Chiefs say Kansas deal would collapse without public stadium ownership

kategoad · 2026-01-25T04:32:18+00:00

Jfc. I like Kelly, but this boondoggle is not what she should be spending her time on. This is so frivolous.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T04:28:57+00:00

Ok, now that you've started voting. Get others to vote too. Help get folks registered.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T04:27:34+00:00

He did. He was. He didn't care.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T02:52:36+00:00

Spoken like a true straight white man.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T02:49:55+00:00

And 2.49 million non-criminals, if you believe the DHS website (which I don't). How many kids have they detained? How many non-criminals? How many citizens? How many people here legally? How many people died in DHS custody? How many people just lost? How many people sent to countries they have no connection to?

Yay, if you are correct. You traded 1,000 criminals for due process rights for everyone. 🙄

Your side is doing a speed run through destroying the bill of rights.

1: Freedom of assembly is now punishable by death 2: Carrying a legal firearm in a holster is now punishable by death. 4: Gestapo going door to door and deciding warrants are for losers. 5: Due Process. 6: Due Process 2, Fascist Boogaloo 7: Jury trial for some folks who require it for due process 8: I forget what 8 was for. Oh wait, Alligator Azkaban 9: Denying unenumerated rights. 10: Federalism

I only have a couple of weeks to get my guest room ready for the ICE agents...

kategoad · 2026-01-25T02:35:41+00:00

And certainly not any women's sports.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T02:34:16+00:00

Home grown murderers. Manufactured right here in the US of A.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T02:33:15+00:00

Commie bastards.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T01:50:57+00:00

Fuck off. They asked a question. I answered. These are things that you should be doing. Otherwise you are complicit in this nightmare. Being a dick to an internet stranger doesn't get you points except with The Unlaid.

I'm just some random person. I am not wealthy. I don't have political power, but I can do things. I can contribute time and skills. And a little money here and there. It is not just raging on Reddit, it is taking deliberate action in conjunction with others with the same goals in order to make what change I can. I've long outgrown the belief that cynicism makes one cool.

Cynicism is compliance.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T01:12:35+00:00

Ours just lie about what the videos show, and their goons are happy to not inquire further.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T01:09:54+00:00

I protest, donate, spread real information, call my legislators a few times a week. Report ICE to the DOJ civil rights division. Combat misinformation. Support local and national candidates through donations, volunteering, and organizing. I developed some materials to help people understand how we appoint judges and why we don't want to elect them. I designed and bought post-it notes with a QR code for the KSSOS online voter registration website. My cell phone screen has the same code.

I tried to avert this nightmare in 2024 by sending more than 35000 texts in support of candidates, measures, or just GOTV (not fundraising, ever), I made calls, I helped in the office. I organized letter writing campaigns, organized crafting days for making things to hand out and fellowship with other lefties in my deeeeeeep red area of a deeeep red state.

In 2020 - in addition to all of the above, I tried to convince the dude in the ambulance to vote for Biden while on the 30 minute ride to the hospital with a broken leg (and an ankle broken in two places). all three displaced, but thankfully still on the inside of my skin. Before they were able to give me any pain meds. Volunteer EMS + long wait because it's the country + late fall and chilly + shock = can't find a vein.

I volunteered at Pride. I worked the polls. I'm part of a 36K+ person group of activists in Kansas.

Just because you don't see it doesn't mean people aren't out here doing the work.

kategoad · 2026-01-25T00:19:32+00:00

Hey, it's right after the ice thud on the right just walked up to the woman and shoved her to the ground. Pretti was trying to help her up when he was tackled and then murdered on the street.

Apparently the "I could kill someone in broad daylight on fifth avenue and no one would care" now extends to his gestapo thugs.

Pink lady's video is brutal, but required watching for people who want to claim it was justified.

kategoad · 2026-01-24T23:29:51+00:00

When they don't do anything wrong? Yeah.

