not that I want the pandemic to come back as it was (it’s still here), but it was quieter and safer to be outside with fewer cars.

    → 1:12 PM, Nov 29
  • Every time I read about spikes in COVID cases I get super paranoid. Then I realize many (not all, of course) of these places are super anti-mask and I worry a little less. We all wear our masks when we leave and most everyone we pass on the street does too. It’s so easy to do.

    → 2:23 PM, Nov 28
  • My dilemma is to keep ranting about politics or … Naw, I’m going to keep ranting (and voting) until things get better. Well, I’ll keep voting if it gets better. :)

    → 12:08 AM, Nov 28
  • I’ve had to adjust my expectations for Thanksgiving. It’s just my immediate family. The pandemic is terrible and I wish it hadn’t happened, but I do like just being with my family.

    → 11:49 AM, Nov 26
  • Thanksgiving Day is tomorrow. And that means instead of a gathering of 25+, we’ll be just us four. And a call or two (Zoom/FaceTime) because we’re being responsible and not trying to kill anyone.

    I’m optimistic that Thanksgiving 2021 will be as wonderful as it should be.

    → 5:57 PM, Nov 25
  • I love it when a tweet sums up my feelings. The right still controls the narrative.

    → 5:34 AM, Nov 25
  • I think every trip to the grocery store has to include non-perishable provisions. If I can carry it, I’ll get it.

    → 5:29 AM, Nov 24
  • When I went to the grocery store this evening for a forgotten ingredient, I noticed more and more seating built along the street. Wood frames, plexiglass-type windows, ceilings, lights… these structures will capture COVID just like indoor seating. Don’t use these!

    → 1:51 AM, Nov 23
  • Our collective activity is bordering on insanity.

    → 11:43 AM, Nov 22
  • During my walk around Brooklyn yesterday I came across two huge lines of people waiting to get tested for COVID. I’ve not seen that happen ever while this pandemic was going on. I assumed they were getting ready for travel. Today, there’s more parking around my neighborhood than I’ve seen in a long time.

    The pandemic is about to get a huge boost in hosts.

    → 11:43 AM, Nov 22
  • I’m going to bed at 9pm on a Saturday. If autumn does this to me already, I worry what winter will do. Zzzzz…

    → 9:08 PM, Nov 21
  • Today marks one full week with the iPhone 12 mini and I have absolutely no buyer’s remorse. It might very well be my favorite iPhone, but if it’s not, it’s in the top 2 or 3. Nostalgia plays tricks on the mind and so maybe I’m remembering the first iPhone because it was so revolutionary rather than being a great product. The iPhone 5, however, was so just fantastic. I remember thinking it was impossibly light. This mini almost feels the same way.

    The battery has not been an issue on any level. Now, granted, I’ve not been going out as much and only once did I get the Low Battery Power warning, but it was a day of early rising combined with a bought of insomnia (and so lots of doom scrolling), so a smaller battery hasn’t changed my habits or caused me any inconvenience.

    This iPhone was $250 less than my iPhone 11 Pro, is easier to hold, and is somehow cute. So far, I fully recommended it.

    → 10:23 PM, Nov 20
  • I hope this time will never fade from my memory or the memory of my children. I want them to always remember who allowed this to happen and is allowing it to get worse every day.

    → 10:17 PM, Nov 20
  • If those supporting or attempting to perpetrate a turnover of the election results are not punished for their actions, they will continue these attempts until they are successful.

    Then democracy will have failed in the United States.

    Seventy-one million voted for Trump after seeing what he was like in practice. Certainly good judgement has already failed.

    → 10:06 PM, Nov 19
  • This person might be the worst possible choice for Secretary of Transportation. I’m not saying Biden is going to pick Rahm… But if he does… He couldn’t pick a worse person. Rahm is a terrible person in every meaning of the word.

    → 6:27 PM, Nov 19
  • Is 250,000 a lot?

