RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
Even ignoring that, people I know who've gotten shingles found it a very painful and protracted (weeks long) affliction. #GetTheVaxx
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Setting aside the fact that people who'd say something like "I just don't like those people either" are horrible human beings and mostly too stupid to follow the "this could happen to you too" argument (critical reasoning skills being the key missing ingredient).
Man, when congressional Democrats finally wake up from their comas, they're going to be *so* slightly miffed at all this
Love this photo of Monarch Butterflies in Ontario Canada probably Point Peel National that i went to yearly in Sept in my twenties as they gathered to cross Lake erie migrating south waited for the wind to change
OK "shallow-flossing," that's my final metaphorical offer.
Is "Shallow-throating" a thing?
So stagflation then. Wonderful.
Meanwhile the US is deorbiting satellites because it's too woke to collect data for atmospheric sciences. #ChinaWillWin
@newsweek.com elevating the level of discourse. What are we, 4?
Awesome answer, and also respect (I'd have probably answered "oh go f*&k yourself TED."
Cybertruck would have had a similar effect, but no maybe about it in either case.
Tomi Lahren's insistence on stand-up peeing is a recipe for piss-spattered toilets and floors (you've been warned, Lahren house dinner guests).
And in related news, Rush Limbaugh is still dead. Better world has to come in increments I guess.
Weird, nothing about Aryan eugenics, explicit or implied.
For sure. Responsibility here is hugely complicated and distributed (I even experience periodic self-loathing due to my own complicity 💀).
Whenever I see Miller I think of the original Batman TV show episode where there was yolk all over the place after he and Robin stopped Egghead.
It's at least partly us. You only have to look at the sea of cars with one driver, or the dipshits who buy plastic products wrapped in plastic & then put them in plastic bags on the way out the store, or who get their water in plastic bottles, or coffee in disposable cups, or... #ConvenienceEconomy
At this point the files are only so much confetti in the White House sewer system.
And it's something I'm not the least bit shy about. (Added the prepositional ending for effect.)
#legitimatePoliticalDiscourse "formal and orderly and usually extended expression of thought on a subject" - m-w.com
More like a double-dose of the gene for self-importance.
Theocratic fascism really hates knowledge, especially the kind that spans culture war boundaries. Weird thing is that even lots of MAGA cretins worry about climate change. Oh well...see you on the other side of the 2nd Dark Ages.
I'm especially worried about the possibility of Donald Trome (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Tommy Tuberville) being in office for 414 years.
...and maybe what the "other things" are.
I'm sure the winning bidder doesn't need to worry at all about being woken up in the middle of the night at sea by Spetsnaz frogmen pouring over the rails to reclaim the ship.
I remember when Jill Stein told me there was no difference between the GOP and the Dems on climate change. 🤷🏽♂️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
"...progress yet to be made." #Embarrassing
As well as more than a little potential for peril.
Toronto for the win. I'd rather go see Velvet Sundown than some transphobic MAGA stooge screeching about his theistic hysteria. "If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up." --Max Von Sydow / Frederick, "Hannah & Her Sisters," 1986
Yeah, if you hit somebody with an avalanche of profanity it's appropriate to find yourself blocked. Regrettable given that her point has some validity (don't even get me started about military flyovers at football games).
I did a lot of that when I was little.
Actually the best thing about it is that corn syrup is poison (I'd sooner drink Diazinon). And sure, that it failed to distract is also nice. #KingCornKills
Dude is probably 5+ feet tall, floppy top of the cedar tree was only semi-stable and he didn't hang out long.
That backlit antler fuzz is exceptional.
Which begs the question whether transparent racism is better or worse than the covert kind.
That's OK, the rest of us have the discomfort part well covered.
This question resurfaces constantly despite the patently obvious answer: because chaos, divisiveness, and fear drive rage-stoking click bait which drives engagement metrics (→💲). There are still journalists with integrity but journalistic integrity as a solemn duty is on life support.
Not super interested in reviving this thread, which was originally motivated by seeing Newsome as more ally than enemy. Democrats love to judge/reject potential allies for specific and often narrow flaws despite significant body of shared values, and it's why trump won (both times). #SelfDefeating
Nothing to see here, probably just aligning a fake news cycle with some GOP elected official quarterly investment rotation.
The essence of filter bubbles and only seeing narratives that support our pre-conclusions (and Faux News is an entire business empire dedicated to spawning and perpetuating some of the more insidious filter bubbles in human history).
It's inconceivable that Congress would even care about this issue unless...you know...they're protecting somebody...
I do seem to remember that, yeah.
But if you would Mr. Speaker, please say a little more about jaHEEzus.
#NoMowMay for all you pollinator champs out there, save the thistles! It's a critical month for northern pollinators arriving ahead of the bulk of veg, fruit, berry and other flowers.
If only belief in a mythical sky wizard and tendency to mention it all the time was this guy's worst quality. #SeparationOfChurchAndState
What about the Obama / RBG debacle?!
I think lifetime careers in certain government positions are fine or even preferred (e.g. State Dept, CDC, or NOAA) and in others an absolutely horrible idea, like Congressman, Senator, or Supreme Court Justice).
I'm shocked, shocked I say. I expect a decent society to unify around things like human trafficking and sex with minors, it's just unfortunate that a massive coverup of these crimes is the thing that republiclowns and democrats come together on (looking at Clinton & trump here).
