Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
I'll write something up one of these days. Probably.
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Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Holy shit. Yay!
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
I can't comprehend how any fellow sci-fi nerds can be pro-AI We've been warned! Hundreds of thousands of pages of "prophecies" out there and we think we're special Ps Reading Ready Player 1 and Dune 1-4, while living in diet-Arrakis (AZ) within the last few months has left me expecting The Worst
I was radically pessimized via the Great Recession, as a new college grad in NYC. And there have been few lasting, uncompromised improvements since Thanks to Biden (and COVID) I qualified for hlth insurance for the first time in decades. Our for-profit healthcare system is a human right violation
If you needed any more reasons to hate Kyrsten Sinema:
I’m here at BWI Airport to say, “Hey hey, ho ho! Avelo and ICE have got to go!” #AveloOutofBWI
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
Or Train Tracks open.spotify.com/episode/7eZU...
1-2 hrs before bed: Aquarium Bubbles open.spotify.com/episode/65F0...
It was fun when I was a "kid" and could survive on a few hrs of sleep. Now it's torture. The exhaustion haunts the day. Then, as bed time approaches I finally start feeling awake, engaged and fight sleep My best solution: Rx for Trazadone and listening to my Go The Fk To Sleep Brain! Music.
No way he'd willingly walk away from that sweet executive immunity for his current and planned financial crimes
The male loneliness epidemic is a mystery
I'm glad I've saved time by being/staying an economic pessimist since the Great Recession.
It was, apparently, a near run thing, but the citizen soldiers of Kyiv saved the capital, as documented here by the WSJ, 🎁:
The photo on the right is giving me Unsolved Mysteries reenactment scene of dude-before his whole family is tragically slaughtered.
“In 2017, O’Hanlon was captured at Trump’s first inauguration festivities in DC decked out in his full Eagle Scouts uniform. The photographer who took the photo wrote on his personal website of ‘the Boy Scout kid that looked like a Brownshirt.’”
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real. redpopnews.com/remembering-... #redpopnews
Jesus Christ
I viscerally felt Stringer Bells “Is you taking notes on a criminal fking conspiracy?” verbal slap. Bc yeah, "uh, yeah Mr Bell. How else am I going to accurately capture all the details for the post-meeting recap email?"
I think I don’t have a choice by say this is my all time favorite Kingfisher photo I’ve had the chance of clicking The Queen of Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve fishing the moon 📷🌿🪶🌔
Butterfly and flowers, Hurricane Ridge #photography #paulinthepnw
Some notable pull quotes: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party…” “I am not terribly optimistic…this is the most severe threat we’ve had to our system of government since the Civil War…” “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” 🎁🔗
Longtime NYC Rep. Jerry Nadler tells the NYT he's retiring. “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Mr. Nadler said, adding that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
A HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVE MUSIC IN 40 PLAYLISTS - a special edition of the free Fluxblog newsletter sketching out this history with my playlists in rough chronological order, all in one place for the first time fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-4...
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Let's try calling the invasion COVID Lockdowns or Jan 6th so Maga starts screaming about their constitutional rights and beating cops with Don't Tread on Me flags, again
He always stole whatever scene he was in. He will be missed ❤️
“When he showed up at the House’s impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump in 2021 carrying a grocery bag from Zabar’s, he went viral. Asked what was inside, he answered: “A babka and the Constitution, what else?”(gift link)
I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. 💕🪶
Last days of summer scenes, Kenai River Alaska.
What a gorgeous animal and image.
“Lakota” 40 x 30 inch oil on stretched canvas. Available here or on my website. #oilpainting #horses #art #equestrian #horseart #equineart #painting #paintings #horse #equine www.equineartiststevemessenger.com
Logged on on a holiday and caught blueskyism. pray for me
And will give the Maga/ R/ Grifter/ CryptoBro/ Psycho scheming backstabbers more time to squabble, resentment to fester and the alliance from hell to explode. Like that infamous Oregon rotting beached sperm whale lit up by dynamite. May Trump's death be long and prosperous 🖖🏽
They can keep that heritage, if the rest of us can have this one back:
1/31 I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes. AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week.
President Vladimir Harkonian
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
This could still be the best labor day weekend ever. Don't stop believing!
This young male Resplendent Quetzal had his eye on me. San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica #birds #nature
the move to another platform, or better yet self hosting ( as done by Molly White , can be worth it.