    → 6:58 PM, Nov 18
  • When Apple begins to act up, I always take a step back to reassess my dependence on their products and services. I’m glad today’s step, however small, was in the right direction.

    → 5:47 PM, Nov 18
  • By the time I retire from day-to-da y work, I hope I can ride an expanded train system in the United States.

    → 8:17 AM, Nov 17
  • My mind is having a hard time finding memories. I’m not worried that I’m losing my mind, it’s just with so much going on I can’t easily keep track of when events happened.

    → 12:27 AM, Nov 17
  • Fox News is very bad. In fact, I used to think it was the worst. But Facebook is far worse.

    Not only it is easier to amplify a message, folks interact and they can (and do) organize. The hates spreads faster and builds and builds. For the record, Twitter isn’t much better.

    → 11:43 AM, Nov 15
  • I am not sure this counts as spooky… maybe more as eerie Or just sad. The New York Times’s Twitter account about war is shutting down before the wars end.

    → 1:12 PM, Nov 14
  • My guess was right: This iPhone 12 mini is very good. I’m still unsure of the battery, but it’s new so I’ll give it a few days to get itself together.

    → 11:19 PM, Nov 13
  • I think the most surprising aspect of my Apple Watch is that it’s not been an issue to wear it. I really thought I’d hate feeling something on my wrist.

    → 8:20 PM, Nov 12
  • Say what you want, but a few months of $100… and I have a new Mac mini. Hmm…

    → 9:41 PM, Nov 11
  • Because of this administration, this election cycle, and the current shenanigans, I don’t just feel old and tired, I feel elderly. I wake up at night and can’t get back to sleep for hours and hours. I actually feel like I’m going mad.

    → 10:06 PM, Nov 10
  • So… are we the people going to force Trump to leave the White House or will he use the military to force us to shut up?

    → 9:46 PM, Nov 9
  • Why was the Secretary of Defense fired? This seems so odd to me.

    → 5:56 PM, Nov 9
  • The DCCC doesn’t move to the left, they are going to find themselves in a bind come election time.

    → 9:36 PM, Nov 8
  • NYC didn’t celebrate this much when Obama won either time. This is really something. There was an inflated sense of dread earlier this week and this win really deflated it. Whew!

    → 5:22 PM, Nov 7
  • It’s puzzling the media haven’t called the election. If Trump we’re in the lead the election would have been called.

    → 9:02 PM, Nov 6
  • Growing up in the suburbs of NJ we’d have garage sales but didn’t own a garage. Now living in the city we have stoop sales but don’t have a stoop.

    I also realized recently where I live now is the longest I’ve ever lived at one place.

    → 6:49 AM, Nov 5
  • Gonna need to listen to a lot of John Prine today. Thanks to his wonderful music and stories he’ll always be near.

    → 8:31 AM, Nov 4
  • I’m honestly astonished this is at all a close election. I get folks have different views on topics, but how in the world is there this much hate?

    → 9:04 AM, Nov 3
  • After I vote tomorrow I hope I can concentrate on work. But it might be a lost day…

    → 8:14 PM, Nov 2
  • It’s a dreary day here and I’m sick over the upcoming election, but today we’re focusing on making our home as comfortable as possible for whatever comes our way. Today: Finishing up painting the foyer and hallway. What are you doing to make your home as comfortable as you can?

    → 1:12 PM, Nov 1
  • If Biden wins this election and Dems don’t immediately take steps to: Abolish the electoral college, make voter registration automatic at 18, and move to grant DC and Puerto Rico statehood, then we know this will happen again.

    We can’t make people vote, but we certainly have to make it far easier to do so. How else? Extended voting times (one 18 hour period… what?!), mail-in ballots, restore voting rights for those convicted of crimes, a new holiday: Election Day.

    Elections are important and we should want everyone to participate. The only ones who don’t want this are the ones who benefit from fewer people voting.

    → 12:32 PM, Oct 31
  • Apple Engineer Novall Khan feels spiritually related to AOC. Both super smart women trying to make the better world. I bet they do make it better, too.

