Lawrence Lassiter @lrlassiter

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”. The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

Not an accident

It really was profoundly special to be a young gay person hearing the biggest name in country music talk like this. I can’t even imagine how many queer people, especially those in conservative areas, she made feel seen and accepted. Earnest as hell, but her support was powerful.

May I ask you a question, my friends -- my Republican friends, in particular? What kind of man inscribes his name on another man's memorial? Really, what manner of man?

The New York Times @nytimes

3 weeks ago

The Kennedy Center board voted on Thursday to inscribe President Trump’s name on its building, aggressively testing a federal judge’s order to remove it, according to two people with direct knowledge of the proceedings. nyti.ms/45mzwzY

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Trump probably is wearing a wig. Goes nice with his makeup. Lol. Or he got a nice blow out

Tim Miller @Timodc

4 weeks ago

Last week > Today Nice weave.

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Happy “There Will Come Soft Rains” Day to all who celebrate. short-stories.co/@raybradbury/t…

EVERYTHING he says is a lie

@DittiePE "Republicans warning that communists are taking over the Democratic Party might first ask why their own administration is so eager to have the government acquire pieces of private companies." 🙂 cato.org/blog/governmen…

James K. Polk, the 11th President of the United States, took a grand total of 42 days off in his entire four years in office. Out of roughly 1,460 days, he spent all but 42 of them at his desk. He may be the biggest workaholic ever to hold the job. He rose before dawn, worked deep into the night, personally read nearly every document that crossed his path, and treated relaxing like a personal enemy. His wife Sarah ran the White House to match. A devout woman, she banned dancing, banned card games, and banned hard liquor in the building. No parties, no music, no fun, just work. When she once begged him to put his papers down and get some rest, he responded by handing her a stack of documents to read on his behalf. Even his idea of delegating was still more work. What makes it wild is how effective all that grinding actually was. Polk walked into office as a "dark horse," a candidate almost nobody expected to win, and a protégé of Andrew Jackson nicknamed "Young Hickory." He then laid out four enormous goals for his single term: lower the tariff, restore an independent treasury, settle the Oregon border dispute with Britain, and acquire California from Mexico. He accomplished all four. He added more than 800,000 square miles to the country and stretched the United States all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Few Presidents have ever gotten that much done, and almost none did it in one term. Then, true to his word, he kept his promise not to run again and walked away completely drained. And here is the almost dark ending. Just three months after leaving office, worn down to nothing, he caught cholera and died at 53, one of the shortest post-presidency lives in history. Many historians believe he quite literally worked himself into an early grave, that four years of nonstop labor left his body too weak to fight the illness off. So the real James K. Polk: 42 days off in four years, banned fun in his own house, quietly reshaped the entire map of the country, checked off every goal he set, and then dropped dead months later from sheer exhaustion. That's a President.

It turns out the great egg price increase that helped topple Joe Biden's presidency was <checks notes> due to an alleged conspiracy among egg producers to artificially increase prices and the coverage of that fact is a blink-and-you-miss-it story on the NYT website 🙃

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Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih

2 months ago

When you Westerners visit Iran, the Islamic regime say: “Our country, our rules.” Wear the hijab. Cover your hair. No handshakes. But when they come to the West, somehow it’s still their rules. Cover the nude statues. Hide the wine. Tone down your traditions. Don’t offend Islam.

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The word religion appears in the Constitution twice. Both times, it’s preceded by the word “No.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

2 months ago

Dan Patrick: "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution"

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The Save Our Bacon Act is a disaster for animals, independent producers, and voters. It is time to fight back before it is too late. samdecatur.substack.com/p/the-many-lie…

Sam Harris explains why engaging with critics who single out Israel as the world’s foremost villain while ignoring the realities of its jihadist enemies is a futile exercise.

Keep posting this so nobody forgets that this was one of the worst events in American history. Never has a sitting president encouraged his supporters to believe a lie so deeply that they’d be willing to attack or democracy.

I think it’s always important to share this. Absolutely brilliant from 2014 by Joan Rivers on Israel and the “Palestinians” No mincing of words. We really lost a real one with her. The bit at end about Selena Gomez gets me every time 😂

On June 2, 1946, Italians voted to form a republic, shaping the modern nation we love today. Happy Festa della Repubblica! Today, we celebrate the unity, history, and resilient spirit of the Italian people worldwide. 🇮🇹✨ #FestaDellaRepubblica #ItalianPride

It’s time to Fire Google. Join the flock.

Tillis: "To call Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. He's gonna be an anchor on our caucus"

Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump

3 months ago

GOP Senator Thom Tillis SLAMS Ken Paxton: “He’s a failure. He doesn't deserve to be in the US Senate”

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Jon Stewart on Trump: “The day the electorate in this great nation we call home repudiates this putrid administration, the day that happens there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary’s repudiation of Orban look like an Amish Sabbath”