Andrea

oh mission definitely accomplished. but also hot, right? also hot?

I'm pushing 60, what's the move?

good lord do we need to outsource the development of our basic self-care skills now? students need to LEARN this, not be reminded by robot grandma.

maybe think twice about messing with a town that organizes communal nude cycling activities in cold, rainy fall weather, is the gist of this menacing ritual

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

What a cool list.

I can confirm the transformative power of "Alison" by Elvis Costello, a song I still remember hearing for the first time on the car radio as my dad drove me to middle school.

Elvis's portrait now hangs in my living room 40 years later.

^^^^^ this

Trump offers $20 BILLION dollar bailout for Argentina but only if Milei wins. Meanwhile, US govt remains shut down.

You know, at the end of the day, it's our money they're throwing around. Yours and mine. That's supposed to be overseen by our elected officials. Will people start to care about that?

It sure sounds like he's talking about national guard occupation when he talks about "taking" cities.

Headline reading "U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride 'most threatening thing I've seen yet'"

Best headline I've seen in a while.

thanks for my new therapeutic modality #therapistsky

When a Democrat holds the White House again, I move that we replace the photo of Donald Trump in the "Presidential Walk of Fame" with the McDonald's Hamburglar.

Even though he's a smarmy dork, this dude is incredibly dangerous and cannot be allowed to become president of the united states.

Adulthood seems to be, in part, realizing you have surprisingly strong feelings about the shapes of tables. Or even just the shape of the LEGS of tables.

follow along

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Definitely strengthens my theory that people without real problems just invent them, and that there's an inverse relationship between the actual seriousness of the problem and the amount of perceived grievance.

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social is richly deserving of her readership, one of the hardest-working scholar-journalists in the world at the moment.

he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network

I really, really like Wes Moore.

Locking Down the Pentagon Press Is Dangerous Pete Hegseth’s proposed restrictions would harm the people whom both the military and the press are meant to serve.

"The Pentagon is not merely tightening a policy. It is attempting to redefine journalism as a narrow privilege granted on condition of obedience: The government decides what reporters may seek before they seek it, and punishes them for seeking anything else." www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

One of my grandfathers changed both his first and last name; one grandfather adopted the last name of a friend of his who he admired, as a tribute, and ALL of my ancestors' names were Anglicized.

Probably only around the infamous Ashkenazi genetic bottleneck 600-800 years ago, but I noticed the similarities too. Weird!

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

I’m old enough to remember when “Hawaii has always been a pivotal role in the Pacific” was a big scandal.

It's Posting, but it's also denying the regime the footage they desperately need to manufacture their images of war-ravaged PDX, and in that regard it is utterly perfect and must continue.

I did my mental health training in Everett, working with a diverse population that included adolescents. This makes me sick to my stomach.

my skeleton is basically a dilapidated rickshaw for my brain

Pile of overdue notes.