Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

A curation of this year's #misautumnfestival lanterns in China. Making your own lanterns (as per the old customs) is back in fashion, especially eco-friendly ones using recycled materials. Like this gorgeous lunar scene lantern, made out of cardboard boxes and packaging. 1/ #moonfestival #lanterns

Man, of all the Discworld books I’d hoped to visit, Night Watch was not among them.

Smiting and vengeance is so much easier than forgiveness and charity

all between must be profound darkness and nothingness

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

if Kash can go back years and fire people for kneeling or displaying a pride flag the absolute least the next Dem admin can do is fire every one of these assholes who are assaulting people on camera (and then prosecute them)

the reason why bluesky (relatively) succeeded in the Twitter exodus, and mastodon did not, has nothing to do with decentralization protocols & everything to do with the fact that posting on one of them looked & felt like posting on Twitter and posting on the other looked & felt like posting on phpBB

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Shouldn’t the media always say “Armed combatants claiming to be ICE agents”? Because who the heck ever knows who these thugs are? When you say “ICE agents did X,” you might be in error. We could also say mayhem is being committed by unidentified armed thugs in American cities.

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

EXPLOSION GANG!!!

one of my favorite things about Discworld is that you can often see the joke coming from a mile away and when it lands it still cracks you up it’s all in the execution, and Terry was a craftsman

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

No one will ever be more of an ingrate than JD Vance hating Ivy League elites and liberal media, the people who elevated his glorified college admissions essay about hating his mom

The Outer Haven

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

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Happy Ctenophore Day! 🐙🦑🧪

Escher cake Vanilla cake, vanilla bean buttercream, one layer of salted chocolate buttercream filling, one layer of salted caramel buttercream filling, fondant (modeling chocolate was too sticky for the cookie cutter)

I bet some of you recognize the same behavior in your parents during your childhood and beyond. Once again, they don’t think it’s right. But it’s familiar. Most people are trained from birth to prefer familiarity or comfortability over moral correctness.

Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

All children, except one, grow up. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

A specter is haunting Europe. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

It was inevitable; the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of unrequited love. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Congress has not authorised the use of military force.

"Call me Ishmael. Congress has not authorized the use of military force"

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One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹 This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨ Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌 youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

Please put the plague back in the bottle. Feed CDC was bad, but our current one is so much worse - we won't be dealing with teeth, we'll be murdered by crop dusters filled with bleach and ivermectin carpet bombing everybody.

There is only one type of man who would be allowed to just run roughshod over everything unchecked in this way, where every dumbass thing that comes out of his mouth is explained away, called “genius” or just allowed. Mediocre white male privilege is NOT a myth. I don’t care who that truth offends.

Something is profoundly wrong with this man.

We can fund health care and keep the government running, or we can shut everything down to raise prices on people. To me, that’s a pretty easy choice.

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny defector.com/treasury-dep...

This is on the street OUTSIDE of the Ice building, it's city property. The agent should be charged with assault.

Hey FYI the main reason women get stress fractures in the Army is that the heavy rucksacks they carry WERE DESIGNED FOR MEN. They do a shit job of distributing weight to the hips (where we are stronger w our builds). It's a design flaw. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Yes would eat with glee and delight.

I think a person has to be dead to be commemorated on US currency. Does the Treasury Department know something we don't?

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Daniel Arthury, "Where's my Breakfast II," 2025.

US government: hurt as many women and children as you want, just don't steal a document I'm so proud of those FBI agents who arrested me, they really did something there

Rodney Taylor still needs our help! He’s still locked in an ICE camp. He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs. He’s still facing deportation to Liberia. He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored. Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

If they’re going to put Donald Trump’s likeness on a silver dollar coin, then the first 83,300,000 should be used to pay E. Jean Carroll. He will pay with himself for his crimes. He will face accountability—unless the tails side is up, I suppose.

When Leavitt claims that Portland is war-torn, reporters should ask her where in Portland this is supposedly happening? What's the death toll? How many structures have been destroyed?

these people are embarrassing! they should be embarrassed, I am embarrassed for them and I hate them! frank castle would be embarrassed and he's a fictional character!