Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Finite Jest A Toodle-oo to Arms Their Eyes Were Watching Greg

LOL. So good.

The Sound and the Annoyance Breakfast at JC Pennys The Penultimate Mohican

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

People are talking about The Rapture? I imagine that event in my own strange little way in this poem published a while back in @triquarterlymag.bsky.social : www.triquarterly.org/issue-154/th...

Slightly diminish a band: Run-D.M.V.

Slightly diminish a band: 10 Maniacs

Slightly diminish a band: The Grateful Dad

Hulk Hogan truly was the real America: an icon you were dutifully instructed to adore as a child and then every single piece of information about what he was, what he did, and what he thought about things made you hate him more and more, and in a way, yourself for falling for it.

I wrote about the Grok Situation

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

The fuckers will do what they’ll do but that’s never gonna stop me from trying to be a good person. So fuck them with an oil rig.

This is some incredible shit

UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.