David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

The price of admission – Dan Savage on the myth of "the one" and the unsettling secret of lasting love https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/08/28/the-price-of-admission-dan-savage/

I get the sense that this man is just not taken seriously enough.

'Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together — surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing."

~ Carl Sagan

(Book: Cosmos https://amzn.to/3kGZpGp)

The Onion never misses

The way to honor those murdered in the Holocaust is to stand up to hate everywhere. Don’t be silent. #HolocaustMemorialDay

SCOOP! Many top donors to George Santos' 2020 campaign, uh, don't seem to exist. My colleague Noah Lanard and I tried to contact these donors and found addresses and names that could not be confirmed. Please read/share/boost.

I just love it when the Chief Justice of the United States feels he's exempt from basic legal principles that are followed every day in courts across the country, such as "you have to disclose that this friendly opinion comes from someone you've paid a bunch of money."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/politics/supreme-court-chertoff-leak-investigation/index.html

“Just once I'd like to hear a president warn the police not to be violent.” —Renee Graham, Boston Globe opinion columnist/associate editor

#BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #TyreNichols

Musician Clyde Lawrence needed only two minutes to sum up why Ticketmaster's monopoly is bad for everyone except... Ticketmaster.

His video went viral and I see why. Watch it for yourself and prepare to be enraged: https://www.comicsands.com/clyde-lawrence-ticketmaster-senate-testimony-2659311698.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

BREAKING: Democratic congressman Adam Schiff makes it official: he is running for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat in California. #California #politics

@Dbrauer Shutting off lights is definitely not saving the planet, but waste is waste. Hopefully our new heat pump more than cancels out my wasted energy from too frequently hand-washing dishes.

It’s rare to have any reason to be grateful for Mike Pence, but his mishandling of classified documents is one delicious occasion. I explain what this likely does to the public narrative and the calculus within the DoJ on whom to charge, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/thank-you-mike-pence-no-really?sd=pf

What would you say if you saw it in another country? Say, China? (from Florida)

REVIEW: @RianJohnson@twitter.com and Natasha Lyonne deliver a brilliant fresh take on a classic genre with Poker Face.

The charming mystery drama, packed with great guest stars, debuts on Peacock this week: http://cos.lv/XVuZ50MAejX

I will never stop hounding my kids to turn off the lights when they leave the room. 💡 #mastodad https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/24/home-appliance-myths-energy-saving-tips/

In short order, the people who will be "fringe" will be the ones denying Covid's harm to the immune system

“The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutality of the bad people.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #MLK