Afternoon

travel day for me

What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Affordability

A plan to convene 5 working groups.

What @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social told me the House agenda will be next year if Democrats win —Reverse Trump’s Medicaid cuts —Extend expired ACA tax credits —Restore Congress’s authority on tariffs —“Decisively” end the Iran war Beyond that: “We’ve established five working groups on affordability”

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— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) 1 September 2026 at 12:27

A Cable News Miracle

Kaitlin Collins interviews Al-Sayed without asking about Hasan Piker or Israel.

Israel is a fair topic generally, just not in the way it's usually covered in these interviews, which involves pretending it's Al-Sayed who is obsessed with the subject as he is badgered about it, and pretending his very mainstream views about the subject are extremist.

Is Nothing Noteworthy

As far as I can find, no major US outlet covered this.

The Defense Department was forced on Monday to deny the U.S. had struck Iran’s main petroleum export facility after President Donald Trump posted a fake but very realistic AI-generated video showing a purported attack by American forces.

The video, posted to the president’s Truth Social account, appears to show oil storage tanks and refineries erupting in flames from the perspective of someone filming from inside a helicopter above the carnage, with an accompanying message describing the scene as “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens” and signed as “President DJT.”

But a U.S. official said no such attack had taken place, with Kharg Island not being among the locations targeted overnight in what has been the first exchange of fire between American and Iranian forces in weeks.

The exception being CNBC, which claims it was just a threat. 

Later Sunday, President Donald Trump threatened on social media to blow up Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil-export hub, to “smithereens.”

There really is a tacit agreement by most media outlets to ignore his truth social page most of the time. 

Morning

Tepid Tuesday.

Happy Hour

Enjoy

You'll Be Long Dead, Elon

I suppose one day we might have wackiest of the futuristic scifi technologies.  Our brains uploaded into the "cloud." Sentient nanobot clusters powered by, um, I dunno, quantum something, building entire worlds out of the ether.

I still enjoy the occasional scifi book. Doing some "whatifs" with that kind of technology can be fun.

I do not think we will have anything like this while Elon is still with us (or me). I do not think Elon will be able to upload his brain into a robot before he dies.

Sentient Satellites

Sentient, but obedient.

I guess we don't need to go to Mars after all.

The Vision

Internet poster Elissa Slotkin thinks Democrats should support good things, and I hope she writes a letter to her senator.

I do hope Elissa's senator comes up with some specific ideas for this stuff, and lets Elissa know what they are.

What the hell is "A system that rewards you for taking care of yourself"?

The Power of Positive Thinking

Six months of trying to manifest the reality of his delusions.

At Least The War Is Over

Holiday Monday gives an extra day before the stock market opens.

Iran fired missiles toward US military targets in Jordan in retaliation for a strike on Iranian rocket launchers that the US said were trying to launch sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz –– the key shipping route that’s become the center of regional tensions and diplomatic efforts.

Apparently Labor Day is next week! The perils of working from home. 

Morning

Mostly Monday.

Sunday Evening

enjoy.

Sunday Afternoon

I got nothin'

The Art Of Warfighting

Nothing a few trillion extra bucks can't fix, I'm sure.

Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland, according to people familiar with a recent assessment prepared for the Pentagon chief.

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The top military officials at European Command and Southern Command each cautioned Hegseth that lending their ships and surveillance aircraft to Central Command has degraded their ability to fulfill homeland-defense obligations, said those familiar with the assessment.

Which plucky country is gonna take their shot?

What Next For Milo?

On one hand, Milo fits in perfectly with the British press:

Milo yes been deported to Britain? Ho ho, good luck to a racist, transphobic, paedophilia endorsing shitwit who hangs out with open Nazis getting work in the great British media... hang on, I'm just being handed a piece of paper.

— Gabby HC (@scriblit.bsky.social) August 29, 2026 at 7:32 PM

On the other, maybe he makes it a bit too obvious.

Morning

Sunday funday.

Saturday Night

Rock on.

America's Worst Newspaper

That fucking newspaper.

The Syndicate

It's ancient history now, but for a period of time, Milo Yiannopoulos was *the* campus free speech martyr. He would get speaking gigs on campus, at which he would name trans students in order to direct harassment at them. People would protest the use of university resources for this activity, and all of the centrist dipshists would write ten thousand words about the evils of the "heckler's veto" and the impending fall of civilization due to campus snowflakes.

We are all more likely to find common cause and express solidarity with people we identify with. There were plenty of free speech/academic freedom (not the same thing) causes then, and even more now. They identified with Milo.

And when Milo's star fell, they had to continue his cause of terrorizing trans people.