Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Believe your eyes.

Greg Bovino is intolerable.

Am I going to have to post this every single day for the rest of this godforsaken administration?

I will aggressively be using Calibri in all situations possible for the foreseeable future.

The mashup I didn't know I needed.

Bonne Maman has upped its advent calendar packaging game this year. Today's flavor: Wild Blueberry-Maple Syrup Spread. Verdict: solid start, but probably not top 5.

This is insane. On the heels of Tuesday's results, an orchestrated cave? It makes no sense. The Democrats are useless.

3 years, 2 months, 1 week, 4 days, 16 hours, 31 minutes, and 56 seconds ▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 20%

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

No Kings is the 7th story on the #NYT website right now, after 3 on George Santos and a piece about Trump's deep thoughts on the shutdown. Millions of people turn out to protest and that's where you rank it? C'mon.

#nokings Roseville, CA

EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country? TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.

I am just so furious over not being able to schedule a COVID vaccine. Do individual states have the ability to do anything different than follow these terrible new guidelines? C'mon, Gavin, let's show them.

C'mon, NYT, do better.

This Is just sad. Instead of helping me learn how to be healthy within my particular body, this test taught me that "physical fitness" was unobtainable and a source of public embarrassment. I hope the new version is kinder. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

Roseville, CA #nokings

No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com

Apparently I should be subject to recall, as I, too, am prone to falling apart under environmental embrittlement.

I keep seeing variations on this. Am I the only one who just thinks...without teeth or a stomach, the big collective fish isn't going to do much damage and really the little fish are just making themselves into a convenient shark snack? I want to believe the sentiment but this ain't it for me.

I am filled with undescribable rage about Schumer's vote on the CR. I am the model of a reliable Democratic voter, but this has me just about over the edge. I called my senators for the first time in my life. A government shutdown is bad, but the destruction of our democracy is worse.

Clay Bennett nails it.

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

Just thinking about this today, no reason.... youtu.be/xyLi5tdnONI?...

I cannot comprehend what is happening right now. It's insanity. Is this how the Great Experiment ends? With the voluntary capitulation of its government and citizens to a tin-pot dictator and his billionaire handler?

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

Is anyone suing to get Musk out of secure and (supposedly) confidential government databases? I have no idea how that would work, but my hopeful-brain thanks there still has to be some way to stop this insanity.

Dear God I forgot my earbuds on my Costco run and now I have to listen to the ambient sound of humans

This is Carolyn Edwards. She was one of the first officers attacked and knocked out on January 6th. She bravely testified before the January 6th committee. She is one of the bravest people I know and she deserves better. (She posted this publicly on her FB page which is why I'm sharing publicly)

...and just like that we're back to the "what fresh hell is this" stage of checking social media feeds. I had blissfully forgotten how exhausting the chaos is, and we're 12 hours in.

go.bsky.app/GqzD332 Continuing to update as I find folks on the app.

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

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I couldn't find a true crime podcast starter pack, so I made one. Why am I included, when I am most definitely not a true crime podcaster? Only the Bluesky gods know for sure. go.bsky.app/GqzD332

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