Watching a professional #lacrosse game (Go cannons!) "They all look like they're trying to catch butterflies," my #mother says. "And you don't see a single #butterfly around, because they're too smart. They know they'd get stuck in a net."

“One of the things that drove Steven Spielberg crazy was people were constantly asking him if he and Eddie Deezen were related.” filmschoolrejects.com/i-wanna-hold-y…

Scientists: you should wash your hands because of Coronavirus. People: I'm gonna stop flying, hoard masks, work from home & totally rearrange my life. Also Scientists: the #ClimateCrisis will kill millions - we must use clean power & change how we get to work. People: No way.

Watch how the ultra-wealthy in America gradually raised the taxes of the poor and eventually bent the curve downward until they paid the lowest tax rate of all

This sentence is one of the most concise summaries of the past 50 years of American politics that I've seen: nytimes.com/2020/06/01/opi…

Facebook created a special exemption in its fact-checking system for climate denialists. Overruling its own fact-checkers, Facebook has decided to aid and abet the spread climate misinformation by deeming it "opinion." popular.info/p/facebook-cre…

'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital, who are not allowed to ride bikes, so are learning to skateboard instead #womensart #girlsinsport

Oh my god, Katie Porter.

BIDEN 2020: HE WON'T TRY TO KILL YOU

I'm a poll worker and this was in the just-before-we-start mailing and oh yeah, this is a totally normal election and America is totally fine, absolutely fine

It’s really disheartening to see people resorting to the idea that “history will judge them” when we’re in the middle of multiple intersecting crises that demonstrate how bad our society is at learning from history.

This. Good insight in this discussion of a form of "white" American culture, which has shaped corporate workplaces and is invisible to those in the inside, who take it for granted. Frustration comes from its thoughtless, blanket application, not necessarily the culture itself.

After 2 lectures I was hooked on Ancient Civilizations of North America, and after finishing all of them I had to accept I'm an Ed Barnhart fan now. You maybe spent 5 mins on Cahokia in school, but there is *so much more*. The Great Courses The Great Courses wondrium.com/ancient-civili…