and tax payers cost to “fix” the immigration system soars…like the cost of living under this admin

Part of the reason the right aggressively demonizes George Soros is to dissuade any other left-of-center wealthy guys from doing actual politics the way every right wing billionaire happily does.

Huzzah MIT!

Act of Communion “Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” ― bell

I cry every day. It lets me now I haven’t become desensitized to the shit of this admin. Eight More Abortion Arrests in Texas open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

sums up this admin to a “t”

Happening right now. To us. In America.

Literally unconstitutional; Congress has the power of the purse under Article I. Trump is trying to create a personalist regime where every dollar of federal spending is allocated at his whim.

By all means, indict Jack Smith on bullshit allegations and give him the trial that SCOTUS denied him. Poke the bear, Donnie. See what happens.

Seems like it’s a family tradition. Woody Guthrie wrote a song specifically telling Trump’s dad to fuck off.

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

I call this one wafers on banana pudding

😒 55 Among adult TikTok users, news consumption has risen sharply in recent years – 55% now say they regularly get news on the platform, compared with just 22% in 2020.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. – John Berger

tomatoes, cucumbers, & peppers are eeking out a few still

Actor Jim Carrey on living life with no regrets: “You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love?”

My mind keeps wandering back to two women I met at the pumpkin patch today. Both recently had strokes. One had had a walker and had to return to full time work from part time. She analyzed patient results and created reports for a hospital with areas needing improvement.

found some usefuls at an estate sale today.

pumpkin patch on the way home from a bike ride that I didn’t get rained on during😁

a good defensive move would be?

if stephen miller were an insect …

nominating him to the villains hall of fame The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

😏 more regressive action www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

another 😒 r philosophy flip flop: ice recruitment & retainment tactic ➡️student loan repayment options

frustrated? guess someone hadn’t noticed delay is a big trump fav

lovely philosophy

hopefully, universities realize ‘stronger together’. if a higher ed institution complies is it really a high ed institution?

not the only ones - 20b bailout to argentina whose side gig is selling soybeans to china

milquetoast

…no votes for lawbreaking, no votes for a deal Trump will break…jb

I admired you and your works. I’ll miss you. "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” JG

Crab Louie courtesy of friends who caught crabs off the Columbia😋

Today before class my students asked if I’d seen this TikTok posted last week by the White House using the Pokémon theme song to celebrate the work of Homeland Security. “Gotta catch ‘em all.” They were appropriately appalled by it, though not surprised. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SEm25F/

is this the republican cost consciousness i’ve heard about in fables

Back from the southwest to a wet PNW welcome.

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this? A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

This only happens to you once

top reason why PNW is …unmatched in boundless affluence of sublime mountain beauty…

I've been reading a bit of Alexander Hamilton in Federalist #69. Any historians or Federalist Papers experts willing to explain his take on the Executive?

…an unqualified loyalist who has never previously worked as a prosecutor; she pulled the trigger on a precipitous indictment of Comey during her fourth day on the job..,