When I was a kid, I ran across a mysterious and hilarious tv show. Only a couple other kids at my school had seen it. I always remembered a few of this one performer’s sketches, but had no idea who she was—just that she was brilliant. It would be decades before I realized it was Catherine O’Hara.

happy ending, so far! www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Another American hero stands up.

in case you could use some dark laughter.

I don’t seem able to do a gift link, but this brutal video analysis from the NYTimes makes another clear case that Alex Pretti wasn’t threatening officers. IMO, it took great restraint for Pretti not to hit back when he was piled on. Warning, again: it’s brutal. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

no senator should have an empty voicemail by Monday Call your senators and leave messages demanding they vote no on the ice funding bill we the people need to whip the votes ☎️ www.5calls.org ☎️

moving again

Apparently the Trump administration is championing the 2nd amendment so they can have more fake justifications to kill Americans.

this has flown under the radar, but we are doing third-country detention in a country with a worse human rights record than North Korea

The White House used AI to alter a photo of a protester in order to mock her, and was very open that this was the intent, saying, “the memes will continue.” Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

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Some people resist evil quietly. Not with speeches or slogans — just by deciding, again and again, to do the right thing when no one is watching. That’s how I ended up reading about Gino Bartali. 1/8

Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.

Los Lobos + Jerry Garcia + Bob Weir playing “This Land Is Your Land” Apropos of all that’s happening. youtu.be/YECF0wUNqVQ?...

Grateful to @geneweingarten.bsky.social for bringing up a story of a murder in the Civil Rights era that I had never heard of, one that has particular relevance right now. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...

if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Premiered on this day, December 9, 1965 📸 CBS

“Ben Shahn’s murals in the old Social Security Administration headquarters in Washington, DC were a problem… [as they] suggested to visitors that poverty and racism existed in the land of the free.” 🧵 livingnewdeal.org/newsletters/...

So it seems the only way to revisit that February 2006 Daily Show episode with Rob Corddry’s investigation of the Cheney hunting incident is to pay Jeff Bezos for it.

The most important thing to understand about early cinema is that edited closeups were pioneered to get a better look at the kitties, as is right and proper youtu.be/sWD7mKd_6Ck

It’s not just the building. Several historic trees are no longer visible on the White House grounds, and a garden named for Jacqueline Kennedy appears to have been demolished. www.thedailybeast.com//trump-rips-...

“Trump himself ensured that the workers…removed the bronze latticework over the entrance with blowtorches, separated the friezes from the walls with jackhammers and…threw them down into the interior of the building where they shattered into a million pieces.” (from the book “Art and Crime,” 2022)

San Francisco’s Mission District. Details of mural by Eon75, aka Max Ehrman www.wideopenwalls.com/artists/max-...

From Trump's inaugural address, January of this year. Still available, for now, at https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/01/the-inaugural-address/

The current curtain at Oakland’s beloved Grand Lake Theatre…

Save the UA Berkeley, an Art Deco gem, and the last commercial cinema in downtown Berkeley. Attend the hearing April 22, 6pm, in person and virtual: School District Board Room, 1231 Addison St. Berkeley, CA 94702 www.savetheuaberkeley.org berkeleyca.gov/your-governm...

I hadn’t realized the federal statue garden idea had progressed to the point that NEH grants already promised to other projects have been been taken to fund it. www.yahoo.com/news/worship...

#NationalLibraryWeek #LiteracyMatters

Amazing photos from @apnews.com I’m not sure why they didn’t post this to BlueSky themselves. apnews.com/article/trum... Manhattan to Alaska, protesters rally against Trump and Musk

State supreme court elections have a big impact.