Harder than ever this year to find something to feel proud about my country. But allow me to reflect on a moment I cling to for hope.
In 2009 I visited New York with some friends. They’d already been to the Statue of Liberty so I took a solo trip. (1/7)
I dug 48” deep holes for 6 footings and then poured said footings and backfilled the holes today. No time for doom.
Most physically and mentally healthy day I’ve had in a long while.
161 years ago today the 1st Minnesota Regiment sacrificed itself at Gettysburg and saved the Union.
262 men made the sacrificial charge directly into the advancing enemy line. 215 became casualties in under 5 minutes, a rate of 82%. The highest rate for any surviving unit in US military history.
We all feel this way. But it's vital to realize that the median American is this person. Their understanding of how government works is like how you or I understand calculus or biology or some other class you took in high school and haven't thought about since.
Saw a post recently about how yesterday's decisions woke someone up to how important voting is, as the only way to get the right type of judges onto SCOTUS, & consciously restrained myself from posting a deeply unhelpful "IT TOOK YOU UNTIL NOW TO GET THIS" that bubbled up from my soul. Please clap.
anyway, is everyone good and mad now? fucking stay that way for the next five months, there will be more aggressions and indignities and insults to come. staying mad as hell about it is how we won in 2020 and it's how we'll win in 2024.
I’m not saying that I *agree* with the statement that Biden should piss down John Roberts’s leg the next he sees.
I’m just saying that from a LEGAL perspective
Oh my God I finally saw my first Cybertruck in the wild and it did not disappoint, what a fucking disaster.
How does it manage to simultaneously look small and oversized at the same time?
If you are an “old friend” suddenly sending me a message to tell me you’re sorry about me losing my dad during “the COVID LIES” let me invite you to kind kindly go fuck yourself allllllllllllll the way off.
I'mma say this for all the people in the back.
Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.
"I’d barely made it out of the parking lot before I passed six different signs describing the same kind of reed, and each one was more detailed than the last."
Let’s post them Terrible But Only For Blue Sky scores and grades. Like I got a B- in Econ for Social Welfare in grad school and tbh I think it was out of pity
I work every day with medicinal geniuses who have developed diagnostics to detect extraordinarily rare diseases years before they occur, yet cannot navigate even the most simple paper or electronic form to order a single test on a real patient.
Everyone has their blind spots.
one of my professors used to study under this philosopher who was famous, brilliant, etc. but also got locked out of his house bc the nail holding a brass plate above the keyhole to his door broke, the plate swung down to cover the keyhole, and he was like oh the lock must have stopped existing
My dad should have been 68 years old today. He was everything to me…an awesome role model, dedicated father, and selfless, giving person. I miss him desperately. I love you, dad.
My contribution to the theme tonight was “Country Roads” and I’m gonna do “Chattahoochee” with @athensgrease.bsky.social but salutes to the man doing this