    → 9:05 PM, Oct 26
  • 🍿 We watched The Way I See It and, after being annoyed at how good of a photographer Pete Souza is, we enjoyed it.1 In not too long a time we’re going to see, literally see, a stark contrast from Barack Obama to the Orange Turd. Oh, I suppose I’m wrong now that I think about it. We’re literally not going to see the contrast because there will be essentially no photographic evidence to support Trump’s humanity while being president.


    1. It was only me being jealous. ↩︎

    → 9:28 AM, Oct 24
  • 📷 A northeast path from Prospect Park West into Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY. 8:31pm.


    Late evening walks make for a less crowded park which is, under the circumstances, a more appealing prospect. #adayinthelife

    → 8:48 PM, Oct 13
  • Not only am I still in disbelief American newspapers aren’t running banner headlines demanding the president resign, I can’t understand how the hell people are still showing up for work at the White House.

    The president is sick with COVID-19 and does NOT give a shit about you. He will get you sick and you will get your family sick.

    → 9:11 AM, Oct 7
  • Trump got the nuclear football guy sick? Trump has gotten more military personnel sick than, I imagine, any terrorist could have hoped to do themselves.

    → 9:07 AM, Oct 7
  • 📰 I can’t believe I didn’t know the Newseum app, Today’s Front Pages, existed. This is the kind of thing I’ve dreamed about. It’s available for Android too!

    → 10:22 PM, Sep 30
  • While two old white men argued last night… Greenland’s ice sheet got smaller and smaller.

    → 10:33 AM, Sep 30
  • “Folks, talk about whatever you like because I have no control over this.” -Wallace

    → 8:37 PM, Sep 29
  • I’m a bit embarrassed to say that all it took for me to forget about Instagram was moving the app to a folder on my second home screen. I haven’t opened it in days and forgot about it enough that Instagram sent an email saying “Your friends have new posts!”

    → 10:32 AM, Sep 28
  • $750.

    → 5:39 PM, Sep 27
  • I don’t agree often with Marco Arment but I completely agree there are too many scams in the App Store.

    Maybe it’s time for an App Store within the App Store. That’s where the curated apps would completely checked by Apple. The others are there, just with fewer checks.

    → 6:19 PM, Sep 26
  • DeSantis is like the Florida of governors.

    → 10:26 AM, Sep 26
  • Thank Ted It’s Friday!

    → 4:07 PM, Sep 18
  • Nothing, on any level, will ever get better in the United States until the United States adopts a single-payer health care system. Everything revolves around that.

    → 12:34 PM, Sep 16
  • As I watch the West Coast burn, I am reminded of the show Newsroom and this scene about climate change. Now, sure, it was fiction.

    The West Coast being on fire is not.

    → 1:11 PM, Sep 13
  • 📰 Woodward had recordings since February and we’re only hearing about them now?!

    → 11:20 PM, Sep 9
  • New rule: Ted Lasso needs to be on 52 weeks a year. We’re in a pandemic and it’s incredibly important to see some optimism on a weekly basis.

    → 10:35 PM, Sep 4
  • I keep seeing headlines that read (I’m paraphrasing) Biden campaign brings in $300 million (Clinton brought in $150 million in same time frame)

    The fact this kind of money is needed to win anything is depressing1 because I imagine there are many folks out there with fantastic, live-changing ideas will never be able to raise that kind of money.


    1. It’s also hella gross. ↩︎

    → 11:06 AM, Sep 2
  • 📰 Every single newspaper should be calling for Trump to resign1. Who is controlling Biden? “People that you’ve never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows.”

    This is the talk of a person unfit for office. Everyone knows it, but no one is saying it. As soon as one big newspaper prints it, others will follow.


