Increased oil prices, destabilized the global economy, and given Iran control of Hormuz? Bravo!🙌

Also fuck you if you are saying "riots in belfast- nothing new!" Or "this is nothing compared to the troubles". This is an organised, violent campaign by fascists to remove people from Belfast via terror. If you're less concerned cos it's not targeted at white people then get fucked.

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Since Trump is unable to bring a receipt of Democrats rigging elections, here's one of Arizona Republicans caught in the act of trying to rig the 2020 election, by signing fake elector forms for Trump. It would be a shame to keep sharing this and other receipts...

every year around this time of year a bunch of people who moved here from places with WARM water decide they're going to go tubing or something in a swollen frigid death river and get pulled down by tree branches or their muscles seize up and they just quietly slip under

Last year, the wonderful podcast "In Bed With The Right," the work of @moiradonegan.bsky.social and @adriandaub.bsky.social, did a series on the rise of fascism in Germany in 1933, a month by month chronicle with a view toward rhymes with the events of last year in the US. Essential listening.

screworm outbreak is another good opportunity to remind americans that government is what protects us from things like this and not the magical free market. want safe food? government, bitch.

The weirdest and most wonderful album of the year so far. It’s been on repeat for a couple of weeks now.

Hey Portland, if you see the 1986 Toyota MR2 with silly red/yellow wheels and the license plate VCP 230 it's mine and it's stolen, please call it in! It is noticeable and I would be thrilled to get it back.

It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.

i just dont want to see democrats get roped into a “man off” in every competitive race, i want them to respond by pointing out you are insecure about your tiny dick if you tie your own masculinity to a political party

Nico and a harmonium?! How did I not know about this?

I respect Shay quite a bit. We were mutuals for years on Twitter. She gives a thoughtful perspective here on Graham Platner. Even if you hate the guy, I’d recommend reading this and sitting with it a bit.

*The* best use of a computer graphics app.

Yankees, Rangers, D-Bags. Oops, did I misspell that last one?

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

@orioles.com Jackson’s backson!

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Looks like I’ve been on the right path all along, and that’s good enough for me!

If only McConnell could have done something to avoid this situation!

Exactly. F Ronald Reagan.

The Spotify disco ball icon is a fail of compulsory iTunes U2 album proportions

You know how Murderbot self regulates by consuming media? Well, that’s what Murderbot books do for me, and apparently a *lot* of others.

#TRUMP IS UNFIT AS OUR PRESIDENT If Congress does nothing to impeach him, then, in Nov, we MUST VOTE to 86 #GOP & centrist #DEM like Schumer & Jeffries Then OUR Congress will 86 Electoral College 86 #MAGA wannabe King Trump #StrongerTogether #UNITEDWeStand TYVM @boldnewme.bsky.social #BlueCrew

“I, John Brown, am now quite certain the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” ~John Brown, 1859. Brown was born on this day in 1800. Image: National Portrait Gallery.

Ooh, the producers gonna be hitting the naughty juice!

Not The Onion

Clarity, right here.

It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

"This ancient vessel was replaced bit by bit and is now a patchwork, a mosaic, an olio, an anthology, a stew, a fossil, a..." -- The Ship of Thesaurus

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends on the power of the man who can fabricate it.” ~Hannah Arendt, 1968. Image: @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social.

Fair warning. I’m gonna tap the sign now…

Merriam-Webster, welcome to the resistance.

We are not the same…

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Spirit Airlines has officially shut down operations. Well, you know what that means...

honestly the only Millennial / Gen Z dividing point that matters to me is this: do you remember how things were pre-9/11? and, crucially, how everyone lost their minds on and after 9/11? If so, you're a millennial or older.

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

This 👇🔥🔥

I do think that that NYT piece about incredibly ignorant but nonetheless regretful trump voters should lead people to recalibrate their intuitions about political messaging. 1

The next time we have a Democratic president they’re going to sell tickets to Americans who want to take a sledgehammer swing at the stupid ballroom, tear it down to its foundation and replace it with a proper East Wing.

US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) explains why reforming Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is so critical in this moment. It’s allll about AI—and if we don’t get some protections we’re gonna be cooked. #fisa

OK, this reminds me of @greatdismal.bsky.social for some reason heh

Maybe if we called it Tree Day?

Want to help her make this album of jazzy honky tonk torchh songs? Deadline is Saturday! Check out Honky Tonk Torch Song Project by Carter Sampson on @kickstarter.com