Kendrick Said He Is Not Your Savior YouTube video by Josh Johnson

“No one ever escaped their chains by forgetting they were there”

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The Secretary of Agriculture says I should put chickens in my backyard, so first of all I need a backyard and second of all I need a few Republican members of Congress.

Nothing like emailing the same thing to a bunch of prospective students to encourage them to choose your program… and then realizing you spelled “education” wrong in ALL of them.

A display of “jelly” flats at a Target shoe department

Jellies appear to be back and of all the 1980s throwbacks we are currently experiencing, this one hits the closest to home.

Feeling the crunch this week of chronic under-staffing. I’m 7 mos in to a yr of having 3 job titles, running a costume department supporting 200 students w/ 1.5 professional staff. I’m balancing running my own fittings, training student crew and supervising student shop labor. In short: I tired.

I can imagine this might be true enough to get through an interview and maybe one project. But as soon as an unexpected challenge arises, one that hasn’t been fed into the algorithm, AI is going to fail you.

…. and then she insisted he sit down because she believes his law school alumni are “dishonest, etc”. Then said “does that look like animus to you?”

Wild reporting from courtroom where this is up - judge asked govt if this constituted animus against a group. Govt: “I don’t have an answer for that”, judge: “you have an answer you just don’t want to give it”…

The writers of “The Pitt” have successfully hacked binge-watching - turns out you don’t need major cliffhangers, just end every episode right in the middle of a medium-stakes conversation.

I find it infuriating that the only thing that seems to motivate people to take big political risks is $$ - so the most radical proposals only seem to take root on the right. Liberal politicians need to start being ballsy on behalf of regular people, oppressed minorities, and the working class.

The incredible hypocrisy of this hand-wringing over “backwater blue state judges” when cases have been carefully judge-shopped to red state judges for the last decade or more to chip away at the authority of Democratic presidents.

I need someone to write some cultural commentary on the multiple Super Bowl commercials involving flying facial hair and the general rise of the mustache.

There’s a particular honor that comes with being one of the people that a child will fall asleep on.

I needed this laugh today

Is the current flurry of activity coming out of the Executive branch disturbing and dangerous? Yes. Are the blatant attempts to erase the existence and value of anything/anyone that isn’t white, Christian and cisgender pathetic and sad? Also yes.

It totally counts!!!

A downside of using BlueSky to replace Facebook is that I feel like I’m supposed to post Important Thoughts here, or at least Pithy Observations. Can we normalize using this platform to ask for sympathy when we’ve stubbed our toe too?

I’ll throw this out there even though no one who matters will probably see it: I encourage the new DNC chair to not let go entirely of the stuff that made Kamala’s campaign joyful: celebrating a wide range of people is fun, and models of supportive masculinity are powerful. Inclusion isn’t a slog.

I was just thinking about this - an underrated dynamic is whether a political party seems “fun” (which is surface to the amount of money at play, but still…). As a kid in the 90s, Repubs seemed dowdy and prudish, Dems were chill and cool. Obama was fun - Biden was not, and Trump is amusing to many

It is crazy how much things could have changed in that short a time, but my original point still stands. It’s a really frustrating pattern from national Dems.

NOPE! I don’t understand how Dems don’t see that every time they aim for “the middle” they are getting rope-a-doped by the right. Stake out a strong stance on progressive issues, social AND economic, and fight hard for them!

I have been thinking a lot about Reagan’s famous line “the scariest words are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help” - and how affirming that attitude towards government just lays the groundwork for removing all the supports that government provides for average people.

Find your @indivisible.org chapter and sign up for their emails. Today I got one email listing both a national action I could take (thanking one senator and emailing the other) and a local action I could take to help with housing supply. No fear-mongering, just practical steps.

Please stop using the phrase “this oughta scare the crap out of all of us” when sharing anything regarding this administration’s actions. 10 days in, we are already out of crap - we are crapless.

Trump White House reverses course, rescinds freeze on federal grants — The Washington Post The reversal followed criticism of the sudden freeze by the White House budget office.

The image that keeps coming to mind is a large ship on the ocean. When you suddenly hit the brakes, everything on that ship gets flung about and broken - deciding to start moving again doesn’t erase the damage done.

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Federal workers discovering the empowering feeling of spite - I absolutely here for it.

CALL CONGRESS and tell them to OPPOSE cuts that are threatening to take away programs that millions rely on like Medicaid, rent assistance, nutrition assistance, and student loans.

SIGN: wfpus.org/cuts

CALL: Text CUTS to 30403 to get the script and be connected.

No one tells you about the step in the creative process when you’re thinking, “Can I just go back to being a normal person without interesting ideas? This is exhausting!”

@jpbrnidgrl.bsky.social this has a list of documentaries that might be good for the Garden Cinema!

I do love a syllabus…