"waiting--for the final solution to strengthen the strain," is a familiar refrain

"stamina"

"I've never heard of this so probably nobody in the existence of the universe has heard of it, either."

It's a pretty long line of young guys who came along just in time to solve yet another problem that mankind has "never faced before" like a million times

Tim Cook would miss me every bit as much as I'd miss him if he'd never been born

Nobody but me already suspects that Tim Cook inhabits a different planet than most of the rest of us? That can't be right

Hegseth on dropping the flu vaccine reqt for the military: We will not force you to take it, “because your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable.”

OH REALLY?

Replace ‘flu vaccine’ with ‘abortion’ and we’ll see how ‘negotiable’ my body, faith, and convictions are.

I fondly recall thinking and being sick and tired of another Oregon Republican years ago

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Feels xenophobic, and yet

LOTS of (and increasing) red-state license plates for a few years. I'm sure it's fleeing liberals, come to bolster our cause

Already sick and tired of "Christine Drazan for Governor"

Also, bracing myself for the very real possibility of a Republican governor in Oregon

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

Skydiver slams into Virginia Tech scoreboard, dangles by parachute YouTube video by ABC News

Exceptionalistic putriotic content, tho

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For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question:

When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?

The only A.I. I support is Abolish ICE.

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Glad she's Ore-gone

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.

As I argue in this piece, Trump has transformed the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System.

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

"One of Trump’s extraordinary skills is to recognize and recruit those whose greed and vanity outstrip their principles, and who are happy to shout righteously for a cause they once abhorred."

“Reverse emails,” Jared Kushner corruption edition

He also holds no Senate-confirmed Cabinet or senior government position & employing family as White House advisers violates every norm ever, but this, too, has been erased from the headlines. After years of HUNTER BIDEN, it’s shameful.

I'm sorry to hear that

Boots on the Groundhog Day

Collage of five photographs with big green - maple tree, heart-shaped redbud leaves, female pondhawk dragonfly, bullfrog close-up, and pond slider turtle

Greens ...

A picture of Doctor McCoy from Star Trek saying, "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a savior"

*chef's kiss*

Ah there it is

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Sure "artificial intelligence" and all that, but what the actual is wrong with closed captioning on television? It's constantly *peppered* with typos and malapropisms that hideously distort the meaning of what's being said. Tower of Babel stuff

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz: both open and closed.