Brad Simpson
@bradleyrsimpson
US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG My new book from Oxford!
It smells like a campfire nearly 500 miles from the Canadian border in the Washington DC area and there’s thick smoky haze in the sky.
Behold, the sum total of weeks of garden labor. A single tomato the size of a plum. Happy to sell it for what I have put into it, or $712.
So Donald Trump is announcing that he will be running a giant, armed protection racket and charging everyone who wants to go through the Strait of Hormuz 20%? Is he going to fire on anyone who doesn’t? Of course he can’t and won’t do this, but how are we supposed to keep up with this insanity?
Fyi if you are shit talking DSA right now you are doing Donald Trump’s work for him. So maybe think about whether punching left to bolster your census bona fides on here is that important?
I remember listening to Bonnie Tyler as a little kid in Las Vegas late at night on my shitty little GE clock radio when the local radio station would do the top 10 at 10. Totally transfixed by her voice. Then as now.
I forgot how long ago I set this Google alert. But someday it will work.
Had a conversation with Mitch McConnell today. His voice was kind of raspy and he seemed to be hissing, but otherwise OK.
Here is some representative photos from the 2024 Smithsonian folk life festival, a much smaller production that nevertheless brought out exponentially more people than Trump‘s insipid fash fair.
The heat wave in the midwest and mid-Atlantic this week is going to be absolutely brutal. Four days of 98-103 degree temps with 70-80% humidity. This is life threatening heat.
Writing a medical school letter of recommendation for a student and saw this in the instructions on the AAMC site. Wtaf. Why would you agree to write a letter on a student’s behalf and use AI? In what possible world would this be helpful for the applicant?
So much freedom in downtown DC. The place is occupied by thousands of police and military, and the national mall is gated and surrounded by military vehicles and dump trucks with people required to pass through metal detectors to get in.
“Things change, people change, hairstyles change, interest rates fluctuate.”
Frodo and Bilbo attempting to cross the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on their way to Mordor.
I mean, who wouldn’t trust this guy to complete a job at 600% of the original projected cost.
I know one can’t expect the host ls of a mainstream broadcast network show to call Trump and Vance stone cold racists, but that’s what they are. Instead of dancing around the issue, why couldn’t they just ask Vance about this? Trump is *inarguably* racist. So ask if Vance shares his racism.
Wtf well I guess the rule of law is a bourgeois value from a bygone era