    1. 100s of newspapers did this to Bill Clinton. ↩︎

    → 2:55 AM, Sep 1
  • Justin Townes Earle

    I have two stories about meeting Justin Townes Earle. They aren’t amazing stories and I guess I’m writing them down so I remember (or at least remember what little I remember).

    The first time I “met” Justin was... I actually don’t remember. It was about 20+ years ago in Manhattan. Jen and I went to a Steve Earle show at the Beacon Theater in the upper west side of Manhattan. It was the first time I recall Steve mentioning his son. Steve said his son would rebel against him by playing golf. I am pretty sure he had Justin come on stage and play a song with the band. After the show Jen and I went over to Steve’s bus to wait so I could give Steve a calendar of some photographs a friend of mine had taken of Civil War battlefields.

    We waited a bit and the bus driver opened his window and asked us what we were waiting for. I explained and then driver called Justin over. All we did was say hello and then I or Justin handed the driver the calendar.

    Flash forward years later and Justin released some of his own music (Yuma EP and then a full album called The Good Life. I immediately loved his sound, his style - the whole shebang. In fact, when I re-entered the workforce, I would listen to The Good Life endlessly as I commuted. I remember walking west on West 17th Street listening to that album. I know it couldn’t have been every single day, but boy... if anyone could wear out an MP3, it would have been me and that album.

    As Twitter became a thing (not the awful thing it has become now), I started following him. One day he tweeted he’d be playing a free show at a small bar in Manhattan. It might have been the 11th Street Bar, but I honestly don’t remember. Looking on a map now, that seems right.

    I don’t recall the year, but my children were young and so I almost didn’t even go.

    I got there early and saw Justin setting up his equipment in the small area just past the bar. So I sat at the bar and ordered a drink. I was the only one there. A few minutes later Justin comes walking down and sits right next to me. We talked for about 15 minutes. I am pretty sure I didn’t gush. I did, however, ask him “Which three artists should I listen to?”

    He said, Charlie Rich, Don Covay, and Willis Alan Ramsey. I had only heard of Charlie Rich (who hasn’t?) and, in fact, my note still has Covay written as Covey and the other as Willis Allen Ramsey.

    The other thing I remember about that encounter was noticing we both had iPhones (still pretty new things at the time). His phone rang. The name that came up said MOM.

    To say I’m heartbroken is an understatement and I can’t imagine the grief his folks feel. And I just feel plain sick for his wife and their little girl.

    RIP Justin Townes Earle.

    → 9:09 PM, Aug 24
  • 🍔🍟☠️ I wonder how many died as a result of not listening to health experts? Do the people responsible for this feel any guilt? Haha, just kidding. They have no feelings other than rage and hate.

    → 5:49 PM, Aug 23
  • 😍🎶👩🏻 I just watched Linda Rondstadt: The Sound of My Voice and damn it was great.

    If you are not familiar with Linda Rondstadt, you are in for a treat. Not only are you going to hear some fantastic music and get a crush on a woman (the from the 1960s on), you’re also going to see what a real singer sounds like and how a true professional acts.

    → 2:41 PM, Aug 20
  • 🏫👩🏾‍🦱📓 Reopening in-person teaching in grade schools now is premature. There is no vaccine and there aren’t enough treatments of symptoms. I’m fully aware of the hardships parents face and I understand young children could see some social developments hindered.

    Nevertheless, opening schools in facilities that were, even in the best of times, merely adequate, will show us the devastation of this virus. To be clear, it’s not just the facilities that are the issue. Young children will not be able to not closely interact with one another. And it’s not their fault. Young children should run and play and hug... so we have to step in until science figures this out.

    If NYC teachers go on strike, I will support their decision. My children were fortunate to have some completely wonderful people as their teachers (and one child still does). Stay strong teachers, I love you.

    → 6:08 AM, Aug 20
  • I dropped off my daughter (she’s the oldest) at college today. It was a weird feeling of being proud, being the sad kind of happy, and being anxious because the United States is full of fucking morons about this virus.

