I read this in December and was so surprised what a fast and engrossing read it is! It's such a page-turner! Dickens is fun, damnit!

You know how anthropologists love finding interred skeletons with bones that have been broken and safely set, lbecause it shows that real humanity happened there? Old literature is like that too, if you read it.

not from the federal government, and not from your local secular humanist debate group, but Methodists and Lutherans and Catholics and Presbyterian groups in your area and elsewhere. that's a big chunk of what post-WWII mainline churches got into!

apparently this has to be reiterated to some folks, but a HUGE chunk of services and support for immigrants in the US come from _liberal Christian groups_, and have, for decades.

I would like RFK, Jr. to stop making his kinks everyone else's problem.

Especially when they involve Kid Rock.

Words & phrases that inspire immediate trepidation

“House-made ketchup”
“I’m an empath”
“Oh, I’m not political”
“Public-private partnership”
“Females” (referring to human women)

Any Democrat who wistfully remembers Ronald Reagan as anything but a cancer upon American politics and culture should be drummed out of public life.

We cannot be electing "Democrats" who fondly remember the guy responsible for the death of a generation of gay Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

The question that MUST be asked EVERY time they do this is "Why did Laken Riley's murderer get due process, then, while two American citizens were executed in the street?"

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I paid out of pocket for one this week because I am 44 and because they considered it diagnostic and not preventative, Our system is real fucked.

The only reform I want to see is abolishment. I am older than ICE, it is NOT an essential element of American governmennt. We can figure out how to navigate immigration without violent, masked goon squads.

Legitimate law enforcement agencies don't have to work this hard to convince us they are legitimate.

It's not kids buying this crap. It's their parents and the thirty-something Potterheads who still want you to know they're a hurgersnerf on their Tinder. They're the ones who need the snot bullied out of them, because here's no weaning them off this crap - so bully, mock, ridicule and shame them.

You're 38 years old, poncing about in a child's school uniform, prattling babytalk about how you're in Hurflesnerf house, about Billy Bottom's Bumping Beans and flying quiche golden balls? Nonce culture. Grow tf up and read Pratchett, Le Guin, fucking anything but H*rry P*tter.

paging @repgreglandsman.bsky.social

Minnesota still needs your attention

Like, I don't like Katy Perry but I didn't cry about it! (Loved Left Shark, though; true icon)

Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?

You know the old saying: Catch *one* ICE employee in an underage sex trafficking sting, shame on you. Catch TWO ICE employees in an underage sex trafficking sting, shame on you again you fucking psycho collection of lunatic underage sex traffickers.

I’m at the Pizza Hut.
I’m at the Taco Bell.
I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

I’m a mega church
I’m a political party.
I’m a combination mega church and political party.

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.

Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

Puppy Bowl reportedly had twice as many viewers as Kid Rock.

I fucking love the US curling team

Look, if they're gonna weaponize religion, we can do it right back. Fair is fair.

I feel like I've said it one too many times, but if someone defends Newsom all that tells me is that the only thing they don't like about Trump is he doesn't have a skin care routine.

Also, stellar article.

Sometimes I think about what the US would be like today if we had believed Anita Hill.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay