Lyudmila Pavlichenko: “Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children, and old folks. Dead Nazis are harmless. Therefore, if I kill a Nazi, I am saving lives.” ⁂

St. Peter: “In 99999999976.33% of all branches of the universal wavefunction, you are an evil dictator who enslaves and murders hundreds of millions! ‘You’ happen to be the version whose wicked ambitions were repeatedly thwarted by bizarre coincidences over and over and over.” (continued)

Keenan: “The German word for bagpipes’ is dudelsack and I hope this introduces as much whimsy into your life as it has mine.” ⁂

“Motivation is weather: changeable, unpredictable, often absent when you need it most. Discipline is climate: the steady, reliable conditions you create for yourself regardless of how you feel on any given day.” ⁂

“And so, we know how this is going to work: Republicans are going to keep cutting, keep destroying basic services, dismantling the social safety net, and things will inevitably go wrong. Floods, hurricanes, pandemics, food contamination, industrial accidents, you name it. And they’ll shriek and moan that you’re politicizing a tragedy if you point out that their policies led directly to the American carnage unfurling before us. All while their base dreams up new conspiracy theories that conveniently put the blame on someone else, the Democrats, migrants, the Jews, trans people, anyone but their own party. And though they’ll seethe at the idea that these calamities could be political, they’ll also be more than happy to lean into the chaos. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced a bill over the weekend that would make “weather manipulation” a felony. Sure. What the fuck, why not? Who cares. Anything to keep their deranged supporters from wondering why the flood waters continue to rise. Thoughts and prayers, etc.” (continued)

samsamyea: “People love to say ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ until EBT is the village, until free lunches is the village, until medicaid, public schools and Libraries are the village. Y’all want women to shoulder the weight of raising the workforce out of the goodness of their hearts while simultaneously demonizing welfare moms for using the village.” ⁂

birrion: Hating Nazis should be the default position. ⁂

petergleick@fediscience.org: “Thoughts and prayers” does sound a lot nicer than “I didn’t do anything before to prevent this foreseeable disaster and I’m not going to do anything now.” ⁂

showerthoughtsofficial: The brain is just 8 lbs of meat that sits in complete darkness and plays a video game of what it thinks is the most realistic thing ever. (continued)

Q: What do you think about the president? (continued)

If you’re doom-scrolling for updates on Trump’s big beautiful bill, I want you to stop with me for just a moment. Because, yeah, we’re probably gonna get some bad news, and it’s gonna hurt a lot of people. I’ve had no other way to put it: the Republican Party has truly betrayed the United States with what they are doing, and it’s horrible. (continued)

WuiverQuant: UPDATE: We recently saw Representative Robert Bresnahan selling Centene stock. Centene provides healthcare exchanges for Medicaid. The stock has now fallen 43% since his sale. ⁂