USPS just dropped some sick new stamps I know all you nerds will love. (They are forever stamps so you can put them on your bills and cards and mean letters to Clarence Thomas for the next six years or whatever. )

"Life Magnified" features wonders of the microscopic world. (Sorry for the $14 hit to your bank account.)

https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/life-magnified-stamps-S_484004

Smuggling bones. Horses with tail lights. Alcoholic seltzer goes aerial. Just another day in far-flung #Texas.

Strangest State, from the March/April 2023 issue of our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/strangest-state-march-april-2023-ted-cruz-white-claw/

(📸 Illustration by Drue Wagner)
#TedCruz #Texas #politics #USpol #CriminalJustice #news #culture #Austin #Houston #Amarillo #FortWorth #TXlege

Quote from article: Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election.

My thoughts: A whole bunch of people, myself included, started pointing out parallels between the Trump-era GOP and the Nazis well before he was elected. We were accused of employing hyperbole, and told to "give him a chance."

Well, just call me Cassandra ... because here we are.

Just. Like. I. Said. We. Would. Be.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/whats-behind-the-gops-war-against?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email