It’s all about Russia and weakening the US. Always has been. The theater is just distraction.

The pivot from “I stand with Gaza” to “I stand with Minneapolis” is giving me whiplash.

I was all set to jump out of bed and start running my errands when my lab climbed into my lap, snuggled in, and passed out peacefully. Guess it’ll be an in-bed, no jobs kind of day!

So according to Obergruppenführer Miller a country doesn’t have sovereignty as long as there’s another country that’s stronger and could hypothetically conquer it. Am I getting that right?

Ich habe die letzten fast schon 30 Jahre im Ausland verbracht, und es kann schon sein das ich die Realität in Deutschland heute falsch einschätze, aber ein Mangel an Produktivität, oder bevölkerungsweite Faulheit, sind doch nicht die Gründe für unsere wirtschaftlichen Probleme. Hab ich was verpasst?

Looks to me like Trump is starting to taco. He always does when serious financial ramifications are made clear to him.

The smug, intellectually stunted, yet self-satisfied high school antics of Carolin Leavitt can’t be over too soon.

Lawmakers from both parties consider the Justice Department’s piecemeal release of files so far to be wholly inadequate to what the law requires. They’re not treating it as a small thing, either. Good.

The scary thing about Trump is that he is so simple. He’s learned that aggressive escalation works, and now he commands - without any checks - the entire strategic, economic, and political apparatus of the world’s leading superpower, which means there’s no limit to his ability to escalate.

Renee Nicole Good was murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just American democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.

Please tell me that I’m not the only one who sees the deep irony behind Republicans posture towards the Iranian protests and their posture towards the protests against ICE brutality in Minnesota. Please!

Can’t we just release the damn Epstein files before that insane man destroys the whole world in an effort to delay his embarrassment?

This is fascism, pure and simple.

In den USA sieht man, was passiert, wenn Rechtsextreme an die Macht kommen: Ende der Gewaltenteilung, Aufbau eines Polizeistaats, blinder Führerkult, Mord, Krieg & das Ende einer Demokratie. Schaut euch an, wer das hier verteidigt, und ihr wisst, wen ihr zum Schutz der Demokratie bekämpfen müsst.

Wait, did ICE take the day off? I don’t see any new murder headlines.

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Some topical thoughts on Tolkien and Beauty #tolkien #lotr #middleearth #lordoftherings

Can we talk about #skylightsocial for a minute? I’d like it to be awesome but my feed there is very weird. What are your experiences or tips? Will that be a viable TikTok alternative??

I found this useful.

I can’t always tell the difference between reporting from the protests in Teheran and reporting across the US. That’s not a good sign for our democracy.

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

Tolkien as a Literature of Resistamce. #tolkien #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings

Tolkien as a Literature of Resistamce. #tolkien #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings

Tolkien as a Literature of Resistamce. #tolkien #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings Sorry it got cut short a bit.

First post on Tolkien as a Literature of Resistamce. #tolkien #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings

Bringing quality lore to you. 😂 #tolkien #lordoftherings #middleearth #lotr #loremaster

Part 2 of 2 #tolkien #lotr #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings

Part one of two - moving these over from TikTok strictly as some of these posts are longer than this app allows for. #tolkien #lotr #tolkienresistamce #middleearth

"It’s hard to be an opposition party when you refuse to oppose the blatantly illegal and immoral things being done by the opposition."

The reason MAGA thinks this video shows Renée Good‘s murderer as justified is found in the Margaret Atwood quote: "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." In their minds, these two things are equivalent. #3E #EndImpunity #GoodVsEvil #RenéeGood

Peak male fragility:

This is incredibly moving and tells you a lot about who Renee Good was.

One of the things that keeps surprising me about #Tolkien as an author is his descriptive scope. From exquisite high beauty to deep horror and grief to the banality of everyday life, he nails it all.

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

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Moving my Tolkien content over from the ClockApp.

another slow motion angle shift

So what are we all thinking about skylight as a TT alternative?

I’m not sure what to make of the fact that Mamdani won NYV and Dick Cheney died within hours of that. Seems historic.

Die Haltung the deutschen Regierung aufgrund eines vergangenen Genozids an dem sie Schuld war einen aktiven Genozid in der Gegenwart unterstuetzen zu muessen ist absurd und unverzeihbar. (1)

I keep hearing that the platform of the DNC is poised to move to the left. That sounds like wishful thinking to me. IMO they are way to deeply dependent on corporate/ PAC money to ever move left. Anybody else hearing this? Is there anything to it?

Honest question. For decades we have fought against fascist and Neo-Nazis denying the Holocaust. The consensus had been that doing so was the bridge too far. How do we maintain that moral position when a genocide is happening right now and our governments and press work diligently to deny that fact?

$100 says MTG is involved in a GOP spinoff scheme. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Colorado - did you know that Michael Bennet has AIPAC as his #1 donor the last five years? And @hickenlooper.bsky.social has JStreet PAC as his #2 donor? OF COURSE THEY'D VOTE DOWN BERNIE SANDERS' MOTION TO STOP ARMS EXPORTS! Their votes and consciences are bought and paid for. Vote. Them. Out.