Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

Scheduled a morning full of care and self-care away from the chatter, given that today is the 3-year anniversary of Christina’s death. Then I checked the news. I hate empire with all of my earthly being.

So the the FIFA Peace Prize truly was meaningless after all?

This. The only way out is living in the whole truth.

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Today is Haitian Independence Day.

*Erykah Badu voice* “you better call Tyrone, but you can’t use my phone.”

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Off to a good start

Will never forget the time my therapist suggested that I try being petty. The thing I needed to see? My own self-righteousness (e.g., I'm better than that). The thing I needed to heal? The constant burden of having to be good. The thing I needed to create? Truth.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I think I saw 7 juvenile bald eagles on my walk today. At first I thought one was a small mountain lion because they were so massive! What a grand welcome into 2026.

The ultimate Rick Roll! I love this

"Moving away from thinking about children as property means seeing parents (and other caretakers of children) as having responsibilities towards children as opposed to rights over children."

I didn't know where this was going when I started it the other day, but I knew I was writing it for Christina. Then today, just as the conclusion became clear, I realized that today is the 3-year anniversary of my last conversation with her. Thank you, friend. amyferrell.substack.com/publish/post...

🔥IT STARTS WHEN YOU BEGIN🔥

How many Magi were there and were they descended from Seth? Check out this piece that draws on essential work by @brentlandau.bsky.social and @evandeneykel.bsky.social ial www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Bombing Nigeria (on Christmas of all days) is such grotesque behavior

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

Most women who are raped don't fight back. Responses include freeze, flop & friend (placate the attacker). The law (written by & for men) doesn't consider this & defense attorneys "portray the normal behavior of women, as ‘unusual’ or ‘inconsistent.’" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

🌹 random rose 🌹 March 25th 2024

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

And there it is...

Shout out to all the fools who fell for the free speech grift. You helped this along.

Happy Solstice, everyone. May you enjoy the rest, mystery, and infinite potential inside the void of darkness. The light isn’t to be rushed.

At a recent work event we were asked what gifts we can share, and somehow the word that came out of me was death. I said that in another life I'd be a death doula. Like, what? I'll cite this work next time - I'm just rounding out my skills and expertise.

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

“It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you. Nobody wants you to do what you want to do. They want you to go on their trip, but you can do what you want. I did. I went into the woods and read for five years.”~Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Solstice Peace, Hope, Light... ✌️✨🫶

NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a stunning map of the cosmos in infrared

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

The Epstein Files, everybody!

More highlights from 2025. The old forefinger came in handy a few times this year, usually as a scale. Micro botany on the beach at Sinah Common, Hayling Island, Hampshire with Little-Robin Geranium purpureum ssp. forsteri and Sand Cat's-tail Phleum arenarium. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.

Happy anniversary to the angel who arrived on 12-16 and 12-17, a time when I was going through one of the hardest events in my life. I happened to be in Zoom mtgs both days when a magical, dancing, iridescent light appeared next to me, so I snapped a screenshot. So grateful for magic during chaos.

Solstice 2025: When Is The Shortest Day Of The Year?

The White House is now just explicitly stating its intent to kill and maim non-white people here and around the world and white men are *still* insisting they are at a societal disadvantage

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.

I had a weird day, but probably not as weird as the SRO at my kid's school who served as best man in a recess wedding. My son wrapped up this story with "Man, seventh grade is CRAZY."

He was buddies with a pedo but in a tasteful, honorable way

Blue Moon Aurora I was talking to someone about previous Solar Cycles, and it reminded me of this night from 2015. A full moon rose and completely washed out the reds and greens of the aurora with the bright blue of a daytime sky, while streetlights colour the waves. 1/2 #Aurora #BlueSkyMonday

A lot of the videos I am seeing of people directly confronting ICE in the streets are mostly of women. Are others noticing this too?

Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.” Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.