you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Going through my annual Paul Simon 'Graceland' phase. These days are horrifying, but they are also the days of miracle and wonder. Never forget that. Don't cry, baby, don't cry x youtu.be/Hk7MCvCHNQA?...

The sheer scale of the project — a giant ballroom attached to the East Wing — worries preservationists. “It could do some harm to the property over all,” said a professor at George Washington University. “There aren’t any checks and balances here, unfortunately.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? [does this count lol]

Can you imagine how cool the YM magazine podcast would have been

This interview is so clear & quietly devastating. Public media as we understand it is over. This is not about the end of NPR & PBS. They might be able to find ways to continue to make programs. Instead of content, this is about the capacity to broadcast at all - antennae, transmitters, licenses. 🧵

I am so dehydrated literally all of the time. Send water intake encouragement plz.

I do NOT blame people for not coming here, but man - our tourism industry is never going to recover

Me, Xennial-splaining Interpol and The Postal Service to my Gen Z work husband:

ICYMI. Scab paper, but some pretty wild Fetterman quotes about the Big Ugly Bill: www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

i don’t think there’s anything wrong with this coming from columnists or commenters or protestors but it has been a known problem for years that when you describe the most extreme republican policies to the average voter, they just flat don’t believe you

Murkowski is killing me today. "Republican Lisa Murkowski Urges House Not to Vote on Bill She Just Approved." From Newsweek: share.google/8YTDFVBfBJUb...

This just came across my desk: "Florida and Texas accounted for more private jet flights and emissions than the entire European Union." God. theicct.org/pr-air-and-g...

The bastards passed the bill. How is bluesky not exploding with this news?

My work here is done

"In a new ad campaign launched jointly by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the NRDC Action Fund, union electricians are urging OH Senators to protect clean energy tax credits. " I'm stunned at how this video has almost 400,000 views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV5O...

It's strange that there were no emails or communication to alumni about Coro's closing, no media, little talk in policy circles. (I have no direct info on what happened.) The lack of transparency is disappointing. Coro was pivotal on my public servant journey & enriched the Pittsburgh community.

Did the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in Pittsburgh just disappear? Did I miss any local media about it?

We are all living in the same country. resfutura.pl/144222-2/#s=...

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

I rant about this constantly, sorry to be boring, but it baffles me that so many stories about how people are buying fewer Teslas fail to mention that he twice did a Nazi salute at the inauguration. That image is indelible.

I heard a statement before, “R’s fall in line, D’s fall in love.” Sometimes it really does feel like D’s want to be courted by their preferred candidate. Like some sort of knight in shining armor.

The White House removed transcripts of Trump’s public appearances and replaced them with select video clips. Thankfully, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are writing a book about the cover u… oh wait, they’re still talking about Biden.

I think too many people fail to realise that attacks on one group are an attack on us all. Also, I think some people *do* realise it, and are OK with it.

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

Aghhhhh

I swear I'm not trying to start shit, but if you need to ask ChatGPT a question about your job every day, you might consider that you are bad at your job.

#teslatakedown

After noticing that many of the Wyoming Sullivan Treatment Court participants ride their bikes to attend court every week, President Judge Russell Shurtleff helped to get a bike rack installed outside the courthouse to ensure there is safe, sufficient space to store them.

"We find no evidence that mayoral partisanship affects police employment or expenditures, police force or leadership demographics, overall crime rates, or numbers of arrests." Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, MIT. Police reform has failed. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Brutal cruelty is the process, is the purpose.

“It’s revealing that the administration would let these projects — most of which are in sectors where the U.S. is already far behind China — fall by the wayside, rather than take steps to prop them up." www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

it would be cool if some members of the mainstream media cared as much about this administration lying about who's running the agency dismantling the federal government as they do about the former president’s age

Republicans just moved their budget bill forward after plotting behind closed doors to kick even more people off their health care. 13.7 MILLION people losing health care apparently wasn't enough. This isn't over — we'll keep doing everything in our power to stop this betrayal.

Red district folks, these phonebanks are a good way to help. But you should also feel free to call your member of Congress and complain about how this bill is going to bigly grow the deficit and that's not making America great again.

Iranian doctoral student at the University of Alabama, Alireza Doroudi, has given up on trying to remain in the U.S. & plans to return to Iran. His detention was again an admin error by Regime 2.0 & DHS. The message to international students: you are not welcome. www.al.com/news/2025/05...

This is a nine week pregnancy. This is what the state of Georgia says matters more than the dignity of Adriana Smith.

In case you needed another reason to feel old, Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead turns 30 today. According to one commenter: For perspective. When this song came out… "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs was as old then as Fake Plastic Trees is now. 😭 youtu.be/n5h0qHwNrHk?...

“It’s hard to overstate how much these cuts undermine the administration’s stated mission of outcompeting China,” said Marcela Mulholland, formerly Dept. of Energy, now advocating w/ Clean Tomorrow. ​“While we’re fighting about DOGE, China is barreling forward.” www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

The most brazenly corrupt act as president had ever done and of the course the NYTimes pulls the "raises concerns" approach.

I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?

Pope Leo XIV is pro-Ukraine. 🇺🇸🤝🇻🇦🤝🇺🇦

May we become a nation worthy of Rumeysa Ozturk's faith.

mask bans for civillians masks for feds it's intentional and it's not to protect and serve

A video that says everything about this regime. A Newark Mayor attempting to visit a detention facility opened in his city without permits is handcuffed and detained by agents. Apparently Ras Baraka is now being held at the local ICE field office. Authoritarianism. (🎥 News 12 New Jersey)