Allison

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

Lovely poem in this week’s @newyorker.com

Twenty Questions Did I forget to look at the sky this morning

poets.org/poem/twenty-...

🪗

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Make art.

When a gun appears in the first scene…

Please draw a cat on a unicycle. Pencil please.

So good

I just read Lara‘s theme this morning and immediately ordered The Far Field. I will keep Ajay Patri on my radar.

Just wow. Best reading in months.

Reading it now and just came to quote that beautiful line.

With half-and-half, it becomes a liquid candy bar

I just knew his name was Colton.

The moment I realized in grad school that there is complete power in asking questions when you don't know what something means. Turns out, it's a baller move.

@adamzyglis.bsky.social

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

#UglyDogs did you know that if a library doesnt have a book you'd like to read you can request they purchase it?

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.

Whenever I see this photo, I wonder what drugs Melania is on.

only pay for what you need at the supermarket by peeling and dicing/slicing your onions *before* you put them on the scales

Tell me more!(that’s a task.)

It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.

I honestly don’t know how historians will record this.

I celebrate the meds.

It’s a hoax! It’s the Democrats! It’s
The Democrats’ plot to make up a hoax about themselves !

Me too, minus the drawing.

I was thinking the same thing. Did you read the exchange about Thanksgiving plans? These people are so bored and boring.

Shamelessness is a characteristic of sociopathy. And until Trump, our political system depended on people wanting, if not actually to be good, at least to appear good.

“being effectively shameless is a pretty powerful weapon” — this is the answer to all the people who wonder how Trump came to power