Oh, and this one
"Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else." - Delenn B:5
Let me ask you something. If one prays for patience, do you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If one prayed for their family to be closer, you think God zaps them with warm, fuzzy feelings? Or does he give them opportunities to love each other?
Is this some sort of anti-antidisestablishmentarianism? ;)
Obi-Wan Kenobie was her penultimate hope.
My dad absolutely loved egg creams and was really frustrated he couldn't get them outside of NYC. I think of him every time I hear them mentioned. Thank you. <3
I am trying to not be too alarmed when the "View from Space" goes blue screen (at least on CSPAN). 🤣
it's not an "idea" it's oppression
Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video.
“It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?”
This lady’s response is🔥
Thank you for that!
This is why I get offended seeing any posts criticizing the ACA especially if you weren't old enough to understand the dynamics at play then.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. Petitioner Priscilla Villarreal is a reporter who was arrested for doing something journalists do every day: posing questions to a public official. Specifically, Villarreal twice texted with a police officer to corroborate information Villarreal already knew about events that had occurred within her community. That officer voluntarily provided the information Villarreal sought, and Villarreal published those facts, consistent with her role as a journalist. Six months later, Villarreal was arrested for asking those questions. Making matters worse, Villarreal alleges that the arrest followed a months-long effort by a police department and district attorney’s office to retaliate against her because they disliked much of her reporting on their activities. Of course, that reporting was often critical of them. It should be obvious that this arrest violated the First Amendment. Yet the Fifth Circuit held that the officials were entitled to qualified immunity, and now Villarreal is left without a remedy. The Court today makes a grave error by declining to hear this case.
The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Voter Registration Deadlines for 2026 Primaries
4/6 - INDIANA & OHIO - in-person, mail, online
4/14 - VIRGINIA redistricting referendum - mail, online (4/21 for in-person)
4/15 - LOUISIANA - in-person, mail (4/25 for online)
4/20 - GEORGIA & KENTUCKY - in-person, mail, online
More at npr.org/vote
"From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth."
~ Melissa Harris-Perry 🌸🌸🌸
(Whenever folks say, "its just hair" 🙄🙄)
TSA lines are the new Oregon Trail.
"We regret to inform you your family member died of dysentery awaiting a Delta flight from St. Louis to Portland."
Lisa Simpson on stage lecturing to an auditorium full of people. there is a slide projected on a screen behind her. the slide says: "The people who made Jurassic Park didn't think it was possible to transition from female to male and that's why they got eaten by dinosaurs. Moral of the story ỈS, support trans rights or g get eaten by dinosaurs"
I really miss my carefully curated corner of the old bird site. We had good times there before Muck ruined it. Those were good days.
“[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.”
I am not shopping there until Black women tell me it is over which is looking like never. You really f==ked up Target.
Lest we forget his ability to be completely inappropriate, not on the current level, but still:
youtu.be/TCm9788Tb5g?...
Democrats denouncing this gratuitous, distractive war with Iran are not "siding with Iran;" they are siding with sanity and the Constitution.
The Internet is not a great place to Do Nuance but this is one of those places where nuance is really called for.
A lot of enlisted folks enlisted out of economic need, did not sign up yesterday, & really cannot just walk off the job without severe consequences.
AND enlistment is not heroism, AND
The name of someone I used to work with popped up in my contacts and made me smile. I sent off a <I hope you are doing well. Thanks for this past kindness Hope to see you soon.> email.
The reply I got back proved how even very small acts of kindness and connection mean so much right now.
For all those who didn't watch tonight, allow me to summarize:
The liar lied again.
If y'all don't know what voter suppression looks like, this is it.
Pretending that a mostly white electorate are the base of the Democratic party (they're not), then ignoring the actual base as if we don't exist.
Black women are biggest part of the base, but we're absent here. I wonder why.😒
BETTER YET, LET'S GET THROUGH THE FUCKING MIDTERMS HAPPENING *THIS YEAR* BEFORE WE EVEN BEGIN TO START HAND-WRINGING OR FINGER-POINTING ABOUT WHO WE'LL NEVER VOTE FOR IN 2028.
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
Re-upping this thread in light of today’s news
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.
Tell them it will find your dog.
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.
