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•Please pardon my southern accent •Lifelong North Carolinian •I do a thing called “what I want”
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It’s a real unearned W for all Gen-Xers that the teens use both “boomer” and “millennial” as shorthand for old people but have completely forgotten about us, the worst generation of them all.

So the Republican Party has historically blocked: -Paid sick leave -Paid family & medical leave -Universal childcare -Universal pre-K -Expanded Child Tax Credit -Programs to support reproductive health And they're wondering why more people aren't having children?

Take that, Bill Maher.

Brilliant. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Army veteran Kevin Bittenbender and Marine veteran Kirstie Ennis look to set a world record with a 47.5-mile Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim hike at Grand Canyon National Park. Both are missing part of one of their legs.

The least surprising headline I read today, and I love it!

Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts. From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

"Facilitate is an active verb [motherfuckers]. —Hon. J. Harvey Wilkinson

I read a lot of court documents, and I like to highlight some from time to time that really encapsulate the moment we find ourselves in. The latest from the 4th Circuit does it perfectly. ALLISON GILL open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Free link to crazy WSJ story about Musk and his “harem drama.” Can’t do it justice with the four-screenshot limit! www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

Today is the 44th anniversary of R.E.M.’s trip to Winston-Salem to record 3 songs with young producer Mitch Easter: Radio Free Europe, Sitting Still & Wh. Tornado at Drive-in Studio. It was released on Hib-Tone Records 3 months later & things were off & running! Read more: remhq.com/news/44th-an...

Perfection. This is the kind of post I am here for:

Genius

Classic!

Timeless

May we all remember to be dancing animals together

I’ve never rooted for a squirrel so hard

Sign of the day…

Sometimes in this fast-moving and complex modern world, it’s hard to know what’s right and what’s wrong. But here’s a handy rule of thumb: If you are ever on one side of an issue, and Sesame Street is on the other, YOU’RE the bad guy.

This is correct. You will find no explanation for Trump's actions in economics or political science. You need to go deep into woke academic critical theory, and there it suddenly makes sense why white male nepobabies hate communal prosperity because it undermines their dream of personal superiority.

What of your data does DOGE have access to? The folks at New America made a tool to show you based on your life circumstances and interactions with the federal government. www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...

'Islington Back Gardens, Early Spring' by contemporary UK painter Melissa Scott Miller #WomensArt

“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Judge Susan Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”

Thank you for the gift link 😇

"To the man with a kill list, everything looks like a terrorist. To the man without a clear strategic goal, every casus belli is an abstraction." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

On the day Trump says he’s “not joking” about a third term, I’m going to remind folks I published a book about this “slow civil war”—and in it I reported on his open talk of a permanent presidency, and the way the media ignored it, going back years. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/b...

Thank you for the gift article

"Here's what GPT had to say" has the same energy as a toddler who walks into the room and says "Look what I found in the toilet!"

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. Check it out: