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I still want a giant OED that lives on a pedestal. Have a giant Webster's, but it isn't as neat. Plenty of second bookstores nearby at least l.
*worked at Blockbuster
I truly believe that COVID did so much damage to peoples' brains that it is going to be the end of civilization. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
Experts, what do they know?
Locking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...
Where to find me today and tomorrow at Dragon Con: Americasmart, level 4, row 400, table 413
Please deliver this deliciousness to me.
“Any plan that moves toward privatizing or restricting public riches is a wound to our shoreline economy, our cultural heritage and our democratic ideals," said Biloxi City Council President Kenny Galvan.
Are you a mother of children under 5 who left the workforce in the last six months? We want to hear from you for an upcoming story: https://bit.ly/4lNu0MD
Agreed. My cat is smarter than that man.
I randomly picked up a book of her poems about 20 years ago and still cherish it. I need to revisit poetry in general.
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
US still working on trade deals despite court ruling, USTR says reut.rs/41w2YlD
Happy Birthday @piegoblin.bsky.social
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
For anyone not in Florida who was like “um what is the context for this” (like me) “Tampa officials said crews will begin removing street art at 47 locations across the city this week following recent direction from the Florida Department of Transportation” www.wfla.com/news/hillsbo...
I have a subscription through work. They currently have an entire section devoted to the troubles of the Democratic Party. It has subsections devoted to topics like "transgender rights."
I have a subscription through work. They currently have an entire section devoted to the troubles of the Democratic Party. It has subsections devoted to topics like "transgender rights."
Trump declares intention to issue a meaningless "order" that has no force and effect on any state or voter, mandates nothing, restricts nothing, insists on nothing, using a mechanism whose sole function is to instruct only the executive branch on how to carry out existing laws Congress has passed.
Beans!
When today’s far-right pundits use concerns about natural resource scarcity to push the anti-immigrant “great replacement theory,” they’re using a playbook created decades earlier by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton. (Published Oct. 2024)
Things To Do In Denver When Donald’s Dead
*hung out
So my husband met and hung put with Tom Segura and Paul Dano last night. Pretty wild.
timeline cleanse. 1 like = 1 rec from my personal cookbook collection
Excerpt: "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" by Crystal Wilkinson 🌱 📚 🍽 #BlackSky #BookSky #CookBook www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...
Give me Earl Grey hot, not my dead grandmother.
We want Star Trek, not dystopian hellscape.
It’s not just that Congress allowed the CDC crisis. Key lawmakers, on your payroll, allowed it despite statements showing they believe RFK’s views on vaccines are wrong. RFK can say he is doing what he believes; the lawmakers can’t. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...
This sale ends Monday!
okay my friend in the White House press pool says he’s going golfing today, everyone stand down, good practice run great job team we can get a few more drills in before the big day
Original influencers? youtube.com/shorts/cwlSU...
Gift link Trump Administration Weighs Having Military Lawyers Work as Immigration Judges No final decision has been made, but the proposal comes as President Trump increasingly uses the military in various aspects of domestic life. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Years after a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a young Florida couple in 2019, crucial data detailing how the fatal wreck unfolded was missing. Tesla claimed it didn’t have it — until a hacker made the critical discovery.
All of the above?
Edith Wilson is posting for him.
Yeah, a few people were hinting at it but wasn't sure what was happening. The timeline is a bit of labyrinth here.
Ah... found the "news"
So is there some big news? People keep hinting at something on the timeline and I just keep seeing more bad news. Did one good thing happen?
Yeah, it was a misleading statement to make but I understand the anger at what the US is doing here.
I see it’s officially to lower costs and not for… other reasons.
Seems to be the case furtherafrica.com/2025/08/07/u...
Not going to happen. FIFA just signed a lease for office space at Trump Tower in NYC and the IOC may be the only organization that is more corrupt that FIFA.
WHOA. Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley just announced her retirement. She was up for reelection in April. Liberals now have an even better chance to increase their majority from 4-3 to 5-2. x.com/mattsmith_ne...
Thanks!
Oh, I had Britbox for a while. Had to get my Trek fix for a bit, though.
On a brief Midsomer rewatch with what's on prime. Had to cancel Britbox for a little while. Need to rotate my subscriptions, they are getting out of hand.
I posit that it does serve a purpose: to demonstrate that anyone devoted to facts and reason has no safety, no future. To broadly communicate that the only social good is sycophancy, and sincere commitment to principle or law or evidence is a selfish, pathetic indulgence.
Destroying the capacity of the richest, most powerful country in the history of the world for nothing. Over nothing.
Christ, we're never digging out of the hole this man is putting us in.
I was looking at those as a possible read at some point, but no? Still working may way through the Romantasy universe with a nice refresher break with the latest Ben Aaronovitch. I love his Rivers of London on audio because of the actor who narrates and the jazzy interludes.
At least 61 Palestinians, including 19 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn on Thursday, as the UN chief warned of a ‘new and dangerous phase’ with Israeli forces targeting eastern and southern Gaza City aje.io/5ywvrt
You know that the Seasteading / Freedom Cities stuff is Peter Thiel, right? Thiel founded the Seasteading Institute when O'Neill was still semi-respectable and working for HHS under George W Bush. He pivoted to Thiel the same year (2008), another origin story for you.. 1/
wat
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to terminate the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon at the end of next year after nearly five decades, bowing to demands from the United States and its close ally Israel. https://to.pbs.org/4oXf80R
CVS is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states, including Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, even to people who meet newly restricted criteria from the FDA. CVS said it needed a CDC panel to recommend the shots before it could offer them nationwide.
