(6/X) No one who went along with Trump should ever be forgiven. And those that broke the law, must go to jail.

For more on popes giving European sovreigns authority to enslave, see Roland Joffé's 1986 film "The Mission."

Sophie gets a little James Cagney-esque in her sniffing of what she sees across the field.

#RandomWritingPrompt: Write the most human thing you can write - use all of your senses - that is to say, don't use AI. Remember your body, our planet and all of our human sensations. Go outside and stand in the rain. Look up. Look at trees. Look at your hands. You are here. Write.

Sophie gets a little James Cagney-esque in her sniffing of what she sees across the field.

Update: after several requests, Goldbelly customer service said it would "make it right" by sending the perishable gift to my friend again, for the earliest possible delivery (Wednesday). 🤞

Sometimes you're just hanging out in the gloaming not photographing, yet the light is just right and the multiplane composition sort of presents itself.

The keys alerting her, Sophie waits for further sonic indication of my intent

I passed this a couple of weeks ago and misread an "r" in the name and as a native Long Islander I felt attacked. Even after I realized I was wrong about the name I still felt attacked, given it's purportedly Long Island pizza. In Knoxville, y'all.

Oh, hey, Skip

The keys alerting her, Sophie waits for further sonic indication of my intent

Sent a Goldbelly gift to a friend, overnight, because, fresh food. A weather delay, but UPS said this am it would deliver by noon today. It did not. UPS doesn't have Sun delivery (which would likely be too late), nor holiday delivery. So it sits until Tues, spoiled—with no refund from either. 😡

If you found out your doctor lied to you about where they got their medical degree, what undergraduate degrees they earned, and when they became a board-certified physician, how would you feel? Trump has now elevated a doctor who did that to perform the duties of the Surgeon General of the U.S.

Small nice moments: discovering, right before you order a USB-C hub, that your laptop has three Thunderbolt ports, not two.

If want to do something meaningful but you believe you can't, involve people who believe you can.

And it's not just that both purchased their MD from the same business, and lied about it and their education and experience; they both placed curated self-promotion over professional development. They received, respectively, the nomination and the promotion for other than actual qualifications.

No, @politico.com, it did not. SoftBank donated $50M to Trump's personal, private foundation, an organization that's under no obligation to build anything, much less a presidential library. Which, as I explained five years ago in [checks notes] Politico, he won't: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Department. Federal judge dismisses the indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case). Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power." The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.

That Trump can't find anyone qualified and eligible for surgeon general, and has named four to serve as or perform the duties—none of whom is eligible nor has any public health credentials—tells you something about actual public health experts, who'd never accept this nomination from him.

Tell them that they can't lawfully confirm a nominee who fails to meet the statutory requirements. It's not complicated: even if she weren't a vax-inconsistent supplement grifter tainted by having accepted the nomination from Trump—even if a Democratic president had nominated her—she's ineligible.

The "they" was one contractor during Trump's first term & the Biden administration sent that contractor to jail for disclosing numerous tax returns - NOT JUST Trump's. Trump & Blanche are mobsters who devised a scheme to STEAL Americans' hard-earned tax money & to hide the Trump family's tax crimes!

@atrupar.com: you're focusing on the wrong Ball of DSM Diagnoses Struggling to Remain Secret spouse in that marriage; it's not the backbench grifter who seems one poor choice away from a DUI/SA mug shot, it's the grossly unqualified liar who's done more photo shoots than minutes in public health. 🧵

As I reported last year, USF's College of Public Health made Stephanie Haridopolos the first recipient of its Florida Outstanding Woman in Public Health award to have no public health credentials, education, or experience... just six months after she gave $100,000 of public funds to that college.

Hey reporters sleeping deeply on the many Surgeon General stories you missed/plagiarized from me: I broke the story about Stephanie Haridopolos, the grossly unqualified liar Trump has now tapped to perform the duties of the SG, more than a year ago. Do your damn jobs. At the very least, catch up.

To all of the other independent journalists and writers out there reporting stories that the legacy and otherwise employed so-called reporters are ignoring: stick with it. It's important. It may not get traction now, but, say, more than a year later, your work may still make a difference. Thread:

Would rather be building a society that works for all vs building a war machine, but what do I know. I'm just a rube.

