Having fun trying to match tunes with @stevenbrust.bsky.social ‘s theatrical chapter opening songs in his latest, Lyorn. Always good to have another dose of Vlad.
For anyone (YOU could be among today’s Lucky 10,000 (xkcd.com/1053) ) - how to start reading Terry Pratchett’s marvelous Discworld series:
Shall we play a game, Charlie Brown?
Apparently, the ideal age the Republicans want to achieve is the late Victorian, with work houses and starving urchins begging on streets. Next we’ll be back in the era of 1800s English “public” schools and an uneducated working class.
NEW: Tucked away in the Republican Study Committee's 2025 budget is a provision to ban universal free school meals. The 170+ Republican member group also calls to eliminate the NLRB & the CFPB, defund OSHA & the EPA, raise the retirement age, outlaw abortion pills & limit IVF access, and much more:
The Republican Study Committee’s annual budget also calls to permanently defund UNRWA and eliminate the National Labor Relations Board.
I keep thinking the current incarnation of the Republican Party is almost dead, incrementally removing its own features in a horrible adaptation of “To The Pain!” I keep being amazed how it still manages to plunge forward and trample more rights, norms, and innocents. Burn it down, someone. Cleanse
Blacksmith until I died of appendicitis age 28.
