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The study found that children enrolled in Parton’s Imagination Library “were 5 times more likely to be interested in reading, 11 times more likely to be interested in books, and 15 times more likely to join in during shared reading, compared to children who aren't enrolled.”

the american left has a consumerism problem, part the infinity

RIP “break”

If you go back and look at the poll numbers on immigration, it was the Kilmer Abrego Garcia case—and the administration’s seemingly singular focus on making an example of one man—that marked the turning point in public opinion against trump. Now they’re going to do it again, but with a 5 year-old?

Would be amazing if the City of Portland, owner of Moda Center, also took back its own ticket sales, ending Ticketmaster's complete shitification of getting into games. Beyond depressing that you can not buy a ticket at a ticket counter from Moda or Providence Park but have to download an app.

ICE isn’t just a problem for *federal* republican electeds and candidates in 2026. Dems have a chance to do huge numbers in state legislatures this year.

Immigration is an unalloyed good, and immigrants themselves are awesome. Spread the word.

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

Suuuurreee. Next you’re going to tell me his wife was a victim of gun violence and he’s from a key swing state.

The Germans really know how to make political parade floats

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

"We're under invasion from within," trump said..."No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms." Both a confession and the most honest statement he's ever made.

As we build out Trump's lies, let's not forget that the one they were most desperate to cover up before these came out was Melania's ties to Epstein, she of the Einstein visa.

The President of the United States most likely raped girls along with his best friend Epstein. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I mean

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Culver City, California recorded zero murders in the most recent year of reporting data. But at this Department of Justice staff meeting, that number seems much higher.

Come for the atmospheric scandijazz, stay for the fuzzed-out Hammond B-3 breakout that picks up from where Deep Purple's Jon Lord left off. Extremely gummy-worthy. youtu.be/TH43CdBds2c?...

Like a true Trump cultist, Fox Business News' Larry Kudlow opens by saying they don't care if Trump lies about the economic numbers, as long as he's optimistic. "I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right. The optimism is precisely right."

While the political success of the post-Covid Revenge of the Bosses campaign might be losing steam, the economic success is just getting started.

You can understand media consolidation into the hands of the very wealthy not just as a product of wealth concentration but also as a means to defend it, with Bezos at the Post being the most obvious example

traveling back to 2016 to tell people that the Teslas still won't actually drive themselves ten years later, but check out what Elon will be delivering

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

Peter Navarro: "It's the perfect Trump economy in 2026 ... we're seeing stock market over $50,000"

Not great that rightwing culture war crybullying grifts are becoming an international phenomenon

A few years ago, JPL engineer @kevinmgill.bsky.social, with input from Candy Hansen and William Kosmann, used modern techniques to process the original image data and produce an updated version of the iconic photo. (3/n) Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin Gill

Yesterday it was Jennifer from marketing burning down a potential ICE detention site. Today it’s your neighbor Chris from across the street deciding to grab the flag off his house and head downtown instead of playing golf.

The Vandenberg launch of February 14th, 2026 was optimally timed for illumination of the initial as well as the lingering plume. Tonight this plume underwent intriguing looping and stretching as Earths shadow passed across it with reds, golds and blues dominating the last lighting here and there.

My body is the Rube Goldberg Machine, and this burrito is the marble

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP

when MAGA white supremacists like Carl whinge abt passing of 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act they are complaining that it overturned 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, a law limiting immigration to people from Northern Europe, which was drafted by eugenicist Rep. Albert Johnson, with BIG support from the Klan

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I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

I had to look this up (and this seems SUPER-complicated, beyond my expertise, and I've had a negroni) so yes, $934 per month per violation doesn't seem like much.. ..BUT it seems to unlock the "Reconsideration of Land Use Approvals" in code section 33.700.040 See: www.portland.gov/sites/defaul...

how we got here

“make sure we have the right people voting”

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data. Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Some are reading this as bashing investigative journalism. I read it as a theory about the perverse psychological response to being confronted with the reality that your government & country isn’t as good and innocent as you were taught it was. “Politically correct” wasn’t a pejorative until the 90s

No one corrected them and it’s killing me