Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer argues.

Even the taxonomic pedants are calling it fascism now.

I just thought everyone should see this

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

modern american politics consists of experts patiently explaining why something insane that people are talking about could never happen, followed by that exact thing happening

The latest from @theonion.com:

New Ragtime recording has dropped!

Had two encounters with signature gatherers for repealing Prop 4 today, both inside the doors of the Marriott Library at the U (which I am not sure is allowed). #utpol

Nobody: AI: The greatest baseball player of all time is Charlie Brown.

Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Apparently too many of you need to hear this hard truth: Unless your neighborhood is zoned for strip malls and / or strip clubs, do not install your Christmas lights pointing straight up.

I find it so grating to be called “boss” in a customer service / retail context.

Me being able to tell my cat she has the patterns justifies the existence of K-POP Demon Hunters all by itself.

Lukewarm take: One should never see dealer-branded license plate frames in the wild.

Well, it’s May, which means it’s time to take down the Christmas lights.

My Outie is Man in Chair from The Drowsy Chaperone.

I see Stephen Schwartz is still letting Kurt Bestor into the studio after hours to punch things up.

Just made my older kids watch Chernobyl with me and I remain convinced that the scene where Terence Stamp stands up to shut down non-correlated speech among the younger members of the local executive committee is based on every EQ meeting everywhere after they merged with the high priests.

“When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. That is how an RBMK reactor core explodes. Lies.”

The death of this meme has been announced through its consulting firm.

My cat’s most toxic trait is that she doesn’t have object permanence for exterior temperature.

Thanks to my dad and FIL for getting their entire wardrobes at Costco. Otherwise I might not know better.

The movie Tim Ballard will be best known for is the eventual Netflix true crime documentary.

I agree with those saying the Church’s statement repudiating Tim Ballard is uncharacteristically strong. This will in no way keep him from being the next senator from Utah.

“One myth that Eddington mentions is Utahns forgetting to pronounce the ’t’ sound in words like ‘mountain.’ “‘The big myth about it is the standard pronunciation in the U.S. is to not pronounce the “t” as it’s pronounced in other words,’ he said.” www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...

Not a bad start.