be loud for america is probably one of the most cogent things a dem politician has said in recent years
be loud for america is probably one of the most cogent things a dem politician has said in recent years
Every single media outlet should be pushing back by preparing clips beforehand—just like this.
This feels like a glorious FU
Meanwhile US EV tax credits expire this month.
Wild Swans author Jung Chang: ‘My mother is dying in China, but my books have made it too dangerous to visit her’
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This a million times. Dem govs needs to step up.
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
We could hobble to the midterms in a semblance of democracy but only with a LOT more resistance on every front. And even then, some amount of Congressional oversight is...what exactly. People need to wrestle with the real stakes. Right now.
Appreciate your updates. I’m wondering how all of this will shake out in practice. It’s exhausting and I just want my family to get their vax.
Yes! It was really good and great casting.
site for meeting up with a violent startrek alien lizard species? you mean GornHub.
Happy birthday!
Can anyone identify the carving on this softwood platter, at least 90 years old? No idea how it was originally finished, as when found it was thickly lathered with what I imagine was silver radiator paint.
Woo hoo! Also huge parenting win that your kids have jobs. 💕
Definitely but I want to know why the men with him today (that I’ve seen on camera) also removed their ties and undid their top buttons… is it dress down Fridays in the oval? Or are them all trying to match to distract
(Normal = neutral expression concealing existential despair and brain-crushing boredom.)
From the recipe. Typed too fast. 😂
Probably copied straight fro the ingredient list. Cold water for the pastry.
I might have to try this over the long weekend!
YES! All the pineapple! And let’s have it as hot dog topping as well.
OMG Nico di Angelo in his Westover Hall uniform, looking forlorn at the dance. MY HEART.
It’s the ebook vs physical book pricing. Same price for both!
Ruined the Jurassic World trilogy. I complained bitterly about him as I watched them.
My teen asked me why I was subscribed to the AMA updates on YouTube, and I told her I need reliable sources for health updates because of everything going on.
THANK YOU I would be okay with being science fiction's Uncle You're Not Dreading at Thanksgiving, or, if we are of an age, science fiction's Cousin You Still Send Holiday Cards To
Yup - no joy! Don’t need to feel sorry for Netflix and Meghan’s life style show is a delight and doing very well!
Providing security for @marthawells.com today.
i’ve certainly had my issues with newsom but right now he’s nailing the moment
The Hunger Games films are very strong with their narrative. It’s streamlined from the books but cinematography is on fire. The use of the American landscape to ground us in a familiar place is really clever. Appalachians are familiar, and whenever Katniss is in nature it gives Ansel Adams.
I’m exhausted. We started watching Mockingjay Part 1, went to a Conan Gray listening party at a local record store and then watched (in full) the Taylor interview love fest. Everything is terrible, so joy and hobbies are so important.
Yup! We can hold two thoughts at the same time! We can be both thrilled to have a new album and still upset and angry about the dumpster fire around us!
The section @lastweektonight.com did on him on Sunday was also eye opening. I did not know about his imaginary MAGA friends 😭
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Sneak preview of The Life of a Showgirl cover! ❤️🔥🧡 Greek Red-figure Ceramic Calyx Crater Girl in dance class; Berlin Dancers painter, 440-430 BCE. Source: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gr...
I’m still in the queue to buy. We spent too much time texting screen shots because we got the page to load to friends who hadn’t got the page loading LOL
West Coast win with teens watching the count down!
The only saving grace for Alien with my teens was the cat 😂
The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.
Yup. For the same reason you shouldn't show a movie you loved as a teen to your kid without watching it again first, ie the Sixteen Candles Problem
Over on Reddit someone is asking for science fiction for their precocious young reader and the people there are suggesting books that were old when that kid's grandparents were the same age as the kid, for fuck's sake if you didn't know any SF books from this millennium maybe sit this question out
Or how Rick Riordan wrote about a gender fluid character in Magnus Chase series. And don’t get me started on Nico and Will in The Sun and the Star. ❤️ So yeah… I happily leave my childhood authors in the past 😂
So many great conversations and it’s good to be able to have a critical look at things. Also, children’s and teen lit should evolve… even the good stuff. Look at the first Percy Jackson vs how Riordan adapted it for Disney+ the changes with Medusa & Sally/Gabe.
I don’t think any of the authors I loved as a kid have held up with my own kids, and it made me realize how much better kids authors are now and how my kids have GREAT opinions on literature.
I am really hoping Pfizer pushes through this for CAPITALISM because all our kids need vaccines and I’m assuming they want to make money.
And they said they’d never ever exactly explain how The Walking Dead started
From what I understand Andrew Cuomo is angry that one of his opponents pays less rent than he does
Better picture than mine 👌
I could really go for a Kaiju Preservation Society mug and tee!
