Happy 76th birthday to one of my favorite musicians and humans, Stevie Wonder! I’ve had this sticker on my laptop for years as a small but heartfelt tribute. His music and activism and impact make him truly one of one. Here’s to many more!

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

The flu killed around 45,000 US soliders in World War I, almost as many as were killed in combat. US servicemembers have been required to get the flu shot for 80+ years. But thanks to Hegseth and RFK Jr. and Trump we can finally MAKE INFLUENZA GREAT AGAIN.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Has your representative said this yet? If not, contact them and demand it.

The CNN and NY Times headlines covering this genocidal madness both say Trump "issues grave threat." Congress is obviously the most culpable for propping up this evil and increasingly unhinged man, but the press is running a close second with their (mostly) gutless coverage.

I will donate $500 to Trump's presidential library if they promise to show on a continuous loop his 1987 CNN Crossfire interview where he bullshits his way through questions about his favorite authors and books (when he hasn't read anything, maybe ever) then claims his earpiece isn't working.

I’m reminded that hundreds of people lost their jobs for their posts and statements after Charlie Kirk died. Some for doing nothing more than quoting his own words.

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

What if another country attacked us, unprompted, on the grounds that we have nukes, & we’re actually the only country in history to have ever used nukes on an enemy, & our leader is so unstable he can’t be trusted to be responsible w/ them? If we agree that wouldn’t be justified, how could this be?

Another illegal attack. No UN backing. No congressional approval. We had a deal with Iran in 2015 to keep them from building nuclear weapons. Iran was complying with the terms, including strict monitoring and inspections by the IAEA. Trump tore up that deal in 2018. 1/

I love @letterboxd.social and pay for the pro service. But I can't believe how utterly broken and limited the search functionality is. Even the "advanced" search terms don't let me do things like search my diary entries for a particular movie. Come on, Letterboxd. This is the most basic stuff.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

I just cancelled my Plain Dealer subscription. If they don't respect themselves and their readers enough to write their own stories, I will at least have enough respect for myself not to read it or pay for it.

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

We're gonna need a bigger cross.

Giraffes have 7 neck vertebrae. 7 is the Biblical number of completion. Jesus was a giraffe. 🤯

That's design.

This paradoxically positions centrism (a political ideology) as something not tarnished by the biases and blind spots that may come from having a political ideology — which is arguably an even bigger blind spot than just admitting you have an opinion

Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested 29 times for his nonviolent acts of civil disobedience, or "direct action" as he called it. He had a 75% disapproval rating by the American public at the beginning of 1968, the year of his murder. 1/

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

It's the Kennedy Center and always will be. It's a memorial to a fallen president. Period. It's going to feel amazing to see his name taken off all these things after he leaves office. Like peeling off an old scab. Small comfort in the ocean of abuses we're living through, but I'll take it.

Rob Reiner was a monumental talent and a passionate progressive activist with a huge heart. His 5-movie directorial run of Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and a Few Good Men is one of the most impressive accomplishments in movie history. 1/

There’s always a Far Side

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

HOLY SPACEBALLS, PEOPLE!!!!! "On February 19, 2027, we’ll celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Wars with a *****re-release of the 1977 original***** back for a limited time, in theaters everywhere." FINALLY!

Such classic gaslighting it's an instructive moment. The question is not whether generic is better or worse, it's that a list with more expensive brand names is not the same as a list with cheaper generics. Perverting that truth into an attack on those calling it out is Manipulation 101.

🎤 Back up in your ass with the resurrection 🎤

if disney does a theatrical release of the original star wars films for the 50th anniversary and offers them on physical media i will forgive them for every terrible decision they've made with star wars

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

The president who told you that windmills cause cancer and that horse dewormer cures COVID and wanted to nuke a hurricane is now telling you that Tylenol causes autism.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

I'm disgusted and saddened by the murder of Charlie Kirk. I don't agree with a single thing he stood for. I'm not going to celebrate his life but I also refuse to dance on his grave. I mourn for every victim of gun violence, no matter how shitty their beliefs. So sick of the bloodsheed.

counterpoint:

I think about this kind of stuff ALL THE TIME. It almost makes my soul ache to imagine Darwin learning about DNA or Phyllis Wheatley watching Amanda Gorman read her inauguration poem or Galileo seeing images from Hubble.

Boy is Duke Ellington going to blow their minds for MULTIPLE reasons

Can we nip this "Alligator Alcatraz" shit in the bud? We don't need to adopt their cutesy marketing when talking about the concentration camp in the Florida Everglades

Happy National Rescue Dog Day from Banjo