as you wish

Stacey Abrams:  "When people think that it is going to be too hard, when they think that it is going to be dangerous, they don’t vote." www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

'Nick Reiner has been arrested following the death of his parents' www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

'Security specialists have detected cartels have infiltrated their members into the Ukrainian frontlines, where they have received training to pilot remotely controlled drones, readily available in any store and capable of being adapted as kamikaze projectiles' english.elpais.com/internationa...

Frances McDormand met filmmaker Joel Coen when she auditioned for the lead role in the 1984 film “Blood Simple.” Good movie. 'they don't make 'em like that anymore'. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

"The electric field spread across the atmosphere, traveling hundreds of kilometers, where, above the Northern Italian town of Possagno, not too far from Venice, not one but two rare atmospheric phenomena took place. Incredibly, they were both captured in a photograph at the same time." *iflscience

#GVerse Beware of mama! 🤣

cat on a rod

"... the DOJ is now considering pursuing federal charges and painting the murder as an “anti-Christian hate crime.”

watched, meh the first one top shelf apnews.com/article/dani...

As much as I would like to see that happen it's extremely unlikely. Greg Abbott and Company are backed by Christian nationalist fracking billionaires Tim Dunn and Farris Wilkes. That gang are probably the best at voter suppression in the country.

"Just as the first two Knives Out movies skewered racism, classism, billionaires and tech bros, Wake Up Dead Man takes sharp aim at what it sees as the intolerance and insularity of the Christian right." www.npr.org/2025/12/12/n...

'Abolish ice' sounds like another losing slogan. 'Defund police' damn sure didn't work. 'An Axios/Ipsos poll from January 2025 similarly found that 66% support the general idea of deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally.' www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Good morning, Bluesky. “In hindsight, I may have over-corrected.” —Ryan Lizza— I may read something that makes me laugh harder in 2025, but with 20 days to go, this is the one to beat.

"In the lawsuits, the women identify six staff members at the facility as perpetrators, including a doctor, chaplain and three officers. Several women say they have been assaulted by the head of the BioMed office." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The commander-in-chief is using the United States Navy as pirates. "... when asked what would happen to the oil aboard the tanker, Trump said, “Well, we keep it, I guess.” apnews.com/live/donald-...

Why Don't You Do It youtu.be/fSRQRWebIyc?...

Our neighbors have begun to display their Christmas lights. Some have gold tinted leaves for wreaths on their doors. For some reason the color gold reminds me of something awful.

Miller sounds like a 4 year year old screaming Santa Claus exists when he pulls bullshit out of his ass.

"Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado plans to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday. But the ceremony comes at an awkward moment because Machado appears to have given up on using peaceful means to dislodge Venezuela's authoritarian regime." www.npr.org/2025/12/09/n...

me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

"Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing." www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...

"The justices could take the next step in a case being argued Monday that calls for a unanimous 90-year-old decision limiting executive authority to be overturned." fortune.com/2025/12/07/s...

"The U Street landmark widely known as “the RBG building” is headed to auction next week, "It would be awesome if she stays in D.C. We have a lot of great buildings and a lot of great spaces where she can live,” wise said. “I want her to have a permanent home" wtop.com/dc/2025/12/g...

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

The match between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios. "What we have here is a massive opportunity for women’s sport to be belittled, dismissed and gloated over by “incels” and career misogynists, to blow its own foot off with a single dog-whistle publicity stunt." www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

"The White House launched a web portal it says will spotlight bias on the part of news outlets, targeting the Boston Globe, CBS News, The Independent and The Washington Post in its first two “media offenders of the week.” apnews.com/article/trum...

'$20 Fine', with Stephen Stills on vocals. youtu.be/eGSsi46Kp-o?...

"33-page exposition of Trump’s “America First” worldview appears to espouse the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, saying several countries risk becoming “majority non-European” and Europe faces “the real and stark prospect of civilisational erasure”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#MusicChallenge #SoundtrackThis 12/5- Cruise The Doors -The Crystal Ship youtu.be/imcHmSUVEvk?...

I block any account posting AI generated images, even if they are of Trump. I don't want to see that shit.

"Instead of stopping to smell the flowers, scientists suggest stopping to smell your farts." www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

This gets a repost because these numbers are infuriating: There are over 20,000 homeless families -- families -- and 35,000 children now sheltered in the city of New York, one of the richest in the world. If you too are now angry at this, maybe take a moment and do a small, decent thing with that:

"This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures... ” m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...

"I don't want you telling me to go back to Africa, unless you going back where you come from... I'll make you a deal: after you send all the Koreans back to Korea, the Chinese back to China, the Jewish people back to Jerusalem and you give the Indians their land back.. we all here on borrowed land"

⚡️Projections starting to come in calling it for Van Epps 🤖 , despite a huge, very respectable overperformance from Aftyn Behn that speaks volumes about the stiff, angry winds Republicans face the coming midterms. #TN7

"The state Comptroller’s office announced Tuesday it is removing women- and minority-owned businesses from the state program intended to give additional exposure to businesses owned by economically disadvantaged groups." www.texastribune.org/2025/12/02/t...

"A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

'Waiting for the Man' youtu.be/W4VEXl4vsq4?...

Pusherman youtu.be/7tfJtAyS90M?...

Huey P. Long trapped in the body and soul of Mike Johnson.

Lutnick demonstrates why he's called Nutlick: "The greatest cabinet ever for the greatest president ever. I can't be more proud of how you did it, sir. You created the greatest cabinet. It is a joy to be at this table."

Admiral Bradley picked to fall on his sword. 18 U.S.C. § 2. Principals (a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

'Behind the scenes, Fox News' controlling owners, executives and biggest stars didn't believe the wild claims from Trump and his allies. Nonetheless, the voting tech company's officials received death threats. Its reputation and financial prospects were badly damaged.' www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...

Admiral Holsey is to this serial murder in the Caribbean as Hugh Thompson was to the butchery at My Lai -- that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.

"... the 1863 “Lieber Code,” promulgated by President Lincoln, “intentionally inflicts additional wounds on an enemy already wholly disabled, or kills such an enemy, or who orders or encourages soldiers to do so, shall suffer death, if duly convicted." theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...

@wsj.com This is not helping www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Don Cheadle stars with Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Terrence Howard and Brendan Fraser in the 🇺🇸 American crime drama film “CRASH” dir. Paul Haggis 🎬 Lions Gate Films

Research is done. Scripts are fine. Topic is essential. I can only hope.

Unclear who I am supposed to root for in the battle to buy Warner Brothers Discovery and the HBO where I have made am home for 25 years. But if PBS wants to check the sofas again for change and make the high bid, I might have a near-even chance of one day filming another television drama.