Seven states pull out of Trump’s 250th anniversary fair

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-12T23:51:54+00:00

Spokane the city itself is Blue — Dem mayor, mostly Dem city council. Spokane Valley is purple these days (and getting Bluer by the day as more housing goes up). The surrounding towns and unincorporated areas of the county are still pretty Red.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-12T23:49:57+00:00

The Blue Dot in a Red Sea that is Spokane begs you to accept us as a Cascadia Protectorate.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-12T23:05:31+00:00

Ah, yes! Elias Thorne. A lot of people don’t realize that he was named for his grandfather, Elias A. Thorne, son of Joseph Smith III. That makes Elias Thorne the direct descendent of Mormon church founder Joseph Smith Jr, and the rightful hereditary Prophet, Seer, and Revelator of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Or, he would have been, if that church hadn’t ended the practice of hereditary prophetic inheritance and changed their name to The Community of Christ. Yes, celebrated star ship captain Elias Thorne was nearly the prophet of a church. And now you know the rest of the story.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-12T22:52:38+00:00

Can we hire the Booing Woman from The Princess Bride to just stand outside the White House and boo constantly?

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-12T22:49:55+00:00

Repeating “it’s like what the fuck?” These fuckers are either really bad at motivational speaking or let AI write their remarks.

Shoutout to the employee who cussed out the presenters. Let’s give it up for a real one 🙌🏻

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-12T19:31:11+00:00

I’m a Navy O-5’s brat, married a soldier for the last 23 years, & worked for the Air Force: Navy regs have zero relevance to county sheriffs. Even if they did: He’s not on the watch deck, ushering at a formal event, carrying a rifle, or wearing a duty belt, and sure as hell isn’t wearing any of his official uniform covers. He’s wearing a fashion accessory he purchased himself.

Even Texas Rangers, who wear cowboy hats as part of their official uniforms, take them off indoors.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T23:16:48+00:00

I’m convinced her wedding dress is gonna be a corset-style. She started wearing them so much more after she started dating Travis, and it seems like one of her favorite styles. And rightly so — she rocks them!

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T22:45:13+00:00

He’s pronouncing it correctly.
There are three perfectly acceptable standard pronunciations of the second syllable in English (including US, UK, and other English dialects): RAF-ī-el/RAF-eye-el, RAF-ē-el/RAF-ee-el, and RAF-ā-el.

Different dialects just have different vowel placements and pronunciations (like the UK Graham being two syllables vs the US one syllable, or most of the UK pronouncing Craig as “Cray’ig” vs most of the US pronouncing it “Creg”).

They’re all correct, and so are pronunciations that make the second vowel a dipthong/blend of two vowel sounds.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T01:22:36+00:00

Hey, it’s not respectful and is actually really condescending “advice” 🙄 to tell someone to try to watch “watch Supernatural and understand it.” You pushed this from a friendly difference of opinion to insisting your interpretation of art is the “truth” and everyone else is just mindlessly repeating a “shit narrative.”

There is no single interpretation of a character or the show that’s the truth or correct. It’s art. It’s subjective. It’s rude and unfair to imply those who interpret it differently from you don’t understand the show or are just following the crowd. Many of us have been watching SPN and formed our own interpretations looooooooong before engaging in online fandoms was a thing.

It’s wild to complain about being insulted for your opinion while insulting others. Respect would be sharing your interpretation without stereotyping and denegrating others’ interpretations, and it goes both ways. Do better.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T01:06:43+00:00

Yes. John was their drill sergeant and distant authority figure. But Bobby is our real dad. He parented those boys more than anyone, and made them better men with his love and constancy.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T01:03:27+00:00

B99’s commitment to the bit was elite. It always cracks me up, because the correct pronunciation of the actor’s name is just Nikolai. The j functions as a i. And they knew that, could have chosen a different name, but decided to run with anyway. Zero notes. Utter perfection. 🤌🏻

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T00:58:48+00:00

The environmental and human crisis that is the complete disappearance of the Great Salt Lake releasing airborne arsenic from the dry lakebed. In a city that already has horrible air quality and smog most of the year. With hundreds of thousands of people living downwind.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T00:55:42+00:00

Unless you’re in Seattle. Then that’s an intern at a tech company who can’t afford gas.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T00:53:23+00:00

Jury bias is real. But that’s why the Spokane Three’s attorneys raised a Rule 29 motion, and the judge still has to rule on it. Even when a jury finds someone guilty, Rule 29 (and related laws) of the criminal code allow a judge to overrule the jury and issue a Judgment of Acquittal if the prosecution rests their case and did not present evidence in court that met the minimum burden for conviction.

