¨ She's a sun-worshiper from Qatar originally, so she can't really related to this magazine cover illustration. #Caturday www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

🎬 Boots Riley adapting _Mr._Burns_ to the big screen? Didn't see that one coming. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

¨ Not exactly a #TwitpicTuesday rescue, but still marking the 10th anniversary of the #FailQaeda #VanillaIS takeover of a bird sanctuary by heavily-armed #Cosplaytriot types. The same variety of clown is now perpetrating (not resisting) tyranny in Minneapolis. www.flickr.com/photos/jym/2...

⚄⚄ Ten years ago some "sovereign citizens" armed with guns but unprepared with snacks kicked off a decade of right-wing lawlessness for stupid causes.

"Re{tw|sk}eet this with your home river." Mine is the Ohio. flickr.com/photos/jym/1...

Patty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody. An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead." [@statuscoupnews.bsky.social Please clip this for Bsky?]

Why has the murderer not been charged with murder?

¨ She's still riffing on the chair. #Caturday www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

Slightly diminish a band Some Doubt Walk-DMC The Beetles

More pictures of what appears to be the same agent, from the Houston Field Office Special Response Team

Many ICE officers appear to be white supremacists who were unable to obtain jobs in other branches of law-enforcement. Some liberal critics say that’s a bad thing.

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

¨ Emergency protest at San Francisco DHS headquarters (630 Sansome). More signs addressing the problem. #AbolishICE www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

¨ Emergency protest tonight at San Francisco DHS headquarters (630 Sansome). "ICE = Fascist Thugs" #AbolishICE www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

Important context for claims that the Nicole Renee Good was obstructing/assaulting officers before she was shot & killed: The last time immigration agents shot a woman (Marimar Martinez, Chicago) they made similar claims. Prosecutors have already dropped the charges www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

I spent weeks watching hundreds of videos from Jan 6th to place them in time and space as part of a collaboration with Richard Engel, and I can categorically say this version of events is bullshit.

≖ 10 years ago, some "sovereign citizens" bravely drew their weapons at field biologists to take over a wildlife refuge, but forgot to bring snacks. This guy hid under a tarp until the media showed up. Alt-Text: "I have a blue tarp of invisibility. None of them can see me." #FailQaeda #VanillaIS

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

¨ The wee little kitty has figured out how to rotate the much bigger nap-shaped chair so that she can maximize exposure to the sunlight coming in the window. This means she's turning her back on us, which is kind of rude. #Caturday

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Since Blondie and Dagwood have now entered the public domain, I shared the first month of the comic strip in its entirety on my blog:

chef kiss 🤌 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

📰 She wants S.F. to legalize her in-law rental units. City rules could trigger $1 million in costs www.sfchronicle.com/personal-fin...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

¨ She's got one ear pressed to the window, I think she's listening in on me. #Caturday www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

🎹 Cyrus Chestnut Quartet plays Vince Guaraldi's "Skating" last winter. (If you're an SFJAZZ member, follow the link they provide and you can play the whole concert today.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEAI...

awww all grown up now

I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

make a bond movie casual Octopuddytat

¨ This #TwitpicTuesday rescue is a photo of me taken by my sister. We were in Belize, shortly before the end of the 13th b'ak'tun on the Mayan Long Count calendar. She claims I'm "in tactical gear shooting a Canon" but I don't remember it being quite that dramatic. www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

■■■■ America ■■■■■ Again (h/t to Woke Futurama)

I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.

¨ #Caturday during Chanukah (Chaturday?) and she batted this around until it rolled a Gimel. Neither she nor I am entirely sure what this portends. www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

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¨ This #Caturday we find Misty maximizing her solar power efficiency by stretching out to where the sunbeams go. www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...

❄ Now really, what kind of parents would gift their son with an underdressed woman sucking on a candycane? Only to discover that he's ... bikesexual. [This ad is from 12 years ago. We're so much more progressive and enlightened now.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKjS...

✄ Trump "has said [he and Epstein] fell out in the early 2000s, years before he was first arrested." Yet the emails that were released only a month ago have indicated that this is not true. Media has a responsibility to fact-check claims, not just parrot them. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Stealworkers

🍸 Today's #TwitpicTuesday rescue is from an old thread regarding the renaming of the Elbo Room to, um, the Valencia Room. Someone made a neon-ish name generator and various luminaries came up with ideas. xcancel.com/jymdyer/status/1131180043843952640 Mine namechecks Amelia's, a great lesbian bar:

Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.

I'd pay good money just to see her argument for these biscuits being "biologically male"

Hey, Bruce. Maybe Mary’s walk from her front porch to your front seat wouldn’t be so long if you didn’t park your car out back.

⛰︎ Nuzzi's writing is so bad, it killed Frank Gehry. Gehry's IAC building looks like a clipper ship's sails, not like "a block of glacier ice."

quote with your model of masculinity

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.