I feel like this is up @themerl.bsky.social ‘s alley

Exactly 💯

I was afraid it said something deranged about me that that’s what I saw!

this city is made up of like 45% monuments, and if we had retained the lessons of any of them, this stupid arch thing wouldn't even be a gleam in anyone's eye

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

1995 was a great year for Austen adaptations.

But they’re going to be among the thirtyish humans that have ever seen the far side of the moon with their own eyes, which is still pretty cool, if not ‘moon landing’ cool

space is cool, science is cool, we should get the government back

I just had to explain to my daughter who Sarah Palin was. Now I feel old. Wasn’t that just an election cycle or two ago?

I have decided that since I can see the moon from my house I’m basically an astronaut, using the Sarah Palin -> Russia -> foreign policy experience transitive property

What a well-written article

Reminding us all that if we want to see Jesus
He is already here, among the poor, the imprisoned and the hungry, Go and serve and you will surely see Christ

Pretty sure this is renaissance art given the lighting

I think fighting domestic antisemitism and standing up for the rights of Palestinians and opposing their genocide have to go together, personally.

what if we just fucking didn't bomb people how would that go

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

I mean I know I should not doomscroll when waking up in the night. But some nights it’s more apparent (and doom-y) than others

Is it bad of me that I don’t want John Piper in the national divorce?

So proud of my denomination!

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Newsom being anti-trans and anti-homeless are not two separate issues; they overlap a great deal as I explained last week when someone else was loud and proudly ignorant about him

So glad to see you back!

Abolish ICE

How could you not be impressed by a bird in your yard? This dude can fly anywhere and it came here to hang out with you

I feel your pain

The “commonsense reform” I want is for ICE to be abolished.

OMG this is not what people are talking about. It’s ICE and how they must be stopped. Raise your voice for that, why don’t you?

I don't think that kids should be in the concentration camps. But I also don't think they should be sent away while their parents are kept in the concentration camps. I don't think we should have these concentration camps at all.