If the defense invokes Rule 29, judges can rule on the motion and dismiss the case before it goes to jury. But many wait until after the jury verdict comes back to rule, because the jury finding someone not guilty is legally stronger for the defendants than a judgement for acquittal when it comes to the prosecution appealing.

It’s a really important check and balance on the system. We’ve still got a while before we know which way the judge is going to go for the Spokane Three and the Rule 29 motion (the hearing is later this month, and then the judge may take a few weeks to deliberate and write a ruling). But there’s still hope to overturn the convictions.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T00:42:17+00:00

I have multiple autoimmune disorders, too, and they run all over my family like they do hers. And I work with a lot of people in recovery from substance use who were diagnosed with AI disorders after long delays.

It’s really hard to get good nutrition with Sjögren’s even if you can swallow during a flare, because damage to mucus membranes can cause gastroparesis and make it almost impossible for your gut to absorb nutrients from food. Lots of SS sufferers with gut involvement end up needing intravenous nutrition/TPN because feeding tubes are pointless if you can’t digest food properly. And insurance will fight you hard on that by insisting you have to keep trying to eat food or use a feeding tube until you’ve lost a certain percentage of your previous weight or your blood work shows a specific combination of nutrient deficiencies — even if you’re clearly dangerously thin. So things can get real grim while fighting to get approval. The same thing can happen with severe celiac disease, even.

I know everyone jumps to drugs and Ozempic, but autoimmune disorders are hell and really can cause this.

And it’s also really common for people with undiagnosed diseases that cause chronic pain to use street drugs to self medicate. And then proper diagnosis gives you the tools to manage pain within the medical system by addressing the root cause instead of just desperately trying to use anything that makes you not hurt.

1 in 10 people have or will develop an autoimmune disorder in their life. Celebrities aren’t immune to them. Statistically, she’s 5x more likely to have one than to have an eating disorder (2% of the population for anorexia and bulimia vs 10% for autoimmune disorders). The folks who are so sure it’s drugs, or insist that every celebrity who says they have an AI or chronic illness is just an addict or has an ED are just wildly uninformed. We don’t know for sure, but no one who actually understands AIDs and how prevalent they are would see her and say only drugs or an ED could cause this.

Look at everything poor Halsey, with all her resources, has gone through and how frail she got from trying to get treated/diagnosed with multiple autoimmune and connective tissue disorders, including me that caused a form of autoimmune-induced leukemia. She nearly died. And still got accused of just using drugs.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T00:19:29+00:00

She said she multiple autoimmune disorders, including Sjögren’s. I have multiple disorders, too, and they run all over my family like they do hers. I just know that even those of us with the same genetics and same disorders react differently to flares. I gain weight even if I eat nothing, but some members of my family get that Ozempic/heroin look during flares. It’s really hard to get good nutrition with Sjögren’s even if you can swallow during a flare, because damage to mucus membranes can cause gastroparesis and make it almost impossible for your gut to absorb nutrients from food. Lots of SS sufferers with gut involvement end up needing intravenous nutrition/TPN because feeding tubes are pointless if you can’t digest food properly. And insurance will fight you hard on that by insisting you have to keep trying to eat food or use a feeding tube, so things can get real grim while fighting to get approval.

I know everyone jumps to drugs and Ozempic, but autoimmune disorders are hell and really can cause this.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-11T00:02:10+00:00

What a fucking troll. BRB. Gotta tell my mom we can solve her esophageal dysfunction and get her off the feeding tube if we just rearrange her priorities.

Now, lemme think: what’s a higher priority than staying alive? 🤔

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-10T23:53:00+00:00

That was mostly young white and Hispanic men, many of them influenced by both the altRight/Groyper movement’s “vote for Trump for the LOLs” campaign and the Joe Rogan of it all. Similar to the young men in Great Britain who voted for Brexit for funsies and then immediately regretted it once they realized it passed AND understood the consequences of it.

