Quick cultural lecture time, from Sigrid Ellis: As we are in Spooky Season, why do so many horror movies of the 80s and early 90s feature extremely creepy homeless people? +

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

if you’re making a starter pack don’t forget to poison the well with one batshit wildcard

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

god if I had a house this is so the shit I’d get up to!!!

✨loud wet fart noises ✨

This is the Western Alaska animal nonprofit working to rescue the pets in Kipnuk. The residents of Kipnuk are under a mandatory evac order but can not bring their pets with them. Supporting this group will help with charter aircraft, etc. www.bethelfriendsofcanines.com

Lovely picture in the Massachusetts Center for the Book celebration email:

www.bbc.com/news/article... "I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

Israeli "troops shot dead at least nine unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis." "During the last Gaza ceasefire [..] Israel violated the agreement more than 1,000 times before scrapping the deal." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors." Because they know international governments won't do anything.

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

what it’s like inside my skull all day

enjoying responding to all the texts fundraising for Janet Mills with this: “I’m supporting Graham Platner! Hope you & everyone else will, too!”

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story. "The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

This guy just screams Mainer. Love that for him. Go get em bud.

Just ordered!

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets. Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

“I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways…Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.” Crickets from the State Department. Awful.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig. Keep digging. Tunnel your way to your victim to avoid the cameras.

I don't eat animal protein but I'll never call my diet 'cruelty free' because the people growing and harvesting the fruits and vegetables I eat work in conditions like this. Cruelty to humans matters, too.

facebook has always supported groups performing ethnic cleansings

I think every time people in Canada say they want healthcare like the states we should ask them if they like taking their pet to the vet because ITS THE SAME FUCKING SYSTEM.

Someone needs to make a mod list that's just people who reply 'paywall' to any paywalled content

[my English teacher in 7th grade]: “you want to show, not tell, your characters’ feelings & motivations“ [26-y/o conservative white guy in 2025]: “I love Hitler.”

This may seem hard to believe but a major problem with media coverage of Trump is that no matter how racist it makes these guys out to be, it’s always understating it. *Nate Hochman* told somebody I know once that Trump is way more racist than he thought. It’s real bad!

you can just read the interview, you know.

Israel has murdered 9 Palestinians today. Violating the ceasefire 9. separate. times.

The Arizona Young Republicans chairman mentioned in this, Luke Mosiman, was one of the Turning Point affiliates demanding that Phoenix Suns sports writer be fired for not properly mourning Kirk to their liking

The best way I've ever heard jazz described is that two or more chess players (or one player against themselves) agree to play a game as hard as they can but arrive at a mutually agreed upon stalemate.

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday. www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

"We cannot prevent all of the harm that ICE will do in our communities, but we can make their work harder, and we can make our values, our presence, and our solidarity known. We can make our neighborhoods and our relationships stronger, as we forge bonds in opposition to this violence."

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig no graves. Save your strength! Make your enemy do it. Tell him it’s going to be a swimming pool & you’ll pay him above minimum wage & let his family come over to swim anytime they want if he’ll help with excavation.

Y'all need to see this Bilbo and Gandalf from the Portuguese version of The Hobbit. Illustrated by António Quadros

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home. Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home. If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Two Canadians who were on board a Gaza-bound flotilla that was intercepted by Israeli forces say their experience in detention was "horrific" and they are relieved to finally be home.

Merit has little to do with why books go out of print and writers get forgotten. Every reader has the capacity to become a champion and help enrich the canon. www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

I would simply not use a national party body to intervene in a primary race and instead build infrastructure for the eventual nominee, trusting the choice of primary voters, but then again I lack the political acumen of people who have steered the party into its lowest ever modern approval rating.

Every time someone suggests some use for AI, it’s something I’d rather do myself, rather not do at all, or rather not see anyone do, ever. That practically every one of these uses is bad for the environment and our brains, and relies on unethically built algorithms, is almost beside the point.

People had to complain to get Polanski an interview. Weird nobody has to beg the BBC to give Farage airtime. I mean, it's not actually weird. We all know what it is and why it happens.

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

I witnessed this happen to my dad under Obama. He was one of the millions that man deported. I'm actually shocked you're vouching this hard for authority and it's disappointing, but look, many Trumpian horrors were being built up over the years by both parties. Facts: bsky.app/profile/kate...

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

A beautiful film!