The female pufferfish gets an artistic engineer working nonstop looking after her babies. Female humans get dismissed having needs. Other species rise up to the occasion. Ours lecture women into having lower standards. And then talk about survival of the fittest. Why did we leave the ocean?

WHY ARE WE IGNORING THIS?!!!😡😡😡

Can we incorporate Donald Trump as his own broadcast network, and then revoke his license?

Happy birthday to Jesus of Nazareth, a 1st century social critic and teacher. He challenged social and religious hierarchy and championed women, the poor, the sick, the marginalized. In including the excluded, he redefined who mattered. His compassion and courage still inspire us today. (±183 days)

Remember the collision in DC last January between a commercial flight from Kansas and a military helicopter? The report on that is out. Reading this, what surprises me, is that an accident hadn't happened sooner.

Fine, I'll only praise countries from now on. Like, the US is ruled by a stable genius. China also bans people for criticizing its leadership, and yet somehow looks sane in comparison.

What, not apologizing for your genetic adaptation to low-sunlight vitamin D synthesis? Or for having an embarrassing 25th cousin in the form of JD Vance, the self-proclaimed "white trash" now instituting a caste system for his children to live under?

TL;DR: Noem appointed a S. Dakota IT guy acting head of CISA, the agency responsible for voting machines cybersecurity. He insisted on getting access to intel he didn't need and failed the required counterintelligence polygraph. He's now punishing career staffers for it. Guy is still on the job.

Has The Economist become stupider since this time last year? Women don't owe children to a society that hates us. We don't owe sex to anyone. We don't owe a relationship and labor to men that don't do housework or childcare. We are not absorbers for violence. Women are lonely *in* relationships.

To any male pundit who says women should go back to our traditional role: dude, could you please go hunt and fill the cellar with protein for the winter, leave sperm, and go die in a war? It'd be so nice to never hear from you again.

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Well, Washington got his name put on the capital as the in-office president, right in front of the personification of the nation. And he only won one war against the crummy British. Trump has won like 80 wars in a year. Against Gaza. Venezuela. Boats. Fish. Women. Meritocracy. Percentages. Etc.

If only those activists would relabel themselves men's rights activists. Advocating for men's right to transition into women. How are we going against the most stupid people in the history of the human race and having a framing problem? Surely if Trump can dupe them, we can?

The Kennedy Center was my favorite place in DC as a teenager. A bit out of the way on public transportation but lots of free shows. I fell in with a bunch of punk Juilliard violinists. I couldn't fit it in my schedule last Christmas. Just thought I'd be back in a few months. Alas, RIP.

Trump likes to put his names on things that go bankrupt so this tracks. I hear ticket sale at the Kennedy Center has dropped through the floor.

Trump is the worst president in history. Biden, old, senile, sleeping on the job, did it better. That's how bad Trump is.

"But in June, when Santina was 6 months old, WFP cut the camp’s food rations. Families like theirs were allotted just a small amount of rice and lentils — 630 daily calories per person... Sunday stopped producing enough breastmilk to feed Santina, and their chubby baby began to waste away."

So Trump blackmailed the National Links Trust into taking the asbestos-ridden remains of the East Wing, by threatening their lease. And now he's junking the lease anyway and taking DC golf courses for himself? Corruption doesn't begin to cover this. We need a whole new category of words.

And would you say we should all take this opportunity to examine the way we view women? Because if we haven't learned anything, how will anything change? I don't know how to take that vote other than, lots and lots of people I don't know and will never meet just hate me for being a woman.

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris commemorates those who fought and died for France during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Trump wants an arc in DC, for what? What has he done lately? His ledger is short a few million lives from the dissolution of USAID.

My condolences. Good night and good luck.

"A child only needs 2 or 3 pencils" sounds very, very, very communist. In fact, it's the most communist thing I've heard my entire life. Even Mikhail Gorbachev wouldn't have said such a thing. There weren't enough cars and blue jeans. But I bet every Soviet child had all the pencils they wanted.

But it pleases the AI overlord that will remember this.

"Till death do us part" is not a marriage vow. It's a thing we're in with our co-voters.

"Why can't we have people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark?" Because it's still sane here in Europe. There's free healthcare, education, clean energy, clean air, food safety. We have neighbors that don't vote for us to die. Coffee is good. I can go on and on.

The idea that King George could not be held accountable for crimes committed while being king is wild.

Wow, it's like the US economy is 5th grade and someone is not handing in homework.

FYI these are Pantone colors for prosthetic penises. I'm just gonna make fun of Pantone every day for the entire year.

I have never looked at my Pantone markers and thought, what I want is "Cloud Dancer" white. I mean, you have to look at the scale of an actual Pantone catalog, to understand that this is not a decision anyone can arrive at, either statistically randomly, or through deliberation.

Don't go to East Potomac Park.

Did anyone see this coming? The US aligned with Russia against European sovereignty and democracy? Almost like the plot of Salt.

Donald J. Trump is without a doubt the weirdest weirdo to have ever been President. And Ulysses S. Grant was a mathematician, an alcoholic, and had a middle initial that didn't stand for anything.

This show was prescient. These are interview questions for our time.

Russ Vought planned a wedding while dismantling 250 years of government capabilities. I could do without these supervillains but damn, I want their organizational skill. I cannot walk and text.

Dear American friends, German public television made this documentary for you.

Mark Kelly on the Trump/Hegseth boat strikes: "If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them."

I thank my parents for their unconditional love and unwavering support, even when they don't understand. My sister for playing ALL the roles in my Disney movie, from best friend to archnemesis and everything in between. 🧵

If I had to guess the last time a gun was fired in the vicinity of Faragut Park, I would have guessed 1813. It's sad that two National Guard members got shot, and Trump should answer for his policies which made this possible if not predictable.

My brain zapped out five minutes into this list. This has got to be the most productive criminal in all of history.

Wait, Lindsey Halligan was a real attempt at an appointment? She wasn't just appointed for reality TV? The whole James Comey saga was UNSCRIPTED? 🤯

The US is the only place I've ever lived in the world where policies seem directed at killing people. In no other place do I ever feel that there's a person up or down the chain who doesn't want people to live. The evilness of it chills the bones.

Vacation option 1: Go on an African safari and stake out lions. Option 2: Sit in a DC coffee shop and observe sociopaths.

Sure, trust a guy who doesn't know the word "groceries" to run the economy. What can go wrong.

Donald Trump is a joke. Or a Russian mole. *No one* is this bad at negotiating. My three-year-old is literally better.

Let's remove tariffs on penguins. In exchange for them taking in some ICE agents. Let's call it the Kristi Noem Canine Relief Act.

Would this Epstein Scandal have stuck sooner if it had been little boys? Would Megyn Kelly have tried to justify it? Just wondering if there's a gender bias even when it comes to pedophilia.

Dear white people, this fight is yours. I'm not leaving the house.

George Washington took command of the Continental Army and still found the time to buy fabric for his wife’s dress. So no, I don’t accept "work" as an excuse for shit not happening in your personal life. You don't have a more important job than George Washington did. I really don't care.