Joanna Connor🎸🎶'Walking Blues' #bluesmusic
Melania found the tapes youtu.be/mOzdfaEPaR0?...
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
Mousecow said "Now!"
Officials say containment is now up to 80%. That’s good news for fire crews who struggled to keep up with this blaze, which started after a lightning strike on July 4. He says there are 689 personnel at the North Rim.
Psychosis
☄️ Comets in September 🔭 Comet 2025A6 Lemmon with binoculars, and visible to the naked eye in October? 👀 Is 2025K1 ATLAS disintegrating on its way to the Sun? 🌞 Will the interstellar 3I ATLAS attack us with turbolasers? ⚡️ All the answers (and much more) here 👇 cometografia.es/cometas-visi...
No. Those teachers need to apologize for not risking death so spoiled aholes could watch their kid play sportball. Oh the humanity!
A wizard's hat? Burn bag of classified docs?
The irony/idiocy of this banner screaming "American Workers First" is that Trump has forced more than 199,000 federal workers out of their jobs since Jan. Nearly 1 in 10 federal workers gone. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
ALL the drugs
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Shut the fuck up
Ugh
There's blue sky out there somewhere behind the storms and lightning. It's #blueskymonday. This #lightning strike was photographed on an early morning at a beach on the North Florida coast. #photography #landscape #storms
Those bitches were already voted out of the club
I can't remember the medical name for Scrotum Grows On Forehead.
21st, Night: Happy Earth, Wind & Fire Day youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...
This is a memoir?!
I think about this @tomscocca.bsky.social post like once a week.
And dress like one. He's adorable.
Sounds like a skills issue.
Torture. Self imposed hell. With a $330B valuation. Just seconds of it and my brain screams "No!" and my thumb obeys. If there's a World War I'd be cool with EMPs returning us to early-2000s technology.
A little-known aspect of baseball's labor history is the role that superstar pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale played in laying the groundwork for the union’s success—achievements that today's owners want to dismantle, writes Peter Dreier. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
"Honk honk!" "JFC, not this again"
I was not expecting this twist in this episode of Chris Murphy is a POS. Is Red Scare the real reason why he and his wife separated? He tried to cover his love of racists right-wing grifter trolls by claiming "Honey, I only watch the show for the Russian call girls!"
Put women in charge of Everything
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
Proof of life: 2.5% ABV
As with EMAILS etc., the reason we were so skeptical of all the wagon-circling & angry retorts that we didn't understand journalists' professional obligations to cover Joe Biden's age & mental/physical acuity 24/7 is that the devotion to those obligations had the shelf life of Liz Truss' lettuce.
wow
After Phizer first hands over 10% of the company
Wack off the leg and set that corner on bricks.
My whole life has been a lie
A nation of cousin fuckers
Aerial image of one of my favourite glacier rivers in Iceland. Image taken just few days ago.
Autumn in the Dolomites 💛
Happy Labor Day 🙂
Trump is the most destructive moron in the history of morons.
The male loneliness epidemic intensifies Seriously, fk Musk.
Tina Turner hits #1 today in 1984 with “What’s Love Got to Do With It” — a song she wasn’t sold on at first. “It was terrible. .. I was rock and roll. This was a pop song.” But her manager, Roger Davies, insisted. When it swept the Grammys, she dedicated the “Record of the Year” award to him.
And oh my lord, the surgeon who wrote the report suggested that there may have been a FOURTH testicle in the man’s abdomen
1/ If you are feeling overwhelmed by the fast paced of legal news, remember that it’s deliberate. It’s a strategy Trump uses, flooding the zone in hopes that people will tune out. Read what you need to know here to get ready for the week: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
r/DummieAmericans:(
Don't forget the beans on toast
I feel bad for our country but the Is Trump Dead X-Files has been tremendous content
He looks great! I even briefly forgot he has Stage 4 Cancer. Great news 👍🏽 My gawd, I miss having a competent, kind, decent human as president
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ICC/IJC you're up www.bbc.com/news/article...
Happy Labor Day! As a proud public health professor and member of USW, some articles showing the public health benefits of labor unions. Unions promote safer working conditions and better contract-protected benefits, along with a sense of community. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...
Just a heads up: the article thumbnail image is of an adult woman looking at a pregnancy test
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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