Beth Brezenoff

Wow, thank you so much for posting this.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it

full stop

A cute small brown dog lying on the top of a couch cushion giving side eye

Cricket

Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

At my grandma’s it would’ve been a javenport

ALA response to White House assault on IMLS To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities.  As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

Are we sure it’s a B? Could be a G or a 6

Juice boxes!?

Asa’s has great rugelach!

I'm going to keep saying this: A party that won't defend my child's rights is not a party to which I can belong.

Can’t believe I haven’t seen a single skeet about Hot Frosty

A HAPPY THOUGHT Assuming this is the last day of my life (which might mean it is almost the first), I'm struck blind but my blindness is bright. Prepare for what's known here as death; have no fear of that strange word forever. Even I can see there's nothing there to be afraid of: having already been to forever I'm unable to recall anything that scared me, there, or hurt. What frightened me, apparently, and hurt was being born. But I got over that with no hard feelings. Dying, I imagine, it will be the same deal, lonesomer maybe, but surely no more shocking or prolonged-- It's dark as I recall, then bright, so bright

"What frightened me, apparently, and hurt
was being born. But I got over that"

Franz Wright