    She decided to take what’s probably considered a low class load of four classes. I told her I don’t care how long it takes her to get her degree. College shouldn’t be rushed and full of stress. I want her to enjoy her gradual ease into adulthood and study at a pace that she can maintain. There is no need to rush.

    Anyway, I’m proud of her and want her to enjoy learning. But I still have a bit of the sad kind of happy.

    → 10:01 PM, Aug 16
  • Even with a vaccine (which is still only a maybe), 2021 will be another lost year.

    → 2:26 PM, Aug 10
  • This is such bullshit. The school system is only reversing her suspension because it makes them look bad, not because they truly believe they were wrong about it in the first place. The student in question should demand it stay on there. It’s a sign of making good trouble. And, by the way, good for her!

    → 12:04 PM, Aug 7
  • The olds are scared. Lower it to 16, I say.

    → 5:53 AM, Aug 1
  • Is 150,000 a lot?

    → 8:26 PM, Jul 28
  • 🖕 Those playing a game know to protect their own and sacrifice the pawns first. The amount of fuck and you can’t be combined fast enough for these puckered anuses.

    → 8:46 PM, Jul 21
  • “These kids have got to get back to school,” Parson told Cox. “They’re at the lowest risk possible. And if they do get COVID-19, which they will — and they will when they go to school — they’re not going to the hospitals. They’re not going to have to sit in doctor’s offices. They’re going to go home and they’re going to get over it.”

    Either Republicans leaders don’t understand the science or they don’t give shit. Ha, just kidding. They know the science1. They just know if they say what their constituents want to hear, everyone will be happy. Some will die, of course, but… (see footnote).


    1. Also, they don’t give a shit. ↩︎

    → 8:35 PM, Jul 20
  • 🖕 A designer played a part in this. Boils my blood and reminds me of a zine by my close personal friend, Mike1.


    1. Not a close personal friend :( ↩︎

    → 12:01 PM, Jul 19
  • While it’s true the amount of Black history I don’t know could make for a… long podcast, this episode of 99% Invisible1 Freedom House Ambulance Service is simply eye opening. It’s 100% worth your time.


    1. I’m Roman Mars. ↩︎

    → 2:17 PM, Jul 17
  • [Ron DeSantis is responsible for a lot of death.] (https://news.trust.org/item/20200716143306-y6l4u) And I here I thought Rick Scott was a fuckup.1


    1. Oh he sure as fuck is. ↩︎

    → 5:36 PM, Jul 16
  • ☠️☠️☠️ Fuck the death penalty.

    → 9:09 PM, Jul 14
  • 👱🏼‍♀️🏫☠️ If school districts insist on opening without an honest-to-goodness plan in mind that centers around the health of everyone (teachers, paraprofessional, staff, and students), then the entire country’s teachers’ union should go on strike.

    What the hell is the point of a union if it can’t, if nothing else, protect you from unsafe working conditions?

    Schools are NOT babysitters.

    → 8:37 PM, Jul 14
  • If people wear masks, we’ll be able to make it long enough to deal with the virus. If people quit Facebook, we’ll be able to make it long enough to deal with what’s happened to our democracy.

    → 7:05 PM, Jul 2
  • My daughter is supposed to start college in the fall (2020). All the schools are talking about going back into session (that is, having students back in campus) but I honestly don’t see how it’s going to happen. Same for all schools (not just college).

    No vaccine, no in-person learning.* It’s really that simple.

    *Shhh… don’t get me started on this distance-learning. It’s more like distance-assignments. I don’t blame the teachers. This virus-caused distribution is just another thing we plop onto the plate of underpaid and over-burdened people.

    → 2:33 PM, Jun 28
  • Turns out 2016 was the most important election.

    → 8:30 PM, Jun 24
  • Dear Satan, how can I be more evil? (Satan whispers in ear.) OK, I’ll do it!

    → 10:11 PM, Jun 12
  • Wouldn’t it be something if hospitals were as prepared to help us as police departments were to beat the shit out of us?

