This is the threat in higher education as well, just replace “dipshit exec” with “dipshit president” and “5-8 years later” with “never.”

You will be visited by three spirits

Bovino sure doesn’t act Iike a person who’s afraid of going either to jail or to hell.

I’ve never seen a local news headline that so personified the entire country.

You will be visited by three spirits

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Looked at my work email the night before a holiday (earlier this year, not last night. I learned.)

I should be saying Merry Christmas or Happy Krampus or something, but my present to myself was finally bringing this poetry podcast into reality. I’m really hoping you will like it and that you’ll listen to upcoming episodes and that you’ll share this and spread the word. Much love, my friends!

Show me how your 2025 went

For my age and era, there’s only one possible answer youtu.be/XI7jC57GuZM?...

I’ve been white my whole life and have never been asked to apologize for it. Now I’ve had to apologize for being an asshole and maybe that was connected to my blind spots from being white, but it was always my actions I was apologizing for, not my skin color.

A better answer even if you don’t want to be all gung ho about it is to say “impeachment starts in the House and I will leave it to that body to investigate and present a case to us in the Senate.”

See what happens when you don’t listen? You lost your woman to a karate man www.tmz.com/2025/12/20/t...

This is the world liberals want

Connected to this is why I felt like I was losing my mind when people talked about the inflation during and after the pandemic as being historically high. I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s so I can’t say I really understood what it meant but inflation was double digits every year for a while.

It’s not a writing goal, but it’s been a long time since I tried to learn something big musically, to play it through without tabs. So I’ve decided I’m going to learn how to play Willie Nelson’s Redheaded Stranger album from start to finish.

Executive orders should automatically expire when the president who issued them is no longer in office. If the new president wants them to continue, they should have to reissue them in their own name.

I am running to be the first openly nonbinary member of Congress: bethfordemocracy.com Because we are more than pawns in some sick political game. This is my life, my faith and my community. I know that together we can build a better world.

Us straight white dudes are not quite 30% of the US population. We are over represented in almost every profession, especially the highest profile, highest prestige, highest paying ones.

New website/logo for The Rumpus! therumpus.net I hope you check it out!

Us straight white dudes are not quite 30% of the US population. We are over represented in almost every profession, especially the highest profile, highest prestige, highest paying ones.

My fellow straight white dudes, when I find out one of y’all did this, especially if it’s one of y’all I know, I’m gonna mock you mercilessly as the biggest fucking losers on the planet.

This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands

I’m ready for his name to replace Francisco Franco’s in that old SNL skit.

Please don’t offer to pray for me unless you’re sure of which god is answering calls that day.

We have always been at war with EastPacifica.

I am curious as to why Lay’s feels the need to state this so clearly. Have there been accusations I haven’t heard?

I knew the Giants were bad this season but this is impressive

Please don’t offer to pray for me unless you’re sure of which god is answering calls that day.

Note to self: never make direct to camera videos on social media.

When it finally happens, there will be a concerted effort by a bunch of powerful people and groups to memory hole every shitty thing he ever said or posted. I hope there’s a plan in place to push back against it.

If you don’t hate where we are for EVERYONE, you don’t disagree with what’s happening. You just want to change the targets.

The reason I will always love sports is because of the potential for this level of pettiness.

There’s an ad for LinkedIn running right now on some podcasts I listen to that I’m choosing to take as saying “use our new AI tool to find the perfect people to pull off your next heist” and I really hope that message sticks.

the last adult theater in Iowa has closed.

Well the last Bearded Bards of BlueSky reading of the year is in the books. In total, the series has raised $3,147 for @translifeline.org! Thanks to all the amazing Bards and especially to the attendees who were wonderful audience members and generous supporters of this great cause.

Getting some stretching in before I go out to shovel this snow. Trying to pull something so I can get someone else to do it.

We had our flaws, sure. But I feel like we had a pretty decent thing going before we decided to start stabbing ourselves in the face.

Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only

TODAY! 5PM EASTERN... jared, barlow, dan, gregory, j-t, and myself ̶F̶A̶C̶I̶A̶L̶L̶Y̶ ̶F̶O̶L̶L̶I̶C̶L̶E̶D̶ ̶F̶A̶B̶U̶L̶I̶S̶T̶S̶ BEARDED BARDS OF BLUESKY!

Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Once again meteor lets me down.

For tonight’s NFL game, as a Saints fan I am morally obligated to root for a meteor strike.

I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a comics co-editor position at @therumpus.net We're looking for original literary fiction and non-fiction comics that feel personal. Bonus if it's hand-lettered (the path to my heart) 😘 No AI Pays $100 therumpus.submittable.com/submit Pass it on!

Yelp, but for rating interactions with cops. Is this a thing?

This is amazing Also, school lunch debt should not exist. Just feed kids.