The Pile was crammed into 20 square feet. It is now 25. A tactical defeat for me maybe, maybe a strategic win. It’s the same pile, just a little more spread out and available for chopping to bits. It feels right.

SYSTEM UPDATE #27
Glenn has it so right so often. There was no guest this time, just GG riffin’. It’s brilliant. What is a journalist anyway, and what difference would it make even if we could define one?

Debate: Kshama Sawant, Shahid Buttar, Imani Oakley on 2024 (BJG)
Four really smart people who are essentially on the same side I am, talking about the next presidential election and whether that matters at all. My answer is still no, but you can damn sure bet that I’d vote for one more Dem even in a primary, provided her name was Marianne.
Not because there’s any hope of her winning–the machine made sure that even Bernie got bitchslapped down–but because voting for her would actually be the tiny thumb in the eye of the System that Trump was, without the candidate being Trump.
Of the four, Kshama is the closest rhetorically to what I think and feel, and Shahid is the one I’d choose to emulate and identify with personally.

Christoforou Daily
A standard episode of the other other Alex, but notable for the opening clip. It’s of Tucker Carlson. I still think he’s a dweeb and on the wrong side in most ways. But he’s got a huge platform and he has this one very right. Again.
How nice it would be if I could say the same thing once in a while about some nice PhD lesbian like Rachel, or some vaguely ethnic suit like Don Lemon. I can’t. Oh well.

Pintle winches, by the way, are not a thing. But the phrase came straight out of dream life and was ringing in my ears in the first waking moments of my day. I offer the phrase to you one poet to another for whatever it is worth.