    → 7:51 AM, Jun 12
  • Also look at the military equipment the police have! Who the fuck are they anticipating to come across? If you think the police are here for you and me, I don’t know what to tell you. They are protecting the rich. And we’re paying for it. Medicare for all? Fuck off. Tanks for police? Yep.

    → 10:25 PM, May 31
  • Anyone remember the pandemic?

    → 10:19 PM, May 31
  • I don’t get it. Landlords are going to kick people out because they can’t pay rent only to leave these apartments empty? Who the hell do they think is going to be able to move in?

    → 5:31 AM, May 28
  • We’re going to go from “Teachers should be paid $1 million a day!” to “Tax revenues are down, so the teachers have to go. What else can be done?”

    → 10:04 AM, May 27
  • The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

    → 4:00 PM, May 24
  • Barbershops are open in Georgia, but elections are cancelled. We really are governed by the worst people.

    → 4:18 AM, May 20
  • Any podcast about libraries is my kind of podcast. Well, in this case, an episode about libraries will do. Libraries will always be my favorite place in the world. I can’t wait my local branch to reopen.

    → 10:02 AM, May 15
  • An alternative headline could be: More real estate to be available in Platteville, WI in June.

    → 7:35 AM, May 14
  • Trump is more afraid of real questions from reporters than he is of the virus.

    → 4:26 PM, May 11
  • Of course states are going to reopen despite thousands dying every day. We didn’t do a fucking thing about guns when little kids were slaughtered… Why would do anything about this virus?

    → 11:12 PM, May 5
  • When I read the news I wonder if we should even bother with a vaccine. I know that most people (the vast vast majority) are doing the right thing under difficult circumstances… But wow, reading the news.

    When I get really down like this I still want a vaccine if for no other reason that I can begin petting the neighbor dogs again.

    → 3:13 PM, May 5
  • I’m not claiming the Dems are always on the side of the working class (because they are most definitely not), but there really is only one side actively trying to screw over those whose pockets aren’t fat with cash.

    → 6:40 AM, May 5
  • There is no way Apple isn’t working on the next generation of Smart Connector that does fast charging and fast data transfer.

    Once it’s done and out, we’ll see all kinds of cool magnetic docks for the iPad line. Perfect for the big iPad that also has to be coming, right?

    → 11:15 PM, Apr 29
  • There are far more sociopaths in our society than I thought there were.

    → 10:52 AM, Apr 28
  • The Bird of Third is keeping me up at night. This time it started up at 2am rather than his more regular time of 3am.

    → 2:26 AM, Apr 27
  • What have you got to lose indeed.

    → 10:59 AM, Apr 24
  • Uh oh. Sounds like some Republicans are worried about a Biden presidency. Else why would they pretend to give a shit about the country’s debt?

    It’s all forecasted in the Old Republicans’ Almanac.

    → 12:01 PM, Apr 23
  • It’s clear to some, but not enough, that our medical system is a criminal grift.

    If you are rich it’s maybe OK, but for the rest of us?

    → 9:10 AM, Apr 21
  • Florida opened beaches on 17 April? So, the hospitalizations and death will be in… Mid May?

    We’re ruled by the dumbest people.

    → 11:12 AM, Apr 18
  • Checks have been sent out? Here comes the looting.

    → 8:43 AM, Apr 16
  • Apple should buy the LA Times.

    → 9:30 PM, Apr 14
  • Just because we are, in fact, flattening the curve, does not mean we are in any way in the clear. As many people are going to get this virus as before we self quarantined.

    Millions of people are going to get this until there is a vaccine.

    SO the “reopen the country” people need to cut it the fuck out.

    → 4:47 PM, Apr 13
  • So the Biden plan to get asses to the polls is to say to young voters “I’ll lower the eligible age of Medicare to 60. Well, it’s either that or you get more Trump.” Great choice.

    → 4:20 PM, Apr 9
  • Not John! Time to turn the lights down low, put on his music, and have a slice of meatloaf.

