If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Happy Columbo's Day! Celebrate by doing one more thing on your personal to-do list, even if that thing is just watching your favorite episode.

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

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An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

me checking your posts this morning

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

Bluesky is bad because everyone thinks identically (tells me I stink) instead of featuring a diversity of thought (telling me I'm a smart handsome boy)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1561

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

Many of the most progressive spaces and movements are in the South and Midwest. They are often silenced by racism and gerrymandering, but they show up with little national support. Folks surprised that people in “red states” show up to protest should never forget that you can’t ignore “red states”.

I was part of this! Don’t yell at me for who I protected or didn’t protect from the Frost

This movie turns 30 years old next year so modern parents of young children I beg you to show them this and gaslight them into thinking this is just how we all talked back in the 90s

Ashitaka's story emphasizes the importance of having two girlfriends, one who is nice but evil and one who is mean but good, and you have to spend all of your time doing stuff for them

It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.

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Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

Have said the same for years. The Harper’s Letter did huge damage to the discourse around freedom of speech by privileging elite speech over that of the masses (“mean people on socials”) and gave liberal backing to the striking down of DEI. Now with real censorship all around us and worse: Crickets

Leave trans people the fuck alone, and fill some potholes or something jesus christ.

I don't particularly care--nor should the Democrats--whether or not protecting trans people is popular in the heartland. Even if it alienates the "moderates," it's the right thing to do, and the Democrats should make every effort to do it. Sometimes what the people need is to be led and not lead.

Arrest him and treat him the same way this party treats legal residents who happen to disagree with them

Easily my favorite character introduced by the comics, and still think she would make for a great D+ series

Says the Senate Minority Leader

Police officer in Vermont who struck and killed a bicyclist with his vehicle had a Matt Walsh anti-trans youtube video playing on his tablet at the time of the crash. vtdigger.org/2025/03/07/s...

Cuomo’s candidacy is a brazen attempt to erase the rights so many women-who we honor during Women’s History Month-fought for. It is an insult to the women who came forward, risking their careers & reputations to hold a powerful man accountable. Read full my Op-Ed👇 www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/08/c...

They also have something called “big tits okonomiyaki” which we did not try but it sounds great

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

This is the wildest Not Like Us edit I’ve seen

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

If you're gonna post photos of based actions, for the love of all that is good, crop/distort protester faces and DO post cop & fash faces (and use alt text) This is a terrific example of best practices imo

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.

PUT AWAY YOUR MACE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE ANXIETY. AND YOU WILL WIN.

metaphor alert

Sun Tzu: when u fight a battle its usually good if u are going to win Guy with an MBA: this ancient wisdom is blowing my mind

Everything happening with TikTok this weekend is a show and happening outside the legal system. I’m looking at it this way: TikTok shut down to send the message to users that Trump wanted to fix it; TikTok is coming back up before the inauguration because Trump wants it up for his inauguration.

January 2025 as a meme

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU EATEN TODAY?

After years of waiting and collecting, I finally have all sixteen years of Chris Claremont’s legendary X-men run as Omnibus. I have wanted it all since reading bits of it randomly as a kid, but never had the chance to actually get my hands on them all until now. So happy right now

"The goal of targeting trans women’s participation in sports is to create a federal law that declares trans women are men. Once that precedent is established, then the laws can become more restrictive until it’s no longer legally viable to exist as a trans person under federal law." 👇

If you were counting on WhatsApp for secure communications ... Now's a good time to download @signal.org

I’m not trying to be dramatic but having to get up out of bed every morning is ruining my life

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

They even let the Pop Tart hold a baby

Before you cast judgement upon someone else, ask yourself: what does the inside of my AirPods case look like?

i think after a certain age you should be able to forego the requirement to trade haunter in order to evolve it into gengar. it should look into my eyes and go "oh sorry" and then the jingle should start playing