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Did you hear about the Italian chef? He pasta away. Get it? I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

NADELLA: “.. We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years.” @microsoft.com $MSFT news.microsoft.com/source/featu...

“The present is all we have to live in. Or to lose.” — Marcus Aurelius

You know what used to be uncool in the United States? Being a royalist

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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This is the lesson of Gilda Radner’s too-short life, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes: For God’s sake, don’t bother with fear. Just go for the thing you want, with your whole heart.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

Soon they’ll be putting warnings on Moana, Encanto, and Frozen like “This movie wrongly features a plucky, powerful young woman saving her community. Both powerful women and saving your community were wrong then and are wrong now”

Worth a read www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Shocker. Someone call the DOGE squad www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

Sotomayor Says Presidents Are Not Monarchs and Must Obey Rulings www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

Happy 100th anniversary to the one and only @newyorker.com 👏👏👏👏🙏🏾

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

The U.S. has a significantly lower life expectancy than other rich countries americanhealth.jhu.edu/2024-life-ex... #longevity

Purrfekt

Japan Once Dominated the Art Market. Is the Country Ready for a Comeback? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/a... #art

Dozens of studies in recent years have linked ultra-processed fare to health problems such as high blood pressure and heart attacks, and also to some problems that one might not expect: cancer, anxiety, dementia, and early death.

I have decided to abolish the Department of Human Beings.

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

Just 0.15 percent of all voters determined Trump's becoming president thehill.com/opinion/camp...

When Trump paused federal funding to all grants and loans, it plunged scientific research into chaos. Though the freeze was rescinded for some sectors, it's still in largely place for universities and research institutions. The damage will be lasting.

coup d'état....

realizing this is about as close to a creed as i have.

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

Nothing could please America’s enemies more than the ongoing destruction of the federal government.

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

How a German Thinker Explains MAGA "Morality" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...

Trump Dissolves Arts Committee Previously Restored by Biden www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/a...