Julie Van Pelt
oxford comma, team fight, teen orthodonture courtesy of union-won healthcare, whatever pronouns you effing want for yourself
- Trump on strollers: "All costs are down. Everything is down other than the thing you carry the babies around in."
- (not nearly the stupidest thing about this clip, but wtf is up w/ the captioning? completely scrambled, like AI zoom transcripts)
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- that is a revelation
- 200 people?! these freaks are all trying to have more kids so they'll eventually have enough people to fill a hotel ballroom.
- They are absolutely trolling us now. A conference for 200 people! Or one tenth the attendance of Las Vegas Fur Con, which notably does not get a trend piece in every major publication. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/s...
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- oh hell yes - and fabric!
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- What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, Carolyn Forché, narrated by her too - I read it first then listened when I wanted to reread, AMAZING - the story and the narration (admittedly I'm a CF poetry fan) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586566...
- Tesla Regret Syndrome - "there's an effective treatment that can be performed nonsurgically" youtu.be/tQOvkgZL9eU?...
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- i love this SO much
- "I will yield for a question while retaining the floor" - I want to see that piece of paper framed next to the Constitution. Get it Cory.
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- A Quaker friend commonly says she’s trying to stay focused on “doing what is mine to do.” I like that. Reminds me of that story Bernice Johnson Reagon used to tell, about the original “I Will Overcome” instead of "We Shall Overcome” - when you say “I” you commit your very own self.
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- chat up some Estonians Summary of the political history, nonviolent strategic actions, and ensuing events of Estonia's 1986-91 'Singing Revolution.' www.nonviolent-conflict.org/estonias-sin...
- not a pic of Estonians, it's homepage of ICNC link
- Schumer is trying to justify his vote on Jake Tapper right now, saying if they had let the government shut down "they could fire half the workers in the federal government." WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW CHUCK
- plus the resignations, 30% in one unit of SEC alone in the last 10 weeks, 450 talented, experienced, ethical people no longer regulating capital markets (per friend)
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- thank you for listening so I don't have to, and for supplying the spoken word performance (if only it were performance)
- working out the stress of this bullshit CR in between phone calls: church www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnY...
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- fine, I'll take marijuana (a lot of it)
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- i was just listening to Revolutions podcast 1st season on exactly this and kept having to check i wasn't listening to the news
