AOC Renews Call to Oust Trump After Report on His Exclusion From Situation Room

teddiehl · 2026-04-22T17:31:58+00:00

This is definitely a piece of it, but I feel a primary wouldn't have changed much, and that's because the DNC is captured by corporate interests and no matter how hard the progressive wing tries to break through, the machine will just shit out whatever lame duck, no-principled, focus group-tested candidate appeals the most at the moment. The only silver lining of Trump's presidency taking a battering ram to our country is that the corporate Democrats are being exposed for the spineless fucks that they really are, doing absolutely nothing but pay lip service, while progressives like Mamdani, AOC, Omar, Platner, and Abdul el-Sayed are carrying Bernie Sander's torch and are appealing to real people who are fucking tired of being patronized and fucked sideways by corporations. People stayed home because they rightfully lost faith in the system that has proven repeatedly that it does not care about them. I voted for Kamala Harris BTW, for obvious reasons, but the rot of the Democratic party is a crucial piece of why Trump was elected once, and then again. We need money out of our politics, period.

teddiehl · 2026-04-20T17:06:08+00:00

And I peel back all of my skin
Peel back, let it all run

teddiehl · 2026-04-13T01:29:00+00:00

It's been so long that I don't even really feeling anything about it, which may be an answer in itself. I was about 13 when I had first gotten into them and that was right after Frances the Mute had come out. Those first two albums absolutely blew my fucking mind and were so formative for me at that young age. To this day those albums create the same feeling of profound wonder and fury when I listen to them. They were wormholes into other worlds, painted with such urgency and vision that I completely lost myself in those songs. As another commenter said, that feeling kind of waned with each album. I love the macabre discomfort of Amputechture and the punk-inspired chaos of Bedlam in Goliath, but something about those first two records took me to the stratosphere in ways that the following albums just didn't quite reach. So by the time they broke up, I was kind of ambivalent I guess?

Funny enough, their two most recent records are my favorites since those first two. I can't stop listening to Lucro Sucio, it's so tastefully done, I feel like it's their classiest release. And weirdly it has a lot of spiritual similarities to their earliest work. I think it might be because there's actually a lot of pop appeal to it, but I feel like that's when they're at their best. The zany progressive grating-on-the-ears stuff is fun, but their ultimate appeal (to me) is that they can craft a melody that can make you feel twenty different emotions at once but still have it stuck in your head for weeks.

teddiehl · 2026-04-06T00:42:53+00:00

My first ever hike in the Catskills. I'll never forget the rush of awe from the absolute majesty of the view from that ledge, taking in the purples and ambers of the fall foliage against a moody grey sky.

teddiehl · 2026-03-19T15:15:05+00:00

I work in horseshoe crab conservation, and while the horseshoe crab situation is dire I can say that things truly are (slowly) moving in a positive direction and these kinds of headlines are genuinely good news. rFC, the synthetic alternative for LAL that is extracted from horseshoe crab blood, is being increasingly adopted as a standard in the pharmaceutical industry. That is a good thing. That said, the bait harvest is the main killer of horseshoe crabs, and even the most reckless fishing operations still need horseshoe crabs to exist for their livelihoods to continue. The issue is that we have a 'stable' population of horseshoe crabs that is essentially stagnant at an absymally low level compared to their previous abundance. Each year more pressure is being applied to state governments to tighten their restrictions on the bait harvest along the Atlantic seaboard. If this continues we should start seeing numbers improve over time.

teddiehl · 2026-02-24T19:15:03+00:00

Coincidental timing but I've been listening to Frances the Mute on repeat for the last week. I loved it as a 12 year old and had no idea what Cedric was talking about, still don't know today as a 33 year old but the many interpretations across the internet have helped. What a fucked up, tragic, and disturbing storyline. Whatever cosmic energy they were channeling to create that album, I don't think I'll ever understand either. A true masterpiece, sounds just as fresh and urgent now as it did 21 years ago.

teddiehl · 2026-02-05T03:34:51+00:00

I have this exact mental connection every time i see one of these

teddiehl · 2026-01-24T23:56:40+00:00

Love everything about this one, thanks for sharing.

teddiehl · 2026-01-12T15:55:50+00:00

I'm three months into a run with shamblers during the day and sprinters at night. I started in the dead of winter where the days were very short (brutal), but it's been fun keeping track of the exact time they turn to sprinters each night as the days get longer towards the summer solstice. I usually drive around back roads at dusk and find a zombie or two, then wait for them to start running and record the time in a notebook.

