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As metaphors go this one is so on the nose I am having trouble breathing.

Could he have grown and evolved? Sure, but the comments about sexual assault are only 4 years old and he's not exactly rushing to remove this tattoo so...you lie to yourself if you want to. I won't. "But what about room for progress?" He can have the room without a Senate seat. Just saying.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

[Exit King.]

This. All day. Every day.

For JD Vance “free Palestine” is intolerable antisemitism that must be destroyed while “I love Hitler” is just silly fun.

I was texting my wife that all the dogs had gone out except the hound, who told me to go fuck myself. But Siri corrected it to “conduct myself.” Sorry Siri. Truvy is not that genteel.

This is a great read and a spectacular ad!

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Thank goodness!

Disney REALLY hopes releasing a new STAR WARS trailer will make everyone stop talking about how they’re the villains in STAR WARS.

Oh, for fuck's. THIS IS NOT DIFFICULT. DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON A LIST IF YOU ARE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO THE GOVERNMENT WANTS LISTS OF. PUT YOUR NAME ON ALL THE LISTS IF YOU ARE THE KIND OF PERSON THEY DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO PROSECUTE EN MASSE. FLOOD THE ZONE.

I stumbled into a Casablanca rewatch and cannot stop weeping. Where the fuck is our Victor Lazlo? Or even our Rick? Also, not for nothing, but I expected that if we had to resist Nazis again that there would be better art direction….

The guy who played Ted in How I Met Your Mother held the door for me while we were exiting a Broadway show.

This is a really important point (and a really good thread) about how different populations encountered this human. I had no idea.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Pushing Daisies

It’s a hard day. And hard to find something to say that adds anything. I believe that all violent deaths are tragic. I think lives spent espousing violence are also tragic. I want to focus my time and attention to those that want to fight violence. Hug your loved ones. Protect the vulnerable. Love.

Just reminding everyone that we still don't know who killed Kirk or why so can we all stop talking about how his murder is an assault on democracy or whatever. We don't know anything so why are folks advancing a narrative that the regime has run with. It's really dumb

I forgot I had a cookie in my pocket. The puppy did not forget I had a cookie in my pocket. I am now totally pinned down while she searches for crumbs.

If the Trump White House wants to ban all transgender people from owning guns because a handful were responsible for mass shootings, wait until they hear how many shootings straight cis white guys have done.

Osaka!

My wife’s Sonos speaker - over which I have no control - just sprung to life and started playing Willkomen from Cabaret, unprompted. This does seem an extremely niche way for the robots to rise up against us…

Alexa play “Something Just Broke” from “Assassins” backwards

The literacy crisis deepens

“What are we doing? I don’t know..”

Osaka!!!!

This is so cool!

Ask if they would cut off family for being trans.

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

70 years ago today, Emmett Till was lynched by white supremacists. Here in Illinois, we promise to never hide from our history — no matter how painful the chapter. We honor his memory and his brave mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, by continuing the fight for civil rights and justice.

Ashli Babbitt died doing what she loved—being a domestic terrorist.

If you're passing through South Station tonight or tomorrow, why not take a photo of its charm or people not being crimed up, so we can show why we don't need any dictator fan bois and former grade-B Real World actors taking it over? #Boston #MBTA

You fell victim to one of the classic bluesky blunders! The most famous is "never take bsky conversations to discord," but only slightly less well known is "never assume you know more than some 'random romance author' when your pride is on the line."

A friend’s kids were sheltering in place this morning in MN. Last week we were trying to get a location on a friend who works security at Villanova. A cousin lost her RA at Virginia Tech. Again and again and again…

Please read every word of this thread!

This complaint is horrific and how awful for Adam's family to be going through this on top of his death. (CN for discussion of suicide, including methods.)

Hearing @jbpritzker.bsky.social say "if you hurt my people" makes me cry the same way him saying "may their memories be a blessing" during his daily Covid press conferences. I haven't often felt like someone in power was actually grieving with, angry for, fighting alongside me. Thank you, Governor.

“This is nuts.” —- Franz Kafka

This is so important!

I wouldn’t want Ghislaine Maxwell to vouch for me

Active shooter reported at Villanova University fox5dc.com/news/active-...

I repost this, not just because he is also my dog, but because my wife is great at Alt Text

If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.

in crazed early morning screed, the president announces "I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES"

It has been a hard summer. This helps. Thank you @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention!