Stephanie Stokes

Oooh, I had one like that! Tick tick tick and those radium-coated hands!

Just ten thousand reflections of my own sweet self

A 1622 Shakespeare book open to a page with a depiction of the bard.

And Shakespeare!

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.

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Some of those giant golden statues you foreshadowed, maybe on the Capitol steps à la Rocky

4 (and also 6)

Love the Italian book title!

This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America Steve Bannon runs the new vast right-wing conspiracy—and he wants to take down both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush.

That article also was the first time I read about “flooding the zone with s***”
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I have now seen kpop demon hunters and my main takeaway is: more derpy demon tiger, please

Geez, Chris

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I’m glad you’re back in our time zone!

Nope!

Screen grab of a Zoom call in which a hapless lawyer is seen through a cat filter.

"I'm not a cat"

No one gets my frequent allusions to Fibber McGee's closet

Where does one display all those life-sized figures??

Congratulations, but I will really miss your insights. I hope you continue to offer them by some means.

Screen shot of the opening credits of the New Orleans TV show Frank’s Place

I’m not sure I could even watch Tremé again, TBH. But you’re right — THIS is a treat

I watched the trailer for the NatGeo special and decided nope.

I was so glad to learn that @mattpwolf1.bsky.social would be making this doc (knowing what a great job he did with Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project).

As a municipal reporter, I kept a Hagstrom local atlas in my car at all times

Nice view!

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

You're right, it is pretty great! 😻

Water in the Palmetto Canal piling up against the S Carrollton Ave bridge around 4 pm 👀#NOLAWeather

Yes!

Speaking of "waste fraud and abuse", Elon's little sociopath-grunions cut several hundred thousand of NEH grants that help fund the Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine). sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/d...

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An orange and white cat snoozes on a desk in front of a computer, worn out by the day’s news.

Milo contemplates a 90-day pause