    → 11:30 PM, Apr 7
  • Got this email:

    LOL, you mean how you take my $1 and supply $.74 of healthcare? Like that?

    → 9:08 AM, Apr 3
  • This is a real quote from the White House site:

    You can call it a germ, you can call it a flu, you can call it a virus. You know, you can call it many different names. I’m not sure anybody even knows what it is.

    No one knows what it is. It’s unknowable, apparently.

    → 10:18 AM, Apr 2
  • This 240,000 number floating around is huge. But something doesn’t seem right. I really think there might be a missing zero (or closer to adding a zero than not).

    Blood is all over the hands of the GOP.

    → 7:01 PM, Apr 1
  • 📰🤦‍♂️🖕There’s a reason I stopped subscribing to NYTimes years ago and started donating to Pro Publica. I hope you’ll do the same.

    → 9:54 AM, Apr 1
  • I don’t agree with all the people proposing to thank, applaud, put on a parade for the world’s essential workers. The people proposing that are doing it for themselves—to feel like they are doing something when, in fact, they are not doing anything.

    No, what I propose is voting for people who will prepare properly, enforce better pay, and make sure everyone has the right to healthcare. And not weasel words like access to healthcare.

    When Congress voted for the $2T economic bill, there wasn’t a single question of “How will we pay for this?” Not one! So, we can do good things if we want. We just choose not to. And that deserves no applause.

    → 9:52 AM, Mar 31
  • Since right after a school shooting is, apparently, not the time to talk about gun violence, is now the time to talk about?

    Our children are dying and we should get rid of all these guns.

    → 12:48 PM, Mar 30
  • When Biden beat Bernie in several primaries a few weeks ago:

    And now this.

    Boy, can’t wait to vote for this guy.

    → 2:46 PM, Mar 29
  • Man, I love cooking for my family.

    → 6:16 PM, Mar 26
  • 📰 Every single newspaper needs to begin running as its main headline: Donald Trump is Unfit as President; Resign Now

    I hope it doesn’t take millions of dead Americans before they all do that.

    → 4:25 PM, Mar 25
  • 🍎😷👎 This is terribly irresponsible. Apple shouldn’t do this until trusted health officials give the okay.

    → 10:14 PM, Mar 24
  • They really do want to kill us, don’t they?

    → 2:45 PM, Mar 24
  • As this pandemic continues, we’re going to be reading about government, corps, and individuals doing great things to help out one another. Then we’re going to wonder, “Wait, we could have been doing this all along?!”

    → 9:13 PM, Mar 22
  • Is Joe Biden around?

    → 10:58 PM, Mar 21
  • 🏛💰🖕 Senators Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler are despicable people. By Friday morning there better be two open seats in the Senate.

    → 10:33 PM, Mar 19
  • 😷👨‍⚕️🤦‍♂️ I just realized I got notes from local businesses (pizza, wine stores) about the virus before my regular doctor.

    → 11:19 AM, Mar 18
  • 📰😦😭 The front pages of newspapers look like movie props from B movies.

    → 7:14 AM, Mar 18
  • Capitalism is the real snowflake.

    → 11:33 AM, Mar 17
  • I wonder if everyone still likes their health insurance.

    → 6:21 AM, Mar 17
  • How has there not been a nationwide curfew enacted?

    → 6:19 AM, Mar 17
  • Trump to USA, “Drop Dead”

    President Trump told a group of governors on Monday that they should not wait for the federal government to fill the growing demand for respirators needed to help people diagnosed with coronavirus.

    → 12:42 PM, Mar 16
  • ⌚️🚶‍♂️😡 Yes, Apple Watch, I know my exercise rings are usually further along! Where’s the “There’s a pandemic!” dismiss button?

    → 10:57 AM, Mar 16
  • 🍪🍪🍪I need to social distance myself from these cookies.

