Happy Hagfish Day!
Today we’re celebrating hagfishes - hagfishes are ancient marine animals perhaps best known for their remarkable ability to produce large amounts of slime when threatened. When the slime hits seawater, it expands to form a gel which can clog a predator's mouth and gills.
There should be one Dakota and it should encompass the land now occupied by the soon to be former states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
Endorsements aren’t everything but it’s notable that he has very little support from the elected officials he overlaps with. Both house reps have endorsed Lynette.
Rep Youakim, no flaming DSA radical, worked for him for years as his closest staffer and she’s endorsed Lynette. 5/
Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.
also now the US legislature needs to hire all of the nonpartisan subject matter experts (that were employed in executive rulemaking) to draft legislation in perpetuity because the supreme court is intent on ruling against executive branch expertise (see wetland protection).
the accumulation of executive discretion as if it were a substitute for congressional legislation has, in immigration as in so much else, been kind of a shitshow
One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"
My goal as a parent was always to raise better men than me
I just received a video from one son of my other son juggling dildos outside the Whipple Building
There are many things I could have done better but I can't really argue with the results