And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

I can't promise 2025 will be the darkest of these four years because even as a lame duck these people are incredibly dangerous but we will never feel as hopeless as we did in February and March.

Convince a few more cats to join them & you’re well on your way to this recreating this album cover.

I immediately thought of these steps, too! Does it count if the stairs are imaginary?

Pondering this prompt, and not doing very well because I’m pretty sure these stairs were famous before The Lavender Hill Mob was released.

was decades of fake celebrity really enough that half the country couldn't see it? didn't care? reveled in the permission he gave them to be their very worst selves?

all of *gestures vaguely at the hellscape* was for this fucking guy? I'll never get over it as long as I live

Testament. I didn’t have a driver’s license when it was released in theaters, so I had to find a place to sob for twenty minutes before I could get the bus home. Just thinking about it (after 42 years!!) makes me well up.

Wonderful! Thank you both (or, rather, all) for sharing Harlow’s story.