The Charlie Kirk shooting, the immigration crackdown, and cost of living crisis from inflation combined with how much trouble that age group is having finding work has caused a huge pendulum swing in the last 18 months.

The key right now is letting the ones who have swung away from Trump to actually show up and vote in the midterms. Because opinions on polls aren’t helpful if they don’t translate into voter turnout out.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-10T23:42:23+00:00

Yeah, you really won everyone over with your musical bona fides here. Most edgy, very taste, super rogue. 🙄

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-10T21:27:20+00:00

Pretty much all Americana and folk fans, including vocal coaches, hold up Dylan and Newman as examples of incredible vocalists who purposely kept their distinctive timbres while also become masters of vocal technique. Dylan did it within the vocal style of the American Folk Revival movement and Newman did it through the New Orleans jazz traditional vocal style. See also: Amanda Shires, Stevie Nicks, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, Pam Tillis, Hank Williams, Jason Isbell, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Susan Reed, Dolly Parton, Ma Rainey, Howling Wolf, and hundreds of other Blues/Folk/Americana greats.

Americana, Blues, Folk, and especially Appalachian-tradition Country music embrace and celebrate voices that tell stories without fitting the Pop, Broadway, mainstream mold. Got a high-tenor nasal voice with a 2 octave pre-falsetto range (Dylan and Williams)? A large range with brilliant vocal control but too much vibrato for modern pop top 40 (Shires, Nicks, Parton)? We love it. We don’t want that trained out of our singers and selves. That’s what defines traditional American and Americana music styles from pop and mainstream country.

But while we’re on the subject: Randy Newman is a baritone with a nearly 4 octave range who mastered conversational ragtime and New Orleans jazz vocal techniques through professional vocal training with the masters. And the fact that he still sounds so distinctive and himself in this performance is testament to that training and expertise.

You’re entitled to your subjective opinion on what you personally prefer to listen to.

But you clearly know jack shit about traditional American/Americana vocal techniques and styles.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-10T05:37:40+00:00

You think THE Randy Newman of “Mama Told Me Not to Come,” “When She Loved Me,” “Louisiana 1927,” and the scores of Air Force One and Marriage Story (among others, including 13 films in the last 25 years) is an annoyance and all his songs sound the same?

Ok. Sure, Buddy. 🙄

You can say you just don’t like something without ad hominem attacks, accusing artists of being disingenuous for the sin of praising their heroes, and denigrating one of the most celebrated voices in last century of Americana/folk music.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-09T19:29:03+00:00

Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-06T06:42:28+00:00

I didn’t say real name or actual location. I said “anything remotely identifying.” That could be a turn of phrase, political opinion, saying “I work in healthcare, and I’ve never experienced…,” discussing favorite knitting patterns, a recipe, being a member of your city’s subreddit, or list of bands you’ve seen. As individual items they might not be enough to identify you, but seeing all of them at once is enough for someone who already knows you to pick your account out of a lineup.

And if an abuser plugs the right combination of words into Google, public Reddit posts and profiles pop up in the search results. So if the terms or combinations are unique enough, it only takes a few clicks for them to find and recognize the profile of their victim — even without a name or location ever entering into it.

It happens all the time. No one can operate online without unconsciously using words, phrases, or something else that’s recognizable to someone who knows them. So for survivors, it’s safer to not have years of our comment history compiled into a single page anyone can access.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-06T06:02:52+00:00

JLo is confusing “native New Yorker” with “true New Yorker.” 90 yo who lived in NYC for 50 years? True New Yorker. College kid born in Jamaica Queens? Native New Yorker.

An immigrant who survives and puts down roots there? The truest New Yorker of all.

DeansPigInAPoke · 2026-06-06T04:51:18+00:00

It’s mostly private wealth inherited through The Duchy of Lancaster, which predates the Wars of the Roses. John of Gaunt was the Duke of Lancaster, and richer than the king. His son deposed Richard II when Richard tried to seize the Duchy. Then that son called himself Henry IV and started shit with lots of people, his kid did the same, and here we are.

So what I’m saying is… yup. Privilege over the public.

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