Remember when GOP Governors thought sending federal troops uninvited into states was a bad idea? At some point "Don't Tread on Me" became "I'm treading as hard as I can."

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Meanwhile at the Riyadh comedy festival

By the end of the clip his reading glasses have fallen onto his nose and is trying to look over them which means, speaking from experience, he is waving that gun at a giant blur or at a group that is blurry on the bottom and shifting twix the two as his head shifts. A "well regulated militia" folks!

The Dart is a Lonely Hunter.

What movie do you consider perfect?

I think the goons will use this decision as permission to seize anyone who looks naturally darker (tans and bronzer permitted of course) than the Albino from DaVinci Code, speaks any language the goons don't understand and appears to work any job with a wage lower than theirs.

Slightly diminish a book: The Beige Letter

Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Maybe it wasn't a bribe, maybe it was left by the French Fry Phantom, the Tooth Fairy's rural kid brother. www.youtube.com/watch?v=df73...

You know what else doesn't pass the smell test? Heliocentrism. I watch the sun move across the sky every day. You know what I never see move? The earth. The sun is the only movement I see not mediated by pointy-headed science nerds and their fancy satellites and telescopes. I don't trust commies!!

Today's clipping sent me down a rabbit hole researching the history of sandwiches on the British railways in the 19th century. Spoiler alert: Except for a golden age of dining cars in the early 20th century, train and airplane food has always sucked.

In cartoons Popeye eats a whole can of spinach and becomes super strong. But what if he ate a small bit of spinach. Say a serving of oysters Florentine. Does he get a little strong all over, or does a he get really strong in one area (right arm say)? Or maybe really strong for shorter period?

Obscure political/museum humor for those who celebrate. Atlanta, Georgia · Wednesday, July 02, 1884

what actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

I love this photo from my collection that was correctly framed to cut off the dude's head but catch the photobombing cat.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Read any US newspaper from 1865 and you have a better than even chance of reading an advertisement using the end of the Civil War as an opportunity to sell their merchandise.

19th Century Dime Museums had weird races and contests...like gum chewing.

No kings but …

I worked for a historic house that hosted the weddings of Will Smith and Yaphet Kotto. (not to each other) I got to eat their cakes. I watched Dizzy Gillespie clean his horn in the men's room sink in a very small jazz club in Washington DC.

I've got a git a joke about Xenophon, but it wanders aimlessly before getting to the end.

In Chandler Bing's voice: Can white people BE any more fragile?

"Describe a favorite movie in the most misleading way possible." Wacky hijinks ensue after a hapless car dealer arranges a special surprise trip for his wife.

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

19th Century Museum Humor.. sadly still relevant. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan · Sunday, June 03, 1888 #tdih #museumhumor

This is how newspapers should react when the government asks them to carry its water.

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

This makes me unnaturally, irrationally, indescribably happy.

When Hands On interactives go horribly wrong. #tdih, #museumhistory Daily Miner-Transcript Nevada City, California · Thursday, May 29, 1890

Slightly Ruin a Song Title: Ode to William Joseph

Post a character who looks good wet

Best Star Trek Crew. Wrong answers only.

@tomlevenson.bsky.social Just reading So Very Small now, but judging by the company it keeps it should be a banger.

They say sports builds character. Here, perhaps, is some real evidence for the claim:

Arguably the best movie about boxing ever.

Yes, the famous kid's section in the LoC. I remember it well from my own youth growing up in MD. I was especially fond of the time Daniel Moynihan read Bartholomew and the Ooblek for Senator Story Hours.

Imagine how different the reaction would be if instead of toy dolls they said little boys can get by with fewer toy guns or even adults should get by with just 2 guns, what do you need 30 guns for anyway?

Yes a win, buy why is it so hard to get love for museums? IMLS is a museum AND library services agency. That's what the M stands for!

I was today years old when I learned there was a Rock Opera written, and staged, about the Trojan War. It is as cheesy and glorious as you think. Gloriouser! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaOx...

#tdih,#museumhistory,#museums The Journal Meriden, Connecticut • Wed, Apr 24, 1895 Page 1 I am dying to know see what these images were, but as a weakly constituted man I am unclear whether they'd be suitable.

I know Du Maurier's book and stage adaptations gave us the Trilby Hat, but Trilby Feet? A wonderful example of a museum trying to stay relevant to pop culture of the 19th Cent. #tdih, #museumhistory

in his first ever appearance, superman beats up spousal abusers, halts an unjust execution and exposes government corruption. i love how people think they *just now* made superheroes woke superman, woke since 1938

Best.Museum.Advertisement.Ever. The Cincinnati Enquirer Sat, Apr 18, 1885 ·Page 5

Cat show in a museum? Yes please! Educated cats? As long as they don't come with outstanding student loans. #MuseumHistory #TDIH #cathistory The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio · Thursday, April 03, 1884

In better news the stiff tariffs on Gilligan’s Island may finally break the totalitarian rule of the Marxist DEI-swollen “professor”

If I've learned anything from evolution, climate change, and vaccine deniers, it's that all I need are a couple of outlier self-described experts to offer a different conclusion and I can claim it is not a settled issue and we need more study. Teach the controversy!

He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sends a text that remind him of the war plans He sends a text that reminds him of the war crimes #Hegseth

Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in Berkeley for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. Fuze claimed they were paid protesters and he went there to show his support for Musk and DOGE.