The Strait of Hormuz is open and all the ship captains are having a wonderful time!

Old enough to remember that the American bicentennial was also a shitfest corporate fever dream.

I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

When I fell asleep at the Garden, the Knicks were Winning. Then when I wake up, I see the Spurs have "won." It seems that in the 4th Quarter, the so-called referees kept "finding" Points for the Spurs. Rigged! Fake Game! by Donald J. Trump

Immigrants are “lazy criminals" but they're also allegedly "taking your jobs and buying up $500K homes.” Blatant incoherence is the very core of fascism.

a sad, but perhaps hopeful, thread

[whispering to crying baby] You have no idea

rising out of the lake at your campsite just like botticelli’s birth of venus only i’m carrying an axe

The way I see it, as long as I'm able to get up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror, I'm not a vampire.

I don't care how "fair" she was. If you met her "in the darkest depths of Mordor” she probably wasn't marriage material.

People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-

The suit over the UFC White House cage-fighting extravaganza alleges breathtakingly corrupt commercial exploitation of the nation’s most cherished monuments. Once again, the challenge is “standing.” When he f-cks all of us, none of us have standing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

May cause restless torso syndrome, carcass hump, spontaneous blowhole. Ask your doctor if Monday is right for you.

Scorpio: This will be a good week to dye your hair in a truck stop bathroom. Maybe think about switching plates with another car while you're there.

One thing I’m gonna say about this nazi salute is that it does not “resemble” a nazi salute, it is a nazi salute. May we all dispense with this coy “resembles” language in all cases.

Sentence starts bad, somehow ends worse.

@bskymod.bsky.social how could anyone mess up this badly? I hope you're reviewing that decision. Tony would be an incredible loss to this app and community. He is so kind and charitable, and a real defender of those who most need help here. I'm horrified by this.

@bornmiserable DID NOTHING WRONG! FREE TONY THIS IS A FUKEN EMBARASSEMENT FOR THE MODS

The MAGA political right is so far up its own keister it can taste the bile in its mouth. And its members get away with being extremists while labeling others as extreme because they’ve built an impermeable, fact-resistant bubble around themselves. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

after the collapse and the dust settles, how many chickens will equal a dollar?

It's rad as hell that there hasn't been a deal reached, the U.S. and Iran are still lobbing missiles at each other, and that Axios and other corporate media outlets just continue shoveling this dumb, obviously untrue bullshit out there to serve the purpose of manipulating the market.

The tide: high Me: holding on

Ordinary people engaging in acts of bravery in the face of fascist consolidation of power is what will power the democratic revolution necessary to defeat authoritarianism. It’s a time of choosing and we’re all facing moral and ethical tests.

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Because nothing says fall of Rome like gladiatorial games on the WH lawn. Hail president Gluteus Maximus.

hate it when I finally get on the local news and then they pixelate my junk.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Historian of slavery here the Pope is single handedly showing us the best of America in these very troubling times and needed on the 250th of the republic, to see the virtues that made the U.S. admired all over the world, the ability to admit a mistake. apnews.com/article/pope...

matches his hemorrhaging support.

Mr Trump stands funny to counterbalance the 32-Ibs of undigested hamberder & KFC backed up in his gut at any given time. As dictators go, he's in constant danger of toppling over.

And let's be clear for the few here who think Democrats shld "just focus on affordability": these Democrats voted to actively punish trans people. That's not "focusing on affordability." That's going out of your way, bucking your party, to hurt people.

The first rule of Culture Club is, 1) Do you really want to hurt me?

Due process is ending after 250 years. The demise of the long-running pillar of democracy made our critic think of another thing: maybe the government should just kill everybody they don't like immediately and get it over with.

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.

The first rule of Culture Club is, 1) Do you really want to hurt me?

hate that this was 10 years ago and it's only gotten more true

How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

The news seems constantly preoccupied in figuring out if some people in a country of 300 million people have bad opinions

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

out touching grass with very good boy Rocco.

The Shining (1980): A failing writer's horrifying waste of paper is avenged by shrubbery.

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

There's so much weird about this bizarre simulacrum of a human being, but the obsession with windmills as a threat to all mankind has to be in the discussion. Imagine if Dwight Eisenhower denounced trains in every third public appearance, or Jimmy Carter always veered off topic to condemn toasters.

I hate when I wake up too early in the US and Bluesky is all: Lord Minister Flafferbunt and Glennsders at 12 Pembertwine reject Klorus Singular Berthwaits Pinkerbushwells push for Pobbelwaggins Clip Clopp

Another day working at the Pearl Harbor Memorial. The FBI director keeps asking me if he can snorkel the graves. Buddy, they don’t even let me…oh wait he’s putting on fins

Kashyap grift aside, i still think about the time Trump visited the USS Arizona Memorial and had to ask his then four-star general Chief of Staff John Kelly, "What's THIS all about?!"