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The politics poster your mom warned you about. Impeach, exhume, try, and convict Richard M. Nixon. Occasional earnest lib posting, but sorry about it. Press secretary for The Prophetess of Discourse. Brainworms taxonomist. he/him
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I must, of course, bring up the absolutely cursed family tree that the Ptolemys pruned; the debate over Cleopatra's ethnicity seems to pale next to the "which mutations?" question

submitted 303 days ago • 10 comments

The history of which planet???

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

Bonus points to the first judge to enjoin Musk sua sponte (INAL, so I don't really know if it would be applicable here, but I know it's a thing that can broadly happen and emailing a judge seems like a good way to get it to happen)

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I am startled every time I see a picture of this good looking Georgian before I remember what he did

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

People talk a lot about "breaking norms" and I'm *mostly* a norms guy, but this is exactly when the norm of "audience listens, thugs thug, politicians have the mic" is supposed to break. Stand up, block the doors, chant "shame" Ask yourself, how can we make this space ours, not theirs

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

If you go to a town hall and bullshit is going down, stand up. Authorities count on people literally sitting by. Invite others to stand up. Walk over. Move around. Own the space

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Two things! 1) If security is removing someone for speaking out a town hall, you know, use your judgment, but you can stand up walk over and push back on it 2) If you're being removed, go limp. Takes four people to remove you as dead weight

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

A big part of this mess is that you could slap, "No, I won't" on the national seal and capture our essence, but now that we're in it I'm reminded the difficulties of governing Americans can be really beautiful

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

A significant amount of the dramatic tension in Bach's coffee peon is a young woman who would rather drink coffee than get married and, frankly, Iconic

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

You can oversell it, but Mozart wrote The Magic Flute for extremely commercial reasons, at a time when the idea of commercial music was very new, and while I think it is evident that was partially because he was pursuing artistic success, analyses of TMF often assume the audience was high brow

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

The nuclear block keeps on giving

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

We will not stop until there is a replica of the Hoover Dam on the moon

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes, but his opposition still counts

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

They are now making a big deal about how hemophilia is passed through the maternal line, but there are only two generations between Albert and the maternal and paternal line converging!!!

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Bernie Sanders could run on this platform and win if not for some emails and a speech by, what's her name? Alice Klobuchar from Wisconsin

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments