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A voice that weaponized scripture has gone quiet.
Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, & Family Policy Alliance, has died today at the age of 89.
May the thousands of children and those within the LGBTQ community that suffered find some sparks of peace today.

the only sentence I keep coming back to when thinking about the current state of the Democratic Party elite

And Phibbus’ car
Shall shine from far,
And make and mar
The foolish Fates.

There are So Many frightened people, especially in the MAGA zone. It is a function of their role as prey to the grifters who make up the other half of that ecosystem’s Yin & Yang.

The reason the Trump administration has so many incompetent opportunists who make bad choices is because the only criterion for getting any of these jobs is that you've shown loyalty to Donald Trump—and that's a huge sign that you are an incompetent person who makes bad choices.

man it's getting so you can't even give unimaginable power to the worst people alive without things going all sideways on you

The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.

If kids got raped by clowns as often as they get raped by preachers it would be against the law to take your kids to the circus.

My only Tesla owning friend just told me of being scared shitless driving over the gap here in Vermont the other day. There is no way to downshift, and the antilock brakes just made him slide, so he crossed the center line and prayed to avoid ramming the car in front of him.

Well, it was in a private message in which I had asked if he’d read it.

Photo of the Our Town play program held in front of the Chandler Music Hall (Randolph, VT) stage.

Saw “Our Town” in Vermont (while half the state was busy protesting), with Noah Kahan songs sung by the cast at the top of each act, and the Director gave a shout out to @hesherman.bsky.social for his wonderful book, “Another Day’s Begun.”

every news story is basically IMPOSSIBLY BLATANT CORRUPT THING TRUMP OR MUSK JUST DID and it doesn't seem great

You all understand the assignment.

Failure is not an option, internet. 🚀

For your Friday fun.

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Vandals

van·dal
/ˈvand(ə)l/
noun
1. a person who deliberately destroys or damages public or private property.

They are Vandals.

van·dal
/ˈvand(ə)l/
noun
1. a person who deliberately destroys or damages public or private property.

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

This is how it is done.
Obstruct the kakistocracy.

Times Square bobblehead carousel

Obstruct the kakistocracy.

Obstruct the kakistocracy.
By any means necessary.

Obstruct the kakistocracy.

Obstruct the kakistocracy.

Obstruct the Kakistocracy

My annual January 29 commemoration: It’s Anton Chekhov's birthday. Long for the life you don’t have. Engage in unrequited or doomed love. Praise art. Drink vodka. Write sad comedies. Yearn for Moscow.

How long before the return of Jim Crow?

Oh. I think I was able to install a “classic” version, sans AI.