Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

The number of grown women who were in my church young women’s group several years ago who posted fuck ice on their IG today made me so proud. So proud to know them & their moms who taught them to be strong as hell while also caring deeply about others ❤️

Take 11 minutes to make your day wonderful & watch Snow Bear free on YouTube AN ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL STORY & film of 2D animation by artist Aaron Blaise who created Disney’s Brother Bear. It took 3 YRS & 11,000 hand drawn images! A lonely polar bear just wants a friend🥰 youtu.be/xOXolSQcEb4?...

My body is a temple. My mind is a comedy club. My apartment is a landfill. My car is a festive warning light Christmas village. I could do this all day.

NEW for @propublica.org: We analyzed flight data to see how passenger planes were affected by SpaceX's starship explosions. We identified 21 planes that appeared to make sudden turns to exit the debris zone in the minutes after the explosion. www.propublica.org/article/spac...

You mean like…forever? Asking for the military.

History tidbit for today 45,000 young able-bodied American service members died in World War I in 1918…from the flu. The so called “Spanish Flu” that originated in Kansas, spread quickly in training camps, on ships, & in European ports where those serving in the war spread it far and wide.

🚨 𝟱𝟯𝟬% 𝗙𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗 & 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚! 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗢! 🚨 It's the final stretch of Snow Bear: The Card Game on Kickstarter and the momentum is unreal!! 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻, 𝗻𝗼𝘄'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲! 👉 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aaronblaiseart/snow-bear-the-card-game/

Take 11 minutes to make your day wonderful & watch Snow Bear free on YouTube AN ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL STORY & film of 2D animation by artist Aaron Blaise who created Disney’s Brother Bear. It took 3 YRS & 11,000 hand drawn images! A lonely polar bear just wants a friend🥰 youtu.be/xOXolSQcEb4?...

My New Year’s resolution is to learn more geography so I’ve been playing this map tap game — it gives you 5 cities to find & at the end it gives you a history blurb for each spot from the calendar day. You can play for free or pay for added features. I’ve just been playing the free version maptap.gg

If you’re looking for a source of information that will help make sense of what’s happening in the American law and courts, I highly recommend the Strict Scrutiny podcast. It provides an orderly explanation of what seems chaotic & uncertain. youtu.be/aOp--kPyL3I?...

Hard agree. I remember JVL making a similar comment not long ago about just taking Greenland if it was in fact that important to US national security. I was repulsed. Taking Greenland probably means war. And that would mean lots of dead kids and a broken alliance for nothing.

There is no amount of 'Being Right on the Internet' that is worth that future. There is no amount of domestic political clarity that is worth that future. Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it. You do not want that future. /end

We can’t afford Medicaid or food stamps but we can afford Greenland?

A lot of people don't understand that we already have a military base in Greenland--and Denmark, as our NATO ally--would readily agree if the US wanted to expand it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffi...

What does the US want with Greenland that they can’t already do?

a line from a movie that plays over and over in my head is Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth saying "Am I to be made of stone? Must I be touched by nothing?" I think of it whenever someone tells me "that was not an appropriate time to laugh," which is a semi-regular occurrence

Upcoming dentist appointment and they’ve texted, called, and hired a skywriter to remind me

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

protein bars are goated when both not enjoying your food and not knowing what’s in it is the vibe

JUDGE: how does your client plead MY LAWYER: like a whiny little bitch your honor ME: hey quit it i do not JUDGE: whoa i see what you mean counselor MY LAWYER: right? so annoying

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

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they're gonna need to dunk me in this scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-i...

BREAKING: Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws, including the first U.S. ban on pill abortions.

I LOVE the seasonal change to the hygge activities of winter — the fireplaces, staying home and inside, making more art, going to bed early to read and yet this episode from my fave pod is helpful for even me to get enough light & exercise & ✨trust the process✨ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

We who? Is this what “we” want? Who exactly is the “we” kicking down the door? Bc it’s def not that mfer finally who’s the “we” benefiting? It also won’t me that mfer bc it’ll be a select few who never do have to do the dirty work & pay no taxes

Midlife crisis?

If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.

This story is absolutely heartbreaking. Protect your loved ones from ai bc right now the companies and the govt aren’t.

This is Herschel. She spent 15 minutes at the gym before deciding to switch her New Year's resolution to self acceptance. 12/10 (IG: cfsbk)

Personally I do think it’s very cool when you spend 2 years working on a project about a sport you love and then some guy takes the transcripts of it to spit out an AI script for himself to read over a YouTube video for money. Thanks David!!!!!

Learned at work today that if someone types an entire paragraph into the subject line of a Gmail, you will feel like they’re yelling at you through the computer. So unless that’s intended, perhaps use sparingly 😂

Of course I want fries with that.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Found this beautiful picture of my parents moving into our San Diego home in the 90s

“Boots on the ground”seems to mean something different to some people whose feet have never been in the aforementioned boots.

when i woke up and realized rl starts again this week i exhaled so hard i flew around the room like a deflating balloon

Congestion pricing is a heckuva street safety strategy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nothing good can happen. It can only bad happen.

History tidbits for today LtCol Oliver North’s charges for illegal conduct WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY were dismissed. He retired at his highest rank. Gen David Patraeus violated the UCMJ w an extramarital affair & possibly mishandling classified material WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY & retired as a 4⭐️

Never seen anybody who by all standards are your poster people American heroes be so consistently punished by this country as Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords.

washed right up on the beach nearby

“Just have the servicemembers follow their oath” sounds clean and simple in a skeet. In real life it’s anything but and it’s not practicable as a genuine check on civilian leaders. You’re asking young people with high school educations to make legal, constitutional decisions in an info-vacuum.

Losing the last vestiges of a shared narrative.

This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.

This is fascinating. In college I was forced by my acting and voice teachers to trade my southern accent in for Standard American Dialect or fail their classes. It still comes out when I’m talking to someone else who is southern, when I say certain words, or when I get really angry.

I don't believe anything I see online unless it's funny.

My favorite thing to do with time off is nothing and then when it's over I go oh no I've done nothing

Interviewer: what did you learn from your previous job? Me: that i need a new job