people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

Governor Tim Walz says when Democrats are back in power, people are "not going to expect us to tinker around the edge with the ACA; they're going to expect universal healthcare."

Allegory alert!

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

Me: It used to be a big deal when you'd see a new room or an angle of a sitcom's main set that hadn't been shown before. You might get a quick glimpse of Frasier's guest bathroom and have to redraw your whole mental map.

Broccoli-haired zoomer pointing an AR-15 at my back: Shut up and DIG, old man

i think it’s ridiculous that bluesky doesn’t serve dinner. it’s 7 o’clock on the east coast. clearly the joke’s on me for assuming there’d be food. guess i’ll just eat my boot

Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

Alaska lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging President Trump to abandon his plans to rename the continent’s largest mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinley. #ISTANDWITHDENALI

the funniest thing about bluesky is that eventually, you're going to run into somebody who claims that they know all 26 letters of the alphabet. i'm sorry to burst your bubble, but: no. you don't. nobody does