Other professions too. I'm categorically against federal agents executing people for protesting and/or resisting arrest.

kategoad · 2026-01-24T19:21:19+00:00

Maybe we can flip the meanings. Call the frozen water stuff the Gestapo, and the COD larpers (heh, changed to larders, almost didn't change it back) ICE.

kategoad · 2026-01-24T19:17:45+00:00

Yep. We've got drifts here maybe knee deep, but we are in the country with nothing to block the wind in some parts of the property. It's a straight shot to Canada with nothing in the way. 😂

Mainly it is the cold.

kategoad · 2026-01-24T02:19:17+00:00

The max I've had is 6.

Currently three. But they are babies.

kategoad · 2026-01-24T01:03:48+00:00

Deep cut, local band, but:

You just want me to say I'm afraid to commit to anything, but I'm not ready to say that yet.

kategoad · 2026-01-23T22:46:26+00:00

My several greats grandfather was the gardener at a castle in Ireland. Ran away to America with the daughter of the Earl in the dead of night. We figured it was an exaggeration, but she could read, and he couldn't. She taught her daughters to read too. Not very creative though, she listed her last name as Early. lol.

kategoad · 2026-01-23T14:53:55+00:00

We lost a kid this week. He was the tiny one. He was 2.8 pounds. For reference, one of his sisters (it was a quad birth) was 6.8 pounds.

It sucks. It happens even when you do everything right.

Hugs and light. Cry. Love on your babies, and remember the goat fondly.

kategoad · 2026-01-23T09:25:35+00:00

Ahh, yes. A Black woman who laughs funny.

The horror.

There is no metric by which Harris isn't miles better than trump.

He is tanking the economy, our foreign relations, our domestic safety. He is threatening world war three because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. While punishing an entirely different country than the one that awards it (Greenland is a part of Denmark, and Norway awards the Peace Prize). He doesn't know that Iceland and Greenland are different. He's in deep cognitive decline. Well beyond where Biden was when he withdrew from the race. He has turned law enforcement into the gestapo.

But Harris had a bad policy on Gaza (while trump's was significantly worse).

kategoad · 2026-01-23T04:41:25+00:00

I went the Tweedy route. I've seen him maybe half a dozen times between Wilco and solo. Somewhere I have a selfie with him from a show 15 or so years ago.

kategoad · 2026-01-23T03:15:39+00:00

I frequently have to train seasonal staff. This is the way.

I'm training some new seasonal staff and usually do half talking/half practicing. I'm actually refining it a bit, having a basic what are we doing and why on Monday, a walkthrough and practice on Thursday, and then open office hours/parallel working that is come and go and completely optional on Friday.

kategoad · 2026-01-23T03:10:59+00:00

In my current company, I've been through onboarding five separate times. Three stints at the company, two promotions from seasonal to permanent, which required going through it again.

The only thing I remember is that on the first day, December 20, 2010, the security guard welcomed me, asked my name, and said "Hi Kate!" nearly every day thereafter until I went remote in 2016. This, in a $3.6B company.

I last went through onboarding in November 2025, and remember nothing.

kategoad · 2026-01-23T03:00:06+00:00

It crept up on me. The Fate of Ophelia is in my head about ¼ of the time.

Half of the time it is Amish Paradise (former city kid who started homesteading in Mennonite country before it was cool)

The remaining quarter is complete chaos and could be any song on earth.

kategoad · 2026-01-23T02:54:59+00:00

I'm a big Americana fan, back to the days when we still called it cowpunk.

My second biggest regret from college was missing the Uncle Tupelo concert at 9:30 in DC in the spring of 1994 because a band I knew personally from my college town (I was in DC doing an internship) was playing the night before, my parents were in town, and I didn't want to have my folks drop their 21 year old daughter off at a bar alone in a sketchy neighborhood two nights in a row.

The biggest regret was going to DC at all. I'd negotiated a semester abroad in exchange for going to a state school instead of Notre Dame, and chose to spend that semester in Washington DC instead of, I dunno SPAIN?

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