From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 5/23/1949: ANTIOCH WINNER. Rod Serling, student at Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, O., who just won a nation-wide radio script contest, writes an original radio play every week on the kitchen table of a campus trailer, while his wife and fellow student, Carol, hits the textbooks or keeps the household running. Each week, too, he casts his play, directs it, plans music and sound effects for it and produces it over a Springfield radio station. In between times he studies, too. His wife looks over his script. (photo by John Hoke; courtesy of Antiochiana)

Sometimes when it feels like you're living in The Twilight Zone, there's a reason… YouTube video by sezthem

So I've been thinking about this Twilight Zone episode lately. But not for the first reason you might expect. #Springfield #Ohio

News headline from September 21, 2024: JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate X as free speech debate rumbles on Professor Farnsworth: Help our allies by doing what to X? To shreds, you say.

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This feels like we’re in one of the Jurassic Park sequels where a lot of us were like “hey let’s not try this again because last time the dinosaurs got loose” but other people were like “well, maybe the dinosaurs won’t get loose this time.”

(Not in any way a Bluesky “pro,” just saw the emoji used a lot)

I believe there’s only a workaround with the 📌 emoji so far:

I'm mostly interested from the angle of them doing the odd redirect at the height of focus on Project 2025 and people pointing out the overlaps between Project 2025 and (the real) Agenda 47.

Per Wayback, looks like they were sure to leave the redirect in place through the Dem convention.

No, they were actively redirecting the /agenda47 address to the /platform page at the time. And had the platform page say (still does) "Agenda 47" at the top, even though they're not the same thing.

I feel like leaving Bluey on as background noise would actively improve people's lives in multiple ways. Someone should fund research.

Pardon the nerd tangent, but that's odd…

At some point after the RNC platform came out, Donnie's site redirected that specific address (no end slash) to just land on the platform bullet points. You had to go out of your way to add an end slash (/agenda47/) to see the Agenda 47 stuff. Hmm. 🤔

Hey, if he messes up with the incoming bird flu as much as he did with COVID, it'll take care of itself. 🥚🥚🥚

get kinder and more tender to spite your fellow americans

Six months is the exact length of the Project 2025 playbook plan.

That stuff was politically toxic for a reason. 🤷

Cropped screenshot of a social media post from someone whose face I didn't feel like including: "IS SHE TALKING ABOUT ME?"

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As an already-annoyed Ohioan, I'm tired of having to remind people who pretend to know what they're talking about that JD Vance has been a senator for a grand total of 1 year, 10 months, and 6 days.

Can we flip it and do a little dividing and conquering of the state, though? Because that's what I'm feeling right now.

After listening to way too much of their nonsense "policy talk," it's clear there's a bunch of things they disagree with each other on. Maybe we can help the inevitable along.

The president of the Heritage Foundation told more than one major newspaper he'd personally briefed Trump on Project 2025.

I saw no follow-up reporting on this. None.

Whether they like it or not.™

"not what we want people focused on"

Yes, good.

Anyone else interested in getting some #MAGAwedge issues brainstorming going? This seems like the right time to use any impulses toward pettiness for the greater good.

Which IS noted in the article, in case the above reply came across as a critique of that.

It's only a critique of people who didn't investigate the clearly-stated policies of the person they voted for.

Birthright citizenship YouTube video by sezthem

Another one he said right out loud ages ago. 🙃🙃🙃

Tent cities YouTube video by sezthem

He already promised to drag unhoused people off to "tent cities" because he doesn't like seeing them around.

Libraries as a concept are great, but individual libraries / library systems can be and have been corrupted by the same kind of people and ideas that have corrupted other parts of our public life. But almost no one pays attention to them to notice until it's too late.

A usually-ignored way to help your library is to just… pay attention to your library. Who's the director, who's on the board, what are they saying in their meetings, are they even making meeting minutes public, etc.

One of these plans… 🎶 YouTube video by sezthem

The worst part is you didn't even have to read Project 2025 for the Department of Ed thing. It was in the bullet-point RNC platform, and the Trump Agenda 47 videos. 1000% not a secret plan.

Remove all references, examples, definitions, photos, and language YouTube video by sezthem

They don't even want anyone to use those ~words~.

So about those egg prices…

"Just one more thing…" Columbo vs. Trump YouTube video by sezthem

"Just one more thing…" #Columbo #Project2025

“Every rally’s full. You don’t have any seats that are empty.” YouTube video by sezthem

“Every rally’s full. You don’t have any seats that are empty.”