"You know Bovino leaving won't st..." Yes I fucking know. I shipped 800 whistles across the country today. I'll ship another 500 tomorrow. I will not stop until they are stopped and also I will take the fucking W when one of their top fash fucks gets the boot.

They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.

It really doesn't matter if Bovino goes, Homan goes, Noem goes, Miller goes, or anyone else. Fish rots from the head. So long as Trump has power and congressional Republicans back his policies, nothing meaningful changes. Don't fall for the okey-doke.

you work for a company whose co-founder said it was created to "blow up commies", who tf did you think you were going to be helping?

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Listening to Ted Cruz on the TV yapping about how ICE has to be nicer when carrying out their operations. Incorrect. Politely rounding up people who are just trying to live their lives is still unacceptable. Abolition for ICE, not finishing school.

Made myself a sandwich with the farm style bread I bought because it would last longer than the bakery's farm style bread. Bit into it. Nearly gagged because it was sweet. What the fuck.

There are 690 separate polling locations, for 1703 voting divisions, just in the City of Philadelphia. And Pennsylvania law specifies that LEOs cannot be within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling location unless (a) they're there to vote or (b) have been asked to come in to break up a fight.

A whole bunch of people voted for a version of Donald Trump that they entirely made up in their head.

The amount of food I throw out because the only way to find it is to sit on the floor and take everything out of the refrigerator... I fucking hate this fucking refrigerator.

"My knees are sweaty" is a thing I'm tired of thinking at this time every day

Welp, here's the snow.

The grocery store changed hands a while ago and everything store made or store brand is now terrible... except, somehow, the paçzki have gotten better? They taste homemade. I'm shocked.

Without exaggeration, "...the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds" almost made me throw up.

BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.

Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman

That affidavit just broke me. Full on "pressing my fist to my mouth to push the sob back" broke me.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

It should not be difficult for Democrats to flatly say immigrants are awesome with no caveats.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Absolutely freezing 67 downstairs, absolutely boiling 77 (with the window open) upstairs. This suggests I might be able to find one stair with a decent temperature and sit on it...

The heroes I am counting on in the coming frigid days

Comedy peaked when Margaret enlisted Hawkeye and Trapper's help with concealing that she fucked a general to death.

About to go outside to try to find Felix because SOME dipshit let him out earlier and it is way too cold for that

“What if you killed all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would rise up to take our places. Even Nazis can’t kill that fast.” Probably my favorite line. #TCMParty

They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

RIP to my rose bushes that are not hardy enough for weeks of subzero temperatures

I think this is just a garden variety headache and not a prelude to a migraine. I hope.

Flashlights (not candles). Smoke/carbon monoxide alarms. Knowing where the vents to your home are so you can clear them of snow. Do it all. We're being given so much time with this storm.

It's busier out here than at Christmas

I should not stay awake to read the last two chapters of this fic.

I could be dead five days and if you played Hawkeye's "I will not carry a gun" speech in the same room as my corpse, I'd sit up and say it along with him.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

"If you can't be good, be careful." I love Father Mulcahy.

Even though I never forget General Steele is racist as hell to the chopper pilot, I always forget the details, and... whew. Wow. Yikes.

I made soup the other day and there was something in it I didn't love that made it kind of floral/fruity tasting. Unfortunately, now that I have used some of the leftover buttermilk in my grits, I know it was... the buttermilk.

Do I recognize this restaurant staircase from Organized Crime? #SVU

I'm not going to repost but someone I follow just posted a picture of someone from the Bush administration saying we need to defend immigration and look. You might fool some people, including the person I am following, but PEPPERIDGE FARM REMEMBERS.

Reading an article about the local opposition to data centers and

I can't explain it, but Colonel Flagg reminds me of Alex Krycek.

I thought I'd make grits in the microwave because it would be easier than the stove. Wrong. Now I have to clean the microwave instead of a pot.

I do honestly think my phone will make some kind of special new noise

I'm not sure if there is a combination of words that annoys me more right now than "immigration crackdown." Get out of here with that. That is not what is going on.

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

The longer this goes, the harder it is to disagree with this. The Trump admin keeps escalating because they want a violent, armed confrontation. Then they can use the insurrection act. They want somewhere to be an example of if you act up, this will happen. There’s almost no other explanation.

Exactly who is this low production value commercial about an app for booking a private jet for

I'm going to need someone to write my obituary in case I get another hormone migraine this month, because if I get one while it's 76 in my room with the window open, that's going to be the end of me.

If we all start going "That isn't Donald Trump, that's clearly a body double" I bet we can make everyone in the White House lose their minds within a week. But we have to _commit_ to it.

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.