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Syrian state TV is now broadcasting just a single, still image. It reads: “The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.” History. #Syria 🇸🇾

Music is the best…

Indeed.

@jojofromjerz.bsky.social excellent screed today. You go girl!

The news media is so broken.

@patricemolnar.bsky.social I spent 4 years making classroom workbooks for middle schoolers at the National Science Teachers Association. 😄

go.bsky.app/Lap9CGm For your breaks today.

Bluesky question: are we just blocking the porn trolls or reporting them too?

Let’s take a break, shall we?

Crockett: I can't say why my colleagues are acting the way that they are. I can say that the American people are tired of us bringing a butter knife to a real fight

What he said…

www.ajc.com/politics/pol... Peas in the same pod…

www.dailykos.com/stories/2024... My favorite thing this week. I have family in CT and watching him fall has just been beautiful.

My mayor for a while, even 911 couldn’t change my opinion of him. About a lot of things, absolutely. But, walks like a duck…

Folks can hem and haw over Hunter's pardon. That's tiddlywinks. Do you think otherwise institutionalist Biden will do anything of consequence before Jan 20th to try to save the country, given that SCOTUS has given him presidential immunity to do any number of "official acts"? #WheresDarkBrandon

Rosa Parks, who refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, Montgomery, Alabama, today 1955:

Written in the 1960s ( and 1950s) but could absolutely be applied to today

Trump: 5 kids from 3 women -- cheated on them all Hegseth: 7 kids from 3 women -- cheated on them all Musk: 11 kids from 3 women -- cheated on them all And all three men—credibly accused of rape & sexual abuse—are lecturing us about conservative & strong family values? The hypocrisy is the point.

@maryscottoconnor.com hi, and love your stuff. Sober since 2003. Keep coming back. 💪

The Onion buying Infowars is the best gift we could ask for this holiday season—nothing says “justice” quite like turning a platform of pure lunacy into a tool for education and mockery.

I've shared this before. Seems like a good time to share it again.

This is your daily reminder that this really did happen.