I know it's trendy for progressives to criticize anything that makes anyone feel good as being performative and ineffective, but these protests, and other actions, remind me that I'm not alone. It makes me think that this can still be my home.
I know it's trendy for progressives to criticize anything that makes anyone feel good as being performative and ineffective, but these protests, and other actions, remind me that I'm not alone. It makes me think that this can still be my home.
What Easthampton mayoral candidate JT Tirrell said tonight about our public safety being compromised by the number of calls by our district to our police station is not true. I don't have the exact numbers now but I am getting them. This is something he made up off the top of his head.
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What Easthampton mayoral candidate JT Tirrell said tonight about our public safety being compromised by the number of calls by our district to our police station is not true. I don't have the exact numbers now but I am getting them. This is something he made up off the top of his head.
Seeing a lot of local right wing Facebook groups lighting up with people upset about the OSEP layoffs. I've always said that special education is one of the most bipartisan issues in this country, and maybe that turns out to be right.
October 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Seeing a lot of local right wing Facebook groups lighting up with people upset about the OSEP layoffs. I've always said that special education is one of the most bipartisan issues in this country, and maybe that turns out to be right.
This is a minor gripe but I hate the way Vance uses people's first names. I know he is doing it because of some shitty business self help book. It makes him sound sleazy and disingenuous.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
October 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is a minor gripe but I hate the way Vance uses people's first names. I know he is doing it because of some shitty business self help book. It makes him sound sleazy and disingenuous.
Every time this happens I see this question so please spread this far and wide. Regardless of who we have or don't have working at the Department of Education, disabled children are still entitled to *free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment.* The law has not changed.
October 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Every time this happens I see this question so please spread this far and wide. Regardless of who we have or don't have working at the Department of Education, disabled children are still entitled to *free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment.* The law has not changed.
If you move to a majority white community, and complain about how there is no Spanish immersion elementary school option for your kid, when racially integrated districts that offer those programs are ten minutes away, I am skeptical about your commitment to bilingual and multicultural education.
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If you move to a majority white community, and complain about how there is no Spanish immersion elementary school option for your kid, when racially integrated districts that offer those programs are ten minutes away, I am skeptical about your commitment to bilingual and multicultural education.
i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors
October 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
My favorite picture from the parade. I call it "Cop who is a Ravens fan smoking one of six cigars." I know he was a Ravens fan because he brought it up many times.
February 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
My favorite picture from the parade. I call it "Cop who is a Ravens fan smoking one of six cigars." I know he was a Ravens fan because he brought it up many times.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social@yrfatfriend.bsky.social I used to play Africa Trail when I was a kid! Haven't heard of it in ages. I think I got it for free from a cereal box? With the Mayan one. Thank you for recovering that memory, I now know why I know so much about the geography of Mayan ruins.
February 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social@yrfatfriend.bsky.social I used to play Africa Trail when I was a kid! Haven't heard of it in ages. I think I got it for free from a cereal box? With the Mayan one. Thank you for recovering that memory, I now know why I know so much about the geography of Mayan ruins.