take this giant pen!! you'll need it! #illustration

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

I have sat face to face with detainees inside Delaney—high schoolers, elderly folks, a pregnant woman, people detained while waiting for court hearings. They told us the horrible conditions they face: lack of medical care, moldy food. Delaney Hall needs to be shut down.

In their third open letter, Delaney strikers thanked community members for their support and asked them to keep fighting for justice for everyone unjustly detained at the GEO Group facility. “We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going.”

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

Today is the second day you can watch online right now! Up through 430PM CDT/2:30PM PDT here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcr... If you missed comedian Cristela Alonzo and U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro's chat Friday evening, you can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3z...

Timeline cleanse: Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches. If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo. But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.

Now, no worries, plenty of great acts are stepping up to replace those finking out on Trump’s Great American State Fair…

No baseball just Dorkball #DogsOfBlueSky

More great news.

My pickles be pickling! One more day before I taste.

This is what “bringing down the temperature” looks like for Gov. Sherrill: 📸: www.northjersey.com/picture-gall...

Never forget that Andy Kim was on his hands and knees helping clean up the capitol rotunda after the Jan6th insurrection. He's one of the good guys.

Their new girlfriend is women

People are now debating what the proper earring placement is.

The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse by Luke McGarry. #comics #art #cartoon

David Lynch by cartoonist Luke McGarry. ❤️

A hostage situation

This is Eddie. He has been waving for over a decade and has gotten pretty good. Can even do it with both paws. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: the_adorable_eddie)

"New Jersey State Police and protesters continue clashes outside Delaney Hall in Newark, while accounts conflict: Tensions between New Jersey police and protesters outside Delaney Hall in Newark continue to escalate as authorities attempt to quell conflict."

The entire ‘royal family‘ needs to resign + surrender their wealth to the state: “Palace was handed Andrew's controversial envoy emails six years ago”

Gorilla Playing Saxophone with Balloons has dropped out of the White House concert

Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.

nothing to see here, just right wing streamers being protected by feds moments after those feds were shooting less-lethal munitions at protesters.

Fascinating, and oddly beautiful, story of how an Ithaca cemetery was/is home to a colony of some 5.5 million subterranean bees: but also a sign of how animals have needed to adapt to human presence and action that threatens their own survival. www.wired.com/story/millio...

Heads up: Dr Perry Gauci and I have put together a little pop-up exhibition on the role of Oxford, Oxfordshire, and @ox.ac.uk and their people in the American Revolution! It kicks off on Friday 12th June at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social

"But where will the money come from?!" www.crfb.org/blogs/defens...

"We can't just keep throwing money at schools!" Yes, we can and we should.

Combining two things we all love: old cemeteries and massive numbers of bees www.wired.com/story/millio...

BREAKING: Marty Culp and Bobbi Mohan-Culp have pulled out of Freedom 250

One reason I saw this coming is that the right wingers have been flinging anti-trans slurs at me for years now. I'm cis, but it doesn't bother me, because there's nothing wrong with being trans. But in it, I also saw the playbook. It was an attack on me for not being submissive.

I've seen this coming for years: having instilled the idea that trans people are a moral threat to the republic, the next step is expanding who is "trans." If you don't conform to their narrow gender roles, you are "trans" and need to have your rights stripped. www.salon.com/2025/02/10/w...

This is something I've been warning about, and mostly ignored over, forever: the anti-trans panic is going to affect cis people. It's tempting for cis people to ignore this, thinking we're safe. But we're not. It's being used to police us, as well. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

Breaking: Max Headroom has pulled out of Freedom 250

In America ……

President Trump isn't much of a Bible-quoter, but some members of his administration are, and they have used Scripture to frame controversial policies as justified by the Good Book.

What does a mouse call a hideaway bar? ...a squeakeasy! (I just came up with this joke and I'm sick so you have to pretend it's funny)

She said she asked to bring her American-born son with her when she was deported to Honduras. Instead, the two were split up, and he was put in someone else's custody and beaten to death. Heartbreaking dispatch from the 3-year-old's funeral www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

What are your all-time favorite classic American Studies articles (including "modern classics")? Give me your "Melodramas of Beset Manhood"- and "Where is Guantanamo?" and "Teddy Bear Patriarchy"-tier faves

Very promising. Groundbreaking genomic test could spare millions of breast cancer patients chemotherapy Trial suggests patients with a low test score could be treated with hormone therapy alone with near-identical outcomes www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Briar Rose, C F A Voysey.

every day is a reminder that political fascism is just personal narcissism squared

Afternoon

“For the first time since The Chronicle started its database in 2018, the share of nonwhite students is slightly greater than the share of white students (49.7 percent). Minority students represent 50.3 percent of enrollment and nearly 8.9 million students.“ www.chronicle.com/article/nonw...

She is made of but cardboard, so her time on this mortal coil will be brief, but I hope she entertains and educates many during her stay. Wish her luck, everyone. 🫡

Showed this to my eldest. “Are those… floppy disks?”

Just hours after Gov. Sherrill said ICE would step aside outside Delaney Hall to allow NJ state police to “protect protesters,” ICE is armed and back out in full force. Per Mercado Media stream: www.youtube.com/live/GixFCom...

subtle.

Baby time