I’m guessing it was before the “left a bear carcass in Central Park” episode.

I’ll stop deadnaming Twitter when Musk stops deadnaming his daughter Vivian.

Since almost everything is happening through executive orders, I’d say congressional Democrats actually have no procedural tools available right now.

The shrewd move by Republicans would be to just avoid advancing any legislation (since the Dems could try to block it) and just let Trump accomplish all of their goals by fiat until the courts stop him.

The Colombian one is pretty accurate, but it should probably have bacon on it, too.

John of Patmos would like a word with you:

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

• Revelation 21:21, KJV

Here’s the full chapter for context. There may be some room for arguing whether the “new Jerusalem” is Heaven. But since it’s pretty clear that God lives there, I think it fulfills the same general purpose.

That’s just a vending machine with extra steps.

He got an entire art supply empire with franchises that sold painting courses (and maybe still do?).

I think he also got screwed out of most of the proceeds and possibly even the use of his own name because he had a shady business partner.

I mean, it’s Don Jr. and not Eric, so probably daddy sent him.

Men/women - nouns

Male/female - adjectives

I think the reason male and female get equated with biology is because biologists need to describe individuals in terms of characteristics within the species.

Like, “I live with a small, white, female felis catus and a tall, Caucasian, male homo sapiens” is a weird way to tell people that I live with my cat and my husband outside of a scientific context.

Congratulations on being a decent person even though your role model was not. It’s hard to break that cycle.

American voters do seem to have very short memories.

Even faced with actual data that indicates that the economy has consistently performed better under Democrats over the past 75 years, they still pretend that the party of the oligarchs is somehow going to solve the problems of the working class.

Donald Trump is very open about his own anti-labor policies as an employer, yet the very people who hate being screwed over by their bosses worship him.

I don’t understand how anyone can function with this level of cognitive dissonance.

I’m in a book club that is reading Brave New World. Several members bristled when I pointed out that sporting events and booze are basically our equivalent of Obstacle Golf and soma.

I’m pretty sure the goal of public radio and television is basically this. Maybe see how you can help your local stations.

If Dobbs continues to be the law of the land for any real length of time, we can also expect crime rates to rise in 18 to 20 years, just as they fell in the same time frame after Roe. But I’m sure the GOP is already planning to spin that as the Democrats’ fault, too.

Teacher here. I consider all of the teachers I’ve worked with, and I consider how few of them I would trust with a loaded firearm under the best possible circumstances (maybe 10 percent).

Then I consider the number of those who would actually consider using a firearm (down to about 3 percent).

And then I consider how many of those I would trust with a firearm in a room full of students… and it’s zero.

I finally just avoided the problem by moving to a country where civilians are not generally allowed to own guns and school shootings are not a problem.

I have yet to take a flight where my Bluetooth earbuds will connect to the screen built into the seat in front of me.

There are multiple references to this in the Bible. This is the most uplifting one I found.

Psalm 90

10 Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

11 If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.

12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

13 Relent, LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

US politics have moved so far to the right that I’m pretty sure contemporary moderate Democrats are nearly interchangeable with Reagan-era Republicans.

He’s an actor whose biggest role was playing Hercules on a low-budget show on a third-tier network in the 90s. Now, as far as I know, he’s only getting work in shitty evangelical movies.