Fred Willard asked me for a tissue at an event I was working. He was about to go on stage, and all I could find on short notice was a brown paper towel. He was profusely grateful and very nice.
Fred Willard asked me for a tissue at an event I was working. He was about to go on stage, and all I could find on short notice was a brown paper towel. He was profusely grateful and very nice.
The most-read dispatch of 2025: Inside Life Surge, where numerous Buckeye football legends helped funnel financially illiterate Christians into an obvious, predatory scam. www.rooster.info/p/lifesurge-...
If there’s one thing the Saudis love, it’s gay anthems
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)
Not to serious up a joke too much, but I heard a great news story on therapists discussing dealing with recalibrating what a 'healthy' level of anxiety was given **waves vaguely in the air** all of this. It really is hard to 'not catastrophize' in the midst of catastrophes. The story was from 2022.🤢
In case you’ve ever wondered whether immigration is used to keep people in abusive labor conditions: let this clear up any fucking doubt
I needed this reference, today. Feel free to tell us about your... cat.
SCOOP: A young man with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.
TL;DR www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Yes. And let's not forget the work of companies like Cambridge Analytica goes on. Neurotargetted propaganda is nefarious and folks are far more impressionable than most of us want to accept.
It really does. I'd love to hear an answer from any of them that makes sense.
Gallego has been appearing at fundraisers with David Sacks.
Men tend to be paid better than women in these fields too, from what I understand.
So all the elderly and disabled democrats, folks who own land and homes, have family etc. just fold and move somewhere else, in your view? Like a mass migration?
I'm surprised that the numbers for Democrats are so high in this poll. I would expect approval to be in the single digits to 20s, percent-wise.
You realize there are more Democrats in Texas than New York, right? And probably more Republicans in California than Ohio.
The lamb from Alborz in Austin. And the rose saffron pudding. The owners retired around a decade ago and I roam in search of anything that compares and always come up empty.
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...
University of #Toledo is ending a huge number of programs out of fear of SB 1. An absolute slaughter. Every corner of my hometown will feel the impact #Ohio's Republican politicians passed this bill. Don't let anyone forget it news.utoledo.edu/index.php/04...
A private workshop took place last month in Washington DC, hosted by the Heritage Foundation... ...to discuss proposals by European right-wing lobby groups to dismantle the European Union and the European Court of Justice.
This is fascism. Lexington, Kentucky- No Kings Then, No Kings Now. April 19th. #NoKings
American citizen held for ten days in lockup after being picked up near the border. He didn't have ID. Ten days! news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
The government is using universities to do basic research that the private sector would never do at rates lower than the private sector would charge (thanks to the cheap labor of grad students). Basic research has been good for this nation.
This has happened in reporting here in Columbus OH, too. It is irritating.
You know that’s what he is, I know that’s what he is, but a lot of people don’t Musk is the perfect target and everyone should keep hammering him, but Miller is also a weird charisma-free little freak and very much an arch-villain here And “no one voted for him”
An unnamed CFPB employee who participated in the agency's layoff decisions says in a sworn statement that its leaders were aware that their approach violated a court order and instructed them to proceed anyway. "All that mattered was the numbers."
WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw
Right? If they'd made an example of legit baddies, their base actually might have defended the lack of due process. I know a Trump supporter who just realized most of the "illegals" are actually here legally. They're slowly catching on.
And your red line? It's been crossed. What's your plan?
I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing. "That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done." "That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."
So I'm pissed we are donating a half a billion to the new Browns stadium while public school funding is being slashed. But also why are they sneaking "making elected coroners appointed" into the budget bill??? www.cleveland.com/news/2025/04...
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...
Or not…many students losing their visas have not been involved in protests.
My apologies for this post being too long & not noticing it was cut off when I posted it a few days ago. I’ve divided it into 2 parts. This is an important talk I am giving everywhere I can on how we got here and why it is all a scam from the feds and Border Patrol. open.substack.com/pub/jennbudd...
Lutnick is the same guy after the 9/11 tragedy who refused to help the families of his many deceased employees who were either burned alive or jumped to their deaths in that attack on America. He is not a nice person.
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
Rep. Al Green’s response to a congressman saying God opposes trans rights: “You used God to enslave my foreparents!” #MomSky #Voices4Victory #TransRights
Which is rich, since what propelled him to his current position was work at UIUC.
Has anyone asked these people why their fight against (a skewed definition of) antisemitism is sacrosanct but no efforts are being made to combat any other forms of racism?
So, now they're acknowledging that immigrants pay taxes?
Energy independence. Lol.
The Ohio House's proposed budget increases the private school voucher system by $500 million and only gives half of that much of an increase to public schools
The final part of statute denying same sex marriage is gone! Thank you to the voters, @jessiedanielson.co, @replorenagarcia.bsky.social, all the advocacy orgs, and citizens who helped us complete this. We don't need to look back now. Only forward towards love. 🏳️🌈
Bingo. These men punt and allow the chicanery to continue.
out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘 in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
It's also flatly not true.
Is this from the subscriber-only CNN article?
Wow.
