Karen Baskins 🇨🇦

How exquisite is this?

So anyway it was on this day in 2009 that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, so they give the Peace Prize to people pushing to go AWAY from autocracy? I see the problem.

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

On this day in 1872, a three-person arbitration commission awarded the San Juan Islands off the coast of British Columbia to the United States by setting the marine boundary through the Haro Strait. This resolved the "Pig War" that began in 1859.

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

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Now you’ve reminded me of “The Hills of Tanchico” song from the TV show, and I thank you for that.

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Does anyone know where sis is now?!?!

I got questions.

While I like some of the actors in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series, fuck all of them.

We miss you Donald it's not the same with Stephen the Munchkin Miller tweeting at us from your account.

Sydney Sweeney Desperately Fishing For Pet Names To Avoid Calling Grown Man ‘Scooter’

Sydney Sweeney Desperately Fishing For Pet Names To Avoid Calling Grown Man ‘Scooter’

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the tariffs go away or if the trade war ends, because the real issue is the Fascism.

We're not visiting the US while ICE is terrorizing minorities. We're not buying crap from a country that sends troops against their own people. That bombs random civilian ships.

Pam Bondi stands before a sea of inflatable frogs and says their lives will be spared if they give up the one known as Portland Frog.

“I am Portland Frog!” cries one.

“I am Portland Frog!” yells another.

Soon they all take up the cry and she quails in fear.

FOR WE ARE ALL PORTLAND FROG

Authorities have arrested a Florida man for intentionally starting the fire that burned Los Angeles's Pacific Palisades. So why does it feel like the fire was started by a cat-eating immigrant from war-ravaged Portland, Oregon?

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

Well that’s a huge fuck no!

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

@ragingpencils.bsky.social

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

Here’s a good deal on the start of the Bridge Trilogy

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