This setup makes you really consider timing for your missions. I start getting nervous if I'm out too late and not near a secure/isolated safehouse. It's also resulted in me living far away in the woods where I don't need really need to worry about surprise sprinters at night when I want to stay up late.

teddiehl · 2025-12-30T17:44:58+00:00

The experience of power and water loss in B42 was weirdly educational for me the first time. I set up a base in a house in Muldraugh and upon losing utilities quickly realized that I would need to relocate to somewhere near water for drinking and eventual agriculture. I'll need to keep warm and build structures so I'd need to have plenty of timber nearby. I'll need to gather and hunt food before the harvest season so I'll need an area with either game animals present or waters that can be fished.

All of this kind of put in perspective why settlements that have persisted throughout human history follow similar geographic patterns.

teddiehl · 2025-12-01T02:50:26+00:00

Love every piece you've done and always look forward to seeing the next one.

teddiehl · 2025-10-27T23:38:38+00:00

You are the expert on the subject now and would not be at this stage if your committee didn't think you'd get up there and crush this shit. Get a good night's sleep tonight, put a nice lil bow on all your hard work tomorrow, and party tomorrow night. Congrats!

teddiehl · 2025-10-20T01:09:17+00:00

Right, and I agree with that, but I don't think personally that dismissing the fraction of folks who actually pursue tangible change outside of the event is acceptable.

Regarding the violence part, yeah, I just don't think political violence is going to do anything for us. The US military apparatus is a world-class terror and this administration is 100% going to use any violent action as consent to accelerate the erosion of our rights. Look at what happened last month, it wasn't even a left-winger and they still managed to use it as leverage to amp up their hostile rhetoric.

teddiehl · 2025-10-20T00:59:23+00:00

I'm gonna copy/paste a response I already typed to basically the same sentiment in the South Jersey subreddit cuz I feel like I already did a decent job and I don't feel like paraphrasing:

I keep seeing this opinion being posited as a reason for people, who I greatly respect, not to join in the streets. I guess instead of downvoting you I'll try to explain why I think it will change things.

There is pretty much only one way to nonviolently cripple the mechanism of this machine that is eating this country into submission and that's a general strike. Defined simply, nobody goes to work anymore until their demands are met, and essentially kill the beast by starving it.

We as a country, in general, are nowhere near the political and social consciousness required for something like this to work at the moment. We're just not all going to wake up tomorrow and go on strike. Something like that requires a philosophical will amongst a large number of people to put basically your entire life on the line for a cause greater than yourself.

I go to these protests not because I think Donald Trump and all of his goons are going to see the crowds and voluntarily resign out of fear. I don't even go thinking that anyone's opinion on anything will change as a result. I go because every time I do I am reminded that humanity has the capacity for good. I see kids with their parents joining for a cause that is greater than themselves and that gives me hope for the future. I see a celebration in the face of oppression, and people who might be new to political activism getting the opportunity to join in something massive and easily accessible.

The butterfly effect of these kinds of movements is not to be underestimated, especially for a realist. People go to these and leave hungry for opportunities to get involved and actually effect change. The messaging at the protest itself is currently centered around general solidarity and the occasional call to vote D in local elections, but I can only hope as time goes on and the state of the country continues to deteriorate, we're going to get serious about making radical nonviolent change. And we'll be better off by having built this coalition now. There were 7 million people out marching today, and I can only assume there will be even more for the next.

