Hi. I’m back. ‘Cause the world is even more on fire than when I left. Sigh.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Please share this. Friends of the Everglades are organizing a protest to stop Alligator Alcatraz. Join us we have coalition members traveling overnight to be there by morning. Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

Progressive policies improve people's lives. Centrists policies cater to the whims of the rich. Progressives protect civil rights. Centrists prey upon civil rights.

Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ

Imagine you are a 9th century cleric and you're like "people of the future deserve to know about my cat, Pangur Ban"

Amazing. This would work on me, btw.

add yours!

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

I was just wandering in the strange realms of TikTok and found this incredible video about Between Two Fires. Holy shit. Very Ralph Bakshi. I love it.

MSNBC reporter in gas mask in Los Angeles: I think it was Sheriffs deploying CS gas, tear gas, pepper spray, and flash bang grenades in large numbers. Mounted units pushing against protesters.., every single gathering I saw today was 100% peaceful

D&D bards should have a “montage” power, where they can play an ‘80s-style banger that lets listeners massively train up their skill levels, which then last just long enough for the big fight at the end.

Menswear guy out here doing the hard work. This is amazing.

Finished my sign. Can’t wait to explain to everyone tomorrow who these weird turtle guys are.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

This is unacceptable!!

This

What the actual fuck

Trump threatens war with Iran; Hegseth has plans for an invasion of Greenland. Trump has effectively invaded Los Angeles and a California senator was manhandled in his own state for asking questions. Foreign-born legal residents are being kidnapped and deported. THIS ADMINISTRATION MUST GO

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

I feel this one is particularly relevant lately.

Book 5 ch. 1: I actually laughed out loud at how every time Gandalf shows up somewhere, the general response is, "Oh shit, Mithrandir is here! We must really be in the shit now!" And Gandalf's response is a never-reassuring, "You are indeed! More than you can even guess!" And everyone's like 😮😬

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

This is true.

We will not cower, even in the face of Trump’s militarized escalation. On Saturday, we are going to rise up all across the country in defiance of this administration’s authoritarian agenda. Join the nationwide peaceful protests for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

I've been thinking about this C.S. Lewis quote for the last few days as we head into some dark times.

What kind of US will we leave the next generation? Your choices are ‘tune out & relax’ for white nationalist faux-Christian fascism that only benefits the rich, or ‘speak out & fight like hell’ for an inclusive republic where the rule of law matters. Pick a side or it will be picked for you.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Dip pen Tree Mari today to combat overthinking

No. Absolutely not. He's a nazi. He smashed the federal government and stole our data. He put USAID and USIP in a wood chipper, leaving hundreds of thousands of children to die. He's not welcome in any party I belong to. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Other side of this, we really gotta start teaching kids about/in a production model of knowledge rather than a discovery one. *Way* too many people still seem to think that knowledge & research just like… happen, w/o the entangled embedded infrastructural systems of universities, libraries, labs, &c

There's a distinct lack of Elrond on the time, lets fix that.

Andor. My goodness what a gut punch.

Very cool

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system. The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up. It’s designed to make you quit.

Kid begins daycare soon. Will allow me to not be full time stay at home dad, and therefore get way more work done! But will cost our family $100s a month. I would like to make illos and games full time, but that means I need to make enough This is my crowd fund pitch! See link in reply to support

President Higgins says people in Gaza are being subjected to ‘forced starvation’

Angelina shared this from Madera CA. We were transplanting tomatoes & there was a wind storm. A dust devil formed. It caused a lot of dust and dirt to get into our faces. This is one of many things we - the ones that harvest the food that goes on everyone's table - endure. #WeFeedYou

Join four-time All-Ireland Champion Enda Scahill, guitarist Simon Crehan, Irish step dancer Stephanie Keane and myself for Episode 3 of My Music with Rhiannon Giddens! Watch with @pbs.org Passport: to.pbs.org/4jXnYIQ

so depressing that there’s a group who want to take away our kids’ books, delete history, undo medical and scientific progress, throw people in prisons and work camps on flimsy pretenses, resegregate every industry… and people are still like “such polarization 😢 can’t we be friends” NO WE CANNOT

We're having a great time on tour and can't wait to see you out there! Get tickets: rhiannongiddens.com/tour

BREAKING: We filed a motion on behalf of military families worldwide seeking to block censorship of books and materials about race and gender in schools run by the Department of Defense.