Happy Rapture Day to those who celebrate! ☄️🔥🌟👹

It's my kids' first day of school for the year, so let me share with you a summary of the empirical literature I share with them: School can feel like hard work, but it makes you healthier, wealthier, and happier.

In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen

One of these things is not like the other #washingtondc

Can’t Bezos or Gates or some billionaire save NPR or PBS? Please. I feel like it’s a death in the family. And a pox on those who are cheering for this. It’s shameful.

This is concerning- the pot of water is starting to boil and we’re all frogs-

@jmatenaer.bsky.social Hi Jane! Here’s a potential one for your TSBAT segment… I’m enjoying your “on the road” travels these past few days! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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“Gaza: not in the name of Judaism I wonder what my great-grandparents would say, what my grandparents would say. My great-grandparents were forced to flee their homes and make a treacherous journey to a country they did not know simply because they were Jewish.”

A NASA Astronaut on ISS caught this sprite over Mexico and the U.S. this morning.

Happy Summerween

Today is my final day at @wisdems.org—my last day as Wisconsin’s Democratic Party chair. To everyone who has helped us beat the odds, again and again, for the last six years—you have my deep gratitude.🧵

Strands #483 “Hue are my sunshine” 🟡🟠🟣🟢 🔵🔴🏳️‍🌈 Best spangram ever!

Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. We #WearOrange to remember the victims of gun violence. It’s time for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to grow a spine and pass commonsense gun safety laws.

Millie's emergence as a pothole spa aficionado:

Jen says it all…

Marilyn Monroe by Peter Max original photo by Milton Greene

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The Dishonorable Marco Rubio brought The Addams Family's Thing to the hearing.

This is for @joebazz.bsky.social who blocked me for challenging his claim that Palestinian children are “chubs” and that they are very well fed.

Young Pope

Now that the president has rightly made English the national language, Americans who use Latin terms such as stare decisis and habeas corpus should be subject to unprecedented forms of incarceration. By Jonathan Turley

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"Blasphemy is contrary to the respect due God and his holy name. It is in itself a grave sin (CCC 2148)."

After Bezos' cowardly reversal on clear tariff pricing, all books sold by Amazon will arrive without spines.

WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.” In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

Beautiful. A new stained glass window in the North Transept of York Minster, just part of the ongoing renovation. Marvellous. #StainedGlassSunday

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The Millionaire Isn’t Worried About Her 401K. How Out Of Touch Can These People Be? Please Share. youtu.be/iFzQfGNHmyA?...

Horizontal stripes is not a flattering look.

AP calls it at 9:18 Susan Crawford is the next Supreme Court Justice in Wisconsin. Wisco is not for sale. On Wisconsin!

Wisco it’s going to be a blowout💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

Wordle 1,377 2/6 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

More dystopian news.

American Propaganda Machine

Brothers and sisters, a member of our fellowship is a disabled combat veteran who was informed this week that his benefits will soon be reduced to NOTHING. If you know of other heroes who are being harassed or mistreated by the federal government, please contact us! @votevets.org

Musk Bucks

Heads up: “Musk Bucks” in Wisconsin! Remember how the Republicans’ heads exploded over “Zuck Bucks,” where’s their outrage now? apnews.com/article/wisc...

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To put it in clearer terms…

One of the best photos I have seen in response to “why don’t you wear a suit”

I never want to them hear them say,”we support our vets” ever again.

Heads up rural Wisconsin voters, and Wisconsin Manufacturing and Commerce- largest lobbying group in WI. You might want to have a chat amongst yourselves.

#empathy #sin #judsonmemorialchurch

Brought to you by the same people who were mad about Dems not clapping during the state of the union…