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Pennsylvania Election Official, chronic pain warrior, bi liberal activist, writer, & creature of the night.🦇 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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It's Trumpmuskgeddon and it feels like Christmas.

Chicago fighting back against ICE. You love to see it 💪

When 15 million Americans lose their health care and plunge into personal crisis, none of them are going to give a shit about a made-for-clicks twitter fight between two billionaires arguing about who gets the bigger share of the corruption spoils.

☀️Good morning—release the Epstein files, protect the victims, hold those implicated accountable, regardless of political party or status.

“Elon is talking shit about Trump on Twitter and Trump is talking shit about Elon on Truth Social but Elon’s dunking on Trump’s Truth Social posts on Twitter and I only know all this because everybody’s sharing the screenshots on BlueSky and —“

The word ‘tomato’ started out as ‘tomate’ and came from the Nahuatl word ‘tomatl.’ Since the potato had been introduced to the English some decades earlier, the word evolved to mimic the form of ‘potato’—hence the spelling ‘tomato.’

A win! The Trump administration is backing off its demand that states hand over personal data on SNAP recipients after a lawsuit. In a sworn statement filed in federal court, the USDA said it is pausing its plan to build a national database of Americans receiving food assistance.

look at my opposition party dawg

Why would you drop $60 on something that only works in the parks during this one special event??? And then collect it? No, thank you, billionaire overlords. I’ll keep my money and skip your little magic wand light show in the middle of an amusement park.🙄 www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

Spare us the fake outrage.

#hypocrisy

People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship.

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

We’re sure many of you have heard about the growing controversy in Oklahoma, where parents are pushing back against a new curriculum quietly pushed through by the state’s superintendent.

These are your words of the week Memorial Day rococo crypto chicken out scofflaw www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

The Asterisk…

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Let’s do a quick lit crit lesson. What is Death of the Author? Death of the Author means you can interpret a text the way you want and not worry so much about what the author meant. Their history, their symbolism (intended or not) that all doesn’t matter. The reader creates the meaning. 🧵 1/

The Trump administration has just canceled a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna that was meant to develop a bird flu vaccine.

Our favorite comment from yesterday that’s still stuck in our heads: The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not taco ‘bout Fight Club. 🌮🥊

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals. These journals are familiar to all docs, regardless of specialty. Kennedy’s not only insane, but he’s dangerous.

Today in the Oval Office, Trump said he’s considering pardoning the men convicted for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

DUPE AND SCOOP. Trump’s ICE DUPES migrants to come to court, gets their cases dismissed, so they can SCOOP them up and deport them without due process. youtu.be/T8uAkSVEcKA

Dorie Miller, a Black Navy messman aboard the USS Enterprise, despite no weapon training, risked his life and shot down, under fire, several enemy planes during Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt had to order the Navy to honor Miller. On May 27, 1942 Miller received the Navy Cross. Glad you asked.

There’s just so much wrong with this

Andy Borowitz with some spot-on satire: "Devoting a 352-page book to unmasking a president who is no longer in office instead of the one currently sowing global chaos indicates serious mental impairment, the experts asserted." www.borowitzreport.com/p/man-feared...

It is vital to note this is one of the biggest thought leaders for this brand of tech bro oligarch.

If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social #WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit

This hits hard.

If you support this, you should be ashamed of yourself

We hope yinz like this. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/ten...

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Still boggles my mind that a top ten single in the 1990s contained the lyric “her placenta falls to the floor.”