When your friends ask how we will get through the coming crisis tell them: “the same way we got through the pandemic, by taking care of each other,” and when they reply that we have not actually gotten through the pandemic, calmly and firmly tell them: exactly.

Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald

I’ve just been invited to join the Hormuz Peace Board because I punched a woman in my HOA

Incurious, foolish, arrogant, high on their own supply, insufferably boring, convinced of their own intelligence and righteousness, yet without even the vaguest concept of ethics or responsibility to guide them, a plague upon humanity that ought to be excised

Last thing the hooker sees before the trunk lid slams shut

It's 2026 and I am officially out of patience for people who still believe that Cheney endorsing Harris in 2024 was an example of Harris swinging right rather than Cheney correctly thinking that Trump was so dangerous she would rather stand with a person from across the aisle than promote him.

A moment of beauty. ❤️

Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye

Under the new proposal, concealed weapons permits would be a valid form of voter ID. Student IDs would not. It couldn't be more obvious that they're trying to suppress the vote. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/25/f...

Some visiting white tails! #deer

Three million years of evolution from the Ledi jaw to your gentle heart has produced a brain of vast predictive skill designed to collapse upon itself in endless spirals of warning that the fire will burn and the tiger will bite and the darkness has weight and the thing you want most will be lost.

#PaintedBunting friend continuing! 🪶

Bill Watterson, 1991

#photography #unedited

Meanwhile, the pro-Trump super PAC raises megadonor money as well. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Billie Holiday avoids making political statement, sings Strange Fruit instead

Of course it’s retaliatory, just like Kilmar Ábrego Garcia. If the Trump people-snatching squads make the admin look bad, the victims will be punished.

really appreciate the way the world has united to ensure JD Vance is jeered everywhere he goes

I have no surprise left to summon that Donald Trump felt no moral restraint when posting vile, juvenile and hideously racist imagery of President Obama and his wife. I am, however, astonished that it remains up to this moment and the White House is even attempting to defend itself.

“Frankenstein is the name of the doctor” is DONE moving on to “Big Ben is the name of the bell” to infuriate people

New Past Lives: Sultan Baybars, Mamluks, and Military Slavery. Baybars ended his life as one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages, but his life began as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe of southern Russia. Slavery - military slavery - made him a king. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” "Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

I’m not saying these billionaires are literal vampires but we should treat them as if they are. You know, stakes etc

You probably saw this, but I liked something Jamelle Bouie said about it being "cargo cult authoritarianism": they're not capable of doing the work to create a regime, so they're just doing things that look like authoritarianism and assuming it'll somehow conjure a regime out of nothing.

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!

Learning from history books is one thing - living through history is another. Knowing that what we do here might not stop the pain tomorrow or the day after or the day after that and keeping the faith anyway . . . that's resilience. (9/30) #iceout

disturbingly plausible

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

CRAZIFICATION FACTOR HIT

pencil slop

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Good @adamserwer.bsky.social. Trump banded the morally depraved together, but they’re still badly outnumbered.

A story from a few years back, when the team got caught in a whiteout blizzard. Hari is very old now, but he's still the sweetest gentleman I know.

The Trump party prioritized billionaire tax cuts/oligarch subsidies and funding a murderous goon squad over public health & cost of living relief.

you have to admit, the president saying he doesn't have alzheimer's and then forgetting what it's called and asking his press secretary for the word is pretty funny. just from a comedy standpoint

As I am often saying, the central pillar of Cantor Thought is Tarpeian Socialism, the idea that in a society of significant size, the occasional slob is going to rob a 7-11 and that's not great, but whatever, but if you're given power by society and abuse it, we push you off a big rock.

The "guys with jet ski dealerships who as a group defacto run your state are all Little Hitlers" theory of American politics is undefeated

sand cats are not real but are in fact those fake cats that pretend to breathe that great-grandmas really like

My resolution for the New Year is to attack and dethrone God.

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

Well, it’s Christmas for me, so have my favorite Christmas story. www.jowaltonbooks.com/short-storie...

“I am worn from warning. What is a warning, anyway, but a declaration of what you love and want to protect? It’s not that my heart’s not in it. It’s that my heart is in everything.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners

Merry Christmas! Here, have a vintage snow-covered Diplodocus skeleton

As a holiday tradition, we should seek vengeance on our enemies. 😇

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

I am a video essayist now! My second video is out now, about that terrible OU gender studies essay and what it means when power stops bothering with an argument. youtu.be/GvCmeuJyT9g?...

Every day, I pray this will be the day of that one particular piece of good news. You know, THAT piece of good news, inspiring jubilant celebration. Every close-up of hand makeup heralds hope and possibility. May that joyous day come soon.