Kolya Flower

genuinely can think of little more miserable than playing NHL playoff hockey with a migraine, solidarity to my union brother on this issue

every time I have a migraine I think of William Nylander having to skip playoff games while a star of the playoffs accurséd Maple Leafs due to migraine and know that I am doing the right thing by taking a day off from the spreadsheet factory

Nemo and the Princess have gone for a ride on a large elephant. They switch to a car and ride a giant loop and then off a ramp into the sky, while the moon looks on smiling. Before they land, Nemo wakes up in his bed.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from October 7, 1906.

if he was really about that life, he'd have been tithing - tipping in advance to ensure good service

Democrats should talk about rural/exurban areas like this

"Pastors raping kids at megachurches and the congregation doesn't even care! sick, perverted culture. would rather be on a billionaire's untested submarine than driving through a Pulte subdivision 50 miles from a real American city"

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

I feel like "objective reality exists and we can experience it" is one of the strongest points of agreement for the left-liberal coalition at this point.

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

Maybe 100 kids who will know this thrill in Maryland

"Everyone cheered for their parlay" is a more perverse fantasy than anything ever depicted on PornHub

I am no fan of carceral solutions for social problems BUT Jon Hamm should be sent to The Hague for being in an ad where beautiful city slickers get every hick in a dive bar to cheer for their sports gambling parlay

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Still Life with Dead Birds (and a Basket of Oysters), by Germain Ribot, 1860-80

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

An intricate tile floor in brown, yellow, green and tan in a small vestibule inside a Chicago 3 flat.

From our beautiful city.

ICE/CBP’s pattern of testing & escalating:
- grab ppl off the street
- grab ppl from court
- assault protesters
- arrest protesters
- bigger/more raids
- tear gas/pepper ball protesters
- kill an immigrant
- raid whole apt building
- target/arrest journos
- tear gas public street
- cuff alderperson

I joke that my job is the Millennial Dream: a job, union, in my field, mandated 40-hour work week

not whatever this rise and grind shit is

I am once again calling on state governors to mobilize their National Guards to escort congressmembers into ICE facilities so they can DO THEIR LAWFULLY ASSIGNED FEDERAL DUTIES

The US Department of Education “in partnership” w/ America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Moms for Liberty, TPUSA, Heritage, etc. recently launched a new civics education coalition.

AFPI’s team is led by Katie Gorka (Sebastian’s wife) & by Erika Donalds of Moms for Liberty infamy. 1/

Traffic stop in Benton leads to ICE detention, deportation risk What began as a routine traffic stop in Benton ended with a man jailed, detained by immigration authorities for a month, and now living under the threat of deportation —

Arkansas police pulled over an Indian GrubHub driver wh ois married to a U.S. citizen. They found a bottle of Opium-brand perfume, arrested him for narcotics possession, and turned him over to ICE, where he was held for 30 days.

He has now been stripped of his immigration status.

That said, the Eric Andre ad did, in its way, emphasize that sports gambling becomes a kind of sickness or madness

bless his weird manic soul, no idea how an adman thought he was a dude who'd make it look cool and fun

the ads are wretched, but one cannot even escape it at live games where various dudes and bros talk constantly among themselves about the state of their parlays and chirp that "Vegas didn't like that!" at every foul call or overturned score

god help us but there's no denying that Trump has a bitchy reality TV villain edit charisma that appeals to many but Miller and Vance are fundamentally repellant in a way that makes them Bad TV

I guess I do have some hope that as the mainstream national media will change tack as they realize they aren't getting fun, clicky Oh, That Wacky Trump! coverage but instead are training cameras on Sewer Mutant Miller and Most Annoying Dude in Your Grad Seminar Vance

An immediate large donation to the first Democratic candidate for national office to call these fucking dweebs out for the bitch-ass losers they are

nice of these chumps to pen their primary opponent's attacks ads

god help us all but Tumblr is the real everything site

A child playing with Star Trek figures. Guinan: "Oh no! Barclay's depressed! Time for an insightful chat!" Barclay: "Thank you, Guinan! You really helped me put things in perspective!"

The lowest action trash is preferable to wholesome family entertainment. When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable. (1969)

was listening to Donny Hathaway while working in Malawi and one of my local coworkers started listening as well and said, "you can hear his tears in every word"