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"Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise." — Maya Angelou distance runner, tolkienista, software developer, aspirational polymath, woke Jesus follower
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submitted 2 days ago • 135 comments

The AP pope looks askance at this heresy

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Let’s spend funds on infrastructure that actually keeps us moving forward.

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

submitted 3 days ago • 383 comments

Music is joy! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

submitted 3 days ago • 387 comments

Boom! 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 190 comments

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

submitted 4 days ago • 272 comments

He thinks revenge is leadership and trolling is governance. Stop the #MadKing

submitted 5 days ago • 372 comments

I would really love it if mainstream journalists would seriously consider the possibility that RFK Jr.'s politicized HHS under Trump is as accurate about gender-affirming medicine as it is on autism or vaccination.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Tolkien's notion of evil can be summed up pretty simply: the domination of others. Stripping away their freedom and their will, forcing them to do yours instead. So whatever his authoritarian fans might think, their actions are, in fact, textbook Tolkienian evil. #TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t make you watch this. But I would if I could! 🙂 Seriously, though…for a number of reasons this is an important speech, that I’d put in the must watch category. youtu.be/zMndfvxVeRo?...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

It was not their intent, but it turns out this site is very useful in knowing which local businesses to avoid. #noKing #noFacism #makeAmericaKindAgain

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

House GOP leaders are telling the rank-and-file not to spill the beans about their plans to slash Medicaid. MAGA Republicans are constantly scrambling to deny their actual plans because we Americans reject their top-down warfare on the working-class majority.

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The bok stops there.

submitted 20 days ago • 53 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 22 days ago • 1748 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 23 days ago • 1937 comments

A real leader doesn't have to keep telling everyone they're a leader A really cognitively aware person doesn't have to keep telling everyone they're cognitively aware. A real genius doesn't have to keep telling everyone they're a genius

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

If you're a 70-something-year-old man and you're constantly talking about how well you did on a cognitive test, you might not be very cognitively aware.

submitted 24 days ago • 545 comments

don’t ever give up… you never know when you’ll see a white star twinkling and the beauty of it will smite your heart and hope will return to you and the thought will pierce you that in the end the Shadow is only a small and passing thing and there is light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

when they go low, we go Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine.bsky.social 🔥

submitted 30 days ago • 454 comments

The press is alive and well up north.

submitted 32 days ago • 106 comments

The road to MAGA Shambhala is proving to be a shambolic path #HandsOff

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder that transgender people are not causing Americans to lose their retirement savings.

submitted 33 days ago • 37 comments

Hey, so it's National Library Week. You're going to see a lot of calls to get a library card and check out books. All well and good. But I'm going to ask you to do something a little more supportive: speak up.

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.

submitted 33 days ago • 101 comments

they're lying to you, but you don't have to fall for it. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

"Biology is deeply important to me!" - Transphobe who hasn't bothered to learn basic biological facts of the topic they're opining on

submitted 40 days ago • 19 comments

transphobes don't actually have opinions on science, they just think they're so enlightened that their beliefs must be inherently scientific

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

How does the current occupant of the White House divert your attention from Signalgate and telling Americans he doesn't care if they spend more money. By threatening all of us with a 3rd term MEDIA, DO NOT FALL FOR IT. DON'T FOLLOW THE SHINY OBJECT. STAY ON SIGNALGATE.

submitted 40 days ago • 368 comments

This is the result of decades of civic poisoning by Fox News and right-wing echo chambers and channels.

submitted 41 days ago • 1556 comments