The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is--And Isn't Seeing Rural America for What It Is--And Isn't

This appears related and interesting, but wasn’t the one I dimly recall: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

There is a recent-ish book tackling the idea of rural virtue, but I cannot think of the title or author. Hivemind, help, please.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

I’m so sorry, and so glad you had each other.

I am begging every Senate Democrat to vote against confirmation of this clown. Take a stand. Don't try to triangulate. This is an easy call.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is so heinous, I do not know what to say. This shit devastates me.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

Yes! This is important both because people often have no idea what the generations even refer to half the time but also as a feminist gerontologist, I can tell you that we're more often referring to life stage realities than generational ones.

sarah isgur and brett kavanaugh mugging for the camera together

Brett Kavanaugh officiated Sarah Isgur's wedding and is helping her promote her book, which is all about how good and noble the Supreme Court is. There is no reason to take seriously anything this person says about her very powerful, life-tenured friends. Seriously, have some respect for yourself.

Our days can be tiring, so save some energy for the important stuff, like reading books, brewing tea, and shapeshifting into a were-bear to protect the old forest.

Waaaant. Can't, shouldn't, won't, but, wow. And, H is right, this will speak to someone who's in a situation where they can afford it and should have it. I made an equivalent purchase (gorgeous turquoise piece) in grad school, and have never regretted it.

"This is an important thing to think about."

What percentage of einkorn, if I may ask?

you see it a ton with the longevity people. they never want to do basic things we know make everyone live longer, they want weird expensive shit that will help *them and only them*

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Yeah, I’ve never quite got over the profound moral injury aspect of watching so many Americans absolutely refuse to even mildly sacrifice to help others during Covid - watching MAGAs somehow become even more evil was radicalizing.

And now the bastards are trying to destroy MRNA research.

Can verify, this is very high up on my comfort re-read list. Her Caldryn Parliament books (2 of 3 out, 3rd forthcoming) are also on the list, and rising in the rankings.

I now sub Xyzal for Zyrtec, but, yes, absolutely, this helps. And, as noted, check w your doctors, but for me, Famotidine also helps.

I would be surprised if you couldn't find five volunteers within the same timeframe, armed only with hockey sticks, to act more decisively than the police here.

Don’t forget to take care of yourself.
Don’t forget to rest.
Don’t forget to read banned books.
Don’t forget to dream.
Don’t forget to become a terrifying legend that timid townsfolk whisper about in the dark.

Just read the description - it looks like Sheri Tepper but scarier - and I'm not sure I can take that right now. ... Ordering from the library anyway.

People keep seeing techbros/STEM-only fanatics/Silocon Valley as rational because engineer types like to *think* they are the poster children for rationality and we have allowed our cultural archetype for high intelligence to be them, but

they’re HIGHLY irrational and now -> Christian nationalist.

I remember reading a long time ago that some terrorist orgs had a lot of success recruiting engineers of a certain personality type(who they wanted for obvious reasons), basically because assuming you're highly rational actually makes you really gullible and bad at non-technical reasoning.

So astoundingly wonderful - and I say this as someone who consumes entirely too many Holmes and Watson retakes. Most are read- (or watch-) and-forget, but I bought the DVD set of Elementary, to make sure I could always rewatch it again. And again. I might prefer this take on Mycroft to all others.

When the topic turns to "what comes next" and "what should we do," we should defer to historians in the same way we defer to doctors on vaccines, lawyers on criminal defense and military generals on strategy and tactics.

They're going to tell us stuff like this and it's vital to America's future.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

in general, & across the world, the political gender divide really opens up around 2016

wonder if something happened then?

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.