My housemate took that path. Studied theater. Was a Stage Manager for a few years. Now a lawyer.

Baltimore,.if you want some heartwarming news about the amazing young people in our city, go look at BSA's class of 2026 and college counseling feeds on IG.

College and conservatory acceptances here and abroad, many with major aid.

Get your good dopamine hit.

Tweet picture: Secretary Hegseth The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

There were a few different drafts of this but here goes.

Pete you stupid motherfucker, disease killed more soldiers in virtually every single pre-germ theory war than the fighting. George Washington ordered the troops inoculated against smallpox pox because it was killing so many American troops.

Like, watch these folks all gather round and try to divine the hidden clues in this inscrutable text bsky.app/profile/jpic...

This administration pretends to honor the 250th, but brazenly dismisses its most profound legacies. 250 years ago this month, Washington’s surgeon general John Morgan wrote that government must “provide for the safety of its members by rendering the practice of inoculation as universal as possible.”

Have you noticed...
It's the women in Trump’s cabinet who get forced out when allegations of trouble arise

Great to know we have an objective jurist who focuses on the merits of the cases before him on the Court

For those who don’t know, it is unprecedented for reporters to get access to internal papers of the Supreme Court. I don’t think it has ever happened before.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

As a lawyer, this was a fascinating and horrifying read. Roberts is responsible for the end of a deliberative, careful SCOTUS, in favor of an illegitimate ideological rubber stamp.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Several rows of dusty Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) television sets ranging from 9 to 24 inches are lined up on the floor of the Wisconsin Computer Club's Central Wisconsin CRT Preserve.

A beautiful wooden Zenith Chromacolor 2 console TV is not going to be smashed up by a recycler as it sits in the back of Alex's beat up Dodge Caravan.

A Sanyo "VIZON" widescreen CRT tv sits in the Dodge Caravan, waiting to go to the Wisconsin Computer Club's Central Wisconsin CRT Preserve.

A 13" woodgrain Magnavox tv sits on a shelf at the Wisconsin Computer Club's Central Wisconsin CRT Preserve.

If you need a CRT TV, you are in luck! The WCC's effort to intercept tvs bound for recycling worked out great- all of these will be cleaned up and tested, then they're FREE to a good home! Because reuse beats recycling. Also, "retro gaming tvs" shouldn't be expensive. 😎

If he was any other Christian denomination, I would just think, "Yeah, well, makes sense. Half of the denominations out there originated from telling the Pope to fuck off." But that dipshit only converted to Catholicism like 7 years ago or something. You'd think he'd be more on "Team Pope!"

At #BaltimoreSchoolForTheArts for Cymbeline!

I know exactly who needs to hear this but whoever you’re thinking of when you use the term “profound autism” is also worthy of existing

BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked my War Powers Resolution that would have ended Trump's unnecessary, unjustified war against Iran.

These cowards have had four chances to stop this chaos in the Middle East.

And they put Trump's ego before America.

Every damn time.

Perhaps something like: "...so if you see a recruiter show up here at school, just walk away."

If substack’s version of ideological diversity means listening to nazis and rapists, I’ll pass.

I'm not out here screeching "NO FEDPOSTING, GANG" just to hear myself type, folks.

Congratulations!

The Substack No is simple for me:
1. Chooses to pay certain writers.
2. Won't say which writers they pay.
3. Operates on "cut of revenue," so if I buy subscriptions, *I'm* paying their undisclosed beneficiaries.
4. On "free speech": Platforms monetized bigotry but has no problem ousting porn.

Given that Trump started this war for no actual reason at all, this statement alone should guarantee Vance an eternity in Hell, assuming he actually does believe in it. Or in anything.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

That said, it helps that it's not an HOA.

I've not (yet) joined or really been actively involved, but PPNA seems to be pretty good overall.

www.pattersonparkneighbors.org

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

Y'all don't actually need to share the Iran government's AI propaganda slop. They're bad too.

I can't believe I actually have to say this, but apparently I do: someone who is buying compromised Bluesky accounts from an account reseller marketplace is directly funding identity theft, fraud, and international crime. #BadActorBingo resurrection for an explainer of why:

Pete Hegseth is a disaster of a defense secretary. It’s no surprise | Margaret Sullivan The former Fox host has misled the public, prayed for violence and clashed with the press. This is not a serious military leader

Useful reminder from @sulliview.bsky.social that a key reason Trump picked Hegseth was because more independent Pentagon leaders played a key role in restraining him during his first term, and he wasn't going to make that mistake again. The consequences are dire:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Batman Begins, when Batman leaves Ra's on the train, going "I'm not going to kill you, but I'm not going to save you either." Tell me you don't get Batman without telling me that you don't get Batman.

Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

it is very important to remember that the confederates were both traitors and big stupid losers who got their asses kicked