No context. (Imaginary points awarded if you know where this was taken)

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

“Iran is the first 🇺🇸 war the public never supported” www.stephensemler.com/p/iran-war-i...

SUCCESS IN TRANSGENDER TROOPS LAWSUIT: Transgender military members won a temporary victory against the Trump administration, tho the ruling only applies to those involved in the suit -- by @ashleymurray.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/some...

Beemia Ehitare is back on Mothership today to muse on fatigue, escapism, and predictability. www.mothership.blog/i-only-play-...

It's crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year and almost no one cares about them because the administration has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events

Marilyn Monroe was born 100 years ago today. Did you know that the character of Lorelei Lee (originally created by writer Anita Loos, pictured below), whom Monroe played in "Gentleman Prefer Blondes," was closely identified with Arkansas? encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lore...

Happy Pride! If you open the skeet I’m reupping there’s another one with a marker for a rural Pride event. This month, know plenty of LGBTQ+ and allies are hosting events and being authentic in small towns and “red states,” so give them love instead of dismissing where they live!

Here’s last night’s story about who Trump has pardoned since he’s been in office, why, and what to do if someone brings a cattle prod to a dinner party. https://youtu.be/crzxR8enx6o

speaking of which, if you see an elaborate, extravagant spreads over the next couple of weeks, such as the missouri sushi tiger, please tag me!!

The health gap between Republican and Democrats started in the 2010s and has been widening ever since. At first it was happening because college grads were moving Left and everyone else was moving Right. Education predicts health bc of better information and access as well as income. My latest.

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

Road trip to a conference for work and forcing my coworkers to stop at historic and cultural places on the way.

There's a reason cortisol keeps coming up in conversations about perimenopause and menopause.

Everything about this is fake. The Pentagon is recruiting hundreds of troops to pretend they’re spectators at Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event. They have to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Dr. Jelani Cobb is an author, journalist, and Dean of Columbia Journalism School. Cobb tells the story of John Peter Zenger, a newspaperman whose trial for printing critical statements about the royal governor of New York helped to define freedom of the press. #WeAreAmerica250

(Full View) Moon over Tree Line of the Little River (So Side of Hwy 14), 2018, graphite, watercolor crayon and brush on canvas 48” x 72” www.artworkarchive.com/profile/norw...

I’m really looking forward to sobbing in public over a kids’ movie.

I need more absurdity in my life:

The question we need to ask is what is the real reason for the sudden massive need for data centers everywhere?

Thread. And a reminder that even the most seemingly random, pointless thing this regime does is typically driven by vicious racism.

Flirtation, by Eugene de Blaas, 1894

*sings Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game to a Costco sheet cake.

Hereby drawing attention to the decency, integrity, and dignity of Andy Kim

New entry added: Sovereign, a 2025 film inspired by the real-life 2010 killing of two police officers in West Memphis. Filmed in northwestern Arkansas in early 2024, the movie received critical acclaim, especially for Nick Offerman’s star performance. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/sove...

Sylvia Salazar is a Colombian-born engineer turned political content creator and activist. She is the founder of Tono Latino. Here, Salazar details the life of pioneering Latino journalist Rubén Salazar, who sought the growth of the Chicano movement in the 1960s. #WeAreAmerica250

Via Medill News Service: The White House said China has committed to buying at least $17 billion in additional U.S. agricultural products annually for three years. But Beijing has not confirmed the figure and farm groups expressed skepticism that the deal would materialize. https://ow.ly/qkRk50Z4IKv

In his second term, Trump has 108 confirmed golf days across 492 days in office (22%), about one confirmed round every 4.6 days, plus 33 additional days at Trump properties where golf was unconfirmed. See more at https://trumpgolftrack.com

5/ For five straight days, she laid in a hospital bed, waiting for her situation to get dire enough that doctors — and the hospital's lawyers — would act.

For 137 years, the Eiffel Tower honored 72 male scientists in gold lettering. Not one woman was included. Now Paris is adding the names of 72 women scientists to finally correct that history. Brilliant minds were always there. History just failed to recognize them. #SheShed

Ariana DeBose is a dancer, singer, and Academy Award-winning actress. DeBose tells us about the inspiring and pioneering life of Puerto Rican singer, actress, dancer, and activist Rita Moreno. #WeAreAmerica250

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

Thinking of Sally Ride on her birthday today. Sally’s passion for science and exploration led her to become the first American woman in space. Sally was a talented astronaut and an inspiration for so many young women across the world.

GOOSEGATE UPDATE from Arkansas Times's Matt Campbell (@bluehogreport.bsky.social). #arnews arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Biggest comeback in history? 999: Icelanders convert to Christianity & ditch Norse myth↩️ 1200's: Snorri Sturluson uses the power of euhemerism to make Norse myth biblical↩️ 1930's: a very Catholic Norse scholar pilfers the edda for character names↩️ 2026: Pope quotes a character called Gandalf 🇮🇸👑

From @jessicawluther.com our magazine: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way.

Heather Cox Richardson tells the story of the Constitutional Convention, where 55 delegates constructed the framework for a new government. #WeAreAmerica250

The Pentagon could name thousands of unknown soldiers. Families want to know why it hasn’t.

United States Representative Chrissy Houlahan shares how the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, proposed by Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith, changed the military forever. #WeAreAmerica250

I share this song almost every Memorial Day. It never fails to make me cry. I will never know all of their names, but I will never forget their sacrifice.

If churches want to act like political organizations, they should be taxed like political organizations.

Last year I wrote about the formerly enslaved who held the first Decoration Day rituals.This is how Black people enterprised Memorial Day (and why journalism history and Black studies are key to our understanding of the holiday’s origin story) Fortify/ May 26, 2025: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

It’s estimated that 1,049,454 Americans have died in wars spanning from Lexington and Concord to today. Each number represents a person who never came home, a family forever changed. All who sacrificed are honored today...

A Memorial Day Question: Who Exactly Are We Honoring? cc: @hcrichardson.bsky.social #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Kindred spirits:

Updating my pinned intro: - lifelong Arkansan - interrupted by 20 years as an Army spouse - pro-choice/pro-science - 🌈 🩷💜💙 - married for nearly 30 years - mom to 2 college-aged kids - Marvel/LEGO/Video game/Lorcana TCG/all-around nerd - knit & crochet to keep my hands busy - cat co-habitator

Lmao this is literally the worst possible way to respond, these people are such thin skinned losers who are also, it bares remembering, bad at their jobs