I am one year away from getting AARP snail mail. Happy Middle Aged Birthday to me.

Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins

My two food pet peeves. 1. Calling things kimchi that are not kimchi. 2. The overuse of rice paper. Ex: You can call bacon, scrambled eggs, and cheese wrapped in a rice paper spiral a bagel but that does not make it one. Additions, friends?

Meanwhile, I'm sound asleep in the bedroom with both cats, who @danielmkim.bsky.social found SHARING the bed with me. You heard that right.

This week has been so mentally, physically and emotionally draining that I plunked face first into Ruth's belly floof last night and she, being the best kitty, let me lay there for a good few minutes unmoving before giving me the "enough" nudge.

Dance: Usha Jey Hybrid Bharatham. Love the choreography, specifically the micromovements (eyes, facial expressions) and the beat juxtaposed against the dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saj6...

Just submitted final grades.

Not one piece of art, but the work of one artist. Anything by Ewa Romaszewicz.

Ruth received a box of cat toys from a family friend. She has been acting strange every since. Sitting in a tense loaf and then running after them, licking them, etc.... Well....they're all filled with catnip. She's stoned out of her mind.

In light of the shooting at Brown University, a reminder: please don't rush to post in order to be first. Wait for substantive evidence from reliable sources lest you inadvertently spread misinformation. As a Rhode Islander who grew up a few miles from Brown, this one hits home.

ISD and Movember are partnering to examine how online misogyny fuels violence against women and girls and affects men and boys’ wellbeing. In the first of a series, we call for a public-health approach that engages men and boys as partners in prevention, not just as potential perpetrators.

My latest #IntelBrief for The Soufan Center, examining the rise of Nihilistic Violent Extremism and the True Crime Community in #SoutheastAsia. 1/3 thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2...

Name a perfect album that came out when you were 16. I can name 2 that are tied for first place. "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" - Wu-Tang Clan "Fumbling toward Ecstasy"-Sarah McLachlan.

Cat Chronicles (a continuing saga). @drjchernov.bsky.social got up last night & beheld a massacre. Goodie had somehow opened the cupboard door, gotten the bag of Delectables squeeze treats out, & bit through all but one tube. His expression while demanding breakfast: "Je ne regrette rien, Maman."

Happy Anniversary, my love. It's been wonderful sharing these past five years with you--learning and growing and loving together. Here's to many more. @danielmkim.bsky.social

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

@danielmkim.bsky.social , come get your cat. He has chased Ruth around with such vim and vigor, you'd think she was attached to a rotisserie chicken on a string, and when I rescued her from his clutches, he slapped my butt.

Let me preface this by saying @danielmkim.bsky.social is the love of my life. BUT MY MAN, PUT THE DAMN TOILET SEAT DOWN AFTER YOU USE IT.

We are in the midst of FAFO. Goodie has been here for less than 30min. He's already chased Ruth all over the house, trying to slap her butt & climbed into & clawed at her travel bag. There have been multiple standoffs. It's only a matter of time until she wacks him. @danielmkim.bsky.social

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

From the Desk of Ruth Bader Ginsmeow: Mama's got a cold that she caught from the small human, so I curled around her head and administered purr therapy. I am a good kitty.

From the Desk of Ruth Bader Ginsmeow: Mama's got a cold that she caught from the small human, so I curled around her head and administered purr therapy. I am a good kitty.

The media needs to keep in mind that increasingly, the ideologies of perpetrators of mass attacks, assassinations, & terrorism in the US don't fit neatly into boxes. Some are part of subcultures, like the man who murdered Charlie Kirk, who appears to have been a Groyper. Others, notably the 1/2

The killer may turn out to be a confused, young, white man from a gun-friendly Republican home with no coherent set of political views or inspirations. But that’s not the weirdest possible scenario here. What follows is a 🧵 that considers a far more bizarre scenario…ready? 1/x

My latest #intelbrief for The Soufan Center (TSC). Youth radicalization is an issue of near pandemic proportions. This is not just a Western problem; Asian countries like #SouthKorea, #Singapore, #India and #ThePhilippines are also feeling its effects. 1/2 thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2...