Fuck offfffffffffffffff
Still reading Chernow's biography of Mark Twain, which is fascinating, but I find myself getting anxious on Twain's behalf every time he makes a bad business/publishing decision. (He did this a lot.) A little late now. He dead. Still, I hate to see an author suffer from self-inflicted wounds. 🫣
Starting a rewatch of The Hunger Games trilogy movies, and they hit different after reading Sunrise on the Reaping.
Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica is really hard to re watch right now Ronald D Moore nailed it.
Update: Found the email!
the best legacy of Harry Potter at this point is elevating three children that all seem to have become incredibly decent and interesting adults
You win and the therapy would be Star Wars
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy.
Trying to get humans not to touch dangerous things was a full-time job.
ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC' FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it? WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?
Our bodies were discussed and used against us. The amount of sh*t you had to get through to finish secondary school 😩 So when my teens choose to refuse hugs and to be touched at family gatherings I support them. Boundaries and bodily autonomy over other peoples feelings.
Thinking about how it was normal for boys to just assault girls on the school yard by snapping their bra straps bsky.app/profile/lore...
This a million times. 90s feminism supported the patriarchy. We should have supported Pamela Anderson and Monica Lewinsky, etc but nope.
The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.
It’s a golden age for Cassandras.
Accurate (and funny) read on state of evisceration of government science agencies www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6A4TsoK/
Arnold Schwarzenegger is 78. Danny DeVito interviews Arnie, who proceeds to have a massive existential crisis at the end interviewmagazine.com/film/arnold-sc…
One of my deeply held beliefs is that if we could condition people to accept how chance affects their lives, they’d be much better equipped to recognize how systemic things impact them.
Dutch reach!
Watching BSG season finale of season 2 and season 3 opener land very differently in this timeline. 😭
Yup.
Better that than a cabinet position. Worst timeline ever.
All of this bullshit is happening because many people are lazy, racist morons who refuse to read or accept reality.
Sounds like pickling lite option!
I’m exhausted just looking at the options 😂
Fingers crossed for being able to get Covid & Flu shots
Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
I saw this exhibit in SF and it is magnificent. I have been wondering what would happen to it when it was scheduled for DC.
City cow
Rest in peace, Ozzy. You are a legend. May his memory be a blessing.
The King Center, and the children of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, have repeatedly distanced themselves from Alveida King, who was MLK’s niece. She is not close to his living children, Bernice and Martin, and they have made it clear that she does not speak for them or the King Center.
The Dispossessed was first published in 1974 by Harper & Row.
I'd just like to point out that California has a minimum wage of $16.50, because blue states at least TRY to do the right thing by their residents.
It’s Never Let Me Go meets Unwind
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
Woke up in the night to the idea that Colbert could go to PBS, and have a PBS/Netflix deal like Sesame Street. Has anyone checked on John Oliver? Is he safe thus far?
Also, just to answer the question most being asked on reddit and nextdoor right now in certain states: The animal by your shed is a groundhog.
I haven’t read Carrie, but Tiffany D Jackson’s re-telling of it The Weight of Blood was so good.
And understand he’s also telling you what he thinks about Uvalde parents who demanded answers after their children were slaughtered while 150 state & local armed law enforcement officers stood outside. I can’t believe that Texans countenance this man’s insults.
Finished The Residence and it is excellent. Ended on just the right note, and perfect through out. The big clue was there.
The White Lotus will win all the Emmys because the shows about rich, white folk doing horrible things always win everything. (I couldn’t even make it through one episode of Succession, and barely two episodes of The White Lotus.)
I've been very fascinated by Dua Lipa's moves for a while. (Great podcast, getting ownership of her master recordings.) And also Ed Sheeran does this too, and talks about taking *RyanAir* (actual hell on earth) rather than a private jet while schlepping his kids around. Interesting moves abound.
I am still sad about this. The richness of BBC Sounds app was poking about and finding weird plays or science shows about radio animal autopsies. Weird stuff that brought joy.
Fingers crossed!
Yes, I have explored the links/App and it’s a much more currated experience, and it doesn’t have the breadth and ease of BBC Sounds. After 25 years of listening to the BBC overseas this is a huge and saddening shift. There was a cultural reach that the BBC achieved overseas & connection for Brits.
The BBC Radio Sounds App restricting to just UK based people later this month feels very much like something from @greatdismal.bsky.social jackpot An isolationist move that has global ripples.
Taste testing
Peach tea is the best flavor of all of Joe’s Teas
"A deaf and mute Mongolian man has spent more than four months in a Southern California immigrant detention center without the opportunity to communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language." #California #USA #Mongolia #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing