It was not that long ago when conservatives had a chokehold on every branch of Wisconsin government, piles of Koch and Uline money, and seemed unstoppable. People worked FUCKING HARD to change that shit and now look at em. Change is always possible and never ever easy.

Remember this! Speaker Mike Johnson sent everyone home and disappeared. He knew what was coming: a war crime. Hakeem Jeffries is speaking truth to power while the Speaker hides. A vote on the War Powers Resolution is overdue.

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

We didn't deserve this day.

listen, I am trying to be reasonable here, but if you are an In The Know Political Person and you publish a memoir with damning information that you kept secret in order to get a big book advance, you should be skinned alive over several weeks

Its the same trick a lot of found footage filmmakers figured out, lo-fi video hides imperfections like a mother fucker. 👍

To celebrate every £250 donated today, I'll be sharing a vampire fact, and we're already at our first one!! The first feature length vampire film was Nosferatu, released in 1922! It's kind of an adaptation of Dracula, but also not!

WAIT THEY CAN DRESS UP THE ZAMBONIS WHY DONT ALL THE TEAMS DO THIS

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

We need to stop referring to them as MAGA, I fear that when it’s time to hold people accountable, they will take off their little hats and distance themselves from what is happening today. Republicans did this. They are Republicans. Republicans can stop this. Republicans are allowing it to happen.

Doctor: I’m afraid I’ve got bad news for you. You’ve got Dutch Elm Disease. Black Tom Cassidy: Isn’t that a tree disease? Doctor: I’m afraid I’ve also got weird news for you.

all solidarity to the striking faculty at University of Illinois Springfield

This has kept happening since it happened to Linda Tirado, and it happened before that - police know they aren't supposed to aim them at people's heads and are doing it anyway despite that. End qualified immunity.

there wasn't a lot left to ruin but my brain is currently fully broken that people with power let a man hold the entire world hostage for like 9 hours with an existential threat. insane country. broken.

this whole thing is very much like being locked in a room with a guy with a grenade who keeps being like IM GONNA DO IT IM GONNA PULL THE PIN and then is like “actually nah” and then everyone sighs but you’re still locked in the same room with the same guy and he’s still holding the same grenade

Belarus just passed a law that punishes people for speaking openly about same-sex relationships. Lukashenko hasn't signed yet — but he's expected to. Every signature counts while that window is open. Please add your name. a.allout.org/s/v0JQA/

TRY BOOKS!

and, quiet as it's kept, this was the outcome of essentially a world war fought explicitly on the terms of achieving this outcome, much as people at the time and since have liked to portray the century as a bipolar struggle between two countries in particular

Grammar xkcd.com/3229/

Folks miss this all the time; the art of war is "Baby's First Guide to Generalship." That's *WHY* it's still applicable as a primer; because everything in it is *dirt simple.* The logic behind it hasn't changed in 2,500 years of technological advancement for the same reason basic arithmetic hasn't.

No! It’s because I’m disassociating!

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

*mutter* That annoying discovery that one of your own character would be tapping his foot and looking down his mask at you.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Same. I don't remember who it was or how they said it (certainly more poignant and poetic than whatever paraphrase I'm about to attempt), but between Artemis II and the Iran threats we're basically looking at a side-by-side of who we could be and who we are instead, and it feels like whiplash.

Normal Tuesday. Got a few meetings today but not too many. President's threatening to genocide millions of people and there are folks flying around the moon in the fucking sky. Gotta take out the garbage later

"I coveted cars then as I covet houses now; both as a symbol and as a tangible reality of safety, of containment, of finally being real in this velveteen rabbit-ass millennial life."

I saw her art at Oak Spring Garden Foundation a few years back and it is just stunning! My photos obviously don’t do her justice but the up close details were so cool

I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.

"I was not created to help you keep up with your friends. During the first round of seed funding, my creators sat down with investors and said, 'You know how people love standing in the checkout line of the grocery store? What if we made an app that’s an infinite version of that?'"

hey look an excuse

Missouri’s governor just signed a law ending a decades-old rule that prevented pregnant women from finalizing a divorce. HB 1908 passed both chambers unanimously—147-0 in the House, 29-0 in the Senate.

"I asked chatgpt--" yeah well i asked my friend joe and i asked my friend jake and they said it was fhqwhgads

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

Starting a band called Edith Reynolds and The Real Skin Horses

happy asexuality day to all the other little aces who have a hard time accepting their heart every now and then 🖤🩶🤍💜 🎨✨

the psychologically damage being done to the children ought to be enough to make your in favor of open borders all on its own

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

They’re just looking out for us.

me: I just can’t stop thinking about going the furthest humanity has ever gone and being like “we cannot make this journey without nutella” @directxman12.dev: when we go to space, we go to bring our humanity, not leave it behind, and i kinda think that's emblematic of that

Oh hey, that's me. 🙁

This roman d6 proves "shiny math rock" has always been preferable to "readable math rock."

"If a bird is within 50 feet of a coop, it probably belongs to the owner of that coop, so don't fuck with it. birds further out are probably wild birds, and thus open to be collected." "what if a bird has one leg within range and one leg out?" "what if you shut the fuck up?" Bava Batra.23b7

"Moon's haunted"

2d animated movies when something in the background is about to interact with the foreground.

There are timeline and economic questions about the implementation of emerging nuclear technologies. But front-end logistics aside, some say there’s a bigger and enduring problem: How will we safely handle nuclear waste, in New Hampshire and nationwide? via @newhampshirebulletin.com

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Operation Metro Surge cost Minnesota MILLIONS of dollars. Schools, small businesses, and local industries have all been devastated by ICE’s chaos. The federal government needs to fix what they broke – and make us whole.