gabriel conroy

Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.

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If you're visiting the rodent exhibit you should probably run. We don't have a rodent exhibit.

This is the reason behind the Trump
administration’s intense desire to ban Talarico content.

If they lose the evangelicals, they lose all their power.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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MEMORANDUM OPINION February 16, 2026 “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.” George Orwell, 1984' As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto "Ignorance is Strength," this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not. The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there, including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National Park Service ("NPS") removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House. Plaintiff City of Philadelphia ("the City" filed this lawsuit under the Administrative Procedures Act ("APA") against the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum…

CONCLUsION For the reasons stated above, the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be granted. The preliminary injunction will remain in place pending further litigation in this matter. There can b no prejudice to Defendants' restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place. Defendants shall further prevent any additions, removals, destruction, or further changes of any kind to the President's House site, except in the event that a mutual written agreement is reachec between Defendants and the City of Philadelphia. An order will be entered.

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.

Happy Presidents Day.

i hear you, but everyone pulling in the same direction helps draw more from the big bowl of lazy/low info/sometimes voters who do decide these too-close elections

the ones who googled on election day whether Biden was running (a real thing)

aka "the Stupids"

"Genocide Joers" are as guilty as MAGA for the hell we are living thru now

It's useful to focus on one issue - say climate or LGBT rights - and analyze closely how a Dem admin handled it versus how a GOP admin did.

If you have red lines, great... if you're still doing "Dems are moderate Rs" or "uniparty" talk when the gulf between the parties is this vast, you're stupid.

“The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of success.“

YouTube video by Movieclips To Kill a Mockingbird (10/10) Movie CLIP - Scout Meets Boo Radley (1962) HD

not bad for a wordless onscreen debut

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Seemed like he'd do a western any chance he got

he certainly elevated Open Range

The Irish have always understood this.

So close to where I grew up I thought I might know this guy. I don't, but I know dozens like him. Likely HS athlete, went to Rutgers (note the hoodie), went back home, blows off steam at TopGolf, teachers & middle managers. Decent enough people. If they're in the street something is happening.

SIR! MY GOD

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Yearly reminder Shakespeare makes fun of Romeo every chance he gets. The play is really about how no one grows up. If you want love, Much Ado, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Winter's Tale, even Lear. Love creates & destroys, transforms if you're lucky..

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

What power is it which mounts my love so high

an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.

[Enter Valentine.]

Shakespeare writing a tragedy about his son dying without telling his wife and daughters is some Grade A male emotional compartmentalization with a side of Elizabethan repression.

O, call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue;
Use power with power, and slay me not by art.