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I think my ability to distinguish between "I am feeling weirdly anxious and low today" and "I am just a person having a totally normal reaction to being alive during the 2020s" might have completely vanished.

Trans healthcare is life-saving healthcare. #transmemes

What I found inside a conference in Franklin, Tennessee, was an eye-opening battle, involving segregationists and Nazi sympathizers, for the soul of the Christian nationalist movement. 1/2

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What do writers do when their book proposals are rejected? Of course, they WRITE about it! www.confrontthehate.com/p/top-new-yo...

Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl

Me too, Potoo. Me, too…

A stunning yellow rose for our beautiful departed Dolly Parton, her favorite #flower. They reminded her of picking wildflowers as a little girl and felt like a "little ray of sunshine". I can't express the devastation at losing such a bright light, a kind and generous soul who helped so many...RIP

please do not sleep on one of the best christmas movies that has ever been made.

So she was fired for… *checks notes* making insightful and factual statements. Yeah, that tracks for @washingtonpost.com these days. 😑

Point: Despite the name, Star Trek transporters transport nothing. They vaporize you and create a copy in another location. That clone has your memories, but they are not you. The clone assumes the life you abandoned, until one day they too are beamed away Counterpoint: 10 second commute

And here I stand both to impeach and purge

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

With new, specialized, ground-based telescopes coming on line, our knowledge of hazardous asteroids and comets will grow exponentially in the coming years. Seems like a bad time to reduce science funding to NASA. Just sayin'.

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

How is it that every time Bill Maher trends for being a piece of shit there’s STILL a new group of people JUST figuring out that he’s a piece of shit?