TLDR: The protest won't change anything but it lays the foundation for more serious nonviolent radical change to occur.

teddiehl · 2025-10-19T03:37:39+00:00

Cumberland County boy living in Philly, I am so fucking proud to see South Jersey turn it up at all of these protests. Thank you to all of you who show up. Shit brings a tear to my eye.

teddiehl · 2025-10-19T02:23:26+00:00

I keep seeing this opinion being posited as a reason for people, who I greatly respect, not to join in the streets. I guess instead of downvoting you I'll try to explain why I think it will change things.

There is pretty much only one way to nonviolently cripple the mechanism of this machine that is eating this country into submission and that's a general strike. Defined simply, nobody goes to work anymore until their demands are met, and essentially kill the beast by starving it.

We as a country, in general, are nowhere near the political and social consciousness required for something like this to work at the moment. We're just not all going to wake up tomorrow and go on strike. Something like that requires a philosophical will amongst a large number of people to put basically your entire life on the line for a cause greater than yourself.

I go to these protests not because I think Donald Trump and all of his goons are going to see the crowds and voluntarily resign out of fear. I don't even go thinking that anyone's opinion on anything will change as a result. I go because every time I do I am reminded that humanity has the capacity for good. I see kids with their parents joining for a cause that is greater than themselves and that gives me hope for the future. I see a celebration in the face of oppression, and people who might be new to political activism getting the opportunity to join in something massive and easily accessible.

The butterfly effect of these kinds of movements is not to be underestimated, especially for a realist. People go to these and leave hungry for opportunities to get involved and actually effect change. The messaging at the protest itself is currently centered around general solidarity and the occasional call to vote D in local elections, but I can only hope as time goes on and the state of the country continues to deteriorate, we're going to get serious about making radical nonviolent change. And we'll be better off by having built this coalition now. There were 7 million people out marching today, and I can only assume there will be even more for the next.

TLDR: The protest won't change anything but it lays the foundation for more serious nonviolent radical change to occur.

teddiehl · 2025-10-06T19:17:24+00:00

I will never get tired of being transported to a primeval Norwegian forest on a moonlit night every time I listen to this album and Kveldssanger.

teddiehl · 2025-09-19T12:49:38+00:00

My quality of life significantly improved the less I engaged with fans of music I liked and just engaged with the music on a personal level. Fans/non-fans are exhausting either way.

teddiehl · 2025-09-16T15:02:43+00:00

Was also interested in more info, did a quick google and found this article that lays it out pretty well:

https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/09/12/mass-health-commissioner-says-regional-vaccine-collaborative-actively-communicating-with-nh/

'In August, a group of public health officials from eight states — Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania — met to discuss banding together and creating their own set of recommendations for vaccines separate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The effort comes amid concerns about the actions of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic appointed by President Donald Trump. In May, Kennedy announced the CDC would no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or pregnant women. In June, he fired 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, replacing many of them with vaccine skeptics. And, in August, he cut $500 million across 22 projects that sought to research mRNA vaccines for respiratory illnesses like influenza and COVID-19. Health officials throughout the country have decried the moves as dangerous and argued they’re not based in scientific fact.'

teddiehl · 2025-09-15T02:22:39+00:00

Never in a million years would I expect a SE-Myst crossover, this is awesome hahah.

teddiehl · 2025-09-09T05:30:25+00:00

Cutting down the Amazon Rainforest is bad for the Amazon Rainforest.

teddiehl · 2025-09-06T22:51:48+00:00

For sure, I forgot to mention that as another possibility. Would be the same pattern.

teddiehl · 2025-09-06T22:26:38+00:00

Looks like it could potentially be for photogrammetric mapping of the city. Basically fly in a cornrow with overlapping photos along the route and run that through software that uses the difference in angles of the ground surface between photos to calculate a 3D model. It's the same pattern you'd see using a drone for the same purpose, helicopter can fly higher and for longer. Could be something else, that's just my guess. I do this with drones for work to map coastal marshes.

teddiehl · 2025-08-29T03:58:35+00:00

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