Thank you, HCR, for watching what I could not.

“This was the trauma that they wanted, that they planned, that they promised us. And, for once, they did a great job of delivering.” - CDC employee www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

...Karoline's cross doesn't burn and Mike Johnson isn't a Premium PornHub member...

"Essentially, a man is posing as a woman to an audience of women who are trying to protect themselves from, at best, deceptive men." Avoid the Tea app. Stick with the FB groups for Are We Dating the Same Man? Imperfect but far safer. www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

Typical buyer is a kid who has no idea this is illegal. Typical seller absolutely knows it's illegal, and they're cashing in, because USDA-APHIS just lost most of its entomologists. Invasive ant species. What could go wrong? www.wired.com/story/usda-a...

Do you want this in your neighborhood? It's in mine. Spoiler: in case you were wondering, this fucking sucks. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Samuel L. Jackson studied marine biology at Morehouse ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRzE...

Release the Epstein files. Protect the victims. Show everything else - ALL of the other names. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

"Here are nine unanswered questions about the Epstein case - ones that a curious, non-conspiracy-minded citizen might have - that the files might help answer..." Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

"...Israel could be accused of carrying out war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide. This silence has made a mockery of the slogan 'Never again...'” Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Fucking thugs

"Slaves were the single largest, by far, financial asset of property in the entire American economy.” "At the end of World War I, black veterans returning to their homes were assaulted for daring to wear the American uniform." Gift article www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

It's been happening in my community for a couple of months. I am always aware of what's going on around me. Always. It's not a nice feeling. Having some idea of what's coming does not make me feel prepared, at all. I hope I'm wrong.

1/23 🚨🧵This should be a MUCH bigger story. The White House, under pressure from Bukele, quietly dismissed U.S. terrorism-related charges against MS-13 leaders, undoing the U.S.-led Joint Task Force dismantling the transnational gang. THIS is why the deportations had to be a show.

"for people in ICE custody - who have no say in where they’re being held - being placed in areas with scarce medical infrastructure only deepens their vulnerability." Free Wired article based on FOIA (Wired intro subscription = $10/year - worth it) www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

"Darby and his sister Flora had both been separated from their family by their enslavers as young children... when his enslaver died by injuries sustained at the battle of Bunker Hill, six-year-old Darby walked 10 miles home to his family." 10,000 descendants www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Early AM Saturday June 28, 1969 police arrived and announced they were raiding the Stonewall bar. The patrons and community said, fuck you. Free streaming documentary about life before Stonewall. archive.org/details/tele...

Mariachi break with Zohran www.tiktok.com/@mariachirey...

I lived and worked in NYC for 5 years, in the early 1990s. On some level I will always feel like a New Yorker. Fuck YES I am cheering for Zohran.

"...reverence for Lee relies on replacing the actual Lee with a mythical figure who never truly existed." "White supremacy does not 'violate' Lee’s 'most fundamental convictions.' White supremacy was one of Lee’s most fundamental convictions." Gift article www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"There aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way, where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever they want... and what it means is ordinary Americans are shut out of the process." 15 fucking years www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFv...

"Everyone knows that 79 is the tank birthday. One is paper, 77 is emoluments, 78 you get to destroy one constitutional amendment of your choosing, 80 you get to become the state, but 79 is tanks, and I was so looking forward to my tank birthday." Gift article www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"Nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere grants citizenship to children born in its territory irrespective of the nationality of their parents. It’s part of the promise of the New World." Gift article www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I absolutely know who was working in hotels during COVID when I traveled for business and was often one of the only guests. Always tip housekeeping. Always, even if the front desk at one of your regular stays tells you, you're the only one who leaves something. www.facebook.com/reel/7471259...

A few years ago I spent a month working in Los Angeles. Sending ❤️

Horses will do almost anything to avoid stepping on a human. Put objects or signs in between you and the horse. Push off the shoulder, never directly in front or behind. I've worked with horses for 40+ years. They're big but they avoid contact whenever possible. www.facebook.com/reel/2888339...

"Many tips coming into the office, she said, come from exes who report on their former partners’ immigration status." Nice. ICE in Puerto Rico. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

"It’s clear that beneath all the performative cruelty and amoral careerism, there’s an authentic core of seething, visceral, unquenchable hatred that defies any easy explanation." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Nike in Cambodia. “If they just come to exploit our workers, I don’t want them.” www.propublica.org/article/nike...

Fuck these assholes. This should be a funding priority FFS. The U.S. has an obligation. www.propublica.org/article/trib...

He and his sister - Surgeon General nominee - are dangerous. People will die. “Calley Means is not a whistleblower. He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make millions.” - Steve Schmidt, former mentor www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Crowd-sourced Incel tracking. Decent, up-to-date who's who and what's what. dogetrack.info?ref=meditati...

"CODIS was designed to track criminal offenders... The US government is treating every person who crosses the border, regardless of age, legal status, or whether they’re accused of any wrongdoing, as a possible suspect in crimes yet to occur." www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

"I don’t know that we can ever really mend America, because racism was built into the foundations of this country.” “I think it’s easier to be optimistic if you’re white than it is if you’re Black,” Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/t...

J. Michael Luttig, retired conservative judge Gift article: if you read one thing this week, read this. You can also listen; it's about 40 minutes. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I lived in Philly in the late 1980s. I remember the aftermath of MOVE. contrarian.substack.com/p/when-phila...

Still my ice cream of choice, for all the reasons ❤️ FU Bobby Brainworms

Stephen Miller 2017 "He has a dangerous mind and a dangerous way of thinking. He wants to shift what America is about... This is everything for him. He’s not going to rest... He won’t stop... He’s not a Trump shill... He was radicalized way before that." www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05...

100% "How many more abuses of power and violations of the law does Ice have to commit?" They're thugs and they are not helping anyone. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Massachusetts

Info appears legit and consistent with other community intel: migrantinsider.com/p/signalsafe...

"...Even if I can marshal considerable public pressure to get the prosecutor to file charges, the cop is now being defended, for free, by Brad Karp at Paul, Weiss or some other wealthy Biglaw attorney who has decided to be complicit with fascism." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

NO KETCHUP

This is our land. It belongs to all Americans. It should not be for sale to the highest bidder, to do whatever. Fuck these evil people, stealing from all of us.

"Leaders of influential hospitals in Dallas empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, allowing them to induce deliveries or perform procedures to empty the uterus. In Houston, most did not." www.propublica.org/article/texa...

"... senior government officials have been provided with a shoddy Signal knockoff that poses a number of serious security and counterintelligence threats. The security threat posed by TeleMessage Archiver is not theoretical.” www.wired.com/story/tm-sig...

“We were under the impression that they were focusing on trying to find criminals... And this is just a whole new level of harassment to our hard-working, law-abiding employees.” www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/06/i...

“(SB 2880) is a backdoor effort to fully reinstate the 1925 law... It is a vote to criminalize women, trap them within the borders of Texas, and to threaten anyone who tries to help them, regardless of whether the abortion occurs legally in another state.” boltsmag.org/texas-1925-a...

In another lifetime I spent a summer in Italy, studying art history. "...just there, where the light from the unseen window gives way to the gloom of the counting house, Jesus has raised his right hand. A gesture of election: It’s you. I want you." Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Written in 1941 and 100% true in this moment. "Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi... It is something in them." "Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t... go Nazi." harpers.org/archive/1941...