Nathan Keedy

"Fairy tales are fine when they teach practical lessons, e.g., Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood (girls should stay home safe) or Chicken Little (environmental hysterics get eaten)." Practical lessons for our perfectly normal times 😂

Aerial view of #nokings rally and the Sunsphere in Knoxville, TN

Costumed protesters at Knoxville, TN #nokings rally

Numerous protesters lining the street at Knoxville, TN #nokings rally

Protesters dressed as handmaids at Knoxville, TN #nokings rally

Beautiful, inspiring day at the #nokings rally in Knoxville, TN today. Loved seeing so many show up in solidarity across the country supporting freedom.

Knoxville showed up today! #nokings

We showed out y'all.

Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.

Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.”

Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Made worse when you’re a non-morning person who can't sleep or is forced to be up early. Coffee and silence, please.

Take heed before it's too late, man.

Seems fine. What could possibly go wrong? 😬

There was a book from the AV Club of lists and it had a list that was something like “10 Great Songs Ruined By a Saxophone Solo” and I almost threw that mfer in the trash

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.

When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences When I received the email, I was holding a piece of toast. Dry, no butter. I remember this vividly because it was the last thing in my life with a ...

"In the weeks since, I’ve found myself unable to commit—grammatically, affectively, institutionally. Where once I might have said, 'I teach,' I now say, 'There are moments in which I find myself adjacent to pedagogy.' Friends have grown concerned. My dog, unfed."

Rejected Lyrics from Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1978 Hit Song “September” “Ba de ya – your corpse I will dismember” “Ba de ya – Christian Bale sure has a temper” “Ba de ya – I need dipping sauce with chicken tenders” “Ba ...

"Ba de ya – I need dipping sauce with chicken tenders"

"Ba de ya – why does our band have all these members?"

"Ba de ya – too much Drakkar might overwhelm her"

H.P. Loveshack When I recall that night so many years ago, among the foul mists and brackish fens of the Great Southern Swamp, a great wave of shame and guilt ris...

"We beheld throngs of swaying bodies, caught up in some sort of blood-trance, all of them shimmying as if to some unheard music, circling a massive, formless statue, all intertwined in a seething mass of sweat-covered skin and beehived hair-dos that seemed to defy gravity."

H.P. Loveshack When I recall that night so many years ago, among the foul mists and brackish fens of the Great Southern Swamp, a great wave of shame and guilt ris...

"The rust upon the roof of tin shall see your heart and know your sin."

(Happy B-Day, HP!)
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hp-...

"The officer who was struck with the sandwich did not appear injured in the video and was among those who immediately gave chase." LOL

Once upon a time at STSF I approached Jonathan Frakes at his table.

“I bought a picture with you later, and I brought two trombones. Could I—“

“Bring them.”

This was the result:

I can feel the world slowly starting to heal

This Is the Voyager Space Probe, and I’m Taking a Government-Mandated Mental Health Break from Social Media “President Donald Trump’s NASA budget plans look to cut its public relations funding by half, but already the agency is shuttering social media acc...

"Don’t worry about me: I’ve just been looping Jimmy Carter speeches and majestic whale sounds on my Golden Record while thanking my lucky stars I’m over fifteen billion miles away from you bozos."

Nobody turns despair into hopeful defiance better than @swordsjew.bsky.social

It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right.

Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...

Thank you for always writing with such eloquent courage.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Join Us Thursday For Letters To Timmy · Indivisible Knoxville Yes. The bill passed the Senate. But we are NOT giving up. We’ve been here before AND WON. We are going to EXHAUST our Representatives day in and day out. Phone calls. Emails. AND SHOW UP AT THEIR OFF...

I'm attending Indivisible Knoxville's event, “Join Us Thursday For Letters To Timmy” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...

The evil bill is on its way to the House. Cancelled our events at home for the week and just got to DC. I’m getting ready to debate. Please help us stop this. Link below 👇🏾

indivisible.org/stopthecuts

I know I have talked about this before but this parallel educational system is exactly how the RSS ate India’s research ecosystem and turned our universities into a clown show that’s teaching kids Vedics invented space travel.

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic exc...

Fifteen years ago today, we first published this primal scream from the most disrespected font. (Written by the great @mikelacher) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Baltimore Orioles bird logo

Lowkey really enjoy this logo. Just give me a happy bird. This bird isn’t smug, he isn’t condescending, he just loves the game.

Rather than hitting the economy with seven nuclear missiles, Trump in his infinite wisdom will now only hit it with three.

Pure poetry.

I'm not sure what's the most graceful way to say this, so bear with me.

Some of you have reached out for my thoughts about the planned "Harry Potter" television series set to debut on HBO next year.

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