Is there any hope that after all of it crashes post Trump, that we’ll get universal healthcare? Just asking.

The joy of a Terry Pratchett reread is coming across the phrase “gently dried out on the stove of education” and having it stay with you throughout a day.

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The Second City e.t.c.'s 50th Revue - Reality Detox: The Improv Experience - Splash Magazines Worldwide

The Second City has debuted its 50th e.t.c. Revue, Reality Detox: The Improv Experience! Opening night was June 25 and is now on an open run, giving improv and sketch comedy enthusiasts multiple oppor...

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Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

Real life version of an I Think You Should Leave sketch.

Constant Screaming@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 4mo ago

4Chan Christian guns-and-God conservatives plotted to bomb the MMA at the White House over the Epstein Files but were foiled when one of their moms overheard an encrypted voice chat when she delivered hot pockets to the basement where her son lives. Not kidding.

"I reject the Constitution's explicit rules barring the president from profiting financially from his office."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

BARTIROMO: Democrats want to ban the president and his family from crypto endeavors SEN. KEVIN CRAMER: One of the thing Democrats are never going to accept is that we have a business person as president. I reject the idea that somehow Donald Trump has to be exempt from being successful.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

also, if your take is “these protests aren’t doing real work and people need to be organizing mutual aid/community resistance/etc”: you will not find a more fertile recruiting ground a lot of people who go to these things are absolutely thrilled at the idea they can do more talk to them

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1. A glimpse of water framed by trees. 2. Only being halfway through an excellent novel with time and a cup of tea by your side. 3. When a joke lands exactly the way you thought it would in front of a sold out house.

Douglas Cheape@douglascheape.bsky.social · 7mo ago

1. The irrepressible laughter that bubbles up the moment a fierce wind lifts you onto your toes. 2. Being dwarfed by the ocean. 3. The warmth of a dog’s chin on your knee.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Life lesson: a roasted chicken takes as long as a roasted chicken takes

I met a traveler from an ancient land…

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We all know how this ends.

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond

ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send

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Sheldon Patinkin used to tell a story about someone telling Andrea Martin how much they liked her on SCTV and adding that they loved the other three women on the show with her. All of those three women were Catherine O'Hara. Brilliant, funny, able to be over the top and simultaneously vulnerable.

NPR@npr.org · 8mo ago

O'Hara enjoyed a six-decade career in TV and films playing sometimes over-the-top, but endearing characters. "I loved playing cocky untalented people," she told Fresh Air in 1992. n.pr/4q2AuZT

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Former special counsel Jack Smith offered a robust defense of his derailed efforts to prosecute Donald Trump, telling lawmakers in his first public testimony that the president “willfully broke the very laws that he took an oath to uphold.” https://wapo.st/4qFjsSX

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

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In improv, there’s an adage “play the scene you’re in” I think we’d all like to be in a world where the left could argue over minor points of policy. But this moment demands that we all work together to bring our country back from the move to fascism.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 9mo ago

BAD NEWS: You're on an improv team

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

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As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Important context for claims that the Nicole Renee Good was obstructing/assaulting officers before she was shot & killed: The last time immigration agents shot a woman (Marimar Martinez, Chicago) they made similar claims. Prosecutors have already dropped the charges www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting echoes Franklin Park, Marimar Martinez shootings during Operation Midway Blitz

The deadly Minneapolis shooting by an ICE agent that killed a woman Wednesday morning recalls shootings by federal immigration agents in Chicago during the height of Operation Midway Blitz in the fall...

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The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

Like there is also a huge media-based pipeline of content designed to get men to gamble on sports but no one is postulating that this was a demand-driven phenomenon of men with "having excess money" problems.