i think everyone needs to get a lot less religious

Pointing out Charlie Kirk's hate speech is not hate speech. It's objective reporting. Apologize to Matthew Dowd and rehire him.

A full-throated embrace of genocide is hate speech – beyond all measure. Fire Brian Kilmeade. Immediately.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

They pretend that the USA was founded as a Christian nation.

Then they pretend and insist they’re Christians.

Then they govern like the motherfucking antichrist.

The Democratic Party needs to sort itself out before the midterms.

I actually have no idea what they are doing at the moment.

OMG I FIGURED IT OUT

UNLIKABLE? SOCIOPATHIC? PETULANT? WHINY?

STEPHEN MILLER IS GROWN-UP CAILLOU

There's only one person who's allowed to enter someone's home without a warrant, and that is Santa.

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam.
It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

A photo of two cats, Mjolnir - a tortoiseshell, and Gabe - a tabby, cuddled together cheek-to-cheek.

Gabe and Mjolnir need a new home, can you help?

Rowan, their human who has sadly passed, wished for them to remain together.

Will help get them relocated to anywhere within the United States; please read on for more details! 🧵

Signal boosts & sharing are appreciated 💙

the only current events i want to know about are waves

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov

And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

They need to hear from you.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

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A family of four splitgill mushrooms grow from the side of a fallen branch, upturned to see their radiating double-gills All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

A worker standing next to the truck he will be driving

Sergio works in the vegetables in the Salinas CA area. "I am an irrigator and work 8 hours a day Monday through Friday. Lately it's 35 to 45° in the early morning which is much colder than most years. These temps makes my hands feel frozen which makes work harder." #WeFeedYou

Word of the day….

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. Octavia Butler

remember.

1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral

Can you imagine the courage it took to preach this message directly to the president? This is what a follower of Jesus looks like. (Partial transcript below.)

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Stop slouching, please. Drink some water, take your meds.
-Take breaks from the internet today. Doomscrolling isn’t good for you.
-The Cursed Object says that nap time is extended to include all of this week.
❤️ Auntie Jilli

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

A four-panel comic called Instinct is Weird. In panel 1, a yellow warbler looks at a beautiful nest in a shrub and says "I made this for some reason". In panel 2, there are five eggs in the nest and she says "these are my smooth round children". In panel 3 an egg has hatched into a yelling hatchling, and she says "Oh no now it's loud". In panel 4 she looks distressed as five hatchlings now fill the nest, begging for food, and she says "help".

Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're on ship and in a shuttlebay! Man I love shuttlebays. We see Picard followed closely by Worf entering from the corridor. It's an action shot though, even though this is a picture you can just tell they're walking with purpose and swift movement into a very important scenario with big future space implications. Closed caption reads, "(loud commotion, chicken clucking)"

A great American is being honored on January 20th.

Harvesting spinach like these Santa Maria farm workers are doing is tough work. Workers tell us their backs ache at the end of the day as they spend their entire day bent over harvesting this crop that is low to the ground. #WeFeedYou

I’m starting to hate the description of certain behaviors as “immature/childish”

Because it’s an insult to actual children

Kids often don’t know That what they’re doing is cruel or imbalanced … a lot of the behaviors we say are “immature are don’t by grown adults who just don’t care