40,000+ evacuated in California chemical disaster. Corporate deregulation strikes again. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat... #EnvironmentalJustice #CorporateGreed

Trump, the relentless opportunist, will use today’s gunman as another excuse for his tacky ballroom. But if Donald can only be safe in a billion dollar ballroom, he wouldn’t spend almost every weekend in an open golf cart on a course where an assassin was supposedly previously on.

This is so joyful to watch! 👀 Stephen Colbert and Bette Midler dancing with his staff members! 💃🕺💃🕺 I loved this so much and miss him so much already! 😅 #USDemocracy #Pinks

Popular MAGA influencer named Joshua Heffner with nearly 500K TikTok followers has been arrested for possession of child rape porn. Every fucking time.

The shooting at the bulldozed White House today will undoubtedly be used as more propaganda for the orange felon to justify his $1B trashy money laundering dictator ballroom. It’s highly predictable at this point.

Now would be a perfect time to mention that the MAGA regime has spent the last few days especially the last 24 hours scrubbing all info and archives related to their Jan 6 insurrection. This would be called treason and yet another massive criminal cover up.

Now we know why Donald Trump couldn't go to his son's wedding. The fee the actor got to pretend to be a gunman threatening Donald's life, to help promote Trump's vulgar ballroom, was nonrefundable.

As others had pointed out, McCartney and the rest of the Beatles made their U.S. television debut on that exact same on February 1964, and now tonight McCartney sends off #Colbert as CBS punches themselves in their undersized testicles.

The Start of Memorial Day Weekend: devonellington.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/f... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Freelance #Networking

For two years, Mike Johnson refused to hang the plaque on the wall honoring police officers who defended the Capitol on J6 against a mob of violent rioters, even though a law was passed to mandate it. But he supports paying over a billion dollars to the criminal rioters.

Drag corrupt Noem before the House again.... ‘A New Level of Corruption': DHS Bought ICE Warehouses From Trump Cronies For 10x Markup www.commondreams.org/news/ice-war...

THE VICIOUS CRITIC Nina Bell Mysteries #3 When an actor disappears, and then a critic is murdered and left in Nina’s theatre, staying ahead of the police on the case means staying ahead of the killer, necessary to save her own life. 1/

On June 13, @nycplan.org is hosting a Library Propaganda Fair! Would you like to share your library related art and propaganda with other New Yorkers? Our tabling application is open til Friday: forms.gle/8yyADQGqV7jn... - We invite tablers to sell items AND also to share free items w/ the public.

Time to file a resolution to dissolve the fund.

If you live in NYC and haven't yet had a chance to visit "The Strangers Project," you should do so soon because I believe it ends at the end of June after 3 years. strangersproject.com/visit/

Benjamin Netanyahu is the worst US President since Elon Musk.

don’t know a ton about government financing. And even I know the President isn’t supposed to have tax immunity and his own government-funded slush fund. How is this happening in broad daylight?

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Incredible performance by David Byrne on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! Dance, Stephen, Dance!

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

A Jumbled Day: devonellington.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/w... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Freelance

Finally finished the first draft of a play I've been working on for TWO YEARS. Whew! Excited to work on the next draft of it starting in a few weeks (which will not take 2 years). #Playwriting #Theatre

MURDER BELLS Nina Bell Mysteries #2 Contains 2 holiday-themed novelettes and a novella: “Too Much Mistletoe” – a missing roommate “Tumble” – a colleague dead in the dryer A Stylish Death – a rich donor is murdered at a gala 1/ #Writing #WritingCommunity #Mystery

Summer Prep & Solid Writing: devonellington.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/t... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Freelance #Playwrighting #Sewing

MURDER BELLS Nina Bell Mysteries #2 Contains 2 holiday-themed novelettes and a novella: “Too Much Mistletoe” – a missing roommate “Tumble” – a colleague dead in the dryer A Stylish Death – a rich donor is murdered at a gala 1/ #Writing #Mystery

Intent for the Week -- Enjoy the Sunshine: devonellington.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/m... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Freelance

The president of the United States of America is inhumane.

People who give money away but insist on video taping it for social media make me so deeply uncomfortable be good without an audience it'll feel just as good actually

THANK YOU David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for a lifetime of smart satire, laughs, speaking truth to power & sending us to bed with a smile on our collective faces. You will be missed. 🙏 #EndOfAnEra

Caught up on this week's #FreelanceFriends posts. I'm sorry I'll have to miss next week's chat, too -- I'm going to the regional chamber's small business expo, which is always a good (and often lucrative) day out.

Shakespeare & Art: devonellington.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/f... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Theatre #Art #Freelance

A Balanced Workday: devonellington.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/t... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Freelance

Deep in Planting Season: gratitudeandgrowth.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/t... #Gratitude #Growth #Garden

This BFD flew in under the radar. Democrats should be shouting it from every mountain top. While it only affects State and local elections, it’s a huge start. More, please! 👍💙💪 www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-legis...

$1 billion for a Ballroom, $10 billion for vanity projects in DC, $15 million for an arch in front of Arlington Cemetery. Meanwhile—they are proposing to cut over $1 billion in tribal programs, tribal housing, education, water and other basic programs, while opening sacred sites like Chaco Canyon.

We are now assured that ICE will not be at World Cup games. From the same administration that assured us that it would release the Epstein files, get prices under control, and would not start any wars.

In another act of malice, disgraceful fraudulent traitor John Fetterman also helped fascist republicans today by joining them in blocking a resolution that would reign in the orange felon’s unconstitutional destructive war in Iran. Can’t wait to see Pennsylvania fire his ass.

People on the ground everyday are saying that just in these first 13 days of May there’s been more ICE activity than there was all of April. We don’t know what this means exactly, but this is why we need to make sure we’re still connected to our neighborhood networks and looking out for each other.

At the peak of the ICE surge, Minnesotans raised and distributed millions of dollars in quick, low-barrier rent aid. Now some organizers of rent relief funds say they’re seeing an increase in requests for help as the number of evictions ticks upward and the amount of individual donations drop.

The DOJ is reportedly considering dropping any audits of Trump, his family, or his businesses as part of a potential settlement of his bogus lawsuit against the IRS. That’s on top of the $10 billion in damages he wants. This is corruption on steroids — and taxpayers will pay the price.

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

About 3/4 of my romancelandia selections come from on here, based on people I follow, whose work I like. I try to be good about reviewing and boosting when I like stuff, too.

One of my pet peeves is hearing someone say something like "God protected me" after a disaster. Such statements made while others died implies selective divine favoritism. Survival is probability and chance exposure. Nobody is chosen. You are not special.

Enter the world of the Nina Bell! The series begins in 1996, New York City. Nina’s a theatre graduate determined to make a life for herself in the arts, navigating the world of love, lust, theatre, rock ‘n roll – and murder! 1/ #Writing #Mystery

Steady Work Rhythm: devonellington.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/w... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Freelance

He is directly robbing the American people, and everyone involved here belongs in prison.

if congress can have a six figure salary to do nothing except for perpetually campaign to stay in office then we can have UBI

OK I need to shut it down for the night. I'll say more about the public library stuff in the morning. All I will say now is that the executive budget proposal is still almost $100 million LESS than the Mayor's campaign promise of 0.5% of the city expense budget. The fight continues...