Found the perfect metaphor for America250 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/n...

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There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

don quixote's out here finding new and exciting windmills

Tomorrow, I'm going to a 6 day Buddhist meditation retreat, called Sesshin, so today, I'm doing laundry, eating what remains in my refrigerator (I made too much potato salad) and playing banjo as much as I can before heading off to the silent world of monastery life. ☸️

This is still America

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I do get emotional at this speech every time I read it

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

The Lao Rebellion of 1826 is a great example of how politics shapes historiography In short, Vientiane rebelled against Siam to regain autonomy lost when Bangkok defeated it and took its Emerald Buddha, but was defeated But the interesting thing is how Laos and Thailand each tell this story 🧵

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

This is manifestly inconsistent with democracy. There is wealth—which I’m fine with—then there is the accumulation of resources so great it threatens sovereign stability of the country. This is the second.

How the hell did the Texas courts become the center of almost every legal decision on a Federal level? I read more about court decisions by the 5th circuit than any other court. You'd think there was only the 5th circuit because the other one's rarely show up in any media these days.

This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US

After work today I am planning on riding a bus to nearly the Wyoming border to go look at 78 RPM records at a thrift store. A little bird told me they just got a ton of them. Wish me luck! 🤞

TOMORROW NIGHT, Y'ALL!

It is good to see old friends succeed in their chosen profession, especially when it is writing books! Congratulations to Kali!! www.9news.com/article/news...

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Imagine your city having a Pride Ball at City Hall. Shoutout New York

Trump and Elon's DOGE axed a program dedicated to preventing this. Now, a flesh-eating parasite we eradicated is back and hard-working Americans could pay the price.

Here's Rep Jamie Raskin's bill nixing Trump's corrupt protection against IRS audits. Chef's kiss: It's called the "Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act” or the “BLANCHE Act." Backstory below.

RIP, Marjane Satrapi. www.cbr.com/persepolis-a...

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Merge three movies: The Once and Future King Godzilla 2046

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Your friendly reminder that humans made all this shit up …

To my Pride folks. You are loved. There ain't no other you. You are so fierce you got these wockaflockas shook and whatnot. Go on with yo' bad selves.

My old boss and a great supporter of my DIY releases, Duane Davis. What a great guy!

The last victim's story in the article is the scariest. Someone made pictures depicting her as a child in bed with her father post-coitus and the police came to search the father's home because of it, accusing him of distributing csam.

Juvenile kestrels surprised by a butterfly. Original post

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I got on another dating app. I'm going to give this one a year before I delete it in anger and disgust. Wish me luck!

The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."

Another one of my favorites, Lola Beltran! Growing up in Tucson you heard her music everywhere so when I get nostalgic I pull this album out in the summer. Lola Beltran - Pelea De Gallos (1957) This is a compilation of her 78's from 1951-1955.

This is one of my favorite albums of all time! Etty Kusumah forever!!! It took me 2 years to figure out how to get a copy of this record from Jakarta. What I did was find a guy who bought stuff at garage sales in Jakarta and told him to look for this record. 4 months later he sent me this one 😍

On this day in 1965, Oneal Moore was killed when he and his partner, the first two Black sheriff’s deputies in Washington Parish, Louisiana, were ambushed by gunmen with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.

Aughhh....I was about to do my last journal entry for the month and Excel suddenly turned all my account codes into numbers and it rounded all of them up. Oh man, it's 800 entries long and I have to hand correct all of them before 6pm 🤮

Has any 5’9” guy sold himself on tinder as 6’9” and then in person said “oops, typo”? Asking for a friend.

A month or so ago I bought a random 78 RPM record because I could get it cheap and I was curious about early Cajun music. I got hooked by this record by the Rayne-bo Ramblers recorded in 1935. I listened to their later stuff and it was good but not like the other. Today I got another record...1/2

A moment of silence for the white man, who is very much alive, for murdering a Black man, who is very much dead.

DC Cir., 2-1, holds that Trump's ban on trans servicemembers is likely explainable only by animus towards trans people and is therefore unconstitutional. PI upheld as to currently-serving servicemembers. media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k