Rough morning. #cats

Just so we're clear: this is what is meant by the phrase "saying the quiet part out loud." Perhaps folks of Irish, Italian or Russian descent will oppose this since they were in the 'excluded' category 100 years ago. I won't hold my breath. #immigration #racism www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

A win for the first amendment and librarians. xplore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Call me a slow learner, @postopinions.bsky.social has gone off the rails. It hasn't blundered into MAGA territory yet, but it's criticism of Jack Smith in the same breath as its ire is aimed at what is happening to James Comey, is both siderism at its worst. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

@the1a.org interesting food insecurity show. I want to know the federal and state voting behavior of food support program recipients. Are red state recipients voting for GOP who cut these programs. Do recipients vote in large numbers or sit out elections?

States rights are just apartheid under another name.

This is #journalism the way it should be. You don't need a leak, an unnamed source, just the dogged ability to wade through reams of data. Of course, this admin will soon not publish data, so there's that. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

If you were unsure of the total rightward shift of @washingtonpost.com editorial page, this entry should convince you. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Navigators know the way to the truth.

stealth mode

Took a break in the middle of a six-mile run. Get out there, clear your head. The world is moving so fast.

Friday timeline cleanse

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

Exactly

No better navigator through these crazy times.

America is what happens when you make having actual political parties illegal and instead rely on a bunch of norms that are only somewhat codified and the ones that are codified are written by 18th century slaveowners who were hammered and just trying to get out of the heat of the summer

America, a country I love for a lot of reasons, is sick with its idolatry for police. Police are people. People make mistakes and should be held accountable. Police should be held accountable like the rest of us. Pointing a weapon to intimidate someone not under arrest should never be tolerated.

Double Delight showing off in the sunshine

Truth

The Dallas shooter is Joshua Jahn. He ain't a minority. He ain't transgender. He ain't an immigrant. Yet another white kid with a serious gun fixation.

“what can we learn from the return of jimmy kimmel” uh we learned that you can censor voices but not if they’re popular white men???

it was no more than a dalliance moments strung together with kisses words thrown about thoughtlessly passions progression labeled love no desire beyond now #perhaps . . . #VSS365 #poetry #poetrycommunity #amwriting #aiartist

Yep. It is always about the money.

There was a time we wanted the president to be a better person than we ourselves were; atheist that was the rhetoric. We now know that was bullshit for half of voters for about 40 years with the capstone being this guy.

Follow the money. It is always about the money.

Yes

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Edinburgh was gorgeous today I want to hate autumn for making me cold and for being the precursor to the long dark teatime of my soul But the light is so delicately golden and the leaves so crinkly and crunchy and good [Charlotte Square, Edinburgh]

It's the same with the choice of 'creator' by Jefferson. He knew about Christians and conciously chose Not to call out the Christian God. But these originalists think the only creator the founders knew was Chrsitian. Smh

It's important to remember that the US Constitution is a living document, able to be amended, to give and to take. The 18th amendment banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol. It was repealed. The 14th amendment gave citizenship rights to those born and naturalized. It can be repealed.

Kimmel wasn’t fired because he said something his bosses didn’t like. Kimmel was fired because the government pressured his bosses over something Trump didn’t like. 

Make it a great Sunday💕💕💕 #Hiking #Mts #Photography #Nature

I met this lovely silver lab pup named Miko. I knew she’d inspire photos & poetry. 💜 #haikusaturday #haiku #doglover #dogs

Sure, the US federal government is potentially more oppressive than a voluntary HR directive or the complaints of an Ivy League freshman, but again ... you really need to squint just right. You're not squinting hard enough.

Another excellent video from @skepchick.org showcasing - with clips - what a despicable little smear of lying nazi filth Charlie Kirk really was. youtu.be/Y6MShHqqZrw?...

Today in 1963, 4 young girls are killed by white racists as a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson & Carol Denise McNair. Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words lead to hateful actions.

Criticizing conservatives for being racist is not a first amendment violation. Pointing out Charlie Kirk's racism in a public forum is not suppressing speech. Using every mechanism available to the state to harass and punish those who express disfavored viewpoints is textbook suppressing speech.

Perhaps we are too forgone to accept the truth that it is not #civil dscourse that divides america,but #civilrights. Politely telling trans person to use a different bathroom is taking something from them. Whether you say it with a smile or a growl, the effect is the same. Just one example.

"Kirk told his listeners that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court “is what your country looks like on critical race theory,” that former Vice President Kamala Harris was “the jive speaking spokesperson of equity,” and that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “was awful.”"

Yep.

This is one of the few pieces that gets it right. We can mourn violence without pretending Charlie Kirk was some noble figure. He built his platform on division and hate, and the danger comes when we sanitize that truth. Thank you for pushing back against the rewriting of history in real time.

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How far has America fallen you ask? Oh, just congress members saying “Charlie Kirk and MLK are basically the same” far.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Chef's kiss. That said, his would only be 4th vote and he has been a unitary executive lawyer his whole career.

Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

Women’s Unpaid Work and the American Economy (2022) #LaborDay theeconreview.com/2022/09/01/w...

Am I the only one grinning over the sponsor of Greet Minnen being 'Osaka'while she plays Naiomi Osaka at #usopn #tennis @thetennisletter.bsky.social

I wonder how many LGBTQ+ people voted for POTUS in '24? I wonder if they thought they'd be fine under his regime? I wonder if they've ever read Niemoller poem? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/u...