I really don’t want to do another round of inflation discourse, particularly as a practicing economist, but like, this was $54. And, like, i’m not exactly splurging here. Store brand cheese and pickles? Crackers? Lunch meat? A pound of chicken?

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

Kudos to the @montevallo.bsky.social student body demanding that fascists not be platformed! There is a big difference between freedom of speech & tolerating the intolerable. Also, I really don't understand why, if you hold a trash ideology like TPUSA, you would *want* to go to a school like UM.

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

If only we had entire libraries full of science fiction short stories, novellas, novels, comics, movies, episodes, stage plays, interactive games, webisodes, and also our own fucking imaginations and logical reasoning and emotional intelligence warning us against exactly this sort of thing.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I AM IN THE FUCKING EPSTEIN FILES Specifically, my essay "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting" is referenced in a 2013 Rachel Sklar article about Muriel Siebert. Why is it in the Epstein files at all? You got me. What a wild fucking discovery. I am literally agog.

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the first place I ever saw in NY was Long Island. me & Rachel stayed in Port Washington, then drove up to Newpaltz the next day. I will always, always have love for Long Island and this fuckin rules

Not normal.

An old poem I love by Robert Bly. #minnesota #poemsoflove

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

“This isn’t a moment, it’s a movement”

So funny and such a treasure. RIP. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

The Trump regime has just arrested a Black journalist.

The latest from the official White House troll account. Government by shitpost. This is planned and coordinated messaging.

Read this. Reread it. Reread it until it sinks in.

I love you, Minneapolis. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”

Had a small interaction w/ my Mom during our errand today. I asked if she'd kept up w/ the news & what she knew about MN. She said that there were riots & someone had been killed. I kindly said "protests" & that the VA nurse had been *murdered* by ICE agents. She understood & agreed. There's hope.

Yeah...

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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A prayer to Brighid in troubled times

Just a little something for your Sunday... R.S. Thomas

“The world needs all of our power and love and energy, and each of us has something that we can give.” -Merle Shain #poetry #haiku #poem #writingcommunity

but wait, I was assured by some of the dumbest assholes in the history of the world that it can only be fascism if its practitioners can state, in the king's english, their precise rationales for acting as they do, and cite their historical precedents by name and year

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

WHO removing Us Flag

Not all of the murders have videos to go with them, but that doesn't mean they don't matter. This evil cannot become so commonplace to us that we become numb.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

I just saw the video, it's a fucking execution. There's no way to describe it as anything but. ICE executed an unarmed man in plain daylight.

Really enjoy me some Jesse Welles

Video later in the thread. Definitely not the way I wanted to ease into the day. Be safe out there. They want us dead.

We know which one we're voting for.

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

It boils down to this: They want the founding without the violence that made it possible.

So, I asked Mom 23 times if she was going to be okay when I tucked her in last night for her first night in her new place, in assisted living. It's been a long trip, and it was angering, terrifying, disastrously sad, but also with a clear line of hope. I hope that she shines in her new community.

Since the dumbasses in Washington think Greenland is bigger than it really is, it seems appropriate to re-post this: xkcd.com/977/

"Heck, I've been frequenting this bar for years, long before it got bought by a white nationalist, all these Nazis moved in, and all these swastikas got put on the walls. Why should I leave? If I do, the fascists win! No, I'm staying here on principle. Another glass of wine, Elon. Make it white."

The malignant cancer plaguing our nation and the world must be eradicated. They rape and plunder and murder everything they can. There isn't enough to destroy within our own borders. They have to wreck the world -- because they are evil. That's all there is to it. They must be stopped. Now.

This was shared in a friend group I am in today. By Georges Duhamel, La Possession du monde - written in 1917, but so appropriate to the moment now too. Don't lose hope, dear friends.

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." - Margaret Atwood bsky.app/profile/waja...

Eldest: "Hey, did you know that Meredith from Dragon Age 2 and Merida in Skyrim are the same voice actress?" Me: "Huh. Yep, they are the same in my head, just one with without an effects pedal." Then, I thought in my own head, "You know... an acoustic voice."

This drives me bananas. Pop musician? Better have all the PR training and perfect beliefs. Politician? This election is too important to demand better. (Context: Chappell Roan, like many of us, didn't know Bardot was a bigot. Hell, I didn't know she was alive still.)

Love me some word nerdery