Frank McNally

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

🔥 REP. @votebo.com MITCHELL: “I just get so sick of over and over the hate… I chose to run for office to help people. I didn’t come here to say who can I poke in the eye today.”

Mitchell lights up Bully Bulso for the Pride flag ban, one of his many anti-🏳️‍🌈 bills.

H/T @tndemocrats.bsky.social

Weird ‘Little Red Dots’ in space are something we’ve never seen Astronomers are racing to understand mysterious ancient objects that pepper James Webb Space Telescope images

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

Wow.

Pope Leo: “We perceive in the ashes imposed on us the weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war. This is also reflected in the ashes of international law and justice among peoples, the ashes of entire ecosystems and harmony among peoples, the ashes of critical thinking.”

Hard to think which Putin is prouder of, Brexit or Trump.

The Pain Is the Plan MAGA is actively seeking to immiserate the country in order to cement their power over the rest of us.

"One of the best takeaways those of us on the left or the center can hold is that tariffs, the annihilation of the safety net, aggressive tax cuts, and all of their other fiscal policies are not about enrichment as an end unto itself: they’re about impoverishment as a means to reinforce hierarchy."

I am so proud to have worked on his 1984 presidential campaign.

It’s a long list. Here are a few.
Gotham and Greater Gotham by Edward Burrows and Mike Wallace: The Power Broker by Robert Caro; Table Money by Jimmy Breslin; The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

"A voteless people is a hopeless people." #AmeliaBoynton

BREAKING BLACK HISTORY TODAY, 2/10/26!

Laila Edwards, the first Black woman to play for USA's National Hockey Team, first Black Woman to score a goal in the Olympics.

(snatched from the other place)

Like what?

Did you know that Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras performed "Nessun Dorma” at the Dodgers Stadium in 1994. It captivated 1.3 billion viewers worldwide the night before the US World Cup final.

They didn’t sing in English.

It’s odd that the religious right is so upset about a halftime show that celebrated marriage, love, community, small business, hard work, and family. 🤔

"God calls us to dance to songs we can't hear." (David Byrne)

Great politics should look like a party you want to join

Leonard Bernstein
Nina Simone
Rage Against the Machine
Fred Astaire
Jean Stapleton
Anchovies

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

lataco.com/captive-loti...

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Finneas and Billie

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere.

www.lawdork.com/p/150-days-o...

Never tell a public school teacher that they have no experience. We don’t learn about poverty, hunger, homelessness, crime, and social justice from a book.

We face these issues head on every day in our classrooms.

Normalize calling these “Kavanaugh Stops.”

What is that action?

Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain.

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Climate denial - again- in the Times:

“Scientists have found that it is difficult to attribute the snow drought entirely to climate change.” The article makes this point twice but no “scientists” are actually cited.