Erin McDonagh

A reminder that each death in this war is a life lost, and a family mourning and forever changed.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

This backflip made history: Surya Bonaly | Extraordinary Figure Skating YouTube video by Female Lead

Here’s a video for folks who don’t know about Surya. At the 1:30 mark you can see her back flip and how she lands on one foot, which is how all figure skating jumps are supposed to land.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cna0...

Also, a current article from NBC New York www.nbcnewyork.com/olympics/202...

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk

The first two hours this morning

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

Death Star

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

"If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking." ~Andrea Junker

What in the ever loving fuck is going on here

I regret to inform you Elon made a good post, and not just because of the subject matter. It's not great, but it's good and it's the equivalent of Elon working with a lighter after trying to rub two sticks together for the last decade of posting

Same thing every time I see someone refer to the "1990's" etc.

Sketch of a tree growing from rocky ground with branches coming out of the trunk at angles

Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt

Carla Hayden was president of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social when ours was one of few organized voices opposed to the USA PATRIOT Act.

Librarians have been fired all across the federal government, gutting not just ours but the world’s intellectual infrastructure. Devastating.

[kicks deep state in the side] is this thing on?

Norman Rockwell, The Runaway, 1958
Richard Williams, 2014

I keep finding myself thinking, ‘it can’t go on like this’ but then I remember my first trip to Zimbabwe in 2012, where everyone told me they had been thinking that since 1987

Record number of Brits apply for Irish passports amid post-Brexit malaise More Britons are seeking “backdoor” access to the European Union, as post-Brexit restrictions make work and travel within the EU difficult.

A record number of UK citizens applied for Irish passports in 2024, as Britons seek “backdoor” access to the European Union.

I went right over to Netflix too, hesitated a moment when I saw it was about professional sports, but gave it a go anyway. I’m so glad I did!

I was listening to a Sirius XM stream today and the song Everything You Want by Vertical Horizon came on. I remember kind of liking that song back in the day, but I’ll be goddamned if that isn’t the original incel song. 20 years social change and personal perspective shifts brought me here!

It's not a tariff unless it's from the Tariffe region of France. Otherwise, it's Sparkling $5,000 iPhones

Renate Sims, a Texas mother and substitute teacher, said at the meeting that the incarnation of Jesus “is and always will be the hinge of all history.””How would the canceling of such fundamental facts serve the education of our children or contribute to shape them morally?” she said.

This quotation in the article really says it all. We’re just teaching facts here, people!

“bluesky is an echo chamber” everywhere’s an echo chamber i’m going with the one without cybertruck guys

I keep seeing this Trump where he says the Elon/Vivek vanity advisory committee will be “the Manhattan Project of its era” and I think it raises the question of what, exactly, Trump thinks the Manhattan Project did.

“Where do you think I lost my legs? In a bar fight?” Tammy Duckworth on CNN is not having this “no women in combat” thing from Sec of Defense pick and war crimes enthusiast Pete Hegseth

Good news: Twitter is collapsing.

And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history.

There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social.

If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.

I'm sure this Cabinet of inexperienced grifters who excel solely at advancing their own careers will produce an administration that runs like a well-oiled machine.