Meoswell
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TCM always does this the best.
As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
TCM always does this the best.
So, here’s my data point of one. Before I met my now husband in the late aughts, I was a late 30s women looking to date, so I had a try at dating services like “It’s Just Lunch.” My preference was men 35 to 50 or so, but I wasn’t against divorced men or men with children.
Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
So, here’s my data point of one. Before I met my now husband in the late aughts, I was a late 30s women looking to date, so I had a try at dating services like “It’s Just Lunch.” My preference was men 35 to 50 or so, but I wasn’t against divorced men or men with children.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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This is an incredibly powerful piece, impeccably researched, and everyone should take the time to read it. It clarifies a lot of things I’ve instinctually felt but haven’t quite had the words to describe.
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is an incredibly powerful piece, impeccably researched, and everyone should take the time to read it. It clarifies a lot of things I’ve instinctually felt but haven’t quite had the words to describe.
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Thanksgiving Mythbusting: The Pilgrims did NOT come to the "New World" looking for religious freedom. They came to establish theocracies.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thanksgiving Mythbusting: The Pilgrims did NOT come to the "New World" looking for religious freedom. They came to establish theocracies.
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Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
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Good morning! Dick Cheney is dead and I have an obituary that I wrote all the way back in 2017 about this monster!
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
Cheney - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dick Cheney, one of America’s worst war criminals, is dead. Born in 1941 in Lincoln, Nebraska, which amazingly makes University of Nebraska football only the second most grotesque American cultural ph...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Good morning! Dick Cheney is dead and I have an obituary that I wrote all the way back in 2017 about this monster!
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
This.
Study after study after study shows that voters are more drawn to a candidate who believes what they're saying and are passionate about it than one who agrees with them on every issue.
Triangulation has already cost most of the Dem's public credibility and goodwill. More of it won't help.
Triangulation has already cost most of the Dem's public credibility and goodwill. More of it won't help.
I guess this is the savvy take or whatever but as an empirical matter, it doesn't work to reinforce the narratives of your opponents. If Democrats start start saying, "immigrants are the reason crime rates are high!" they won't convince anti-immigrant voters and they'll alienate pro-immigrant voters
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This.
@andrewlseidel.bsky.social Not Trumps third term, but his Enabling Act.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
@andrewlseidel.bsky.social Not Trumps third term, but his Enabling Act.
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Long term side project. Excited to share first installment of “The Patriot’s Glossary of MAGAtarian Doublespeak” ahead of No Kings Day.
May it help illuminate the MAGA attacks on facts and reality, and may hold onto the truth that will keep us free.
www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-patrio...
May it help illuminate the MAGA attacks on facts and reality, and may hold onto the truth that will keep us free.
www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-patrio...
The Patriot's Glossary of MAGAtarian Doublespeak: Installment I for No Kings Day
A resource for holding onto facts, reality, and truth.
www.whitetoolong.net
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Long term side project. Excited to share first installment of “The Patriot’s Glossary of MAGAtarian Doublespeak” ahead of No Kings Day.
May it help illuminate the MAGA attacks on facts and reality, and may hold onto the truth that will keep us free.
www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-patrio...
May it help illuminate the MAGA attacks on facts and reality, and may hold onto the truth that will keep us free.
www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-patrio...
Yup.
Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Yup.
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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MAGA is fawning over Erika Kirk right now, but there's no way she can keep Charlie's audience.
His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way."
His followers won't hear it from a woman.
www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...
His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way."
His followers won't hear it from a woman.
www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...
Don't worry — Erika Kirk will never replace her husband
She can't replicate his brand of gutter misogyny
www.salon.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
MAGA is fawning over Erika Kirk right now, but there's no way she can keep Charlie's audience.
His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way."
His followers won't hear it from a woman.
www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...
His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way."
His followers won't hear it from a woman.
www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...
Reading the actual data matters.
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Reading the actual data matters.
OK, this is a long read, but it’s from somebody who knows free speech intimately. And it is definitely worth hearing his perspective.
September 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
OK, this is a long read, but it’s from somebody who knows free speech intimately. And it is definitely worth hearing his perspective.
This is how college was for me as a student.
The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
September 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is how college was for me as a student.
@sarahtaber.bsky.social I’ve heard this from you as well.
NEW: “At some point in time, don’t you ask yourself: Is this really economically the best way to spend our taxpayer dollars,” said a USDA official, “or would it serve us better in the long run if we spent money to take that ground out of production?”
The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive
Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy...
www.propublica.org
September 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
@sarahtaber.bsky.social I’ve heard this from you as well.
Yup.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Yup.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social I really need a Maintenance Phase deep dive on mRNA vaccine lies. I need to know how these folks are wrong.
September 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social I really need a Maintenance Phase deep dive on mRNA vaccine lies. I need to know how these folks are wrong.
I shall certainly celebrate. Maybe I’ll have a drink, or maybe I will just sit silently and think quietly about how much better the world is without him.
Burn in Hell James Dobson, you complete fascist child abusing misogynist homophobic scumbag.
Here's a quick 4,000 word obit that really lays out the truth about him.
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/jame...
Here's a quick 4,000 word obit that really lays out the truth about him.
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/jame...
James Dobson, Burn in Hell - Lawyers, Guns & Money
James Dobson is dead. Finally. This awful homophobe made the world a significantly worse place by his living in it. His brand of hate was tremendously influential in the modern Republican Party. Futur...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I shall certainly celebrate. Maybe I’ll have a drink, or maybe I will just sit silently and think quietly about how much better the world is without him.
Ok @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @yrfatfriend.bsky.social it’s time to reshare the episode about the origins of the Presidential Fitness Test.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump revives the Presidential Fitness Test, a rite of passage for schoolchildren for decades
President Donald Trump has reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children. This test, a staple in schools since 1966, was phased out during the Obama administration.
apnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Ok @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @yrfatfriend.bsky.social it’s time to reshare the episode about the origins of the Presidential Fitness Test.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
“We didn’t have those people” insert anyone not white and/or male “when I was growing up.”
What’s your favorite American history myth—the most beloved, most maddening, most baked-into-our-fractured-sense-of-self?
Washington couldn’t tell a lie? America was born exceptional? We're a Christian nation?
Washington couldn’t tell a lie? America was born exceptional? We're a Christian nation?
July 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“We didn’t have those people” insert anyone not white and/or male “when I was growing up.”