Not a bad move if you can afford it. Subscription culture is bad news overall.

Will Stancil Kevin McCarthy repeatedly showing up to get elected Speaker

Will Stancil I Have No Speaker and I Must Adjourn is one of the most terrifying Harlan Ellison stories.

This thread on settler-colonialism, and how the financial interests of wealthy land speculators helped drive the American Revolution, is a must-read

My Dante's Inferno of Snacking: 1) Almonds 2) Medjool Dates 3) White Cheddar Cheez-its 4) Buttery Toffee Crunch & Munch 5) Double-Stuf Oreos 6) Chocolate Teddy Grahams w/ Butter Cream Cake Frosting 7) Roll of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough bitten right into like a Slim Jim

Looks like I left DC right before "having classified documents in your home" became the new "let's get an air fryer"

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Presidents suck, yes, but we'd all have been way better off if our parents had listened to this president about clean energy 45 years ago. Wonder how many classified analyses he saw of what was coming with the climate

Fear, anger, grief, frustration, and anxiety about the future we face are all normal. Despair, however, is lame. And the capitalists profit off it, because despair dissuades you from action and funnels your feelings into consumption and distraction. Fight it, fight them.

Book 2/52 for 2023: Reading "Land" by Simon Winchester. Begins with this banger of a quote by Rousseau:

We should start policing hair transplants like the Right does with gender-affirming care and abortion. “Life starts at the follicle.” “It’s a phase, not science.” “You can’t change biology.” “It isn’t safe to have these (hair) groomers around children.”

Knoxville Cops help kill a sick woman and mock, insult and abuse her as she does. Hospital is equally culpable. But they "broke no laws". This is the system working as designed

Hey Oprah Winfrey, this school district just banned the novel "Push" by Sapphire, on which "Precious", a movie you helped produce, is based. Wanna put in a good word or a phone call for the people fighting this new wave of book bans? yorkdispatch.com/story/news/edu…

Hey Tyler Perry, this school district just banned the novel "Push" by Sapphire, on which "Precious", a movie you helped produce, is based. Wanna put in a good word or a phone call for the people fighting this new wave of book bans? yorkdispatch.com/story/news/edu…

Hey Terry Matalas, is it really the "entire fleet" in Sol system for Frontier Day? We saw many fleets of hundreds of ships in the Dominion War, 200+ Inquiry class in Picard S1. Is what we see in Ep9 is a single "sector fleet" for Sol or something? Or is it ALL of Starfleet?

Did you guys hear that the guy who killed the public option died today? My deepest condolences go out to the family of the man who killed the public option and to those families who lost family because that man killed the public option