Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Dick Cheney died? Been waiting a decade plus to bring this out.

“The report argues that future Democratic administrations must “flip the risk profile and prioritize fights worth having,” including “leaning into controversy” to facilitate “breaking through” and demonstrating that government is “on the side of regular people.””

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold

Is that…Alice Cooper? No thank you, I shall decline to google. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDUo...

Woof. Rough one. archive.ph/2025.10.28-1...

All muppets except for ONE human actor.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Some deeply telling quotations in here, such as “During the interview, Bovino said, “I take my orders from the executive branch.” That statement, according to the court filing, “suggests disdain for this Court’s authority to enjoin his unlawful conduct.”” There are other, more disturbing quotes. :(

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#tdih 1947 The NAACP sent the UN an appeal to redress human rights violations by the U.S. against African-Americans including lynching, segregation, & gross inequalities in education, housing, health care, & voting rights. Drafted by W. E. B. Du Bois & more. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ap...

Someone went there: "It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It" via @futurism.com futurism.com/future-socie...

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

No kings except for Bubbles

I think to make it more fair Ohtani should go play for the Brewers for the last two innings.

Donated! Pro tip: you can donate without signing up for email—scroll down a bit.

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

YOU’RE GONNA LOOK AT ME AND TELL ME THAT I’M WRONG?! GROW UP. GET EDUCATED BRO.

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

NEW: Nine months ago, Elon Musk's nascent, DOGE effort killed off a beloved pediatric cancer initiative in the govt funding fight. I circled back to see where those bills now stood. What I discovered was less scandalous but no less depressing. www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

2025 come on man just don’t.

I have been DENIED blow-up dinosaur costume LONG ENOUGH.

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be. Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

“Parente said the video shows an agent turn federal vehicle left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, “Do something b----.” The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez”

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What context for this “panel of experts” has Reuters provided? This is stenography, not journalism.

Chicago food delivery guy: 1000 points.

Things I didn’t learn until I was way, way too old.

I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Appointing James Hetfield to head the CDC and announcing breakthrough research proving a correlation between lifestyle and deathstyle.

This is what I wrote four years ago during the "Woke Capital" nonsense. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office! There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB#ImpeachRFKand keep the momentum going! 🦆

New plan.

Why are they they fighting Zohran harder than they’re fighting Trump

It’s me and Jean

In our house, if a cat is on you, you are immobile. Desperate calls of “SHAKE THE TREAT JAR” ring forth.

Floppy as a life goal.

No one knows exactly what was on the Venezuelan boat that was struck by the US military, but the fact that the strike was okayed by the president’s son suggests that there was no cocaine aboard.

October 25, 2024

In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes from: (Published Dec. 2024)

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.