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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

for the weekend crowd: take a moment today to explore what's on the ballot next month!

it's not all about NYC, VA, and NJ: i put together a guide of the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.

explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

I totally scheduled COVID and RSV shots with CVS in Pennsylvania for this coming weekend, but then freaked out about the idea that my insurance might use that check box as evidence of a pre-existing condition in the future and cancelled.

This dude on the news who decided to wear a tie...did absolutely nobody around him say: "Hey man, let me fix your tie"? Obviously no, but...

@waywordradio.org , "Devil strip"...that is awesome! I have never had a term to explain that part of the property.

Trump picks Dr. Oz to run Medicare, Medicaid office as CMS administrator President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he was picking Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

I'm beginning to think this is not a terrible dream that I'm going to wake up from. nypost.com/2024/11/19/u...

While I appreciate The Onion's official endorsement, I can't help but notice that your venerable paper hasn't covered the opinion of undecided voters this year.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #395,537!

A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles.

Thinking about that a lot.

It's really strange to consider that Elon Musk is probably only the second most insane person to have ever run Twitter

Progra~1

It’s Trump dismantling NATO and abandoning Europe to Putin.

if I offered you ten million dollars to guess what this is in reply to you could not do it

cartoon about israel/gaza

christ. I was digging through my archives and found this.

FROM 2014.

The T.T.C.U. Okay, here’s another completely silly one, brought to you by the necessities of early holiday deadlines.�� You can help me keep this cartooning thing sustainable by � joining my weekly newsle...

The TTCU www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Sparky's List subscribers have seen tomorrow's cartoon, today, and know that I am doing my best to make "crime roomba" a thing.

www.wnep.com/article/news...

NASA sends updates to the Voyager probes (Gizmodo):
gizmodo.com/interstellar...

oooh I know, I could base it on my own cat, a tuxie named Felix

I see no problems here!

Mein erster Samstag mit Bluesky. #hello #community #bluesky

Medicare has announced it will negotiate prices on 10 popular prescription drugs, making them more affordable. Joe Biden is getting the job done. And we, the voters, should support him to finish the job.

How many dictionaries does the normal middle-aged person own? (I'm pretty sure I'm on the crazy side of "too many", but just doing an informal poll)

Voyager! https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/world/voyager-2-communication-blackout-scn/index.html

Absolutely loving "Good Omens" S2

I am humbled and honored to find that within the first 24 hours of being invited to join this site, I have one (1) follower that is an AI bot. I shall now proceed to quote Edgar Rice Borroughs: "Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand."

Has anyone else grown up being taught to "take initiative" in a new job? I have no idea what the original idea was. I have two peeps working for me who keep doing that and they cause me more work to fix their stuff, rather than if they had just sat there doing nothing. STAHP!

Here's my obligatory initial post on Bluesky. It is windy today in PA.