NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters
“Is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment?” No, the Tea Party was an astroturf campaign bankrolled by the Koch brothers, you’re thinking of something else I guess
The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.
How To Live A Good Life #oldknees
Wandered
A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"
ghoulish
bring back shame
I’ve really enjoyed 4/20, the Bluesky holiday where everyone reveals their deranged relationship with airports
On Twitter InfoWars is posting-thru-it™ and people are confused, thinking @theonion.com has already taken over that account.
documentary in which the Minions reenact their past atrocities in Indonesia.
are any america-first conservatives not funded from overseas
kash about to find out the reason trump has had success with this tactic is that everyone he does it to finds settlements a really easy way to bribe him
nobody's got any reason to bribe a failed podcaster who will soon be out of a job
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Figured I’d wade into the airport discourse I’m seeing on Bluesky today; Airports are where planes depart from. However, they are also where planes arrive. So it’s important to consider both of these things
We're about to find out!
After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
a screenshot that reads: Bluesky paid you Apr 20 + $4.99 Please... stop posting
finally. royalties are coming through #BlueskyAmbassador
Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate
An AI-free OS for an AI-free product line with a written guarantee from Apple not to insert AI into users’ devices at a later date.
"learn to float" ad by onion infowars
lmao
We need to stop them immediately
VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption
I need to get one of these European Weird Little Guy Fellowships.
I get to the airport at the exact right time every time. Anyone arriving any earlier than me is a sap, anyone arriving any later is a reckless nut.
Good. Thank you.
For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them
With the leak to the NYT of their internal notes to each other, I hope the conservative justices on SCOTUS are currently *very* paranoid about talking to each other. Because at least one of them is (or has staff who is) indiscreet and disloyal.
Keep looking over your shoulders, fascists!
