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My rule of thumb for trump-putin conference analysis is if it doesn't mention how unusual it is for the meeting to not be held in a third-party country like, say, UAE, and specifically on why *putin* rather than just trump would agree to that, then the analysis is probably not going to be worth much

My favorite Doctor and companion

Third cousins. I’m third cousins with, like, half of Western Pennsylvania.

Daguerreotype image of the hand of fishing boat captain and slavery abolitionist Jonathan Walker showing the “SS” (for “Slave Stealer”) that the US Govt branded on his palm after he tried in 1844 to help runaway slaves in Florida find freedom in the West Indies (Massachusetts Historical Society) 🗃

April 2010 cover of magazine D

Interview with me

In April 2010 I was interviewed by Italy's version of the NYTimes weekend Magazine

I know I answered all the interview questions like a smart ass, but I don't remember what I said and I can't read Italian.

I had so few examples of my illustrations to send, I gave them drawings of my friends

And the rest of us are going to cancel you for using the climate-destroying plagiarism engine. Shame on you.

Pagliacci goes to see Pagliacci. He's in the audience, but also on the stage. "Is this, fuck," he thinks. "Am I in a Lynch film right now. Am I in Mullholland Drive." Captured by confusion, horror, and strange, exultant sorrow, the clown must admit he is no longer depressed

From the network that gave you Big Brother…. Big Brother!

3 new songs and 3 new albums to check out this weekend 3 new songs and 3 new albums to check out this weekend

Lucy Dacus drops two new singles just a few months after her last album, Forever Is A Feeling.

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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Why White People Brought Children to Witness Violent Lynchings This was an effort to socially condition the next generation

Fresh words ✨

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Opinion | Living in Zohran Mamdani’s America How did socialism rise from the dead, and what can freedom-loving Americans do about it?

Zohran’s primary victory has broken the WSJ opinion section’s brain in a way reminiscent of 17th century Massachusetts residents spiraling into panic about witchcraft. Fascinating to watch.

Love this group picture of the "Original 7" + "Next 9" astronauts. 4 would walk on the moon. 3 more would orbit it. 2 went there twice. With the passing of Jame Lovell, they are now all gone.

Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska next week, Trump says President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are planning to meet in the United States, multiple sources tell CBS News.

It’s truly depraved for Trump to welcome Vladimir Putin to the US while Putin is actively wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine.

Trump calls this a peace summit but it’s just an opportunity to hang out with one of his dictator buddies. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

the conservatives be normal about the wnba challenge

The classic Matt Groening “mistakes were made” Life In Hell comic

Petty clear Trump will start arresting Democratic elected officials by end of year. Not convinced any given thing will make Media & Political Elite stop moving bounds of acceptable behavior, but plausibly that will give some of Elite pause because that is when they will realize they are not safe.

(Supreme Court makes it legal for men to commit sexual assault)

NYT: “The decision is an enormous win for a Trump administration that had been navigating tough waters of late”

personally I think Andrew Cuomo should give his apartment back to the person who really needed it: his adult daughter whom he turfed out of an $8000+/month midtown Manhattan apt bc he actually lives in Westchester but needed to claim residency for psychosexual reasons (running for mayor)

Suddenly, the Trump Administration Tightens the Vise on Wind Farms

love to see my work re-skinned by the nation’s paper of record.

would love credit guys! even just a single hyperlink would’ve been nice!

Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

I do! And I agree completely with what he’s talking about here, that the UK bathroom ban is monstrous. Not sure how that’s the fault of not enough US Democrats posting on Bluesky.

Screenshot of a news article from the Politics section. The text discusses concerns from UPMC staffers who believe the hospital prematurely restricted gender-affirming care due to administrative threats, potentially endangering young patients. Behavioral health therapist Kailey Andrew shares experiences with suicidal trans teens, noting research showing hormone therapy can reduce depression and suicidality in young trans people. Andrew describes the difficulty of no longer being able to refer patients for gender-affirming treatment and feeling pressured to give misleading statements to teens in crisis, which they refuse to do.

UPMC in Pennsylvania is expecting their providers to lie to trans patients and tell them their healthcare is illegal, even when they're at risk of suicide.

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And what you don’t seem to understand is that “AI can do miraculous things no machine should be able to do” is staggeringly false, and we’re all a little worried about you since you’ve started saying this over and over.

Anyway, you’ve backpedaled all the way from “Democrats don’t care about trans rights” to “not enough Democrats use the same social media app as I do.” We’ve made some progress!

I don’t know what to tell you. Politicians’ job is to reach the largest number of people. I’d love to see Xitter abandoned completely, but until that day, it’s not shocking that politicians want to reach 20 times the audience.

My “there is no risk of US invading” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already addressed by my shirt.

And now your argument is “Dems who vote for trans rights and speak out for trans rights don’t care about trans rights b/c they don’t use a niche microblogging site.”?

Are you even listening to yourself?

That’s ONE I was able to find in a 10-second search. There are more, but I didn’t feel it necessary to quit my job and become your research assistant.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.