George Santos, who stole from a small businessman, will be on Small Business Committee.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who incited Jan 6, will be on Homeland Security Committee.
Scott Perry, who's being investigated by the FBI, might investigate the investigators investigating him.
This quote is simply amazing — I don't think, in any other circumstance, Republicans would accept the suggestion that Biden could handle a national security crisis without congressional oversight! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/us/politics/house-speaker-representatives.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MaggieAstor/status/1610801479954169857
Now, let us gather to imagine the future. Here, in the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences as it was, before Victoria laid the first stone. Here, where the dead were annually raised, implored, exhorted, ectoplasmically embraced, Here, where Hiawatha musically wed, and Os-Ke-Non-Ton sang the medicine man, to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s once-loved score, Here where […]
My listening through the embers of the year is the new 12-part BBC audio adaptation of Susan Cooper’s THE DARK IS RISING, with a new episode each day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvp7
[it must be time for @neilhimself’s annual reminder that you can listen to BBC Radio anywhere in the world]
Public Service Warning
Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.
It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.
We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.
Rep. Ritchie Torres
Abandoned America
Steven Beschloss
Brian Beutler
Neil Gaiman
Mayee, MD (INACTIVE)
Deb Chachra
Brian Klaas
Mastodon Migration
Greg Sargent