What if the center/left, while also fighting thru courts & legislation (which I hear is still an option...) just absorbs every stupid new rule and puts the many mutual-aid networks that now exist to work getting every voter ready to vote? (We're going to win. And we need to come back stronger.)

"All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes."

Sadly, the @depaulartmuseum.bsky.social is closing. This is what we will be missing.

“She is a rock-solid conservative and a country music sensation who has done more for this nation than most will in ten lifetimes." Once in awhile during this terrible time, there comes a story with something for everyone.

"They unleashed an army of highly talented, skilled, and competent public servants that now have the motivation and the time to fight back,” she said. “They've tried to break our souls. They tried to break us down, but they're not going to take that fighting servant spirit. They're really not.”

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

Along with its MAGA-fication, baseball has (sadly! Because I like it!) lost me with its insistence that pitchers risk serious injury every time they throw the ball.

"tossing around her inhuman ringlets" I hear the writing angels sing.

Meet the French seamstress who solved the ancient mystery of the argonaut, pioneered the aquarium, and laid the study of octopus intelligence www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/23/j...

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Here is why the nonprofit field has been in a tailspin for a year.

🎶"I have taken these riches from the oligarchs only for you!"🎵

Chocolate covered strawberries are a great #ValentinesDay treat. Let's give a cheer for workers like "Eva" who was laboring in Ventura County CA. She had to trudging through slippery muddy rows to bring this sweet fruit to our table. #WeFeedYou

If you send me multiple fucking huge postcards you are immediately last in line for my vote.

🎵I will live by my own policies/I will sleep with a clear conscience/ I will sleep in peace. 🎶

These videos as female reps leave after viewing E files are disturbing me down to the pit of my stomach.

Republicans getting destroyed by a bunny at halftime

3D. I have many questions about Point Break.

We have a perfect Rectangular February coming up, first time we’ve had one since 2015 Maybe this is what finally closes the loop and fixes the world

"Top line, guys: all this makes you look like what your president likes to call a 'shithole country.' Sorry! I assume it’s fine to use officially licensed vocabulary?" Yeah, we deserve that.

The tricky science of forecasting extreme winter weather

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

We're used to seeing images like this of Nazi Germany. This is what an execution looks like. It's an image that will haunt America for years to come. Alex Pretti was a nurse whose life was dedicated to saving lives. In the eyes of the world, America has become the monster it used to fight against.

This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇

So is she admitting that all the roughing up and tear gassing and shootings in Chicago/Broadview were done against nonviolent protesters?

Stray dog accidentally becomes the first to cross the Romania-Hungary border after Romania became a full member of the European Union's Schengen area.

Yeah. Me too. 🫨

GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at DAVOS: “This is madness. This is not normal. We have to call out the absurdity.” On the world stage he lays out ICE’s racial terror and Trump’s authoritarianism and blatant corruption in stark terms.

From the same publisher: Henry Hildesley Ltd (London, England) ca. 1940

We've got SCMODS. Second Blues Brothers reference today. I'm in Comfort Snark Mode.

So "A country's boats landed there" no longer guarantees ownership. Cool. I expect this communiqué from the highest authority in the US can be used by indigenous governing bodies in the future.

Dolly Parton & Keith Haring - Andy Warhol, 1985

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

"All funding for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC), an alliance of 16 leading children’s hospitals in the US and Canada, will end in March. Almost overnight, the decision brought many of the continent’s most promising clinical trials to a halt."

“I’m incredibly heartened to see a whole lot of white folks out doing this work right now, because we need to take the risks that we can take,” she said. Saw this in Chicago as well. We need to look for signs pointing to the future.

"Complying with a revisionist titan’s increasingly random demands imposes an opportunity cost on building alternative systems."

"She also mentioned feeling more feminine and confident after surgery, since she wasn’t bleeding seemingly all the time."

The story of Europe’s economic decline while US is 'soaring' is everywhere. But it is wrong. It is a myth. Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US. Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths.

There Was A Time.

Always at midnight...Cheap Trick (or holograms, with family approval)! During the broadcast local orgs can make appeals, especially those focused on preserving Chi history or on elevating historically marginalized groups. We're the greatest city in the world!! Why does NYE here suck so much??

I want to see Jeff Tweedy and Psalm One doing crowd interviews! Kids dressed up as the Blues Brothers singing "Lake Shore Drive" to the animals at Lincoln Park Zoo! Dilla every 20 minutes reminding the world that everything dope comes from here! Mavis Staples singing right before midnight and...

Why are Chicago's NYE broadcast celebrations so lame? This should be an easy win for us. Put the production in the hands of a multi-generational team and make it all Chi for two hours. Have a chorus singing famous Chi TV jingles in front of the Magikist logo!

Lol I’m at a restaurant watching MNF and some dude mansplaining TO ME who John Madden was.

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g... - I appreciated this essay

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