Today I learned that the oldest living land animal in the world is a gay male tortoise named Jonathan. he is 192 years old, pictured with his longtime mate Fredrick Happy pride month to the gay turtles 🏳️‍🌈

The spider kept exploring her new boat until I got her all the way across the beach, to the tall grass by the sand. And then I let her go. She disappeared immediately, a spider halfway between green and yellow swallowed up by green grass and yellow sand. patheos.com/blogs/steelmag…

I haven't written much about politics since the debate, mainly because I'm so overwhelmed by disgust & contempt toward this country's media & commentariat that it has rendered me inarticulate with rage. Twitter probably doesn't need more rage. I do just wanna make one point tho.

Will Stancil This election is not a choice between two individuals, it's a choice between worldviews, between futures. Do we want to continue down the path to multiethnic democracy or do we want to impose a white patriarchal Christian autocracy?

The US is right on the precipice of falling into bona fide fascism & *the vast majority of the voting public doesn't even know it*. That speaks to a deeply diseased information environment. Until Dems do something about that, all their self-flagellation will buy them nothing.

Project 2025 shifts taxes from the wealthy to the middle class— a family of 4 earning $100K would suffer a $2,600 tax hike, while a family earning $5 million would get a $325,000 tax cut. cc: Brendan Duke

A quick explainer on the single most dangerous aspect of Project 2025.

I normally don't talk about my religion, but after the Olympics, I feel that I must as a Catholic. 🧵

OK, I should be doing ... literally anything else (like work for which I am paid!), but I've got something on my mind and I have to flush it out. So: a 🧵 on "weird."

Co-sign. Completely and entirely.

It was 1999. The previous year, Matthew Shepard, just 21, had been beaten, tortured, and left to die on a fence post in Laramie, Wyoming because he was openly-gay. (thread)

Okay, let’s do this. I happened to be in the National Guard in 2005 and in Iraq for the first few months of that year. 🧵

So there's a lot of misinformation flying around about both VP candidates and their military records. I'm going to try to break them down here for those of you not familiar with how military service works. (I am a Marine veteran myself)

Someday some reporter will figure out how to explain to the American public how post-Covid inflation was a worldwide phenomenon caused by pent-up demand and that the Biden/Harris administration handled it better than every other country.

On Wednesday night, at the Democratic National Convention, America was introduced to 17 year-old Gus Walz, the son of Gwen Walz and Gov. Tim Walz, who instantly became a national treasure due to an unexpectedly emotional moment of pride and joy for his father. (thread)

she said it’s pizza night I’m tired

A lot of people haven’t personally seen federal government officials. That’s absolutely true. I’ve also learned that often does not mean that the federal government isn’t there. Here’s some examples why:

I need Dan Wuori to explain what’s going on with this. Why is tape so funny? Is it the surprising sound? facebook.com/share/r/FX24rG…

TizzyEnt As an epidemiologist I like to use data and evidence behind my decision making. Just going to drop this here. The choice is obvious. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

I've tried to approach this election unflinchingly & w/ clear eyes, but this is the absolute worst case scenario. We're in an epochal shift in American history of the worst sort, &, while it does not spell the absolute end of Amer liberal democracy, MAGA is a fatal illness. 1/