😳 I don’t think “nearly orgasmic” and “no one would know” really belong together.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Cassandra Rabbit
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Painter. Closet poet. Possibly wise, but definitely on my way to wizened.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h agoOoh, first block! You had me—not!—at “Elon supporter,” honey bunch.
Who knew that tooth brushing and social development are radical leftist ideology? Good thing the regime is on the case!
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
nytimes.com
I follow intelligent people on Bluesky. If that automatically excludes MAGA no-hopers, too effing bad.
Virginia S. O'Possum@virginiaopossum.bsky.social · yesterdayBluesky is a party I attend to talk to people I like and have a nice time.
“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language www.openculture.com/2024/07/tsun...
“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. Ger...
openculture.com
Gift link -- no paywall. Stunning reporting here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
nytimes.com
I voted in the Republican primary just so I could vote against Cawthorn. In many ways, Edwards—an arrogant SOB who dismisses constituents’ concerns out of hand—is much, much worse.
Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 2d agoSomething about that seat man – Edwards' predecessor was the scandal-ridden Madison Cawthorn. Texts that will make you physically uncomfortable, personalized Adam Sandler puzzles, "approximately 30" types of ice cream ahead (if you dare): talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-e...
It was a scary, scary time. Those first few days I felt as if we had been trapped in the movie “Contagion.” The vaccines were a godsend, and I continue to be grateful for them.
Virginia S. O'Possum@virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 3d agoSuddenly reminded that liquor stores stayed open during the early Covid restrictions because public health officials didn't want already-horrifically-overburdened hospitals to have to deal with an influx of people sick with alcohol withdrawal.
🤦♀️ NOW I understand why he thought Democrats believed in “six genders.”
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d agoPerimeters, not parameters. An excursion, not an incursion. Six genders, not cisgender. Insane asylums, not asylum. Transgender mice, not transgenic mice. The IQ of a potato.
Amazing work. I never knew that William Harnett’s work had precedents in seventeenth-century Dutch masterworks, but I imagine he knew these well.
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3d agoTrompe l'oeil letter rack w/ materials for writing. And grooming. And a gold medal from the emperor! By Samuel van Hoogstraten, born on this day in 1627.
Don’t understand the fuss? Imagine someone buying rare baseball cards, scanning them, then turning them into mulch. The physical form of the book—the printing, the attention to the binding and typography—tells us almost as much about the world in which the book came to be as the words themselves.
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
theguardian.com
WISCONSIN: “We’ve been told doing better isn’t possible. That’s bullshit. All we need to do is fight together.” 💪🏽 @francescahongwi.bsky.social
A good reason to support ProPublica once again.
ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 5d ago🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇
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We have an administration that says it wants us to have more babies, but won’t help military families have them, and is stripping Head Start of any meaningful oversight. Makes you wonder (not really, we all know) who exactly they want to have healthy, happy babies.
Tammy Duckworth@duckworth.senate.gov · 5d agoLast year, wide bipartisan majorities in Congress voted to expand IVF coverage for our servicemembers. But not this year. Apparently, we can afford the largest defense budget ever, but not a fraction of that to help our troops build their families. Outrageous.
Not a fan of this new style of "gotcha journalism" where journalists ask basic questions and present objective facts in an attempt to get you.
But that one has... spots! Learning to accept children who are different in this feline family from 18th century Korea on #WorldTigerDay
In a stunning setback for Donald Trump and his crusade to decimate the Justice Department, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote to nominate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the permanent attorney general post has been put on hold.
What if we took a malignant narcissist with late-stage dementia, surrounded him only with sycophantic loyalists, and put him in charge of the most powerful nation on Earth?
Getting a sudden firehouse of shit like this on Facebook now. Coincidentally, Meta and NewsMax have a deal. www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/n...
Newsmax's Greg Kelly: "This arrangement with Meta is going to be great for us, for them, and for you. And I think for me too, actually. I have a stake in this, big time."
mediamatters.org
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d agoHoly shit
“The Trump administration exempted natural diamonds from his latest batch of tariffs — after a Belgian group gifted President Trump a gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds…[It] features two large diamond ‘Ts’ on either side, and ‘45’ and ‘47’ ringed in diamonds in a Superman-style logo.“
Trump’s Tariff Exemptions Include Diamonds, Oil and Gas, Copper and Other Items (Gift Article)
A new round of tariff carve-outs has raised familiar questions about who should receive the lucrative exceptions, and why.
nytimes.com
“Scheming demons dressed in kingly guise Beating down the multitude and scoffing at the wise The hypocrites are slandering the sacred halls of truth Ancient nobles showering their bitterness on youth Can't we find the minds that made us strong? Oh, can't we learn to feel what's right?”
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
YouTube video by RushVEVO
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The White House wants warning signs outside the #Smithsonian because it claims Americans are being misled about their own history. So I put one where it belongs. #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #TheWhiteHouse #Satire #DrawnAndQuartered
The Sibyl Agrippina, painted by my colleague Abraham Janssens of Antwerp. It's his day today.
