Early Winter

Finn and Fiona

An another point of view: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

These two 💙

Art as protest. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89ogHSm/

Gassing children has a hideous historical precedent. Seriously: if that’s where your life has led you to, then resign, burn your mask and uniform, and get yourself to a monastery where you can spend a little time in genuine self-reflection.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

So anyway here’s a real Nobel winner

Ron Johnson was part of this illegal hoax known as “The Green Bay Sweep.” 🙄 www.wpr.org/news/ron-joh...

National Treasure💙

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"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole." -𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%

Honoring this soldier who was an OG Antifa and my Papa. 🇺🇸 ✌🏼

A decade ago when I was an editor at the Chicago Tribune, my colleague Stephan Benzkofer and I created a full-page graphic examining how much the Chicago described in Carl Sandburg's poem matched modern-day Chicago.

This is the America I love.

Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

With SNAP on the verge of running out of money, a critical reminder that people who rely on food stamps make far healthier grocery choices than most of us do.

Israeli definition of a ceasefire: We fire. Palestinians cease.

Happy Rapture Day to those who celebrate! ☄️🔥🌟👹

It's my kids' first day of school for the year, so let me share with you a summary of the empirical literature I share with them: School can feel like hard work, but it makes you healthier, wealthier, and happier.

In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen

One of these things is not like the other #washingtondc

Can’t Bezos or Gates or some billionaire save NPR or PBS? Please. I feel like it’s a death in the family. And a pox on those who are cheering for this. It’s shameful.

This is concerning- the pot of water is starting to boil and we’re all frogs-

@jmatenaer.bsky.social Hi Jane! Here’s a potential one for your TSBAT segment… I’m enjoying your “on the road” travels these past few days! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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“Gaza: not in the name of Judaism I wonder what my great-grandparents would say, what my grandparents would say. My great-grandparents were forced to flee their homes and make a treacherous journey to a country they did not know simply because they were Jewish.”

A NASA Astronaut on ISS caught this sprite over Mexico and the U.S. this morning.

Happy Summerween

Today is my final day at @wisdems.org—my last day as Wisconsin’s Democratic Party chair. To everyone who has helped us beat the odds, again and again, for the last six years—you have my deep gratitude.🧵

Strands #483 “Hue are my sunshine” 🟡🟠🟣🟢 🔵🔴🏳️‍🌈 Best spangram ever!

Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. We #WearOrange to remember the victims of gun violence. It’s time for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to grow a spine and pass commonsense gun safety laws.

Millie's emergence as a pothole spa aficionado:

Jen says it all…

Marilyn Monroe by Peter Max original photo by Milton Greene

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The Dishonorable Marco Rubio brought The Addams Family's Thing to the hearing.

This is for @joebazz.bsky.social who blocked me for challenging his claim that Palestinian children are “chubs” and that they are very well fed.

Young Pope

Now that the president has rightly made English the national language, Americans who use Latin terms such as stare decisis and habeas corpus should be subject to unprecedented forms of incarceration. By Jonathan Turley

"Blasphemy is contrary to the respect due God and his holy name. It is in itself a grave sin (CCC 2148)."

After Bezos' cowardly reversal on clear tariff pricing, all books sold by Amazon will arrive without spines.

WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.” In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.