The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one For my fellow brokies, though:

OMG. 👇👇👇👇👇

It was a year of pixels. A year of outer glow. A year of babies in catapults. Here's to the safety memes of 2025!

Here’s the full 60 Minutes segment on CECOT as aired in Canada. This administration has a raging torture boner.

They can try to come for my mayor, but they’ll only succeed in proving their own incompetence.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

I’m guessing that all this Epstein news means we’re gonna be bombing Venezuela anytime now.

My congresswoman. ¡Viva Grijalva!

They actually allocated $85 million in the Big Dumb Ugly Billionaire Bill to move Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Houston?! Here’s some waste, fraud, & abuse we should report. www.space.com/space-explor...

@theloftcinema.bsky.social Do it!

This is excellent. I’ve listened to Fugelsang Fridays on the Daily Beans pod, & learned quite a bit about self-proclaimed Christians who don’t follow Jesus, who cling to Leviticus over the sermon on the mount. They hide behind the cross while using their blue-eyed, white Jesus as a hammer.

I do not understand why Tucson doesn’t have an IMAX theater. Anyway, here’s a happy story that made me — once again — wish we had one.

I will break the rules of this account and speak personally as an admin. I'm in my 70s. I'm a hacker. My family defected from Romania to the Netherlands. They left me behind. There was no legal way to get out. My parents fled the country, and left me behind, to escape. They received amnesty. [1/9]

First, they came for - Hold on, someone's knocking at the door. Brb

This is the way.

What Mayor Johnson said.

Wow— Republican Rep. Carl DeMaio hung a curveball over the fat part of the plate and Newsom’s crew was waiting on it and hit it into the Pacific Ocean 👀 They are not playing. Goodnight Carl.

He spends $200 MILLION of your💰on a ballroom and his family doesn’t deny making billions off his presidency. As you cheer for him caging brown ice cream men & kids, he invades DC to cover a child sex trafficking ring and trashes the constitution to cling to power. He laughs.

How is it that both Arizona senators missed the vote on arming Israel? @gallego.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

I like their sausage patties well enough. Maple is fine, I prefer them better than plain, but my 1st pick is their spicy sausage patty. I use them for breakfast sammies and for making biscuits & gravy.

There was also a big todo (to do?) about the 13 stars in the P&G logo. I would like to point them to the 13 stripes 🇺🇸. Also, Hail Satan & Hail Yourself.

“Fuck Hulk Hogan.” — The Iron Sheik

Hunter fucking Biden goes off & I’m all for it. There’s a second short vid in this thread re: immigration.

This is only going to keep getting worse.

"As a millennial, I am apparently urged to be concerned about this phenomenon of Gen Z folks supposedly failing to appropriately interact with me through sufficiently pleasant facial expressions, so I thought it might be helpful to offer my thoughts."

Frankie’s a cat who won’t be held, even at 15yo, but u can pet the hell out of her if she’s in a box.

God damn I love Tucson dive bars

Everything you can do to slow down ICE's ethnic cleansing pogrom will save lives. If you make it so it takes 12 goons to do a 6-goon job, you're saving lives. Every minute they spend in location 1 is a minute they can't spend in location 2. Every squad they deploy to your city saves another city.

PS: This is why Defund the Police is needed. 40% of their job is actually social work, and would be better served with trained de-escalators. 20% of the job is insurance stuff, so that needs assessors, not cops. 25% is financial crime — accountants, not cops. 95% of the rest? Doesn’t need guns.

Setting up for the shit party is destroying DC. #fuckTrump #fuckthisshit

Linda Ronstadt

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Not only am I surprised at some of the names on this list (Swallwell!?) I’m kinda surprised who’s not on the list (Fetterman/Gallego).

Pretty much.

Not surprising. At all. Nasty man w nasty little handses. A proper, knowledgeable staff and proper food handling practices requires care, consistency, attention, maintenance. Mr. stinky poopy pants don’t care bout all that.

1) Hentai isn’t even this weird. 2) How do you not keep this to yourself?

I wondered about this. If the CDC/AICP stops recommending vaccines, insurance is likely to not cover those vaccines.

Well this is gruesome and cruel. 9 weeks pregnant when she died due to undetected blood clots in her brain, after being sent home from hospital w meds for her headache. On life support for the last 12 weeks, w 11 more weeks to go. The fetus has fluid on its brain, its outcome unknown. Senseless.

Woah.

I’ve been cheering on 🇨🇳 myself, so yeah. While I don’t want to see 🇨🇳 filling the voids left w USAID’s decimation, I appreciate their utter disregard for Trump.

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

The Skatetanic Temple has a bout scheduled at Rollercon this year. 🖤🖤🖤

That is just *chefs kiss* perfection 🤣🤣🤣

BREAKING NEWS FROM PIMA COUNTY ATTORNEYS OFFICE:

In the process of Trumptariff stockpiling, I discovered a shortage of options in cocoa powder. My usual Hershey’s Special Dark was out of stock. I looked for other dark options, but they were too expensive for me. I ended up w a 6 pack of Tollhouse baking cocoa at a good price.

I dunno if y’all follow the Tennessee Holler, but they’re on it. All of it.

We had 2 big national priorities for kids in the 90s: 1) Get them to read, no matter what. Let them read comics, whatever they will read. It’s that important. 2) Reduce teen pregnancies. Now we’re banning books, defunding libraries & acting like increased teen pregnancies are a good thing.

Why is it that it’s 20fg25, and Tucson still doesn’t have an IMAX? 😭😭😭

This whole 🧵

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