I always admire @winterjessica.bsky.social 's work, and this was no different. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This is Donald Trump's America. Of all the awful things he has brought us, this one is the worst.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Nothing is more radicalizing than loathing both parties.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Everything I've ever learned about President James Garfield, and really about Chester Arthur as well, I learned from Death by Lightning.

Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM. I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?

I got my first shingles vaccine yesterday, and my skin hurts all over. It hurts to brush my hair! Sadz.

A red shouldered hawk swooped down and tried to pick up a big adult squirrel in my yard. Madness ensued.

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As someone with a career in science and three children, I strongly proclaim that companies and organizations are stupid and short-sighted if they don't accommodate brief disruptions in women's careers for childbirth, thus missing out on the other 30 years of contributions she will have!

I do vet school admissions, and Republicans stopped us from being able to give men extra consideration as part of diverse workforce goals.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

Okay, I've seen enough. Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things

Beaver moon alert

I'm honestly surprised Cheney lived this long.

Great game for the Crew!

Let's go, Crew!

If you're in Columbus, love theater, are interested in the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and want to support a really good Clintonville playwright, I've got a play for you this weekend or next. dublinohiousa.gov/abbey-theate...

“If we completely ignore that wealthy interests have completely taken over our political system, and both parties have moved right, which is the reason voters are pissed, and pretend evrything in politics is solely based on social/cultural disagreements, then I am right”

Booooo

Frankenstein was poignant. What if you looked like a monster and could suffer but not die, and you were trying to choose to see beauty in the world?

I admit I'll always love the Pacific Life ad song. I think Tail Slaps slaps.

You people who have massive skeletons in your yard up to your 2nd floor or roof - I love it, keep doing what you're doing, and I'll await it every fall.

So there IS such thing as too much marble!

I don't have a kid Trick or Treating for the first time in 20 years! It used to be so chaotic to get them dinner and get them ready and have someone chaperone them while someone else hands out candy.

GOP: I can't believe Dems are trying to stop us from taking away your healthcare. Just for that, no food for you.

This is interesting but also a mindfuck. I had my first baby in a hospital room that had a window looking out into an atrium space, and it messed up my sense of the time of day.

It's hard to say who sucks more, Trump or Vance. Probably Vance, which is a heck of an accomplishment.

A squirrel has been hiding nuts inside a vent on the building near my office for ~6 months. That building is slated to be torn down in the next year or two, and I'd be so interested to see how many nuts fall out when that happens. This vent is not close to any trees, so it is making a real trek.

I ordered a textbook in e-book version without realizing it would be the kind that has to be read inside an app. Damnit.

So the same sibling group is responsible for a boarded up house in my neighborhood, boarded up apartments near Graceland, the boarded up original Clintonville Electric building, and causing Honey Dip Donuts to probably have to move? Ruining the whole near NW. clintonvillehistory.com/clintonville...

on one end you have this massive right wing propaganda bullhorn lying about what Democrats stand for bolstered by a corporate press that's routinely gamed by Republicans to validate and amplify these lies then you have pundits wondering why the electorate so often votes against its best interests

Again, I'm in the cheap seats here just watching the show, but the fact that the richest Americans are acting with such open contempt for the rest of the nation seems not just bad for the country but possibly *really* bad for their own fates too. They're making a different bet now, it seems.

The worst people have ruined our best agencies.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Too many videos online are like WAIT FOR IT when they really need to cut 10-20 seconds off the beginning. It is tedious.

I'm early somewhere. This sucks.

I went on a ghost tour in downtown Columbus, and I've never before seen the old tunnels and arches under the city.

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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

FFS.

Chefs and their staffs are struggling with the cost of ICE raids. Immigrants make significant contributions to our food industry. What happens now? www.columbusmonthly.com/story/lifest...

“we all had a nazi phase, right?” my brother in christ: no

It's incredible that he's like "you can't burn the flag, it's sacred, anyone who burns our beautiful flag is GOING TO JAIL!" and then he just tears down a whole wall of the fucking white house