Ruth Spanos

Driving Miss Daisy for Tax Purposes

As a way to enjoy my tablet I had to buy when the old one was discontinued, I have begun a series of images for anyone to use…including so-called ai. Please share widely without attribution. #Greenland

Ohio isn’t doing well under the GOP.

Something To Crow About,Jason...

The War on Terror began 25 years ago today, when Congress passed the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Only one member of Congress had the courage and foresight to oppose this blank check for forever wars: Barbara Lee.

Really confusing that it comes so closely on the heels of the Star Trek anniversary, they could maybe have been more considerate with the timing.

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

I am old enough to remember the same nonsense said about boxing.

This seems like a seriously terrible and dangerous idea, that wouldn’t work except to endanger yourself. At the same time, having supposed law enforcement officers refusing to wear uniforms or badges is an even more terrible and dangerous idea. And is endangering all of us.

The boss is angry when employees steal a map.

And you shouldn’t have to do the same thing every time you visit the same web site or different web sites for that matter. They’re playing the odds and waiting for you to mess up.

"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."

The more serious the real problems are, the more ludicrous the fake, manufactured problems become.

This darning technique rebuilds the knit stitch by stitch instead of patching over it, leaving sweaters and socks looking untouched.

It means they’re really desperate for a distraction from the incompetence and corruption.

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

My own pattern for a shoe bag. It’s designed for tap/clogging shoes and was made as a gift. #ShowMeYourKnits

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

Weird to cast the guy who is the same age as Scrooge (or older) in a prequel for the story. Is this the story of the month before the events in the Christmas Carol?

Our Supreme Court majority apparently read A Christmas Carol and thought Scrooge was the hero up until the end.

"When they wake up they will find All their personal belongings Have intertwined" - Paul Simon

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

Commentary: Before one of the Trump-backed “Freedom Trucks” rolls into the Ohio State Fair at the end of the month, state leaders should demand that the roving 18-wheeler museum, created by right-wing propagandists, includes a disclaimer about bias ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/09/o...

Perhaps firing the most driven public servants from their jobs will result in a government run by driven public servants?

The Jetsons lied to us

The amount of money in Musk's bank account is not a measure of his genius or even the "value" of his companies. It is rather a measure of the gullibility of investors and the greed of the industry that is designed to harness that to fuel their own wealth creation.

The Shmenges will not be performing at the sad excuse for a 250th celebration of our nation’s founding.

As someone who also peaked in the '80s, I'd like to make it clear that I, too, will not be performing at the Freedom 250 concert in Washington, D.C.

I keep seeing this. Weird how people can’t imagine anyone switching away from the dying, antiquated GOP.

I laughed way too hard at this one

I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.

Ohio’s state sales tax exemption for data centers cost $1.6 BILLION in 2025 — 11x more than its original estimate. That’s $1.6 billion that could have gone to public schools and healthcare instead of Big Tech CEOs’ pockets. Is it any wonder communities are organizing against data centers?

Putin must be smiling creepily right now.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Douglas.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exc...

Gen X here…one of 6 kids. My very involved parents expected us to be responsible for homework but in younger grades did assignments like listening to us read aloud. And my mom typed up our papers on her manual typewriter.

The reason they give out Bigot Wizard Game for free so often is becuase they want to improve it's "sales" stats to justify making more. If you download it and play it, you are directly contributing to giving that crone more money to hurt a minority that has never done anything to her.

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