I highly recommend reading The Vampire Lestat on the beach while drinking a beer….speaking from experience

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

it turns out the reddit atheist was an important predator in the ecosystem

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

related to another bizarre feature of political discussion in the US: that it's supposed to mark you as reasonable/bipartisan/fair or whatever that you take these discourses on their own terms. as opposed to marking you as (at best!) a mark

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2w ago

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w ago

fascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about!

The thing about someone ‘improperly receiving benefits’ is I don’t care. Oh no did someone get food or health care? Good!

It’s not a joke!!! @dndpodcast.bsky.social is recording a double episode RIGHT NOW at twitch.tv/geeklyinc

Picking up various old lady hobbies is one of the best things I’ve done for my mental health…..why send myself into a depression hole by scrolling when I can watch an educational video about native plant gardening while crocheting or cross stitching???

Taps the sign

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer

An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

pressherald.com

it amazes me how many people have made it to adulthood and not noticed yet how many if not most vocal critics of Rural America are people who are themselves FROM rural America, and who would rather eat broken glass than go back

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

We’re live!!!! Talking about the dastardly crimes of animals in our yards (and eventually playing D&D) twitch.tv/geeklyinc

infected lettuce entering my body to cause explosive diarrhea

I was always gonna boycott the Harry Potter TV series but I would urge anyone on the fence to stop engaging with the franchise as long as JKR is using her proceeds to fund her continued attacks on trans people and allies. Reheated nostalgia slop just isn’t worth it.

God killing Lindsey Graham when we were all waiting for Mitch McConnell.

Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell are demonstrating the kind of leadership that I hope other Republican legislators follow.

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Take your cue from the fascist in chief who is not sad at all and continues to only think of himself. He isn't mourning that man at all.

I'll be joining them soon! Help raise money for a good cause and have some fun?!?!? Sign me up!

Trying Casually Games@tryingcasualgames.bsky.social · 4w ago

We’re live with game two of our 12 hour charity stream for @cmdrsealed and @translifeline with some amazing creators ! These are just some of the amazing prizes yall can win for donating to #translifeline . The more you donate the higher tier of prizes and gets you into the raffle of prizes !! P1o2

NEW from @gregsargent.bsky.social: it sure sounds like @ICEgov is trying to stop the witnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo from speaking out. All three of the people in the van have been kept in detention and now ICE is pressuring them all to agree to be deported. /reposted with correct name

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

The whole @dndpodcast.bsky.social crew is back together again after so long!! 😭 Live now at twitch.tv/geeklyinc

I think this is why it’s making me so angry. Feels like there is no political tendency that actually takes us seriously. You can have an extremely poisonous if not outright violent attitude toward half your constituents and nobody considers it a problem

Brooke Pierce@bpie7.bsky.social · last mo.

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

An island-wide blackout hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

If he dies today I'll celebrate the 4th of July every year that I can promise you