Brendan

This site can really be soul crushing.

Porter acted offended when she was interrupted, then she interrupted Steyer. 🙄 #CaliforniaGovernorDebate

@annnniethuy Yes!

Someone is selling 100 tennis balls on Facebook marketplace does Oliver need a ball pit

More tornado warnings. You can feel it in the air.

@jasonc_nc Why are you pushing whole milk when there's nonfat and low-fat, and whatever skim is?

Hi. Restaurant and coffee shop owner here. Almond milk runs 2.2x the cost of whole milk. Oat milk is 2.4x, macadamia is 4x and soy is ~2x. We charge more because it costs us more, not because all of us are engaged in a rightwing plot against people who prefer alternatives.

@ActwithAlison An imaginary realm created to keep the peasants in line.

how would you define hell? (sorry, not giving any hints)

Did you know between 1957 and 1976, there was a regular bus service between London and Calcutta, India.The 32,000km, 50 day, 2-way bus route is the longest in the world. The bus had sleeping bunks and even a kitchen! For just £145, you get to travel with food & accomodation. The bus would stop at attractions and for shopping in Vienna, Istanbul & Iran The bus ride took passengers from England to Belgium, West Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India.

@mharlowwrites When the Starbucks barista calls Moby a dick. (And people wonder why I'm not a published author.)

Writers! What’s one scene in your book you think about constantly? Not the most important one… Just the one that lives in your head rent-free. Mine is a courtroom scene that hurts in the best way. #writingcommunity #writer #writing #romance #romanticsuspense #romancebooks

FT: The acting US ambassador to Ukraine will depart Kyiv in the coming weeks…Julie Davis, who has served as temporary chargé d’affaires at the US embassy in Kyiv since May last year, has grown frustrated with her role amid differences with President Trump over his dwindling support for Ukraine, said three people familiar with her decision.

@LarrysTwin99 That was Vicki Lawrence.

Did they expect her to arrive in a house coat and slippers?

@AlliAlliG Mani / pedi.

What should my daughter get me for Mother’s Day? (Aka what should I buy myself for Mother’s Day?)

@kurtbardella @PartyLinesPod How many would say "stolen" if "unfair" is an option?

How many Republicans believe the 2020 election was “stolen” … @PartyLinesPod #PartyLines

@sircalebhammer Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, China Syndrome, nuclear waste.

Wait. Fuck. I don’t want to fuel the gender wars, but how is anyone possibly against nuclear power in the year of 2026??

@juzztjess I'm not a Trumper, but I'm also not a left-wing nut job. So I'll get away from you anyway. Enjoy your bubble.

why are there trumpers in the replies to this GET AWAY FROM MEEEEEEE

@senatorshoshana I thought you liked things slow.

Finally got a call with my tax guy who was so nice and helpful and as punishment for getting back to me late I asked him a lot of really stupid questions about taxes.

Another post about ending taxes with no explanation of how he's going to replace that revenue. How is this different from Mamdani?

@mysteriouskat No.

Do you support government officials "advising" Twitter and other social media platforms to take down content that deemed harmful or disinformation? Do you support Trump calling for the firing of Kimmel?

Bandit is now our current longest resident! 🥺 This handsome 3.5-yr-old Terrier mix is a happy, outgoing pup who loves meeting new friends & playing with toys. 🥎❤️ He’s full of energy & would thrive with adopters who can match his enthusiasm and keep him active.😊

@douglass_meghan Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Across the Universe The Dark Crystal Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Her Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Ok guys, I’m having a 3 day ketamine infusion next week (for medical reasons, not recreational) and I need some movie suggestions that may or may not be extra awesome while on said ketamine.

@douglass_meghan I can tell you something random. Robert De Niro worked as a full-time licensed cab driver for a month to prepare for the movie Taxi Driver.

Can you tell me something random and fun?

He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died. Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today. His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing. He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it. He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages. In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted. As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan. His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century. After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23. The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president. Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