Captain Jon Bend Sinister

Here's the aurora at regular speed last night in Anchorage, AK. This is my favorite type of aurora, fast moving with pink/white tones at the bottom of green curtains. 😍

Big Bird on the cover of To Kill A Mockingbird.

muppetized book covers: thread

The only kid rock that ever mattered was School House Rock

Oh for sure. But the claim the price tag is hard to ignore? I don't think so lol

Grifting used to be kind of a quaint little feature of our society. There were like three guys in cheap suits with basically "I'm gonna do a swindle" tattooed on their foreheads. It was amusing in an annoying way. Now that the president has made grifting the national pastime, it is decidedly less so

"doing everything we can... I had a MEETING (emphasis in audio) in the Roosevelt Room..."

Man of action, Wizard of Oz

like this has great potential to fuck with everyone without regard for states rights

I suppose by '3D' they mean 'textured'
And by 'hard to ignore' they mean 'incredibly simple to ignore'

It's almost as if appeasement to fascists never works

'SchoolAI' what a cursed trademark

Narrator: And he is right. He was abso-fucking-lutely betrayed

Turns out poor people spent a lot of money on tea and sugar *because they were poor* and that was their inadequate replacement for unaffordable things like cooking fuel, food with actual nutritional content, and enough calories to slave away over a loom for 12 hours.

Good for the northern Irish, the Scots, maybe the welsh and nobody else.

I feel this fish

Courts & Law Supreme Court won't hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court's conservative majority to revisit one of the court's most significant decisions in recent years. Today at 9:42 a.m. CT

The Supreme Court not taking Kim Davis’ crackpot appeal doesn’t “indicate” a lack of appetite to overturn Obergefell—just that this was a ridiculous legal argument. Pathetic framing here by the Washington Post. There is absolutely a ticking clock on marriage equality. DO NOT CONGRATULATE

"zohran made everyone too happy how do we remind them what the democrats are all about?"

Even the senators who are retiring and think they won't have to face the wrath of furious Democratic voters should know that their last name is about to become so toxic that not even a goddamn nonprofit is going to want you on the board.

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

Sold out for a promise by notable oath breakers to have a chance to pass a bill in a hostile environment

The only reasonable conclusion is that many dem's in the higher echelons of the party want to help GOP save face.

OMG this is amazing... never heard of this before. thank you

Commencing a binge watch of season 1

This painting, by John SInger Sargent, features a woman in what was considered a masculine outfit of dark short jacket, gray blouse with high collar and black bowtie, black belt, and white skirt. Her proper right arm holds a boater hat at her proper right hip; her proper left arm is bent with her hand on her hip She stands forthright in the foreground of this painting. Her husband, at the back left and in shadow, is dressed in white, his arms crossed in front of him.

This wonderful photograph reminds me of "Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes" (1897), by painter John Singer Sargent, collection Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.

Furiously honking at the driverless cab to improve the algorithm

Really enjoyed this article on at least a couple of levels: just well written, good story with a lesson

Look. Another horrible person died

I'll take one with a pupaccino please

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

Labrador's Dildo is not a doggy treat

Bondi brought up this in front of Congress like it was some horrible crime and it wasn't even related to the questions she was asked