We’ll always have his calming voice while we’re drowning in the East River

buncha large adult sons up in there

whispers, I think it can see me

Georgia Republicans are on edge as Democrats target 2 Public Service Commission seats Republicans are leaning hard into the red-meat playbook to defend two little-known Public Service Commission members they fear could lose next month.

Very unusually, *Georgia* will hold statewide races this fall—a pair of elections for the 5-member Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities. The panel is all-GOP right now, but Republicans are worried about losing, reports @bluestein.bsky.social at the @ajc.com.

James Michael Johnson, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is fanatically devoted to Donald Trump and expresses his adoration by endeavoring to give Trump everything he wants, despite never having heard a word Trump has written or said or any specific account of anything Trump has done.

She’s obviously talking about when CBS was growing up.

For sure.

This was fascinating!

Yeah, people are saying he’s dumb and maybe he is, but this here is mental illness.

in the bulwark podcast interview he talked about how he’s got a soft spot for Bari Weiss because she helped his kid, and
he didn’t seem to realize that reaching out to help Jake Tapper’s kid 1) might not be an amazing act of selflessness and 2) has diddly squat to do with qualifications to run CBS.

This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Meanwhile in #Portland

WW2 style poster saying "This man is your FRIEND. He fights for FREEDOM." and a picture of the Portland inflatable frog

I will repost every portland frog joke

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Scout Finch tactic.

Never heard this cover before, but it’s brilliant.

Also, I listened to the original in high school, while “classic rock” radio was playing hits like “Lola” and “Walk on the Wild Side”

Some people in my generation somehow missed all that and were shocked to discover trans people at middle age.

this right here.

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the Bronx and Harlem at our paper shredding events — we cleared out old junk mail, built community, danced, took family portraits and enjoyed frozen treats (it still felt a lot like summer). Thanks to everyone who joined.

Is that firefighter business casual?

Contact the Governor | Governor of California You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.

Reminder that @governor.ca.gov is reportedly considering vetoing SB79, the best housing bill to clear the CA legislature in decades.

It would be a *disaster*, substantively & for Newsom's political future. Really hope he doesn't self-immolate.

Tell him!

It looks like a diseased lung!

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

You are correct, it’s interrogation/questioning that triggers the requirement to mirandize. but you must always stfu.