Has JD Vance considered that maybe he belongs in another country? He seems so actively hostile to even the stuff the original revolution fought for (as the people who did would define it), let alone the Second (True) Founding of the 1860s

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

like at this point it is quite obvious that the republicans on the court will make up anything they like to kneecap literally anything democrats try to do you cannot have a republic that runs this way so you have to break this court specifically

I’d take a million Chinese birth tourists over losers like you

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

RIP queer superstar Miwa Akihiro, one of my favorite Japanese cultural figures—drag queen, movie star, chanteuse, A-bomb survivor (Nagasaki), advice columnist, antiwar activist, Mishima-adjacent demon twink Fucking legend japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obit...

Lots of good alternatives in the replies

A #Roman mosaic octopus, found in a villa at Villaquejida (Spain) - laid some 1800-1900 years ago, but still looking fabulous today #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky

I guess Ronaldo decided he was going to actually play soccer today #worldcup #PORvUZB

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

I’m saying this as someone who’s in a 90% teaching position. Teaching vs. research is a false choice. Robust public funding of higher ed that existed without controversy until Reagan is the answer. The answer to “solving” whatever “problems” exist in higher ed is literally “throw money at it.”

This is the most beautiful Japanese #worldcup game ever 🇯🇵 ⚽️ #samuraiblue #tunvsjpn

I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.

For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library. Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

I approach most World Cup matches with some sort of affection for each team, though I usually wind up rooting for the underdog. Not with Saudi Arabia though. The bone saw assassins can get royally fucked.

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

Go Samurai Blue! ⚽️ 🇯🇵 #worldcup2026

If you’re still talking about the “Kamala is for they/them” ad like an automatic electoral killshot even though Winsome Earle-Sears ran the same damn ad and was reduced to a smoking crater I’m gonna make some assumptions about why you’re so eager to triangulate on the issue

Cameron Park Zoo in Waco TX has a new black-footed cat kitten (Felis nigripes). It's exploring grass for the 1st time here. This species is the smallest wild cat in Africa, but with the highest hunting success (~60%). They eat 1/6th their body weight in rodents & birds every night.

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

VP tiebreaker would’ve killed it anyway, but man, among many reasons I’m excited about moving to PA I can’t wait to primary that asshole in 2028

Riyoko Ikeda’s manga adaptation of the Ring Cycle (extremely surprising adaptation of me, I know. But she’s one of those where everything she did should get a translation anyway if there was any justice in this world)

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

I would push back on this slightly that there's a reason the Federalist 10 hostility to pure majority rule took off among Dems in the 2000s - we were seeing state popular referenda constantly roll back LGBTQ+ rights, while courts were the ones protecting it.

Once again: If we are to beat the Republican fascist movement, we all must view the Supreme Court as it is presently constituted to be completely illegitimate and all of its findings similarly illegitimate, and we should expect our elected leaders to hold the same view.

5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

I just learned the most Massachusetts coded fact ever.... Someone mapped out Paul Revere's ride (yanno from grade school, the British Are Coming guy) to where the modern roads are now. He could stop at 11 Dunkins along the way.

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

And just like that, we can add another new word to our Trumpian lexicon: vanced (adj.) - when someone is hanging on by a thread and Vance’s physical presence pounds the last nail into their coffin. ⚰️

So much of it’s about knowing where to look for. I remember in Austin in 2022 there was a candidate whose concern was “propaganda in schools” — clearly hoping Travis County’s hippieish Democratic base didn’t look into what “propaganda” she meant. It was LGBTQ+ inclusion. (She lost big)

I just got off my third phone call to DC; here's the script I wrote. Don't just post through it; take some action.

Timeline cleanse, featuring the majestic sea flap-flaps (aka mobula rays). They're a migratory animal, moving from one part of the ocean to another in large groups called "fevers". They migrate to follow upwellings that enrich for zooplankton food items & to visit their breeding grounds. (📷:OCR)

When you want to like an otherwise good political tweet, but you don’t know how to explain “that’s not what gerrymandering means, and here’s why it’s important to get this right” and if they’ll be receptive. But it is important that supporters of electoral reform understand the current system!

ad astra, artemis ii 🌒 #illustration

Happy Easter, Gabumon died for your sins.

Wishing you all a (relatively) "Happy" Easter. 🐰 🥚 🧺 😩

Artemis and the Artemis II mission! I can’t stop thinking about the Artemis plushie watching over the launch of the Orion hahaha #art #sailormoon #artemisII

Scrappy the marbled black and white cat for #Caturday Scrappy was a black cat, whose coat started getting white at the age of 7, due to vitiligo, which is a genetic mutation causing skin or fur to lose its natural pigment.

Good thread that pretty much sums up my feelings on last night, too

“Where‘s Wallace?!” Getting his fuckin flowers that’s where 😭♥️

Anime fans win!

Ballet and opera tickets aren’t as expensive as people think. You can often get opera or ballet tickets cheaper than Broadway depending on where you sit. The Metropolitan Opera and ABT are both nonprofits so they offer discount tickets and have outreach programs.