Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.

Ohhh it’s a recession recession for real

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

If you are awake, why do you not scratch

no such thing as other people's children

Is there a word for the specific guilt one feels ordering food from someone who is clearly fasting for Ramadan

this is art

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

Good morning

MORTALITY DEFEATS NIXON

this is one of my strongest “historic“ memories because my dad would always drop me off at gymnastics and then go get a copy of the Sunday Times to read and he came in holding it over his head like a fight card and said “NIXON‘S DEAD” to a room full of confused 7 yr olds in neon leotards

trump can't stop it, only slow it down say it with me everyone. you know the words. come on now

In honor of the many excellent dogs frolicking in the deep snows of New York, I present one (1) deeply unhappy Californian dog plotting murder in approximately 1/2” of snow

In honor of the many excellent dogs frolicking in the deep snows of New York, I present one (1) deeply unhappy Californian dog plotting murder in approximately 1/2” of snow

Tawny Chatmon (American, born 1979) The Awakening [Sunday Child], 2018 12k white gold leaf on archival pigment print 182.9 × 125.7 cm Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

earlier on he also opened up one of his palaces in Paris in the effort to create a third space where people could meet and hold free debate (since the cops couldn’t enter without his royal permission) but it ended up as basically a dark web mall

It's Friday night baby

Happy Friday to you guys

in summary

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

uhhh…diabetes repair I guess?

Wait we still have a Department of Education??

a better world is possible

Apple surfaced this in one of those ever cursed “today over the years” montages and I remain furious that the best hair years of my life were wasted in a global pandemic

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

It's too much going on at once. Let's sit the class down and watch a movie together.

My proudest moment as an American was converting a European to Fahrenheit Thought by saying look…when it’s 100 degrees out that’s 100 hots. It’s 100% as hot as humans are supposed to be. You just can’t argue with that.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

A cool thing about being human is some days you will feel vaguely “off,” like your body is a stranger and your brain is floating away and then you will get home and take a deep swig of pickle juice straight out of the jar and be instantly set to rights

what a seasonally appropriate question for graduates of Bentley High www.cbssports.com/olympics/new...

This one is in Longfellow

Did you know some dogs are invisible

Did you know some dogs are invisible

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Any time I pick up any tool: “Science and industry! See big men putting screwdrivers into things…turning them and ad-justing them”

Honestly kind of surprised they’d even pretend to go for a moon city since everyone knows the moon is a GIRL

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,

When I get home late my little dog is so full of joy she runs laps around the house. Finally the hour has come for her favorite activity: bedtime

From Glamour magazine, actual journalism: "In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the front lines." www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Who dares challenge the sunshine throne

Me, in a meeting [society is collapsing]: hey! how is everyone doing? let's do a quick check-in