spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Gotta hand it to them- they know their priorities. They’re gonna need that billion for security once people find out how badly they screwed us over.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Politicizing judicial races is good actually www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

These people are so fucking pathetic

Phew. Had no idea how this was going to go and boy and am I relieved

Gotta say I never thought he’d see a day of prison so here’s to that.

Hey JD, you’ve dedicated yourself to a whole ass religion founded on rape, human sacrifice and cannibalism.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

lol remember when all the “respectable” people told us we couldn’t call Barron a psychopathic freak because he was “just a child” There was absolutely no chance the son of Donald Trump and Melania would be anything but

Sexism is as insidious as racism, and most of the time people don’t even recognize it

Going back to bed. No way my day can get better Wordle 1,575 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This fuckin guy

Hey I’m all for change but the new Philadelphia Art Museums logo and typeface looks like it’s for a mid tier soccer team

This is a fascinating lil tidbit about our new media overlord

Jane speak. You listen

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

Ok farm facts are back! China is so much of the global soybean market, you can't make up losing them by selling to other countries. There isn't enough soybean demand in the world to fill that dent. And farmers... know that.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Really dodged a bullet on that Cambodian-Armenian War. Thank god for our Dear Golden Leader

What part of Charlie’s Bible was this in?

Is it though? Is it astonishing to hear this from Catholic leadership?

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

These people are too fucking stupid to be running agricultural operations. Let them all fail. There’s nothing sacred about family farms if the family farms are all run by morons.

Shocking news of this capitulation by the Washington Post. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised given their new direction, but even so, this is a really dangerous bridge we are crossing

I recommend everyone watches this

If you are murdered and a neo-Nazi rally gathered in honor of your life erupts into a race war chant, your critics getting fired for saying that you had a toxic influence on society probably have a point, and the people doing the firing probably aren't actually concerned about political violence.

Oh come the fuck on

Holyyyyyyy Christ No wonder they offed Charlie yesterday

Josh Shapiro asking for reverence for the modern day Hitler youth guy should almost be disqualifying for him

Is this the work we should be honoring, Gov Newsome?

JFC can’t you do better California?

Political violence has no place in a civil liberal society!?!? What the fuck is ICE? What the fuck is the US-funded GENOCIDE of the Palestinians? What the fuck is the systemic POLICE killing of unarmed Black people? What the fuck is brutal arrest of ANTIWAR college students?

america is such a young country.

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

Guessing Mike Johnson knew this was coming the other day when he claimed Trump was an FBI informant

Yay BOOKMARKS! Thanks Bluesky

Holy smokes, FASCINATING thread about Caligula's "pleasure barges" and their attempted recovery by Mussolini.

Why does Jared look like his ass is on backwards?

When people say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." the correct response is: "I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

How scared must they be to float this ridiculous balloon?

a secretary of war that wears fun socks is kind of crazy

I guarantee this is the craziest thing you will read today. Maybe even all week.