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California boy living in the Midwest. Historian and teacher. Currently writing a book on race, radicalism, and law-and-order policing in Los Angeles. He/Him.
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CBS really slashed the budget for both the writers’ room and the costume/makeup department over the last two seasons of How I Met Your Mother.

Relevant meme.

lessons from season 1 of Reacher: if you ever find yourself in a climactic gun battle in a smoke-filled warehouse, this is a great time to tell a deep personal story. what you lose by way of giving away your position comes back to you tenfold as gravitas

🗃️ Hello, hi. The sky is falling. Also, can anyone please help me make out this text? It is from a letter written by a boy in an orphanage in Egypt in 1883. Thank you in advance

This guy voted to confirm five members of Trump’s cabinet who are currently destroying the federal government

Voters do not believe Democrats really think Republicans are a bunch of fascists. And when they attend his inauguration and act chummy with them in Congress it is hard to blame the people for that takeaway. Democrats simply don’t operate like the GOP is the threat described in fundraising.

THE WASHINGTON STATE BILL TO DENY GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS DEAD. Great job everyone! washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/22/r...

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

the sheer cowardice of universities in the face of nazism and trans genocide makes me ashamed to be an educator, though it is of course unsurprising: anyone who works at a university knows that despite the reputation they have among the right-wing, american universities are deeply conservative.

We really went from, “We can’t possibly defund the police,” to “let’s defund everything else.” Smh

I’m re-watching Collateral tonight. What a great film. Very excited.

Whaaaaat?

By design, it's hard for people to know if police are using AI to write their narrative reports for them, but we *are* cruising toward mass use and the chaos it will likely cause. With mass adoption on the horizon, some cities, states, and counties, are trying to regulate or ban it proactively!

Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

Interested in learning about local immigration sanctuary policies in the U.S.? Check out "Mapping U.S. Sanctuary Policies." storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cdc7...

I didn’t think our Democratic leadership would be up to the task for a second Trump term but I never imagined they would be this pitiful.

Knights of the Old Republic. Got it for Xbox, a four-disc set for PC, through the iPad app store when I got bored once, and finally on Steam.

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment: “If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”

"Make no mistake - this is a coup" * * immediately leaves DC for another 4-day weekend

Dying in a hideous plane crash because the world’s most racist and unlovable nerds couldn’t handle a 45 minute HR training.

The basketball player I never realized I needed.

Happy Presidents' Day from The Ghost of Abrajam Lincoln, an actual character concept from the unproduced N64 horror-themed basketball game Monster Dunk by Mindscape archive.gamehistory.org/item/54f8254...

my husband is trying to convince me that if we call the refrigerator "the fridge" for short we should also call the freezer "the friz"

Pasadena pays over $600K annually for ShotSpotter. But most calls lead to nothing. In fact, ShotSpotter has missed fatal shootings, and routinely misidentified fireworks and other sounds.

Roses are red They’re beautiful like your face Our love is so exciting It’s

I was going to do something 'proper' but then thought naaahhh. Just a bit of fun and an excuse to slosh a load of red paint around. #watercolor #watercolorpainting #birds #birdart #watercolorcardinal #cardinalpaintings

I hope this Valentine’s Day you’re appreciated for who you are. Not who people think you are. Not who people want you to be. Not who you once were. Not who you never were. But who you are. Right now. In the present.

The best time to have done the comms work of explaining to people how the government works was any time in the past. The second best time is now.

Heads up: *paid* Gilder Lehrman internships! For grad, undergrad, and high school students. www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and...

For those of you who don't know the reference, Hitler spent a huge amount of time and resources purging what he considered "degenerate art"

it really doesn't get any more disgusting than this. sick

Good morning

An 8 or 9 to strangers and a 4 to my friends

Just a totally vile way to screw over your own clients. Disbar every lawyer who uses ChatGPT like this.

Fascists *first* go after the most vulnerable minorities in our communities and when they see people quietly acquiescing & obeying in advance, they go after the next group and the next and the next and then they come for you. It's a tale as old time. So is resistance. Get loud. Be a damn nuisance.