I’m old enough to remember when NPR did their annual recitation of the Declaration of Independence in 2017 and a bunch of Trump voters called it anti-Trump propaganda because we live in hell
1. Idaho banned the pride flag on government property. So Boise made the pride flag their official city flag, which allowed them to fly it.
Then Idaho banned new city flags.
So in response, Boise has now wrapped the poles themselves in rainbows!
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“It should be illegal to blame us if the thing we make hurts people” is the kind of opinion that would’ve doomed the airline industry and currently props up the businesses of guns, cars, and oil.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
Hillary called it 10 years ago ⤵️
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.”
After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.
TITLE: Anatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of Baba Yaga DESCRIPTION: An old lady with a long crooked nose, white scraggly hair held down. by a red head scarf, wide eyes, mouth open in a witchy cackle, walks along a path. She has a brown leather bag across her shoulder decorated with bones. Her dress and cloak are brown and tattered. Behind her is a cottage held up by chicken legs. JOKES: - Part forest-guardian and part local terror, she’s a Slavic witch who rewards the polite and (accidentally!) eats the rude. - (pointing to the previous joke) “Accidentally” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, there. - As far as witches go, she’s reasonable! Provided you can survive her easy-to-remember 608-step chores. - If you pretend you’ve never heard it before, doesn’t the name BABA YAGA sound like a Swedish band that won Eurovision in 2009? - (pointing to the cottage) Her house walks around on giant chicken legs. Which, Honestly? In this housing market? I’d make an offer. - She doesn’t ride a broomstick! She rides a mortar-and-pestle. - (pointing to previous joke) Which is fun for her, because everyone born after 1810 has to Google what a “Mortar-and-pestle” is. - Famously, her house is surrounded by a fence of human bones. Which is an aggressive way of saying “kick that ball into my yard, you AIN’T GETTIN’ IT BACK.” —— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
TODAY'S COMIC: Anatomy of Baba Yaga
This week in #perimenopause fun... Hot flashes all evening and 6.5 consecutive hours of sleep, or no personal summer but awake between 3 and 5 a.m. Which would you choose?
Reminder: Tomorrow is Easter. If you have cats, do not bring any lilies into your house. At all. They are toxic and will kill your cats. Even just the pollen.
Amazing how many of us Gen Xers have some anxiety about space launches from the Challenger days.
NASA is honestly one of the greatest things humans have ever created, the stuff of math and dreams
Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch
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Rabbit rabbit 🐇🐇
An epidemic of suspicious trading has emerged around Trump's most consequential decisions — each time, just minutes or hours before he rattles global markets.
It's precisely the kind of alleged corruption Trump built his political career railing against.
I also came here to suggest Alexis Hall! A Lady for a Duke is one of my favorite period romances. Period.
Please recommend some period romances to me?
I'm reading the Bridgerton books and they're fun but in many respects they feel dated (notably in gendered assumptions).
I've read all of @courtneymilan.com
Obv open to queer stuff but will consider the straight kind too 😂
Yes, please! 10/10 would watch.
I think a lot about how the one thing I always wanted on stock photo sites was better search tools so I could give human photographers $ for their work. gimme that content-based image retrieval!
I want to live in the timeline where we went all in on that instead of stock sites generating AI images.
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop?
RULES:
- you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop
- you must remain more or less uninjured
- bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin
This Republican Congress had its chance to limit Trump’s reckless war. Instead, they chose to let him continue his bellicose and deranged assault that increasingly endangers the whole world. History will show their sycophantic failures are central to this broken era.
Stone carved cat ring in blue
People haven't changed much.
Cat ring from 1390 BC Egypt.
WTF?
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy.
So let me say a few things. 🧵1/
"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.
We did have extensive testing of the dick whistles, surprising no one, I'm sure. 😂 But when romance authors are in charge you only send out consensual dick whistles.
LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens?
GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.