4. A government where people are afraid to criticize the policies of its leaders, fearing retribution, is not characteristic of a democracy. The right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is enshrined in the Constitution.
There were so many interviews with rich people who said “I don’t think he’s going to do any of those things” even when he’d just said the words in the same room they were in.
They could close the LLC loophole (no taxes on first $250k) and probably raise a billion dollars overnight. But you might as well asking them to pass a law granting legal protections to pedophiles.
31.7% of our electorate voted for these people. 36% didn't vote (though a small but significant chunk had registration apps and/or ballots tossed.) It's nauseating and I don't blame you one bit.
@marcelias.bsky.social I just discovered my vote is one of the 60,000 being tossed out. I voted in person. I showed my valid ID. I’ve lived in North Carolina for more than 50 years. I made sure my voter registration was valid before I went to vote. There is absolutely no reason to toss my vote.
I think about the guy who was willing to let the country fall into fascism and tank the economy so he could do slurs, every day.
I disliked him more than any elected politician when I lived in Texas - and the bar is high. He's the worst.
Love the intent tho, sorry for snark I just know OSU aint doing squat. www.thelantern.com/2025/03/sb-1...
Lmao. Look up OSUs new president. He's not going to do that, and I'm willing to bet Ohio is going to lose a ton of profs and out of state students over the ed bill our state just passed.
Chilled Cow pus forever.
These are great.
I only hope that other countries learn from our mistakes. Use this anti-US momentum to make some changes. Get the billionaires out of the media NOW. Otherwise you're next. 4/4
Posting here since she hasn’t yet. Good recap below. More 💩 from corrupt Christian Nationalist Republicans who feel emboldened to “do whatever [they] want”. More calls & protests sure to come. We must keep up pressure. We can’t remain silent or bury our heads & hope that things will get better.
Good lord I wish we could edit here. Sorry 😩
Yes. What has happened to Ohio is both strategic and a result of brain drain (smart people leaving.) It's really freaking sad.
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Yes and national media has ignored it. However, Ohio has gotten more red since it happened. The propaganda here was far worse than Texas around 2016 fwiw (I lived in TX at the time but visited frequently.) www.thisamericanlife.org/784/mapmaker
Ohio is/was the playbook. This gerrynandering crap started during Obama (who won here.) As the propaganda worked to turned people.
We are fucking paying Bukele to hold these people. The idea that we couldn’t tell Bukele to spring them is ludicrous. The judge should hold everyone involved in contempt.
This reminds me of the time when the cadre of conspiracy theory lunatics snuck into the oval office – Sidney Powell, Flynn, the Overstock CEO dude – to plot how to keep Trump in power after he lost in 2020. Now, these crazies are "advisors."
Morning. ☕ Today, the Senate is voting to put someone who has spent years attacking voting rights, abortion rights and LGBTQ rights in charge of protecting all of those rights for millions of Americans. www.huffpost.com/entry/harmee...
And sexism. Men are better for the economy or something.
"Siri, explain kleptocracy"
Short sighted greed. Every time.
By no means a complete list, you will see familiar names even on Wikipedia.
I responded: “Did you just call me a DEI hire?!??” And the ChatGPT erased my question, and its output. I asked it why it deleted its output, and why it deleted my question.
In 2024, four women held four-star ranks in the military — the highest levels of the armed forces. Only 10 women have held the highest rank in their military branches in history. Now, there are none. Of the four women, two of them retired and two were ousted. bit.ly/4i1EWUO
Does Waltz even have 2FA turned on? Does he use a YubiKey? Do these people at least keep their iPhones in Lockdown Mode? I bet they don't.
Putin’s top adviser says ”Putinism has won” in the United States with Donald Trump. Trump has publicly said that he trusts Putin more than our own intelligence agencies. Putinism has not won yet in our democracy, but the hour is getting late.
They won. They have all the political power and are reshaping the U.S. as they please. But they can't make people like them and they don't know how to fix that.
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
How many of Trump’s lawyers in the 14th Amendment case were disbarred? How about the immunity case? Classified documents case? New York fraud trial? January 6th case? The only people seeking to sanction lawyers based solely on the identity of their clients is Trump, himself, and his lackeys.
FROM U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Don't Be a Sucker STAND TOGETHER, PROTECT EACH OTHER
No Target, no Amazon and no Walmart shopping for a month now. Not hard, given I didn't do stores like that for a decade and really only fell into using them more during the pandemic (coinciding with when I had a child.)
It flips to 29-71 when they're asked a question closer to what's actually happening www.eschatonblog.com/2025/03/issu...
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
Estimates ranged from 900-1200 during the event. Local news way undercounted attendance and hyped up the (dismal) proud boy showing. Freedomnews and news2share on YouTube accurately show what was happening.
We love them. We just want a teensie weensie trade war.
bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location
Absolutely brilliant protest sign at the Tesla Takedown event in Austin, Texas. 🍿
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
Columbus Ohio "Takedown TESLA" protest vs "Tesla Shield" Counter Protest
Breathtaking. A federal prosecutor in LA was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in DC to drop all charges against him White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say
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