I guess they thought we weren’t enough of a laughingstock to the rest of the world already.
Decent case to be made that silent decrease to zero ad spending is effective at both cutting off the platform's air supply AND avoiding whipping nazis into a white nationalistic hysteria. #MissionAccomplished
Pull the other one.
Or even one that lived within the law frankly. Generational blood lineage as the sole national leadership qualification is f*&king stupid, just ask Prince Harry.
Seems like this actually makes robotaxis more like actual taxis and the inane, sometimes offensive blather coming from the driver (sieg heil mutherf*&ker!).
I don't know, Comey seems to have pretty badly damaged the country...
We reelected the bleach injection guy. We will have terrible disaster response as long as he is in office.
That thing's comin' for us...
Surprised trump didn't go with the classic racist dog whistle of "surprisingly articulate" (but of course his deficient and addled brain is likely unable to form syllabic sequences like that).
In other words he's perfect for the current cabinet.
Mutherf*&ker who kicked Freddie should get 5 years in El Salvador for assaulting a federal officer. #iceh0le
The worst part is I can't enjoy the fact that MAGA cretins are disproportionately harmed by supporting bigoted culture warriors with zero foresight. This stupid tug-o-war over environmental stewardship flipping between do-something & do-nothing every 4-to-8 years is exhausting & anti-business.
If he's referring to Bergen-Belsen Barbie who runs DHS I agree with where he's putting heavy blame, but it has nothing to do with her being a woman (or whatever dimension of DEI he had in mind).
No doubt in pursuit of an even grander nazi platforming mission.
Is that the significant improvement he was teasing? Unfortunately that's not otherwise clear given the people involved.
For some reason this reminded me of teachers holding bake sales to help pay for textbooks while a trillion-dollar firehose spews money into buying weapons (including airplanes that the Navy just accidentally rolls into the sea).
He should immediately convene a conference of the world's top flood preparedness experts to meet in Cancun and run some what-if scenarios.
LOL ok.
I hope all parties in these legal proceedings completely annihilate each other under a crushing load of legal and other expenses. Enjoy, "doctor."
Too easy, and ultimately imprecise, to blame a few maniacs currently holding the reins of power. The American people did this at the ballot box. We are as unqualified to be responsible for our democracy as that 22-yr-old ex-gardener & grocery store clerk is to run counter terrorism at DHS.
Looks a lot like Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy.
I can think of a wealthy S. African who probably fudged his immigration paperwork, I wonder if they'll go after him...
Media was all too quick to pounce on Biden, but they give trump a pass, and I'm pretty sure it's because trump is so outlandish that he's more powerful as click bait. A kind and thoughtful elder statesman is boring. #WeAreFkd
Good summary. Not exactly news that Murkowski is a coat hanger (one of the wire kind, not even wrapped in paper).
I have this thought constantly while perusing the BlueSky feed, my expectation that a significant majority here agree with the outrage and "the monsters" are oblivious and wouldn't care even if they saw the content.
@RickBeato does a great piece on this where he raves about Christopher Cross's guitar chops and pans whoever did the final mix on the album. Completely awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Vw...
I wonder if he plans to rescind all that "I have sinned against you!" business from before, now that he's laughing with the sinners (v. crying with the saints).
Kavanaugh objecting to pig welfare is a tailormade joke about working counter to self-interest.
Anti-vaxxers, at best, don't care about these global statistics on children-under-5 mortality. At worst, they think this huge win must be reversed and the children being saved should instead die. www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...
Warnock: "We are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse ... this is socialism for the rich."
I kinda doubt it. More like theater, staged to drive clicks, featuring a big Faux News circle-jerk.
Should be called the US Supremacist Court (racial, financial, take your pick).
Lotta people need rapturing these days.
Or just switch to "progressive." Trying to reclaim words stolen by neo-con framing (which significantly predates MAGA btw) is fine but will take as long to unwind as it did to tarnish in the first place, and maybe the energy could make more difference elsewhere.
Most definitely the latter.
Nobody impugned the pilots. It was the too-specific saber rattling followed by poor planning that resulted in bombing relatively empty desert. #a$$h0le.
I did this recently and just changed the delivery address to the hotel (or whatever) where I was staying on my trip.
Classic that the embarrassing leak with little or no national security implications is WAY worse than for these clowns than, say, tweeting attack plans to your cousin who lives in a van down by the river.
Probably a pipe dream but would be great if "less bad than the other person" wasn't the main driver of candidate selection (i.e. yeah Clinton was an easy choice compared to Bush or Dole which, sadly, I'd take in a heartbeat right now).
Something that was underscored after 126 dems voted no on trump impeachment. I even catch myself cutting them some slack on the hypothesis that they did it because trump is such a clown it helps with down-ballot elections.
In case it's not obvious, we be grateful to Bloomberg and the Clintons working to defeat trump while also thinking of them appropriately consigned to the dust bin of history (but keep that ca$h coming, thank$!).
And early indications are that they'll once again come back from this reflection completely stumped.
Says more about us than it says about him unfortunately.
I thought it was the newest ICE getup.
I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
While also being 10 kinds of karmic justice.
Bodie's brother from another mother sends heartfelt regards.
Extremely cute.