The incompetent quacks entrusted with overseeing our public health system have blocked hundreds of millions of dollars of mRNA vaccine research, based on pseudoscientific drivel.
Our money. The public’s money. Lifeblood for miracles like this one.
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The cover of the Spring 2026 USA Philatelic magazine.
A photo of the new Figures of the American Revolution stamps.
A photo of the new Bald Eagle: Hatchling to Adult stamps.
A close-up of one of the four designs in the new Harriet Powers stamp set.
BECAUSE I’M A NERD, I receive the USPS’s quarterly magazine about stamps, USA Philatelic. There are so many cool stamp designs available or coming this year, including figures of the American revolution, bald eagles, and Harriet Powers’s quilts. Go write a letter and get you a cool stamp for it!
nutella free in space on artemis orion
THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE
Well, enjoy having written.
Once you adjust for family income, students who go to their neighborhood public schools do just as well as students who go to fancy private schools (and better than students who go to most charter schools!).
No shit, dude.
why don’t i slip into something more comfortable (jorts)
Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative."
He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”
@michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social showing off his elbow
GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns
Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting
2100: Nothin' but skulls as far as the eye can see and floating nano chatbots chattering away chattering away chattering away.
Not surprising.
Ahhh the glow of a pure soul through a pair of slutty little glasses
Read this headline.
Now read it again.
Now read it again.
You are not alarmed enough.
It is later than you think. 🇺🇸
deadline.com/2026/03/trum...
“Ad, ad, an AI figment, someone squawking, someone hawking—hours
consumed, of this only life, and who is left in the garden, who is tending the flowers?”
Read the whole poem by Leila Chatti here: poets.org/poem/world-t...
In less than 1 week, Trump has wasted more than $5 BILLION of your taxpayer dollars on his war of choice on Iran.
That money could have covered the cost of SNAP for more than 2 million Americans for a year.
There's always money for war and never money for human needs.
This Summer, Students From Hundreds of Colleges Will Heed One Urgent Call www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...
Joke's on you daylight savings I'm totally fine with an hour less of this shitshow
Predicting a return to reading books. It will be on the frontier of resisting subjection.
The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. A huge cause ys a systematic & decades-long devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. We kan not put instrumentalitye above meaninge and still thrive. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of well-informed citizens.
A very cute brown poodle snoozes on someone’s feet on the other side of a lap desk in bed.
Some days require a quiet, four-hour feedback and emails block in the small hours. So glad I have a good sidekick to keep me company.
Genuinely incredible that the U.S. will celebrate the 250th without an Archivist of the United States.
Lynchburg Court Dismisses Latest GOP Attempt to Block April 21 Redistricting Amendment Vote; "Republicans have tried again and again to stop Virginians from having their say — and again, that effort has failed." bluevirginia.us/2026/03/lync...
Every dot is a 287(g) agreement with ICE.
Florida just one big ICE operation at this point.
WATCH — “Per the Heritage Foundation’s own data, out of 2 billion votes cast since 1982… just 10 (!!) involved undocumented immigrants.”
Republicans are dismantling voting rights over a fake problem. The “SAVE” Act will only save Trump.
A sign with the text "PLEASE NO DUCKS" featuring an illustration of a duck and two smaller ducks, enclosed in a red prohibition circle.
You can tickle the penguins
And get them to laugh
You can just sing a song
To amuse the giraffes
Just a little soft-shoe
Will delight the woodchucks
But try as you might
You can’t
This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)
The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
Yessss when those executive function skills FINALLY bear some fruit!