Today, some folks in ACNA are singing the same old song I've heard in so many other denominations.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

"Gamers aren't getting their consoles because AI companies are hogging basically all the RAM on the entire dang planet" is an extremely niche 2026 story, but here we are.

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A central figure in our government. Shameful shit.

They really are scared of Talarico, aren’t they…

Paramount's censorship of this Colbert interview w/ Rep. James Talarico will get more people to watch than if it had aired on TV. 100K views on YouTube in just 2 hours. And counting... youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

I think it’s awesome how cabinet secretaries take orders from anon randos on the internet

Me, to the MAGAs still sticking with Trump:

There is no constitutional right of law enforcement to detain me, throw me to the ground, and then put five bullets in my back while masked and unidentified. There is a right to vote.

Things I'll have to give up in order to fast from social media next month: --hypervigilance --the need to be The One Who Knows What's Going On --the illusion that I will have the perfect thing to say which will alter the course of the Goings On --a sense of audience in the humdrum of daily life

peter, james, john, and the rest of the fellas

Whoa. I'm just going to stare at this for the next hour. From the 1963 Birmingham campaign. HT: @revchrisdavis.bsky.social

I don't know which is worse: when you finally get the living room clean and the kids immediately build a blanket fort... ...or when you haven't cleaned the living room yet so they build a blanket fort over the mess.

Am I going to be the only one to suggest that firing a public school teacher for speaking out on a matter of public concern raises profound First Amendment issues, and we should pause before cheering on such actions when that power can be weaponized against progressive teachers in red places? 1/3

Baby, I'm wutherin' in the heights With you between my arms Barefoot on the heather Listenin' to our favourite song...

Good morning! Look at the fog hovering over Chicago this morning!

I told my kids that we can't go outside on President's Day, because on President's Day all dead presidents rise from their graves and grow to 100 feet tall, stomping across the countryside, roaring and shooting lasers from their eyes. But each has their weaknesses. Lincoln is afraid of theaters.

Sometimes you wuther the heights, and sometimes the heights wuther you.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Hillary Clinton's bragging about how much deporting her husband did. Schumer's talking DHS reform, not abolishment. Pelosi is trying to plug Newsom for 2028. Meanwhile I'm over here like: There's OTHER Democrats, you know. We don't have to keep listening to the same five people again?

"What are you going to do, gerrymander back?" -quote from man who got gerrymandered back

this made me laugh very hard

That cold snap is over, and all three hives are still in the land of the living! I can’t tell if the green hive’s cluster is just much much larger than the blue hive’s cluster, or if the blue hive’s cluster is like an iceberg and most of it is downstairs. Either way, I should feed them soon.

I came *this close* to starting a fight on social media on my birthday and then I remembered that I would like to enjoy it.

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

For a member of an administration that had repeatedly violated international law by committing war crimes against civilians in international waters to say THIS is the height of hypocrisy.

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

ABOLISH ICE.

Legend has it that St. Valentine was a beekeeper & had a great love for the creatures. He was known for his gentle & caring treatment of the bees, & it is said that he would often talk to them and bless them with his prayers.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

There was a point in early lore where "Dark Jedi" and "Sith" were explicitly distinguished, and this makes a lot of sense to explain Vader. He's not a "pure" Sith wizard who has reached Palpatine's mastery, he is a corrupted knight who still relies on Jedi training. It also hints at his redemption.

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Yes he was handsome. But give some credit to the meticulous attention his wife Anna Murray Douglass paid to his care, his home, & the presentation of his garments. It was Anna, a free woman who he met in Baltimore, who out of her meager savings gave FD the money for his train ride to escape.

Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! 😆

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

This is blackout poetry to me

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Roll up to fancy restaurant at lunchtime on Valentine’s Day Ask what reservations they have left Only reservation time not already booked is for ten minutes from now Make reservation, go away and immediately come back Have quiet super fancy Valentine’s Day dinner at lunchtime and beat the crowds

Well. I’ll be thinking about this for a while.

Welcome to 2026, where you signal support for the regime by wearing a red hat, and you signal resistance by wearing… also a red hat. Wait.

One of the terrible things about the ICE occupation of Minneapolis is that they’ve been doing stuff that is so crazy that people assume it’s some kind of exaggeration, despite being widely documented on video. Following observers home! Lurking outside elementary schools! Black-bagging citizens!

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

Jess and I got away for the weekend without the kids… to the touristy area half an hour from our house. I should send the kids a postcard. They will be so confused.