UNDER THE UNDER THE JAIL PLACE

Yes, insurrectionists, traitors, and grifters, but also: prosecute and imprison every dirtbag who parks at the pump to browse, eat, and shit at a gas station/convenience store with tons of empty parking spaces.

10 bands/artists I've seen live Mary Chapin Carpenter James Taylor BB King Bonnie Raitt Carole King Buddy Guy Earl Scruggs Laurie Beechman Veronica Martell Madison Morton

When I see yet another Oval replica, I think of when Shepherd schools Leon in The American President about what isn't presidential. Centering the Oval, looking inward, toward the pomp and trappings—not outward, toward the people—is emblematic of our broken system. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Six days wrapped, about to begin the seventh. I'd be happy just getting to stand there while these incredible actors deliver their performances and the production crew expertly delivers its skills and talents. That I have the privilege to convene this extraordinary group is overwhelming. 🙏🏻❤️

"Complexity is just multiple simplicities; step at a time. That's all it is." – Eddie Marsan

Similar distances: Boston Ma -> Manhattan NY Minneapolis MN -> Des Moines IA Vancouver BC -> Portland OR Paris, France -> Amsterdam, Netherlands That's how bad these new maps are.

These vile racist new Tennessee district maps? I live in the center of Memphis, southwest corner of Tennessee. I have a good friend who lives in a Nashville suburb, southeast of Nashville. 225 miles away. 3 and a half hour drive. If she lived 1 mile further west, we would be in the same district.

That they *didn't* know about, you malodorous chooch.

Pro tip: if you're a composer and you want to ensure you will not work with a particular director, find one in active production, filming a feature, and cold email them pitching yourself to compose the soundtrack.

In the James L. Brooks film "I'll Do Anything," Nick Nolte auditions for Albert Brooks and Ian McKellen for a part working the next day. I didn't understand how they could have meetings and hold auditions while shooting. I *get* it now: Brooks' and McKellen's characters must not have ever slept. 😐

In the James L. Brooks film "I'll Do Anything," Nick Nolte auditions for Albert Brooks and Ian McKellen for a part working the next day. I didn't understand how they could have meetings and hold auditions while shooting. I *get* it now: Brooks' and McKellen's characters must not have ever slept. 😐

Getting some wild shots, handheld, on a farm; I followed the actors out of a stable into a brilliantly lit view, thanks to white-hot clouds that blew out the frame; thanks to good PA work, I one-handed an ND filter onto my wide lens quickly, and didn't have to stop rolling. 👍🎥

Just wrapped day four. Getting to make this is one of the greatest gifts of my life, with many moments of joy, tears, and gratitude... for, as an example, filming an amazingly talented dear friend of many decades deliver a performance—of something I wrote—with grace and sensitivity and nuance. 🙏❤️

"Where do baby crane flies come from?" "Well, dear, when two crane flies love each other very, very much..."

2017 was nine years ago but if you're a reporter writing a story on the Obama Center and you don't know this... for lack of a better term, origin story... you probably shouldn't be writing it. And if you write about the delays but not about Trump's role in them, you probably shouldn't be a reporter.

Watching late, too late, so late you'd have a headache but you'd stay up to watch anyway—you'd *have* to—feeling like you were in on something, anxious for the commercials to end so the show would come back and then the music would fade in and the bumpers would appear and it was like they got you.

Top 10 Reasons I was late for school every morning ... 1 - 10 Late Night with David Letterman

Watching late, too late, so late you'd have a headache but you'd stay up to watch anyway—you'd *have* to—feeling like you were in on something, anxious for the commercials to end so the show would come back and then the music would fade in and the bumpers would appear and it was like they got you.

He's not thinking about vaccines when he looks at children.

A reporter could ask, "What happened to the testing of the flux capacitor at Twin Pines Labs you and the Libyans talked about doing jointly?" and he'd just make up an answer, understanding and recognizing as much about it as he does any other subject at all. Dementia's much steeper with chooches.

What's pathetic about these losers is this answer reads as if he received it four seconds before he went on air but it was likely sweated over and found to be clever by dozens or more of the dumbest, least capable, most mendacious cretins that the United States government has ever employed.

After first-hand experience I can say with a high degree of certainty that the reason the Sicilian is screamin' is that the company called this dreck "pizza."