"Referrals." It's an old-fashioned word.

This. This is how GLAD and Mary Bonauto got us equal marriage. Highlight the people affected. Tell their stories. Ask why they should suffer. Ask what good is to be gained. Ask for leniency in their case and then ask for that same consideration for everyone. Principle through people.

You will be visited by three spirits.

These images represent directly opposed ideas. One is the repudiation of the other. The fact that the original statue is at UN - GENEVA and was acknowledged, at its acceptance, to represent, among other things, international cooperation in prosecuting war criminals should probably give people pause.

Telling people "if you speak up while you're with your child, you're putting them at risk" is just a naked threat to hurt your children if you don't shut up.

If you listen close, that sigh in the wind is the sound of 80 million conservatives inhaling, getting ready to say, "Of course I knew it was bullshit. They all lie. What, you think anyone is telling the truth? You're so gullible. You... Not me."

This isn't them actually calling other democracies illegitimate so much as it is them saying they think democracy is irrelevant.

Being the Riley Gaines of Oklahoma undergraduate studies is not how you want to look back at yourself, no matter how much attention you get in the moment.

Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent. She didn't want to deploy to D.C. "She hated it. She cried about it." But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it. May she rest in peace. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention. Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe. But some tongues were made for the boot.

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

When you can't remember the word "insolent."

🎵 Soft piggy, quiet piggy Little ball of pork 🎵

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Massie: "The president has been saying this is a hoax. Well, he's just now decided to investigate a hoax, if it's a hoax. And I have another concern about these investigations he's announced. If they have ongoing investigations, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smokescreen."

When your edgy little argument stops being a hypothetical.

Well, there goes my next week.

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

This just totally misses the mark. News consumption and anxiety are directly correlated. News that makes readers feel hopeful will lead to lower click-through rates. This is not some personal foible of elitist media. It's economics for ad-driven news orgs to try to shape outlook of their readers.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

The whole "even my followers don't understand the ultimate plan" is classic cult stuff. 1) it weaponizes self-doubt; 2) it encourages the listener to imagine the speaker wants w/e they want; 3) it gives a sense of superiority once the listener imagines they and the speaker share a secret plan.

12406 hasn't bEeN uTiLiZeD mAnY tImEs In HistOry

Right wingers in 2017: Dumb libs think words are violence Right wingers in 2025: Words are violence and we're going to throw you in jail for saying the wrong ones, which is terrorism bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is... life changing stuff.

Can the buttons for the thing stay the buttons? I don't need new buttons with different little pictures. And... why is everything only a little picture? What happened to words?

Just a reminder that Richard Hanania is not a centrist and has not changed his white supremacist views. The data most definitely doesn't show crime rates are about race unless you ignore every other causative variable (urban/rural, poverty, population density, etc.).

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Live your life in such a way that if people directly quote you after your death, no one will accuse them of "speaking ill of the dead."

"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

For those who need a break, the new Taskmaster season is live. #TimelineCleanse

“These people are full of shit.” Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social, who faced multiple death threats from people who've since been convicted, calls out Trump +allies for weaponizing Charlie Kirk’s killing against the left. Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's full interview: zeteo.com/p/full-of-sh...

The person of interest…., Maybe seeing that will stop the nuts who are threatening Black colleges .., This murder ain’t got nothing to do with us, leave us alone…

UPDATE: In the lawsuit, three senior FBI officials fired by Kash Patel say Patel informed them that he was instructed to "fire anyone" who worked on any investigation related to Trump. And said his own job depended on carrying out the firings. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I was picturing a pin-up lady, not Humbert Humbert Takes Drawing

Fall cleaning > Spring cleaning

This is just obscene.

Whoever takes this up should have a good alternative standard to Brandenburg ready to go.

The traditional EE's favourite side, a fresh-made ohmslaw.

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok