I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions

A sacred tenet of the Senate is that you don’t have to be conscious if you have good staffing.

To quote someone I don't remember who: Stop trying to make Rahm Emanuel happen. Rahm Emanuel is not going to happen.

Bill Watterson you must remain pure. You must not post about fertility rates or psychic orgasms. No one is allowed to show you the internet Bill Watterson, it is not safe for a cartoonist of your age.

He was a genius.

People can just be...wrong. It's not a moral failing to be wrong. It IS a moral failing to be wrong without humility. It is also a moral failing to be right without humility.

The Church of Rock and Roll was cut short today by a long call with my younger son. Which is one of the many great things about the Church of Rock and Roll.

My mother-in-law had/has a knitting machine. About 35 years ago she made this and sewed it into a sweatshirt for my husband. It's a New Mexican Whiptail, which was the subject of his doctoral dissertation. I think it's pretty cool. Maybe we should mount it in a shadow box.

Welcome to the 7/5/26 edition of "Church of Rock and Roll." When I hear the opening piano to Don't Stop Believing my heart opens.

I am listening to a Random Jams Spotify playlist by @mwardlaw.bsky.social (almost 64 hours long!) and man, this is just such a treat! Deep album cuts, smash hits, favorite artists and others I've barely heard of and just incredibly listenable. open.spotify.com/playlist/4nj...

What once required evidence (arrests) is now proof in and of itself.

I truly don’t care what they think of me. but if you choose fascism, you have to stay over there with Lee greenwood and Carrie underwood and all the white rappers (minus bubba sparx and Eminem and third base).

www.investigatewest.org/idaho-labor-... #idpol

Bang the Drum All Day by Todd Rundgren.

MUST READ: Has Trump Changed Democracy Forever? We Asked 11 Historians. Experts on U.S. history look to the past — and the future.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

“Seeing that we are no more exceptional than others is bracing. But maybe it can be liberating. America isn’t an inevitable juggernaut of freedom. Maybe this knowledge—stripping America bare of her pieties—can make us less fatalistic and more eager to fight.” www.thebulwark.com/p/america-at...

Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate

NO 👇 BULLSHIT DETECTED

New in PN: A vote away from undoing the civil war "The only role for a functional SCOTUS would have been to deny a cert request by saying, 'Did the lower court stutter?' Instead, we came within one vote of letting the worst people in the country run roughshod over one of America's sacred compacts."

Ever the relentless liars….

While we won the birthright citizenship case today, we also got a grave warning about the future. Four far-right Supreme Court justices ruled against a right that is clearly written in the Constitution. None of our rights are safe. We must reign in this hyper-partisan Court.

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When I see all the dunking and mockery of where things are with almost everything, it upsets me. This shit isn't funny. It isn't schadenfreude. It's SAD. We could have had nice things! The reflecting pool: Done properly, it could have been lovely.

If you tell me 60% of the information I need to know to perform a task correctly, I will probably do it wrong. IJS.

...and this right here is precisely what trans folks have been saying: these sports bans *have never been about sports* – they're a backdoor way to stripping trans rights more generally... bsky.app/profile/elie...

Trans fam: your lives are precious no matter what the fuck these people say translifeline.org/hotline/

elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.

A quick reminder before today's opinions: SCOTUS is an illegitimate institution.

“Jesus Christ, everything’s happening so fast I can’t even keep track of it—let us catch our breath!” Reds fan Aaron Cartwright said as he scrambled to down a beer and a hot dog during a recent home game in his native Cincinnati

Increased scrutiny of Supreme Court finances could have a chilling effect on future Justices' ability to take free luxury vacations with right-wing billionaires.

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov, Gov Whitmer et al: from here on the ground we cannot tell who was sent here for 250 and who wasn’t, they are all just occupying forces

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."

if you think this is bad now just imagine what it's going to be like from wednesday through the rest of the week when it's 104 degrees out

We don't get much media coverage, but its bad out here. Its still only June and every day the sky is orange and every few days we're seeing towns evacuated.

And OMG "Walk of Life." "Here come Johnny with the power and the glory, back beat, the talking blues..." Let's go conquer the world, y'all.

And MAN, can Lindsay Buckingham play.

I am at a phase in life where love songs hit better than break-up songs. That's a good thing!

This was fun. And I am happy with the result, because he's my secret boyfriend.

The drum break in "In the Air Tonight" is a banger.

In June 2015, the White House was illuminated in rainbow colors to celebrate the Supreme Court’s landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. ───────────── Subscribe for more daily history: everythingbriefing.substack.com/subscribe

Anyone who disagrees, you are welcome to ride your bike down Broad where it makes you cross the I-10 off-ramp in the rain and lightening while getting passed by cars with no license plates and no insurance. Yeah, just get a cargo bike dude. Just get an e-scooter.

GOP Urges Democrats To Tone Down Rhetoric Used To Quote President Verbatim

Never leave the peas and carrots out of tuna casserole.

💡 The laser was a solution that preceded every problem it would solve. Nobody in 1953 could list its applications, because those applications did not yet exist. That is what foundational research looks like before anyone knows what it is for.

I have been thinking about this group of people a lot over the last 24 hours. I simply can't fathom the depths of hate, racism, and cruelty required to want to hurt folks like this.

Hell yes, Ohio! Governor DeWine just vetoed HB 472, the voter suppression bill rammed through by corrupt Republicans This is a huge victory for voting rights! Thanks to everybody who wrote, called and spoke out against this bill 🤩 Suck on that MAGA!