New Jersey governor picks a fight with FIFA. Good. As the 2026 World Cup draws near, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has gone to battle against FIFA.

New Jersey governor picks a fight with FIFA. Good. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

If you go back and watch a movie like All the Presidents's Men, it will really hit you how massively our country has changed in my lifetime. It was unthinkable for any of today's headlines to ever even exist back then.

A lot of you think it's always been this bad, but it hasn't. It really hasn't.

Selfie of Matthew throwing a peace sign in front of a mug saying Libraries work because we dk

From a fellow librarian, trustee, and patron, sending solidarity to library workers across the world on National Library Workers Day

Libraries work because we do ✊️

“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” — James Baldwin

Happy 89th Birthday George Takei!

George Takei, born on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, is an actor, activist, and social media phenomenon who has lived one of the most remarkable lives in American entertainment.

As a child, Takei and his family were forcibly relocated to Japanese...

Spike Lee at the Knicks game at MSG.

#spikelee #popeleo #knicks #madisonsquaregarden

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

This Day in #History 1927
Actress Mae West found guilty of “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” in a NY stage play entitled "Sex". She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined $500, the resulting publicity launches her Hollywood career.

I’d like to personally thank every actor and actress from beloved media of my past that has never been problematic and are just regular decent human beings that play make believe for a living.

Apparently it is far more difficult than you’d think.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

Screenshot of law and order svu scene with z folder on desk labeled “Epstein.”

🧐

Reading matters

Why does fiction matter?

Because stories can sharpen the way we understand other people.

A meta-analysis found that reading fiction has a small but positive effect on social cognition. Including our ability to interpret emotions, motives, and inner lives.

⏰📚💙📚🎧 #books #reading #fiction

People should read.
I'm tired of people not reading.
Please, if you can, PLEASE, read! Read everything, but especially fiction! Read comics!
It will help you with empathy AND make you smarter.
Please, read.

There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Also why do we tolerate Presidency by social media posts?

Literally the only times I've seen Cybertrucks appear in TV shows this past year have been as a joke at the expense of whichever character is driving it.

honestly it’s hilarious that he’s trying to fight the pope and the pope is like “I don’t think about you at all”

Mark Rufalo warns Congress against the Paramount-WBD merger:

"You don't have to watch 'Citizen Kane' or read '1984' to understand that the concentrated oligarchic control this merger represents is a threat to a free press, an informed populace & democracy itself."

www.youtube.com/live/xETe83T...

Cover of George Takei's autobiographical graphic novel They Called Us Enemy showing a line of people entering an internment camp as a young George looks back, breaking the fourth wall.

Friends of the Sacramento Library is offering these free for AAPI month

I have read so much work like this, but this might be the single most painful one because, well, everything is local.

I drive through Florin often (It's now South Sacramento), SF is where my mom lives, his dad was my age when

An action figure of Jessica Fletcher from the tv show Murder She Wrote.

My sister got me the greatest birthday present ever!

So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare.

The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

“The pope should be careful before talking theology” is just extraordinary stuff. Top-shelf. You write one book that gets turned into a Ron Howard movie and suddenly you’re nailing your manifesto to the cathedral doors.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social: “What law would you want to make?”

🔥 SMART KID: “🇺🇸 needs to let people go to the doctor free, because in other places they have it free.”

#MedicareForAllNOW