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The Merrill Lunch Hungerdunger McCormack All Accountant Marching Society parading along with the lyrics to their chant: "Three million fourteen one eight ninety-seven, times the current prime rate standing at eleven. Surtax, sales tax, excise too, net worth, Dow Jones, scooby dooby doo!"
It's time for our annual Tax Day tradition! Presenting the Merrill Lunch Hungerdunger McCormack All Accountant Marching Society!
This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.
Power to the people always ✊
Happy Passover
REPORTER: Can you tell me, why do we eat matzah on Passover?
OSCAR THE GROUCH: Well, if you must know, nosy, it's because it's flat, like the way I sing!
Happy Passover, Muppet fans!
i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related
bsky.app/profile/laur...
I feel genuinely flabbergasted by the defiantly anti-journalistic approach of NYT Comms here.
They're saying the NYT's reporting on the stance of the American Medical Association is correct, despite the American Medical Association saying their stance is different from what NYT reported.
It drives me and my patients crazy because we all *know* that a better world is possible. Fund healthcare, not warfare.
From 70 Years, 70 Muppets: Episode 55 - Mahna Mahna & The Snowths, Sep 7, 2025
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/7...
Catching up on a bunch of missed podcasts and my jaw hit the floor “This week we asked the question, how did the soundtrack from an Italian movie about Swedish lesbian nightclubs become a Muppet standard? How did it build the Muppet brand? And how did it all go so terribly wrong?” @toughpigs.com
It's Purim! Our hearts are heavy, but we're seeking joy and laughter. Need a minute to laugh at the absurdity of it all? truah.org/purim2026
When American Jews today ask ourselves what we would do during fascism, the answer is whatever we’re doing right now. I hope you’ll join me taking collective action in solidarity with your immigrant neighbors #JewsAgainstICE
Don’t know where to start? Try @bendthearc.bsky.social
Today is anniversary of the 1941 February Strike against the Deportation of Dutch Jews
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
Feliz Cumpleaños!
Happy birthday to Aurora Levins Morales!!
I'm glad more people are talking about this bsky.app/profile/baby...
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
This is sort of but not exactly the premise of Muppets Most Wanted muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Muppets...
Screen capture from Metro Pulse with alert about D40 bus delays
Hope everyone gets where they’re going safely! @washprobs.bsky.social
A row of D40 and D4X buses in Washington DC sit on the side of the road on Georgia Ave NW, a major roadway from DC into Maryland
Delay is an understatement! This is apparently from an automobile accident, @wmata.com are there more details as to what went down today on Georgia Ave?
And they spread measles?!
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/n...
Instead of Elmo going to Grouchland, he is sent away from the grownups and friends he trusts. I hate this timeline.
I can't believe right wing freaks are still trying to score political points making fun of Sesame Street characters
Blue, red and purple lighting on the stage at DC9, a nightclub in Washington DC. A tambourine, trumpet, flugelhorn, plunger mute and Harmon mute are on the floor next to a glockenspiel. In the background is a piano keyboard, guitar and a drumset.
#beardedtrumpetplayer
tonight’s office @ DC9, such a great band w/ Nadie Nadia & great staff at this venue
I meant what I said.
Everyday I speak with patients whose lives were already hanging together by a thread. DC Council’s drastic cuts to safety net programs is like using a sledgehammer to solve the District’s medical coverage crisis, when what they needed was a needle and some empathy.
Anyways continue supporting @dcmigrantmutualaid.org
