"There are things you can do to prevent these types of tragedies from taking place. We just choose not to do it. That's the problem."

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Image of a group of men standing in front of women from GEORGIA WOMEN'S TENNIS. The women are barely noticeable. With the words: IF AN IMAGE COULD EVER SUM UP MAGA’S OPINION OF WOMEN, THIS IS IT.

Such much! So boop!

A b&w Roz Chast cartoon titled "Choice Hellhole" depicting a seated woman trying to order a meal while a waitress recites an endless list of food variables, including "Sausage, bacon, or ham?" down to "Sicily or Napoli?" ..and beyond.

Ah, choices. Now:

1) Write our lawyer, and/or

2) Write our cat-sitter, and/or

3) Read my new book.

The answer is obviously number 3.

How do these men not see how abso-fucking-lutely ridiculous this makes them look? I get that they are pounding their chests as usual ("We big important men") but this makes them look so petty & small. #ContraryOptics

Congrats to the *actual* main characters, the Georgia women tennis champs.

I'm such a mongrel of ancestries (at least six countries that we know of) that I want to go with a real 'murican (Tiki/faux Polynesian) appetizer that my folks loved & we kids loathed: rumaki.

Hard to believe that something with bacon in it could be so... bleh. www.foodrepublic.com/2042301/old-...

Room in bookstore covered in shelves in slightly distorted panoramic photo with woman singing at far left, holding a mic, and man playing guitar next to her. Audience sitting in chairs watch from left of center to far right.

Big bummer for Seattle: Ada’s Technical Books is shutting down in June. mailchi.mp/d1ef4cc6e7f2... Such a great store, such great owners. The kind of bookstore I suggested meeting any visitor to the city at or suggested they stop by in their travels.

Smart of them to schedule it indoors so he doesn’t get struck by lightning.

Kash Patel Threatens Legal Action After Bombshell Report About ‘Erratic’ Behavior: ‘See You and Your False Reporting in Court’ Kash Patel threatened legal action over The Atlantic's bombshell report, in which it detailed the FBI director's alleged "erratic" behavior throughout his tenure.

As always, the tangerine fiend hired nothing but the best people. ca.news.yahoo.com/kash-patel-t...

(And folks should remember that when one of his hires gets enough bad PR, he'll drop yez like a hot potato & forget your name.) Patel 's head must be on the block.

This thing right here: whoa yea. 💯

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Poster of President Trump playing the game operation At a rally today

Spotted at a rally 4/18 🤣

Whatever I said a few weeks ago was a clear contender for Mad Libs Headline of the Year, I was wrong because this is ten times better than whatever that one was.

"In a final judgment dated April 18, U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the so-called 'Kennedy Declaration,' finding it exceeded the administration’s authority, violated federal rulemaking requirements, and conflicted with existing law."

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A photo showing a close-up of hands holding a magic eight ball showing the fortune result: "SIGNS POINT TO YES".

With the kind of care you give Widget, he's a good candidate for a ripe old age.

a close up of a cat 's face with a white whisker Alt: Animated gif zooms right into a ginger cat's soulful ginger eyes.

He* says hi back, and stares right into your soul.

(*This isn't actually Raj, but he *can* stare into your soul just like this.)

My memoji showing me with dark blonde hair & glasses making a heart gesture with my hands.

🐈🌈

He thanks you. 🐈💓

My 18 y.o. ginger & white cat Raj at the vet investigating the cartoony doggy-drawing ginger & white wallpaper.

I'm not sure, he may well like it - he doesn't often express his approval.

He certainly gave it the once over.

My 18 y.o. ginger & white cat Raj - we're at the vet for some blood work, and he is eyeing our vet with some mild suspicion. He's seen against a backdrop of doggy-drawing ginger & white wallpaper.

Pretty good for 18, amight? (Those spiky bits on Raj's back are in the places he can't reach 'cos of arthritis. We have to give him a little baby wipe now & then, tho' he's not a fan ...)

He's doing well, overall. Diabetic, a little early kidney issue, and some hyperthyroidism, but still: good.

it’s like running a leaf blower 24/7 who the fuck can stand this

Right?! Same with West Wing (which always played a bit naïve/hopeful anyway) but now it seems unbelievably quaint and delusional.

The header "Unrest in Budapest" is a little bullshitty, but all congrats to the Hungarians (and a little to the couchfucker Vance Effect).

May we do as well (look at their lines to vote) when it's time for our midterms.

Be nervous, MAGA fascists, there's some worldwide backlash to you'all types.

This is heartbreaking. Why can't people just mind their own G-D business & let people be who they are! 🤬

ALL. OF. THIS. is why we must fight to keep Christian Nationalists/Evangelicals out of govmnt!

No sensible person wants to live in their version of Gilead where only white men are in charge.

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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget. In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...

🧵1. Call out sexual abuse & unhealthy accountability.
When institutions use forgive and forget to cover abuse, they’re not protecting faith they’re protecting harm
It turns the teachings of Jesus Christ into a shield for harm

www.propublica.org/article/sexu...

Royalty, perfume, birds, and a bunny & a cat all in one drawing: perfection.

It's an old trick. Also, if you can starve & make 'em fight each other for food, that's even better. You can despise them for that.

Oh, there's no end to the ways that sadist camp guards can escalate their fun & feel righteous about it. 2/2

Just a thought about the vile ICE concentration camps: like the Nazis, though the ICE/SS enjoy cruelty for cruelty's sake, if you can further "other" prisoners by keeping them filthy & smelly, you can hate them more for being filthy & smelly. 1/2

I feel that over the past 100 years we have now tested to destruction the theory that killing a lot of people in a particular group will make the survivors tremendously moderate, chilled out and peaceable.

Either this, or she's been pushed out front to distract from the TrumpAss/Hegseth Iran debacle, or ICEness, or the Noem/Bondi firings ('cos who's next?), or the inhumane & foul DHS/ICE concentration camps, or any number of outrages/insanities perpetrated by these know-nothing (low IQ) MAGA fuckwads.