This may be helpful: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/#recommended-providers

“The other side” is catching on, realizing the utility of “emergencies” as an excuse for exercising authoritarian power. https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-washington-mayor-declares-state-1203356

This mayor is thought of as “left-leaning”, which, in Spokane, describes anyone who isn’t a Christian Fascist, or not yet anyway. In the event described at that link, she declared this “emergency” as justification to allow city cops to violently attack and arrest peaceful protesters, and to clear the area around the ICE building with a declaration of a curfew so that the latest pair of kidnapped dark-skinned people could be transported out to a temporary prison (“processing” center) on the other side of the state.

Watch what “emergencies” the Iran War brings about. “Only one of the ‘Enemy Within’ would complain about inflation, unemployment, high gas prices, cuts to domestic spending, and curtailment of Constitutional rights, when our soldiers on the Iran Front are suffering so much in this Emergency. Such talk against the government is deemed traitorous and shall be punished severely by the Emergency Tribunal.”

Donald Trump has recommended eliminating this and some other programs that fall under the Older Americans Act, a landmark 1965 law that provides social and meal services for older people. The U.S. House also proposed eliminating the employment program’s funding

Why? What ever could be their motivation for doing so?

In 2019, about two-thirds of participants were women, and about 44% were Black

Oh, well, there’s the problem.

Check out the two bored-as-shit guys in the pic. Top center with the dyed hair and LSD tie, bottom left looking for all the world like a former BigOil exec. I think they’re texting each other while searching that old Sears catalog online to see where Julie got the high fashion 1975 threads.

Tie dye: Hey, check it out there it is, page 287. Looks like it came in Avacado green too. That would have matched the furniture around here better.

Oil: Yeah, you’re right, good catch. Whoa, turn the page. Look at that. Wanna order her a tube top? Rayon. Pink!

Tie dye: And some Frye boots! And black lace panties. We’ll ship it all to her office. Heh heh heh. Hey cool, there’s a COD option on the order page, let’s get that too.

Oil: COD, what the fuck is that?

Tye die: It’s some kind of fish. What are you, a moron? Old time people used get their oil from them.

Oil: No shit? My oil sponsors aren’t going to like that.

Tye die: Never mind. Get some stamps and an envelope, we gotta get this order in the mail. Check out J, she’s been standing there forever with her butt all pinched, she’s gonna have to hit the john soon or take a fucking dump right here on-camera. If she makes a break for the restroom you chase her and check her parts.

Oil: Fuck no! It’s your turn, I checked her yesterday! She’s probably still OK but you and I have a deal!

Tye die: Christ, I remember. Couldn’t get the smell off me afterwards last time, it was awful. I had to take an extra hit of acid, maybe it was two, after I got home.

Oil: I get it, that’s why you’ve got the fucked-up tie. Hey don’t we have interns here, ones from the Panhandle? We’ll get them to do crapper security, protect the children and all that shit. They live for that kind of thing.

That’s one butch-looking senator they’ve got there. And all decked-out in those eye-catching Satanic colors. The whole outfit looks 100% polyester “male-ordered” from a 1970s Sears catalog. Some kind of odd kink I guess, I’ll have to check Reddit for the explanation. No judgment from me, the 70s were weird fun.

I have a photo, circa 1919, of two of my great aunts all dressed up for a “masquerade ball” - one of them in “masculine” clothes, top hat and all. Obscenity? AFAIK the “drag” one wasn’t arrested, but that was in a relatively civilized northeastern state, not OK.

You should definitely hire Banksy for the job.

Agreed. Whenever I hear of the latest internal MAGA feud (fElon, now Faux) it always brings to mind the old-school “professional” wrestling world. 100% scripted and acted-out. It gives the deplorables a “team” to identify with and emotionally bind to (pick a side, doesn’t really matter which) so they can stomp and fume and indulge in fantasy violence while society and life continue to grind them down into dirt, pockets picked.

“targets” … well that’s convenient, it could mean essentially anything the Regime wants it to. Are you an American who can’t get their favorite Iranian food now? You’ve been targeted. Bombs away!

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home .

The mothers were required to stay inside the home for one year, doing unpaid work for the nuns, as reimbursement for some of the services rendered. They were separated from their children, who remained separately in the home, raised by nuns, until they could be adopted – often without consent.

Some women who had had two confinements were sent directly to nearby Magdalene laundries after giving birth, as punishment for their perceived “recidivism”. According to Professor Maria Luddy, "Such a stance, though not intended to be penal, allowed for the development of an attitude that accepted detention as a means of protecting society from these reoffending women.

Confinements. Punishment. Detention. Reoffending women.

June 17, 2025 2:01pm PDT

I live near a big refueling base in the US and the tankers are usually trackable. Ditto for military cargo planes, Orions, and military passenger planes.

What happens when they’re on their way to active deployments … that I don’t know.

And every UU congregation I’ve ever seen has pretty explicitly NOT been Xian. Not even in a watered-down way. I’ve watched their services online, and there’s been no Christ-talk, and no sky-daddy talk at all. I think that each UU congregation has wide leeway to do its own thing, and for most, that thing does not include identifying as Xian.

“Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant is expressed through the inseparable and deeply interdependent shared values of interdependence, pluralism, justice, transformation, generosity, and equity – all centered around love. Although Unitarianism and Universalism both have origins as liberal Christian traditions, today we embrace diverse teachings from many different global religions and philosophies.” – https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe

Just feck these clickbait headlines containing words like “blast” and “slam”. Sorry Ars, no clicky until you grow up and write like adults who have something serious to say.

“One thing that I just don’t vibe with in modern American society – there’s an entire thing about safety. And I’ve lived my life in a way that safety was the last thing that I would care about,” she said. “This is a thing I think about a lot lately. We need to be less safe, be ready to offend ourselves and other people. Otherwise, Maga people are just going to keep winning, because they’re not afraid.”

Bypass the Intercept’s “This is not a paywall” paywall: https://archive.is/IFQzG .

I was there and saw this guy showing people the wound just like you see here. It’s for real.

Back in 2003 the city of Spokane Valley was formed, just to the east of Spokane city. If you want to find a near-pure vein of MAGA, look there. It’s in between Spokane and Idaho but is floating toward the latter. The SV Trumpets/QAnons/Fundies would be happy to be part of Idaho but the quandary is, while they’d get lower gas prices for their shitty coal-rolling trucks, they wouldn’t be able to buy their precious weed w/o coming back to civilization now and then.

This (the suit) is a glorious bit of trolling, meant to keep UHC’s evildoing high up there in people’s newsfeeds. It provides clickbait headlines and tasty bits of content (much more to come I hope) like “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” that will keep the sharing machine running and the victim complaints in full view.

This is brilliant, I wish I’d thought of the tactic. The class members have to own at least a share of stock while still being able to sleep at night. Where do you find such martyrs?

I’m reminded of one of my favorite quotes, alleged to be from A. Carnegie:

“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”

I detested the Microsoft Bill (I’m in tech) but the post-M$ Bill seems to have reformed quite a bit. I have to admire someone who gives away all their $ (whatever the route - directly or through a foundation) to try to solve some of humanity’s problems. Of course MAGA/Qanon portraying him as a villain doesn’t hurt his image either, it pretty much guarantees that there must be something good about him.