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JFC. Though the cynic in me is like "Hey, now everyone gets to experience the joy of living in Western Wisconsin! Where dropping off important documents for next-day delivery means they hang out in the post-office for a week before they send them out...🤷"

I don't understand why masking bothers other people. If I mask, it doesn't hurt you. In fact, part of the reason I mask is I have chronic sinusitis. So I'm making sure that my regular sinus-y symptoms aren't masking COVID/RSV/Flu onset symptoms that would otherwise tell me I'm contagious!

I am reminded of the saying: "Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance." 🤣

He has stated the same for pretty much all other pandemics - HIV, COVID, Lyme, H1N1, you name it. Which is weird for someone who doesn’t believe in germ theory…

Love it. 🌲 www.startribune.com/spruce-tree-...

Traveling during this respiratory-virus heavy holiday season? Don't forget your travel CR Box supplies!

I cannot stop laughing...

Today's winner...

I am utterly entranced by Anthony Joshua's arms in that second photo. I hope Jake Paul finds the double-broken jaw worth whatever cash he made off of this fight. Part of me really wants to pull out my copy of "The Great White Hype' right now, except I have Christmas-y stuff to do.

This was from WaPo's assessment on "How good is Jake Paul?"

A Friday night dump where the world’s most powerful government (derogatory) closes ranks around an obvious geriatric pedophile by removing all of his appearances in the child molestation scheme his best friend for 15+ years ran while still demanding everyone believe he stands for democracy and peace

That type of signage doesn't just sit around so he's clearly had this planned for a while. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Brought to you by The Free Press, a media company founded by a lesbian couple who were paid $150M for it, 4 years after its founding.

Trump's Handpicked Fluffers Surprise Trump By Fluffing His Name Onto Kennedy Center www.wonkette.com/p/trumps-han...

And this would be why my GenX self - with solid Rubeola antibodies but waning Rubella, and non-existent Mumps - got an MMR shot today. Because I am NOT getting Mumps or German Measles because of this nonsense.

For those of us who grew up in DC, DCA is still National Airport, not Reagan. So, yeah - locals will continue to call it The Kennedy Center because that's what it is. Trump's insecurity changes that not one whit, and the next Administration will just flip it back.

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If there was ever a bagel that needed to be butterfly cut in halves for the freezer, it's these bad boys. A standard half cut means you could get a half without cheese! Clearly it's a necessary part of the experience...

Ah: reached out to the pastor of this church — @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social — and he sent along a photo of the sign in question:

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

I, too, don't need a Gaston movie, but sure, I can revisit the Gaston Face-Off of 2016! (I think Jackman is better, but that's me.)

*sigh* It won't bring Noyes & Cutler back, but maybe we can finally get something back in that restaurant space again. The Barrio and Big Biscuit spaces, too!

Sure as shit

Our new BatBox just arrived. It is substantial!

Crumbs & Coffee is owned by Charles Spies, who also owns Little Brazil in St. Paul. (See www.instagram.com/p/DQRpZ60EatA/ ) His wife is a PhD researcher at the U (see the article). So Spies must have had a proper visa, married to a recruited academic. What was the point of this, exactly?

Nobody Wants To Come To Donald Trump’s Sh*thole Country www.wonkette.com/p/nobody-wan...

Isn't he broke? How can he afford a campaign? Does anyone back him at all anymore?

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

Shocked, I tell you...SHOCKED. (That Jennifer Carnahan still has a job in politics...) (🎁 Gift Link)

Christmas presents to be shipped all boxed up and labeled and ready to go to UPS tomorrow. (7 boxes!) I earned a glass of egg nog with a piece of Walker's Chocolate Chip shortbread...

Yeah that's totally how the ICC works...

They're never going to ask about how this might turn back on them if a left leaning government took power and banned people from entering for saying the sort of shit that Elon Musk keeps saying. They don't expect to ever lose power.

I have chronic sinusitis, so I mask up a lot. Because I'm about 95% sure that most of the time, it's my crappy sinuses that make me sniff/sneeze/clear my throat. Wearing a mask is the polite thing to do. 🤷‍♀️

✔️ All errands I wanted to get done today, minus one. ✔️ Last Physical Therapy appointment of 2025, completed. ✔️ Voice coach cancelled, due to crappy roads. ✔️ Dog picked up from daycare early to get ahead of the rush. Me right now in a robe and slipeprs, as I watch the snow fall:

As I noted ~3 weeks ago, the next step after cancelling the final naturalization ceremony is to use it as a way to target people: bsky.app/profile/hudz...

Alternatively... (This sequence always cracks me up. You know George Sidney and Hermes Pan were like, "FINE, Bob, you get 1 minute to do your thing...")

This is at National Airport and FFS, how many people got screwed trying to get to their gates around this nonsense?

On behalf of all my friends who could not breast feed - despite trying again and again and again and feeling like "failed" mothers - allow me to say:

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year. Now you're upset? Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

Waiting to hear from Oprah about all this...

Know what I want? I want to see the family tree of each of these agents. Because unless you're pureblood Native American, you have immigration history in your family. 🤬🤬🤬 monsters.

Superb article; I highly recommend following Dr Wooten RFK Jr & his allies have “systematically weakened the nation’s health-protection infrastructure….Under the banner of ‘radical transparency,’ they have reframed well-established scientific facts as open questions”

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

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How have I never seen this?

Aaand, Bat-Box just ordered for my husband's e-bike battery. It's one of the "safe" batteries, but better safe than sorry!

JFC.