Weekend link dump for May 5

Keep garlic out of your vagina. Words to live by.”

“The NRA’s current financial woes bear a striking similarity to what happened during [its] tumultuous period in the 1990s.”

“The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness, even the safety and education of our children. It’s a silent sleep loss epidemic. It’s fast becoming one of the greatest challenges we face in the 21st century.”

When non-pitchers pitch to pitchers, or baseball’s version of Inception.

“I cried until my throat burned for this family who has just had to endure the unthinkable.”

RIP, Jana Duty, former Williamson County DA who did the world a favor when she beat John Bradley in the 2012 GOP primary.

RIP, John Singleton, movie director best known for Boyz N The Hood.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is now a writer on the Veronica Mars reboot, and you’re not.

“Some conservatives, it would seem, have an easier time imagining a coordinated, multifaceted, campaign is being waged to leverage false allegations against Republicans, than they do accepting the idea that men can be sexual predators. And because they believe it so steadfastly, they’re certain that they, too, can get in on the con.”

“So Ms. Lee and local residents, desperate to save the 96-year-old school, came up with an idea: How about enrolling older villagers who wanted to learn to read and write?”

“It’s not exactly clear what will happen in court after the chair decides not to use legal resources to defend her agency, but it is likely that a judge will force the FEC to take action and consider investigating the NRA for potential campaign finance violations.”

“I was willing to give Bill Barr a chance. Consider me burned.”

“This is a major blindspot. Bill Barr is another Republican guy in his late 60s who’s been living, as Miller puts it, in that Fox News/GOP legal circles cocoon for two decades. Why would he be any different from your birther uncle you avoid at holiday dinners?”

RIP, Peter Mayhew, known forever as Chewbacca from Star Wars.

RIP, Rachel Held Evans, influential progressive Christian writer and speaker.

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