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i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I want to see only because my Dad wouldn't shut up about how it was different from what I saw growing up.

Donald Trump is the greatest gift to China’s economy in the history of forever.

In the 10 pm CST hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin from 1959. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org

FDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety Study The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,...

The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

He’s redistributing money from the urban cores that they’re terrorizing with ethnic pogroms to pay off his base for their loyalty

If it hasn't been said, I'll say it: No woman of color would ever be defended in this "she's just a smol bean" fashion & many Black, Latina, Asian & Indigenous women have had their lives & careers destroyed for nothing, or for far, far less. Same goes for trans women. These are just fucking facts.

If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

"The woman, a U.S. citizen who was born in Edina Minnesota, was zip-tied when she was detained near Nicollet Mall..."

www.fox9.com/news/u-s-cit...

YouTube video by Jessie Gender How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism

New video today! Why Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other wanna-be Silicon Valley gods love to cosplay Star Trek, all while stealing the very future they idolize from us all.

“How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism”
youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU

no idea

As the @theradr.bsky.social tells us time and again, there can be no true repentance without accountability and learning from your past mistakes and working to not make them again and well THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT THAT

Free speech won't defend itself Free speech needs an ally, and the left can fill that role.

Since the right is full of fake free speech supporters, the left should step up and reclaim the mantle of free speech.

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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 8: Miss Piggy in THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL - Tom + Lorenzo Yesterday, a depressed holiday princess! Today, a fierce Christmas mama. We figured we needed to return to a more traditional vibe after that last entry

Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 8: Miss Piggy's unChristmassy plaid dress in THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL and how it reveals that we're watching Miss Piggy, not Emily Cratchit
tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/chri...

Instead of just letting him say his magic spells and then go off to his next secret doctor's appointment, good follow-up questions here would be "*Why* will you be involved in the decision? What does it have to do with you? What power has the Constitution granted you over it?"

Pictured (L-R): Sylvester Stallone, apparently stung by an entire beehive; Paul Stanley, revealing that the KISS makeup was load bearing; and Donald Trump, recently poisoned by the Joker

Thread, long but very worth it.

just because folks want
to see and know everything,
does not mean you have to
show and tell everything.

~ skyah angelou

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

NEW:

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??

Iconic cartoon showing a single driver in a wide car taking up most of the street space. With many people crammed into the bus, bike and pedestrian space left over. Someone later added a voice box with the driver saying “Damn those bike paths and bus lanes taking all the space!”

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.

It’s probably just a coincidence that Trump is decorating the Oval Office just like a parlor at Jeffrey Epstein’s house.

At some point someone just needs to say “you are an indecent person, you are lying to cover the slaughter of defenseless men, you know you are lying, and even under the tenets of your own professed faith you will certainly burn in hell if you continue down this path”

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”

In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.