That part of the post was bugging me, too. A few hours later, he was going on about transphobia while misgendering the murderer. It's such an ugly situation. Hard to separate the fact that misgendering the shooter isn't about respecting them. The shooter was despicable regardless of their gender.
This is a cynical ploy to asphyxiate public lands and the agencies that manage them — with the ultimate goal of privatizing those lands and their oversight. buff.ly/ZqpdOVm
Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
🔴Far Right and the Press Accused of ‘Weaponising Violence Against Women’ to Fuel Hatred of Migrants Women’s rights groups condemn politicians and the media for spreading false claims about migrants while failing to back calls to fund actual support for sexual violence victims
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
The records in the National Archives, released by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, detail how the Justice Department, the FBI, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights responded to the 1955 killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till.
"The shooting suspect was frustrated by the coronavirus vaccine and blamed it for his health problems..." The shooter was frustrated by the vaccine? Not the shooter bought into conspiracy theories about vaccines? CDC director being ousted weeks into job www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
"What I want people to really realize is that this is not just a computer. There is human intervention. The idea that there is some sort of objective algorithm is misplaced and, certainly in this case, that's not what's happening."
Interesting, thanks for the short answer.
I know it's not a legal argument but aren't Native Americans, you know, the original citizens by birthright here? Aside from legal precedent deciding their status in the context of the US vs tribal governance, they are not undocumented immigrants, & it seems absurd to compare the two legally.
Nice nails!
When?
I just listened to a podcast on what they did to him. It's absolutely insane but alas, I know it's business as usual.
"The following map contains 100 poems that mention, address, or center on Patrice Lumumba. All of these poems were written in the long aftermath of his assassination. The location on the map for each poem indicates where the poet resided when the poem was first published." - Maya Charlton #Poetry
Let's see: Cancel history programming Cut off people from social media sites Destroy the internet with crap data Gut museums Raise statues praising terrible people Surely this can't be bad? Thinking about Yarros Empyrean series since I recently finished it. The scribes erased their history.
People posted a bunch of examples under the initial extremely stupid post you made and I note that you've responded to basically none of them
1953* Iran Coup, Iran Contra, black sites post 9/11, etc.... The Church committee preceded the events in the 80s and 2000s that we know about.
Extremist MAGA, recent Bannon employee, and current NARA... something (duties unclear 🤷🏼♂️) Peggy Grande treating the hallowed spaces of our nation's archives as her playground for MAGA friends, just like its day-to-day head Jimmy Byron, extremist MAGA and head of the extremist Nixon Foundation, does.
Yay! You went a bit further!
NEW in Bolts: In Maine, a ballot measure this November would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots. This would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.
The Justice Department’s investigation into UnitedHealth Group is larger than previously known. The DOJ is looking into the company's prescription management services and its reimbursement of its own doctors, in addition to possible Medicare fraud. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This article is from 2016. It's difficult to read the fawning tone. Hard not to vomit difficult. It certainly shows the failure of the media to communicate what everyone else knew was coming to some degree. Anyway, the relevant part to me is that his behavior hasn't changed since he was a child.
It was a nice thing to do. Don't be embarrassed by caring for them.
So the man doing what DOGE claimed to be doing for the Fed is gone to be replaced by a bunch of nitwits who don't know OPSEC?
Thought of you and others I know who love Japanese products.
Yeah. Apparently they're making the duties on the package be paid BEFORE the package arrives in the US. So of course everyone is being like "Are you fucking kidding me?"
Yeah, people were commenting on Japan, Australia, and NZ joining the suspensions. Lots of cool Japanese product fans disappointed.
How is every headline in the media not “Dumbass breaks global postal system after just 7 months on the job”?
Clearing encampments is part of a wider push across the country by Democrats and Republican lawmakers alike to take drastic action to reduce homelessness, but experts say it's counterproductive and ineffective. https://to.pbs.org/3JuTUHv
Clarice Starling did not go through all that bullshit involving Dr Hannibal Lector and Buffalo Bill just to graduate if she knew that future cadets would have their badges handed to them for just showing up.
The Department of Labor unfurled this today. People who aren't dictators don't do this.
Oh! Was just talking about this over the weekend! We were saying that once everyone is an anti-hero the available range of emotions narrows.
"But what good have all these anti-hero narratives done for us? We’ve been entertained, sure, but it also feels pretty obvious that they’ve normalized an American masculinity that is selfish, abusive, nihilistic, and ultimately self-destructive."
Gawd, YES! I have been saying this for YEARS! I delight in watching art that reflects our complex and layered humanity back to us, but my LORD if I have to watch another show try to convince me to invest in (and even root for!) a basically irredeemable POS, it will be too soon.
ICE arrested a father while he waited to pick up his son at an elementary school right by where we used to live. Do these sick gestapo fucks just go home and eat dinner and watch TV and sleep soundly after destroying families? How do they live with themselves?
great!
"We will continue to accept letters, postcards, printed matter, EMS (documents), as well as mail containing gifts between individuals with a value of less than US$100 (small packets, parcels, and EMS (goods))." www.post.japanpost.jp/int/informat...
And as far as our supply chain for pharmaceuticals goes
And Australia, including transit shipping from a host of pacific and south east asian countries
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