Jake Lang is one of the right-wing’s loudest hatemongers. So far as I know, he doesn’t live in Seattle, but a few days ago he ruined my city’s annual Diwali festival by showing up with his fellow wingnuts carrying signs that said, “Deport all dot heads.” And now this, where he’s hoping to infuriate people celebrating their harmless kink, but instead disrupts a cat adoption event.

According to his Wikipedia page, Lang spent four years in prison for his part in storming the capitol on 1/6/2021, before being pardoned by America’s Worst President. Since then, he’s been arrested for illegal and/or obnoxious behavior in Minneapolis, New York City, Washington DC, twice in Texas, and Minneapolis again. He’s Jewish but anti-Semitic, and calls for Islam to be banned, Hindus to be deported, gays and others denied civil rights…

And I ask seriously: Why is this schmuck allowed to walk around free?

Yes, Trump knew

Commerce Dept. chip inquiry was halted after Nvidia complained

US cleared Nvidia chips to Chinese firms with empty offices and troubling ties

Excerpt: The letter, signed by White House counsel Will Scharf and dated earlier this week, says the administration is “monitoring the abusive and capricious threats that are now proliferating from Democrat legislators who seek to abuse the legislative process to intimidate and to interfere with the lawful functioning of government.” It adds the Supreme Court has held that congressional investigations must further a legitimate legislative task and cannot be used for harassment.

Trump ally Loomer was paid thousands for political tweets, people familiar say

Traffic, my infected ass. Dems’ House Leader Hakeem Jeffries isn’t serious about wanting Hegseth gone — he didn’t even ‘whip’ Dems to vote one way or the other. Many Democrats have no interest in making waves, and will do whatever it takes to avoid it.

The New York Times headline is “Immigrants are being systematically returned home despite court orders,” but that’s bullshit. Immigrants are being systematically ripped from their homes and jobs and sent to foreign countries that may or may not be where they’re originally from, but their homes are here in America. They’re absolutely not being “returned home.”

“Some.”

Well, duh. It is self-evident that a substantial portion of ICE agents are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, or KKK.

This coverage provides much mirth and nostalgia at the concept of floppy discs, but jack squat about the coming technology. Unasked is the question, Is this new and improved system being designed by people who write software as a career and understand the dynamics of flight and navigation, or is it being vibe coded by jackasses?

Excerpt: Trump was sworn into office a few months later, and it seemed to Holley-Bockelmann that crisis response was her new job. The federal government froze active grant payments, which many of her students depended on for living expenses. She wrote to the National Science Foundation for advice, but her emails bounced back. A few of her international students stopped coming into work for fear of immigration enforcement, and Culbreath moved out of state to finish his research remotely. Another early-career researcher had a panic attack, booked an overnight flight and then called Vanderbilt the next morning to say he’d permanently returned home to Santo Domingo.

Excerpt: “That is my name associated with my former publication,” he explained. “That is a bio that looks pretty accurate about myself, but that is not my picture. These two top articles; those are not my work. They are dated as recent as of this year. I haven’t been associated with the company in almost a full seven years.”

Excerpt: On Oct. 30, novelist and New York Times romance columnist Olivia Waite logged onto BlueSky and saw a post by independent journalist Marisa Kabas. She read it, hit repost on a comment, and went about the rest of her day. Later that evening, Waite received an email with a blank subject line. Her editor at the Times, Tina Jordan, wrote that the paper would not be continuing her freelance contract as the New York Times Book Review’s romance columnist.

Anyone aware of anything regarding Flock cameras knows Blanche is lying. This particular lie makes me suspect that Flocks are fed on a direct wire into the Justice Department.

Excerpt: At least one of the 28 (!) dodgy proxy services found installed on numerous White House computers (Infatica) is linked to a Russian company whose founder’s web hosting business was central to cyberattacks against election systems in Arizona and Illinois in 2016.

Should American football be banned? Discuss among yourselves.

Excerpt: Marketed as playful companions, tutors, and friends—and sometimes as a healthier alternative to screen time—these new stuffed animals, dolls, and robots are essentially chatbots in cuddly packaging.

You’ll be “fully ashamed” from prison.