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There was an MST3K film that was supposed to be a monster movie but then finally the narrator says something to the effect of, "...but there was no monster." That's what Trump is doing: "...but there was no Epstein Files." It's Deep State a Go-Go.

Last day for public comments against the bill that would let Trump stack the bureaucracy with bootlickers. Follow the instructions here, keep it short and sweet. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/toda...

“Take and eat; this is my body.” - The Ueckarist

Always take joy where you can find it.

Maaaaaaan, that's bad, and it's gonna keep getting worse. I know part of their plan is to destroy universities, but this is already ruining the tourism sector, and soon it'll kill a *ton* of private companies.

TFW you know portions of the history, know it ties too well to what's going on right now, but reading it all in one place and getting more details just makes it all the more depressing. Do seem like some good books to pick up, though. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Super rare and an absurd what-if.

Not a fan of current Dem leadership, but what kind of leftists are we if all we keep asking is "why aren't tHe dEmS doing anything?!" Since when has *anything of value* been accomplished by waiting for elected politicians to take the lead?

Points to Senate Dems, even Fetterman came through, here. Consider calling/contacting them with a "thanks, keep doing it". edition.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...

You will not get talented people willing to consider government jobs — where traditionally there’s been greater stability to compensate for the pay cut you take — when people see entire departments are always one bad ketamine trip away from annihilation.

the secret moral to all my stories is to be nice to me and it's a REALLY important moral www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Civics teacher here, can confirm

Warms my heart to see my congresscritter on this list. Gonna be a fun primary season in Jersey. prospect.org/politics/202...

See, *this* is the stuff I'm thinking of when I try to argue against the "both sides are the same" schtick. But the GOP is the part of the [certain kind of] working class, right? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

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COME FOR THE MONORAIL STAY FOR THE SPÄTZLE

One of my Dem senators just voted to confirm Noem to DHS. If you have a Dem senator who's done anything like that, get writing or on the phone with them *now*. Don't rant, but be emphatic.

To anyone else from Jersey, this was in Newark. The chaos is here. www.thedailybeast.com/mayor-rages-...

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Always wondered about those commercials that said you can feed a kid for 50 cents a day or whatever; turns out they're true. In other words, the last bit of info on this is probably the best advice: if you want to help a food bank, *give money*.

They've met their target number, but keep an eye out for more chances to help teachers who are in legal trouble in some states for daring to do something as bold as, let's see...have books in the classroom with LGBT+ characters in them. Yep. www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-ded...

Everyone making "Tribal Chief" references, I'm over here trying to get a Samoa Joe-esque "SEAN IS GONNA KILL YOU!" chant over. Love this (re)signing!

Have yourself a Bandit-crushing Christmas credit: Liz and Ivy on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxbm...

there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos

Maybe the greatest star of the "advanced stat era", and gone way, *way* too soon. The A's leave Oakland, and Rickey passes...no, not causation, but symbolic correlation that I hope somehow shames the jerk who owns the A's. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_IS...

Reminder that Dylan Roof, who targeted a black church in South Carolina and killed 9 people in a mass shooting, was never charged with terrorism. Wonder why that feels relevant?

Lord, grant me the strength to be this gloriously petty toward my enemies. www.nj.com/devils/2024/...

Commute to work this morning: one hour, forty five minutes. Commute home this afternoon: shade under one hour or so. Apparently, being stuck in cars all day is what makes us the land of the free.

I figure it'll get dinged pretty badly tonight by competition, but AEW's made Collision a much stronger show of late. Continental Classic probably helps that, but hopefully people are noticing what was pretty much a fun but less eventful show has felt more important recently. @allelitewrestling.com

If I have tickets to that game I promise I won’t cry, I promise I won’t, I’ll probably cry, oh my god I’m gonna cry.

That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are

I'm totally making a shocked face right now.

Shout-out to my six-year-old nephew that just said, "EPCOT is a place of fun, which is not roller coasters."

I always enjoy teaching the Thirty Years' War, since it means bringing up the Defenestration of Prague. ...ok, so it's more about getting to use the word "defenestrate" than anything else, sue me.

“After an exhaustive search, Springfield has found its monorail conductor: Homer Simpson.”

Remember me, Eli?!

Wait, I thought eggs cost $500 each and so we had to elect a fascist to the presidency. Are you telling me that's not the case? You're making it look like that's not the case. (Record airline travel that week, too, btw). www.forbes.com/sites/joanve...