Stephen Morrison

comic strip - "Why didn't you dress up?" --Armadillo rolls self into basketball 'costume.' -- "Sweet."

Hoopy Halloween 🏀🍬

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

This is ALL on the REPUBLICANS. And most especially on Mike Johnson.

It's a real indicator of just how good the NBA really is, that the very best college player in the country starts as a roughly average-or-below player on a middling pro team.

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

If policies led to votes, we'd have very different representation.

I wish it were different; I wish people based their votes on a careful analysis of policies and their impact, but research is clear that for the most part, policy preferences come from political affiliation, and not the reverse.

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

“Fascism is male. It loves danger, dislikes chitchat, and scorns courting; because of its natural roughness, it uses its fists when necessary; Fascism is as hard as stone; a far cry from the sweet texture of candied fruit that—like the soul of a woman—hides a hard, teeth-cracking pit inside. That suffices to determine its sex. . . . In short, Fascism arouses virility against any sort of effeminateness or weakness of the spirit. It is also against the Petrarchism of poetry, the mysticism of religion, the democratization and liberalization of politics, against dandyism and leniency at school. Is there anything more masculine than that?” -Statement by Italian fascist Giuseppe Maggiore prior to World War II (Benadusi, 2012, p. 29)

This is where I point to my pinned post:
The role of racism in the development of fascism is well known. Less widely known, but as important (I'd argue) is the role of sexism. Hegemonic masculinity, with its inherent misogyny and homophobia, has been central to the rise of every fascist movement.

This has the kind of nervous-dad energy I could get behind!

What is Ohio

Can the media finally admit he's racist, or do we have to keep torturing the English language to find yet another polite allusion to the obvious?

Trump administration limits number of refugees to 7,500 and they're mostly white South Africans The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. to 7,500 and they will be mostly white South Africans.

BREAKING: The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. to 7,500 and they will be mostly white South Africans.

Yes, Thank you!

Tolkein was a very real scholar of Old and Middle English. We ran across some of his translation and analysis in a grad course I took. Terms such as "Middle Earth" are directly from source material.

There is a legal case for a duck becoming President, but it is strewn with obstacles.

Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program? 1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...

"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."

SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."

www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

Trump Ballroom Fiasco Takes Worse Turn as Economic Data Gets Brutal As the ballroom story gets more damaging for Trump against a backdrop of terrible economic news, a progressive organizer explains how all this gives Democrats a big opening to regain crucial lost grou...

Trump's ballroom fiasco looks even worse against backdrop of bad economic news:

*layoffs mounting
*food stamps expiring
*health care premiums soaring
*consumer sentiment sliding

On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems:
newrepublic.com/article/2024...

Infectious diseases before and after a vaccine became available Three stacked time-series charts comparing disease burden before and after vaccine introduction, showing steep declines after vaccines. Top chart — Deaths caused by smallpox as a share of all deaths in London, 1700 to 1900. Middle chart — Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths in the United States, 1910 to 2010 Bottom chart — Reported cases of measles in the United States, 1921 to 2015. Data sources and credits, as listed in the footer: - Smallpox: Our World in Data based on Guy (1882) and on publications of the Registrar General between 1848 and 1903. - Polio: Our World in Data based on U.S. Public Health Service (1900 to 1951) and U.S. CDC (1960 to 2010). - Measles: Our World in Data based on U.S. Public Health Reports, the Public Health Service, and the U.S. CDC - Chart licensed under CC-BY by Our World in Data

Humanity’s history is a continuous battle between us and the microbes. For most of our history, we were on the losing side. It wasn’t even close. We were losing very decisively.

this is the best movie i've ever seen

I Wish I Went Before Mary Shelley in This Storytelling Contest “‘We will each write a ghost story,’ said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to. There were four of us.” – Mary Shelley, in the introducti...

"I kind of wish I had gone first. My thing isn’t even that scary. Or about humankind. It’s just, well, did everyone else do this overnight? Because I feel like Mary Shelley may have pre-written her idea."

You only need 25 people in a room to have a 50/50 chance that two of them will have the same birthday.
(day/month, not year)

South Korea gave Trump a gold crown, so he decided to give them nuclear submarines.

Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

ICE = ORC

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a 29th day.

Today marks the longest wait to be sworn in of any special House election winner in decades.

Totalitarians are notorious for their love of baby baskets and free bus fare.

I worry we're in a coyote-running-off-the-cliff-but-not-looking-down moment. Without timely data, I wonder if market reactions are delayed.

Stagflation

The Fed Chair is describing stagflation but does not want to say the word.