it's that time of year, @letstacoboutit.bsky.social

Snow squalls running down The Minch, a beach reconfigured, a faithful dog waiting patiently to play… Spring is coming! The oystercatchers said so 😊

Hey, NYT! I fixed your headline. Do better next time.

Here's a link to the Clean Air for Kids video: youtu.be/CGjcvfTD5SQ

America is watching today, so every reporter covering tonight's State of Delusion should be questioning why 50+ pages related to a woman accusing Trump of sexual assault when she was a child are missing from the released files.

The Pittsburgh metro area boasts a vibrant and quirky indie bookstore scene. There are tiny bookstores with carefully curated offerings, large full-service general bookstores, and plenty of niche stores specializing in mysteries, children’s books, and even the outdoors.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF US DOING SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU, THE PERSON WITH POWER, IN THIS MOMENT.

pretty much

Ukraine is often reduced to headlines about war. I write about the whole picture. My new Sunday Letter is about Masnytsia (the week before Lent) with videos and photos from yesterday’s festival www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

somethin' 'sploded!

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.

thank goodness 🌱

W H Auden (1939) responding to the rise of fascism The final couplet is brutal and brilliant The juxtaposition of laughing & crying, his tears are not empathy but triggers of violence Not naming the tyrants make this feel less like history, more like prophecy #poetry #poemoftheday #AntiFascist

Trump should be ordered to personally reimburse us all instead of having the Treasury do it.

Randy Andy, pudding and pie, went to jail and who's to cry? Come join Ann Telnaes, Bill Bramhall, David Rowe, Becs, Graeme MacKay, Guy Venables, Jonathan Brown, Mike Luckovich, Patrick Bagley, Rick McKee & RJ Matson www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

Hate to say we told you so, but we predicted this plant's failure on so many fronts. www.timesonline.com/...

Hey Pittsburgh...Tired of the stank? Here's just how bad it's been, where the stench comes from, and how we hope you'll help us take action (save the date: March 18): www.gasp-pgh.org/mon-valley-h...

For the record, the UK Police do not have to arrest someone in order to interview them. His arrest suggests the Police believe he has reached the threshold of criminality. This, America, is what is called consequence.

@ryansforbeson.bsky.social do i need to send you my snow shovel? ❄⛸❄

For followers of @jaimehylton.bsky.social, please know that her NEW account is @shadowjaime.bsky.social. We‘re trying to gather lost followers who don’t know about the change that came through no fault of her own. She lost most of her people! Please re-follow — or follow for the first time. REPOST🙏

The article👇is🎯 and easy to read and understand. A good resource to bookmark and share with folks.

Once on Oahu a giant wave broke and slammed me on the shore. The weight held me down, the air knocked out of me, I couldn’t get up, I couldn’t breathe and if felt like forever before the water subsided. Friends overseas ask me what living here is like with Trump. I tell them that story.

This is straight-up Nazi rhetoric from Musk, and the only tiny thing I can do is address myself to those of you who are still on X. No more excuses about how you need "reach" or how good the conversation is there or the importance of debate. You will not regret walking away, and it's time.

”fetterman” literally means the guy who forges your shackles, so at least poetry still lives

I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language." I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

Watch this clip of @booker.senate.gov masterfully question white nationalist Jeremy Carl. Even as Carl tries to distance himself from some of his own racist statements, he defends the white nationalist great replacement theory! (3:40 mark.) Very important to expose this. youtube.com/watch?v=7VYq...

My favorite thing about calling my rep about the SAVE Act was explaining - in detail - how many times my name has changed. And then asking him how many times his has changed. I tried to make my silence after his "none" as loud as possible.

beautiful! make sure to click on the link to vonnegut's poem, too.

Zoom in. Scroll down 🧵

The AG throws an HF right in front of Congress and the public and Ann Telnaes, Benjamin Slyngstad, Christopher Weyant, Drew Sheneman, Gary Varvel, Joe Heller, Mike Luckovich, Pedro X. Molina, Rick McKee, Steve Brodner & Steve Sack www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

aww. "i haven't lived. i've died a few times."

🤗

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

🚨 Are people sicker now than in 2019? Civil servants in England are. Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*. Are things getting worse? It certainly looks like it. This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do.

Trump let you bring measles back?

The powers that be know that COVID remains dangerous. They just don’t want any of “their” funds to go towards combatting it.

"Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide!"

‼️#Stinkburgh Alert! ACHD is already reporting a Mon Valley Air Pollution Warning. Particles, VOC’s, and H2S levels are high. Elevated pollution expected into tomorrow, too. Please be careful out there and report smells to the ACHD and SmellPGH if you encounter them.

And may every mf that was uncomfortable by Benito’s performance never “celebrate” another Cindo de Mayo, drink tequila, eat any cuisine from any Latin restaurant, or visit any of the countries for vacation. Stay mad with yo mad ass.

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

Playgrounds are such a big part of modern-day Pittsburgh that it’s easy to forget they’re a relatively recent invention. In 1896, the Civic Club of Allegheny County joined forces with education and social welfare groups to create the first playgrounds, all adjacent to schools, in the City. 🧵

Boil water advisory issued to 95,000 in Allegheny, Washington counties

oh, yeah!

Spain's Deputy PM Yolanda Díaz: “I have left X. That network is a place of hate. We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.”

2/2 PLUS: Dismissing the DJT “monkey” post as a meme is basically saying: It was just a joke. It’s what abusers do. Attack someone. Then insist it was a joke — so they’re not blamed for it. AND if you don’t laugh, it’s because you have no sense of humor. It’s BS. They own it.