Hell is other people

@bonappetit I cannot read this supposedly important article because it's behind a paywall. Can you please make it viewable to all?

We tapped an infectious disease specialist for tips on avoiding the "explosive diarrhea" freaking us all out. bonappetit.com/story/how-to-m…

If your family of four makes: $83,500 or less, your college or career training could be free. Up to $139,500, you could get some money for college or training. This legislation will unlock free money for thousands of young people across our state.

She spends years building a case against one person. Not a plan — a fixation, an ibsession, repeated until it hardens into something that looks real. She collects, distorts, rehearses, until the falsehood is the only structure she has left. She mistakes repetition for depth; shamelessness for conviction. She has no story of her own, so she manufactures one about someone else and wears it like a life. Every hour spent on her target is an hour not spent becoming anything real. She counts on the scale of her own obsession to protect her. She knows most people can’t picture investing this much in cruelty, so she uses that disbelief as cover. The more excessive she is, the safer she feels — not because she’s convincing, but because she’s unimaginable. She isn’t dangerous because she’s skilled. She’s dangerous because she’s empty, and emptiness left unfilled long enough will find something to devour.

Since Flock loves to track our locations, it only seems fair that we know theirs. Flock Safety's new GA plant is located at 1885 Mitchell Rd, Smyrna, GA 30082 Flock went to great lengths to keep that address hidden. That probably means it should be public info.

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Photo 1 (widely shared 2023 version): Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao in a recovery/rehab setting. McConnell wears the red gingham shirt, smiles broadly while holding printed material, seated in the blue chair with white linens behind Photo 2 (the version associated with the July 12, 2026 update): Appears identical to Photo 1 in every visible detail — same clothing, exact same pose and expressions, same background, same blue chair, same item in McConnell’s hand, same lighting and composition. Side-by-side observation: These are the same photograph (originally from April 2023). No meaningful differences exist in subject positioning, clothing, facial expressions, background elements, or any other visual detail. Minor variations in cropping, resolution, or on-screen overlays (e.g., news logos or borders in different articles) may appear depending on the source, but the core image content is unchanged. This confirms the image being referenced in recent discussions is the older one being recirculated. If you have different specific versions/URLs in mind, share them for further comparison! Someone has some splaining to do!

It took five armed Secret Service agents to protect JD Vance from a cat meme account. The woman behind it is now suing the White House, and her lawyers filed with cat puns. Meet Amanda McGonigle, 37, of Massachusetts. When Vance's old "childless cat ladies" insult went viral during the 2024 campaign, she started an Instagram account called CatsOnACouch. Cat pictures. Relentless mockery of the Vice President. A stated mission to troll him every single day and rack up more followers than he has. Nearly 2 million followers later, she's about a million short of that goal. On May 14, Vance flew to Bangor, Maine, to tout his anti-fraud task force. McGonigle registered to attend like any member of the public. She followed every instruction the White House sent. She received confirmation from Vance's own office. The event materials carried the White House seal. Then came the airport line. Five armed agents approached. They knew her name. They pulled her out, turned away her friend for good measure, informed her the event was suddenly "private," and told her: "We know where you stand." That sentence is now Exhibit A in a federal lawsuit. Sit with the picture for a second. The agency that exists to stop assassins has apparently been assigned to monitor a cat account. The ACLU of Maine filed suit Tuesday, naming the Executive Office of the President and the Secret Service. The complaint calls it what it is. Viewpoint discrimination. First Amendment retaliation. A taxpayer-funded public event, closed to one citizen because of her jokes. The ask: a federal order barring them from ever blacklisting her again. The ACLU's lawyers, understanding the assignment, wrote that her posts are "purr-tected speech," and the puns did not stop there. McGonigle isn't blinking either. She noted it's well within her rights to say "I think JD Vance is an unlikeable idiot." The Secret Service declined to comment. The White House didn't respond at all. Here's why it matters beyond the comedy. The administration has a pattern of using federal power against its critics, and this is what that pattern looks like at street level: armed agents, a watchlist with a cat lady's name on it, a public event that turns "private" the moment someone who laughed at the Vice President shows up. A government that deploys the Secret Service against memes is not a government that feels secure. And no joke is too small for it to punish. One more thing. Vance coined "childless cat ladies." He built his own nemesis with his own mouth. She was a million followers short of catching him when they pulled her out of that line. The Secret Service may have just closed the gap for her.

Psychopaths and malignant narcissists most often don’t resort to physical violence. They don’t need to commit murder to ruin a life. They use strategic lies, smear campaigns, and fake emotional performances to inflict pain and destroy a person’s reputation, credibility, or mental health—often without breaking a single law. Their weapons are manipulation, gaslighting, and public deception. The damage they cause is just as real—but it’s invisible, insidious, and harder to prove.

Not an exaggeration when I say this perspective is literally life changing

something to remember from my favorite president

This clip, from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness" is one of his FUNNIEST ever. Awesome to have Rob Reiner as George Washington in possibly one of his final on-screen performances. Cameo by Kimmel is chef's kiss. RIP, Rob Reiner.

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did. 250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur. A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before. An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of. The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock. A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor. A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support. Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him. $2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers. And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares. And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators? Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry. For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop? Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family? They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

For once, I actually agree with Steve's advice. Being silly is good for the soul.

Trump wants to cut down Washington DC's oldest grove of cherry trees along the Mall and eliminate the public biking path and picnic areas so he can build a Trump golf course on public land, using public dollars, and taking spaces away from the public.

WOW, absolute 🔥 from @canmnt's coach, US citizen Jesse Marsch. Americans who think like this: we still love you guys ♥️! #uspoli