What the hell is this on the radio?

Still going on, High Desert around Joshua Tree National Park. I don’t know what this is. Do you?

@TaylorLorenz my dog does not like this.

Space aliens

@TaylorLorenz It's either pirate radio broadcasting or dubstep in 2025 is infinitely more out of pocket than 2015

A word on this intifada thing: as an Arab I find it extraordinarily and deeply racist that the actual definition of a term that’s in my language has less weight in the popular discourse than what people feel the word is. Words have literal meanings.

Couer d’Alene, Idaho, you say? That’s Northern ID, right? Huh. Who was it again that made that their base of operations for the past handful of decades…

Once you build a massive “deportation” machine, an industry really, it will not stop with one category of immigrants, or immigrants at all. It will self-perpetuate new classes of people to detain, to fill detention beds and meet removal quotas. It will create a meal to feast on.

People don’t “receive” Medicaid They are “covered” by it The wording is important No one sits at home getting checks from Medicaid It covers medical expenses Period You also have to be practically destitute to get it No one dreams of qualifying for Medicaid