My latest #intelbrief for The Soufan Center (TSC). Youth radicalization is an issue of near pandemic proportions. This is not just a Western problem; Asian countries like #SouthKorea, #Singapore, #India and #ThePhilippines are also feeling its effects. 1/2 thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2...

How many more warning do American elites and masses need?

Goodie is visiting us. Now, he's on Ruth's turf. He's been here less than 12 hours yet she has him cowed w/ soft warning hisses. Ruth: MY MOM Goodie: But.... Ruth: MY CHAIR Goodie: But... Ruth: MY SPOT Goodie: But... Ruth: ALSO MY SPOT Goodie: But.... Repeat ad nauseum. @danielmkim.bsky.social

Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.

There was a Big Floof sighting yesterday. He was sitting on Abby Tabby's doorstep waiting to make trouble. How long before he shows up on mine wanting to start something with Ruth? That won't go over well.

Today, Ruth Bader Ginsmeow left us a present for the first time: A BABY BUNNY BUTT. When I was not showing the requisite enthusiasm, she took it in her mouth and took it to my yoga mat, dropped it and looked up at me. When that didn't elicit the requisite praise, she dropped it in the kitchen.

Thanks for the boost, love!

Thank you for the shout out, @johnhorgan.bsky.social! Much appreciated.

Anyways, AIDS is going to be gone soon, this is a generic with FDA full approval.

Oh the things one says when their in a home with two cats: Case in Point: "SGM Purrgood Nelson Kim, do no smack Ruth Bader Ginsmeow on her butt. She gets to sh*t in your litterbox. Lord knows you sh*t in hers." In moments like these, only proper names will [email protected]

Sometimes in a moment when the darkness is overwhelming, there's a moment of light and levity. Don't dismiss it. Let it wash over you. Savor it. Swim in it. And the darkness won't feel so hopeless.

If you could eat only one kind of food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Hmmmm....Either Japanese or Indian.

Took a year and a half to confirm but our instincts were right. New exclusive — A Rhode Island man arrested on gun charges was part of a Neo-Nazi Telegram channel that discussed killing a researcher tracking them. www.courtwatch.news/p/135-rhode-...

The 14th Amendment was ratified today in 1868—guaranteeing equal protection under the law. 157 years later, Trump’s trying to erase it like it was a typo. No birthright citizenship. No due process. Just Trump doing what he does best—breaking the law.

@queenofthinair.bsky.social- best wishes for soft landings. Much love always.

Rhode Island peeps--help me out with an argument with @danielmkim.bsky.social. Is it sacrilege to put hot sauce on a spinach pie? I say yes. As a native Rhode Islander, I am horrified. As a native New Yorker, he is nonplussed. OMG, I think he just got out the mayonaise.

Can young Gen Z + Gen Alpha carry on an entire conversation using only the words bro, bruh, and cringe?

Either the administration did not stop to consider the second and third order effects of their decision to bomb 3 Iranian nuclear sites (eg: terrorist attacks on home soil/military installations/citizens abroad) or they did and they do not care.

Is this "one and done" for Trump or will there be more US strikes? -my guess is Trump prefers the one and done option -... but if Iran retaliates, 100% Trump hits back, even harder -which is why I assume the US will signal to Iran that it is open to resuming talks now

The Islamic Republic of Iran is an isolated, corrupt kleptocracy, and its rejectionist foreign policy has failed. The regime likely still retains enough repressive capacity to stay in power but it is now in an exceedingly vulnerable position.

Iran now faces one of its most difficult dilemmas since 1979: -if it retaliates, it guarantees additional US strikes, even as it is already being clobbered by Israel -don't retaliate, and send a devastating message of weakness to the US and Israel, and also to its own population

Many people share living memories of the last time our country deemed members of 1 ethnic group "enemy aliens" & sent them to camps in remote parts of the American West. It was wrong then, & is wrong now. But just because our country falls short of its own ideals doesn't make us love it less.

There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.

Remember all that “genocide Joe” and “Kamala is a war hawk” shit? Yeah…psyops. It worked.