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The Vice President and the National Security Advisor discussing how they pre-targeted a building housing civilians.

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Put this on your fucking Hugo ballots or be dead to me tbh

Action is needed TODAY to protect Illinoisans from immigration enforcement activity. Submitting a witness slip is easily done from your computer or phone, and it has a real impact. Right now, there are twice as many slips submitted in opposition than in support. Help fix that! bit.ly/ILAmendTRUST

Horrifying breaking news out of Texas: www.oag.state.tx.us/news/release...

"Bungee Gum possesses the properties of both rubber and gum."

I spent the weekend talking to fired and current employees of the USFS, NPS, and USFWS. The stories they tell—understaffed parks, missing trail crews, potentially 1000s of qualified firefighters gone—paint a picture of a public lands system reaching a crisis point: www.backpacker.com/stories/issu...

lately i have been avoiding fatal fall damage by executing a double jump mere inches from the ground

RIP to a real one

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

FUND ABORTION ACCESS 2025 continues today. Will you please donate at least the cost of a drink to support an abortion fund? Can you help spread the word? secure.actblue.com/donate/suppo...

My Doctor Emailed Me Back This is the story of how the NHS tried to make me the face of their “new system” for trans health, and why I told them to shove it Exclusively on TransWrites

Eminences, although we sisters are supposed to be invisible, God has nevertheless given us eyes and ears.

'Tis the season.

With the return of the good-guy Superman, now is the perfect time to watch @jacobgeller.bsky.social's video essay on The Golem and the Jewish Superhero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBV...

The world needs Superman: aftermath.site/superman-movie...

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Opening my empty wallet and a moth flies out. It disappears around a corner. A few minutes pass before it returns, carrying a 20 dollar bill that it drops in. I love the money moth

The House just passed HR 9495, the bill that would allow the Treasury department to unilaterally kill non-profit groups. 15 Dems voted for it: Allred Caraveo Case Cuellar Davis (NC) Golden (ME) Gonzalez, V. Lee (NV) Moskowitz Panetta Perez Schneider Suozzi Torres (CA) Wasserman Schultz

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

Portillo's is scab hot dogs. Pass it on, Chicago

If this is your rep 🗣️ call their office! hr 9495 would allow trump to categorize nonprofits as "terrorist organizations" at will and mess with their funding. your calls make a big difference. really. 1 call is worth more than 100 post

It's time to enter the Tower, go through the door, and listen to the entire Just King Things back catalogue from the beginning.

There has never been a better time to strive for utopia. "The role of a Marxist and Utopian approach to the question of historiography is precisely to destabilize our certainties about history; to open up the potentialities and ambiguities of the future, of what could be, in our collective past."

Looking through my favorite horror stories this Halloween, and came across one I had been trying to remember the name of for months. E.A. Petricone's powerful work, We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/we-t...

It is the scary season. Here is the great Gahan Wilson story “Phyllis” for you to enjoy. An impactful four pages.

Chicago, #EarlyVoting starts in all 50 Wards today, which means it's time for the #GirlIGuess Digital Palm Card!

Tips for New Bluesky Users: 1. It is the year 0079 of the Universal Century. 2. A half-century has passed since Earth began moving its burgeoning population into gigantic orbiting space colonies. 3. A new home for mankind, where people are born and raised. 4. And die.

The cold of winter is kind to big boys. Unfortunately, it is giving way to Hateful Spring.

Look at this little freak. Absolutely not to be trusted.

Tom Bombadil stands for Atomic Bombadill.