🎂 Sorry for all the folks who were looking forward to The Rapture on my birthday, I offer this video as a consolation prize. music.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCd...

The whole administration in one quote

♀ Bonus #TwitpicTuesday photo for those of you who find it puzzling when the supposedly-liberal media promotes politically activist women who tell other women to stay home and submit to the wills of their husbands, because of God. Just as political activist Phyllis Schlafly claimed she did.

@clancyny.bsky.social - (I guess I'm not on the penultimate commenter's allowed-to-reply list.) Work-from-home has reduced my biking, so I'm not sure how much dementia I'm warding off. Still human-powered myself, though someday geezerhood could change that. At worse I'd use a modest e-assist. 1/2

¨ Bach selections by @transbay.bsky.social at #FlowerPiano. #flickr (7 photos in total, click through and hit the ">" button to see the others.) www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

TFW you're an idiot who helped put a fascist in power and now he talks about taking you down next.

🏆 A gold-plated classic episode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXN...

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

This is an adorable image of an imaginary landscape in sherbet colors, with flowers, little animals, and a sun.

Opinion | Democrats need to meet Republicans in the middle. Perhaps it’s time for abundance fascism.

By embracing ultranationalism and national syndicalism without doing a mass genocide against citizens of his own country, Benito Mussolini did fascism the right way.

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

congrats to pizzagate for making the main epstein guy president

🕵️ We've got our best inspector on the case!

🧪 I can't believe it! There she goes again! She's tidied up, and I can't find anything! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsW...

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula. frugalflannel.com/a-successful...

🖥️ "Consumers are starting to get fatigued right now by social media," says one of the people quoted for this story, so the solution is more social media platforms that only look like they're pre-ensh!ttification. Golly, how useful. www.businessinsider.com/nostalgia-ol...

Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.

🎶 Amidst all the bad news, this is coming out on CD in a few weeks. (I have it on vinyl, amazing record.) apnews.com/article/buck...

The Stan Kelly law: any sufficiently petty right-wing complaint is indistinguishable from an editorial cartoon in the Onion

¤ The #RNC had an empty chair available back in 2012 because they didn't invite George W. Bush. Clint Eastwood's stunt seemed pretty unhinged then, but compared to the next three RNCs it seems relatively sane.

everyone always jokes that they're gonna Weekend at Bernie's trump. no one ever says they're gonna Don't Tell Mom, The Babysitter's Dead him. this, to me, is the patriarchy

> Gratitude to history teachers who taught us to love history I was a math/science nerd, but Mr. Ostwald is the one who made history interesting, connected it to present-day life, and made it into a passion. He was inspired to teach by a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song, "Teach Your Children."

¨ For #Caturday, the first cat photo I ever scanned in and posted (on my "home page"). Includes trivia about some two-toned shoes in the background. www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

I’m so tired of this kind of pseudo-critical coverage. DOGE delivered what Silly Valley wanted: a broken govt + oceans of data. Efficiency was a cover, and this bean-counting focus on whether it was “really” efficient just extends the lie. Those were criminal acts and should be prosecuted as such.

realistic Star Trek

Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title Tom Clancy's Joy Luck Club

Please enjoy one of the best things I've ever written

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Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2

☞ The Cracker Barrel logo nontroversy is yet another distraction from Trump being in the Epstein files.

🧖🏻‍♀️ I am amazed at how quickly _South_Park_ was able to render a besieged Washington D.C. so accurately. Another stellar episode.

Optics here that really scream, “We’re the good guys.”

It's 2008. A National Guard MRAP crashes on patrol in the Iraqi capital during a poorly conceived military occupation based on right-wing propaganda It's 2025. A National Guard MRAP crashes on patrol in the U.S. capital during a poorly conceived military occupation based on right-wing propaganda

Did you know that you can weigh in *right now* on what our next big federal transportation bill should look like? You've got until August 20 — and if you're struggling to figure out what to say, these orgs have some great ideas you're welcome to steal.

Keep in mind that EVERYTHING he says or does going forward is to distract from the EPSTEIN files. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.

🚨 The story behind Tatiana Martinez’s arrest. 📌🚨 If you are going to stream live, do it inside where landmarks cannot reveal your location and turn off location settings on your phone and within the app. 🚨 Know what you risk with your online presence.

🌀 While some of these people are being hired back, Trump's more interested in deploying brownshirts to hassle D.C. kids on their front steps, or for armed intimidation of the Governor's press conference in L.A. nautil.us/they-came-fo...

an age test and a perfect joke in one place (via onelegblackheart on threads)

🌈 She's back! To give us her sage advice on marriage. #TwitpicTuesday

The National Guard will be greeted as liberators by the people of Washington DC.

☣ Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe: theonion.com/millions-of-... (Flashback from 15 years ago today, still relevant. Alas, my original dent/tweet identi.ca/notice/45860... used The Onion's custom URL-shortener, which they seem to have abandoned.)

Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu’s new Gaza plan, demand release of hostages reut.rs/4mxwPBZ

10 journalists were put in cuffs and/or violently assaulted by LAPD on Friday night. @willbunch.bsky.social wrote his Sunday @inquirer.com column about what this means for press freedom nationally. My description: “Utter lawlessness by the LAPD... they seemed thirsty to crack skulls.” Gift link: