Turns out Kennedy too was more of a turd than most people suspected at the time. Not in the same league with your list, but still a real mess once you know enough about him.

Congrats Caltrain!

Please forgive my trifling quibble, but isn't that the Intermountain West (which is rarely if ever described broadly as progressive), not the Pacific Northwest -- since you were east of the Cascade range?

What do we infer from seeing one stuck open already -- are they able to be broken or forced open by a body slam or something?

Also curious if this could have happened when the gate tried to close but someone's rolling suitcase or whatever was still in the way.

Watch this riveting documentary to become permanently disgusted with the US's handling of Peltier's case.

Incident at Oglala

Robert Redford narrates this documentary about the Pine Ridge Shootout on an Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota. On June 26, 1975, two FBI agents are searching for tribesman Leonard Peltier, wanted in connection with an assault. They are killed after coming under heavy fire, presumably from Peltier and his accomplices. However, proponents claim that the FBI botched the investigation by tampering with and suppressing evidence, and that Peltier's imprisonment is a miscarriage of justice.

"miscarriage of justice" is an understatement.

Every single day I get a yucky feeling when I remember that people are still using his garbage website/app/platform.

Forgive me for thinking that instead of keeping them out, Israel had been allowing them in and then murdering them 'by accident'.

If anything, his incoherence is, to them, a benefit, since he's just that much easier to manipulate. Since he can't form a coherent thought on his own, he can be readily filled up with someone else's ideas, just so long as they're framed correctly.

This is pretty much what was going on in the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush too. I'm so sick of sharing a country with people who eagerly elect feeble-minded puppets... I guess because they find them relatable.

They don't see Trump as the second coming of Christ, they see him as more like another King Cyrus. It's the idea that a ruler or other major figurehead can be a "vessel for God" benefiting the believers of a particular religion while not actually being a part of said religion or conforming to its morals.

Vox article on this, for example

You may have forgotten, in this party, winning is less important than pleasing the billionaires.

The replies make sense, and I should have realized. I guess I was thinking any deposit large enough to cover all the possibilities would be more than anyone would agree to, but I can see how it's to both owner and guest's advantage to make it work.

There are hotels that allow dogs in the rooms? I don't see how that could work in the long run without requiring deposits that most people wouldn't want to pay.

you get half an updoot for the shittymorph reference

At first I thought it said "J.D. Vance uses interview to peg Peter Thiel to help Trump campaign with cash".

I mean, that wouldn't be terribly surprising news either.

Same here. American, not going hungry overall but can no longer afford meat. I just looked at prices for it even at a discount market and I was stunned.

But I get plenty of complete and varied protein, even cooking vegetarian. The loss of occasional meat just means I'll face some cravings and have to stay creative with fats and spices.

That information is very widely and readily available with a basic web search. His voice was fine until (I forget) years ago when a weird illness damaged his vocal cords.

I'm sorry I have to ask, but, serious or kidding?

I get for vacation areas this is less of an issue but for places like ny city, San Francisco, etc it’s taking homes out of use.

It's every bit as big of an issue for vacation areas / areas where tourism is the primary driver of the economy.

Take Tahoe or Mammoth Lakes for example: until the early 2010s it was still possible to move there without knowing anyone or having any other inside track, get a job (not your favorite or first choice, usually, but something to work from while you get established) and find your crappy first apartment or half-a-cabin or rundown shack or basement or ADU to rent.

That scenario is almost completely gone now and has been for ten years, plus or minus -- depending on where each person sees the line that divides difficult from impossible. People making far less than a living wage now commute to both of those areas from an hour or more away. The sense of how "connected" or privileged one has to be to make it or even just scrape by in areas such as these has relentlessly risen to a level that has had an enormous impact on mental and emotional health and life outcomes in these areas too.

All of these factors were already big in the negative column balancing the very real positives of living so close to nature and preferred sporting activities, before the rise of the short term rental blight. But nowadays those negatives are practically off the meter.

holy shit. everybody should read this.

At that time he was just barely young enough to still be trying tricks like that to hide the gut.

Meanwhile, continuing the pattern with all other Google apps or tools, if it's well received and works great but doesn't make them a ton of new profit, they'll abandon it.

Nothing says "everybody loves me!" better than surrounding oneself with bulletproof materials 🤣

Excellent thoughts, thank you. And I concur.

Doesn't even have to be right wing (a.k.a. the extreme right)... even moderate at this point equals business-as-usual equals right off the cliff as soon as possible.

pass the LMAOnade

maybe more like 'recycled' --

Meanwhile, what they serve at Chipotle is not worth even half of what they charge for it.

Now if you know just what I know / you'll get yourself down to the disco / and when you see it, you're bound to put on the brakes / and then you'll say, / "For goodness' sakes! Just look at those cakes!"

-- James Brown

This was clearly photoshopped to make his tiny hands look normal sized.

I guess it's another pipe dream

It seems like there have been a lot of hints that he's scheming to win in spite of the popular vote, through electoral vote and certification shenanigans, maybe an attempt to just make the situation muddy enough in enough different ways that it goes to his stacked Supreme Court in a manner partially reminiscent of the bullshit that installed GW Bush in 2000.

I was imagining her giving him a combination makeover and tune-up 😆

tbh as far as I can tell their base is still eating it up and coming back for seconds. it's hard to fathom.

Reportedly Kelly is out at this point and it's down to Walz and Shapiro. Source: AP, CBS within the past hour.

It's a projection, naturally.

Or heat stroke

Also weird that just one of their archbishops can be described as an ally of sex abuse victims, instead of all of them.

That's still basically a complaint about how he doesn't get to.