    → 10:20 AM, Mar 16
  • 🤪😭🤬 These were the wrong people to have in charge during good times. No fucking way they can handle anything remotely bad.

    → 10:50 AM, Mar 15
  • 🏛👱🏼‍♂️🖕 “I don’t take responsibility at all.” Donald Trump, March 13, 2020, in regards to the government’s mishandling of the response to the COVID-19 virus.

    How in the world is there not a massive call for the resignation of this inept and dangerous president?

    → 11:25 PM, Mar 13
  • The election is in jeopardy.

    → 3:07 AM, Mar 12
  • 🤔😷☠️ The Unites States is not making good decisions for future generations.

    → 6:15 AM, Mar 11
  • The Dem's Response to COVID-19

    Why aren’t the Dems stepping up to lead since there is no real leadership coming from the White House?

    While the Dems can’t enact policy alone, they could have a site where they list the reliable sources, explain who the unreliable source are, advice on how to steps to take to avoid contamination, what realistically people should do to prepare. You know, from longer stays at home to working from home to what do to with your children, etc.

    All the advice having the backing of the Dem party as a whole.

    Each name at the bottom of the page would represent the signature of the Dem who back this advice. It should, of course, be the entire Dem party.

    → 10:53 AM, Mar 9
  • 🗓❓❓ 2020 is going to end up being called the lost year.

    → 12:03 AM, Mar 7
  • 😷🚑🏨 I wonder why other countries with single payer healthcare systems haven’t put pressure on the U.S. to adopt the same kind of program (you know, the way folks are told vaccines are good for the herd, etc).

    We must send a lot of sick Americans around the world potentially putting others at risk and costing other countries money.

    → 6:35 AM, Mar 5
  • 💸💵🏦 I keep reading that Michael Bloomberg spent between 300 - 500 million dollars on his campaign. I wonder how long it’ll take him to recoup that money. I bet all that money will be back in his accounts well before the election.

    → 3:33 PM, Mar 4
  • 🎸🤒😷 Wasn’t there a song in the 80s: When I think about Coronavirus I touch my face?

    You’d thought we’da learned from that.

    → 10:56 AM, Mar 2
  • 😷🏨☠️ Heckuva job, Trumpy.

    → 6:49 PM, Feb 27
  • 🏨🚑👍🏻 Let’s all pay for healthcare for each other.

    → 11:54 PM, Feb 18
  • 📲👎☢️ Folding phones are like 3D TV: We can make ‘em, but no one will want them. Also, they mostly suck. I just would really like to see Apple (and others!) come out with an iPhone 5-sized phone with all the iPhone X crap shoved in there.

    → 10:21 PM, Feb 17
  • 💩💩💩Oh, I get it now. Crimes on the odds days of the month, misdemeanors on the even days.

    → 11:44 AM, Jan 5
  • 🤦‍♂️📒✏️ It’s a damn sad state of affairs we’re about to enter another war while we can’t supply schools with the needed materials. Oh, also, I wonder if fiscally conservatives folks will bring up the cost of this upcoming military action (seeing as how we can’t supply students with pencils). Ha, JK. It’s never about money. It’s about punishing POC and the poor.

    → 3:29 PM, Jan 4
  • 💔💀☠️ If you thought Medicare for All was too expensive, wait until you see what war with Iran will cost.

    → 11:53 PM, Jan 2
  • 🪕 I somehow missed Justin Townes Earle’s 2017 album Kids in the Street. I mean, I know I knew it was out, but never gave it a listen. Hot damn is it a good set of tunes. It’s been looping for many weeks now. If I think I get bored I just go to his 2019 album The Saint of Lost Causes which is maybe even better. I don’t know, I go back and forth. OK, let me be clear here: All his records are just great and you should give them a listen.

    → 8:31 PM, Jan 1
  • 🤬👎🩹 As my first act of the new year, I closed a window on my finger. Yes, yes, I know. Impressive as it is painful.

    → 1:12 AM, Jan 1
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