The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
I need my credit cards to make it harder on me to spend money. I should have to do a long division equation or solve a troll’s riddles three
Every day I wake up and check the news to see if it's The Big Day. I can't wait for The Big Day!!
i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying
Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
Issa Rae just canceled her sold-out event and Shonda Rhimes resigned from the board amid Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center
Issa Rae, Shonda Rhimes withdraw from Kennedy Center amid Trump takeover
The “Scandal” creator has resigned from the Kennedy Center board, while the “Insecure” creator canceled her sold-out event.
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If anyone is dealing with family estrangement this is such an important read (from the brilliant Tara Westover, author of the memoir Educated)
molly@mollysneed.bsky.social · 2y agowww.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I’m just tired. Tired of all his bullshit. Tired of hearing about his daily bullshit. Tired of those who propagate his bullshit. Tired of all those who voted for this bullshit. Just tired.
it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · 2y agoIncredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Any aspect of popular culture not immediately understood by 40+ year old white dudes is DEI, apparently.
Kendrick Lamar uses the Superbowl half-time show to put out a piece of deeply impressive performance art that examines black masculinity and American patriotism in a way that enrages the right wing commentators. New York Times: OMG, he wore bell bottom jeans!
Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"
So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Pentagon is doubling the number of media outlets losing their workspaces. OUT: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CNN, Politico, The Hill, The War Zone, and NPR. IN: New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OANN, Newsmax, The Free Press, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart.
At this point, we should just replace the United States with 4chan.
"what else can we do to fight this???" the reason no one has answered your question is that the answers violate the terms of service. go read the TOS and that should help you figure it out!
I would love any legacy media to report on this administration in a way that reflected reality and not mealy mouthed double speak
*has two week continuous night and day panic attack* good how about you
I like how people say "manage your depression" like it's a stock portfolio but you're heavily invested in sadness
remember a few years ago when we could barely find a Popeye’s chicken sandwich, and now we can barely find the will to live
(me as a tour guide leading you around existence right now) I don’t know what any of this fucking is. They changed it man
my brain needs crutches from this month and also everything else
right now, Mary Oliver would just be like “wow, we are fucked. I got nothin”
I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
PBS- Secrets of the Dead-The Bombing of Auschwitz. Recom if you're inclined. My takeaway is that we're screwed. We have no competent leadership.They should have had Musk arrested the 2nd he went into that bldg. But they took a holiday instead. We need leaders with brains & balls. There are none.