Rachael

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology"

No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

No one expects "enjoy solving math problems" to be the primary objective of a college math class, but a lot of folks seem to think the point of English classes is to love the act of reading.

If you want to read a book for pleasure, read! If you want to be taught a skillset, take a class.

it is so embarrassing that we can’t get trump on the epstein stuff. After access Hollywood and Miss teen USA and the E Jean Carroll verdict, it’s like we let Jeffrey Dahmer go three times and then found him with a hundred human heads and we‘re standing there like are you SURE these aren’t yours

Marvel United.
My husband and I are foster parents. We currently have a 6-year-old boy who is obsessed with super heroes, especially Spider-Man. MU has been great for having fun, bonding with him, and helping him work on things like patience and planning ahead.

How could you look at this country and think what people want is more police roaming the street? Treating ICE like yet another militarized law enforcement agency is adding to the proble, not fixing anything.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.

Books that Changed the World
Literature of King Arthur
History of the City
Political Philosophy of Ancient and Medieval Europe
Ethics in Politics

A field of snow with grass poking up. In the center is a medium-size red and tan dog with purple ball in mouth running towards the camera.

History:The Civil War was fought over slavery
Them:HOW DARE YOU! Real causes were states rights & tariffs imposed by an out-of-control government, and those rebels were heroes.
News:Heroes are standing up against out-of-control government imposing tariffs & attacking states rights
Them: HOW DARE YO

I wrote about this in @spitfirenews.com yesterday, but the pretense for the federal government to brutalize you—up to and including murder—is now simply that you live in a place that swung blue during the last election. Just living there means they’ll literally call you a radical rioting agitator.

I saw Goody Proctor at the wine mom gang at the LAX Radisson.

Remember who you are, American.

Part of a nation that proudly went to war against the kind of fascists who embrace stupid white supremacist slogans like "one homeland, one people, one heritage"

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I live on a peninsula and am not sure which of the two rivers counts. My house is closer to the York River but I have to cross the James River to get to work so I see it much more often.

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Sepia-toned scene from the Wizard of Oz with Dorothy and Toto still in Kansas.

A movie that takes place where you’re from

For better or for worse

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

The first time I read a book and realized it was changing the way I thought about the world and was not just entertainment was Catch 22.

A large crowd of people under a sunny blue sky. Many hold signs protesting the totalitarian Trump regime.

I was there!

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

95 Reese's nailed to a door next to a pumpkin carved to look like Martin Luther

Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

My current foster kid (age 6) has a playlist he requests on any short drive. It has been 2 songs: Elton John, I’m Still Standing and Queen, Bicycle Race. He just added a third: The Doubleclicks cover of The Middle. @lasertheboy.bsky.social - you are in good company, man, even if not your original.

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!