in a world that grows increasingly crueler and colder, how much more important to be generous and warm

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

This was my favorite sign from #Portland #NoKings. #putabirdonit

Seen in West Virginia:

Actor John Cusack attended “No Kings” in Chicago, Illinois. ✊ @johncusack.bsky.social

No Kings is a much-needed reminder: there are so many great Americans, smart Americans, brave Americans, big-hearted Americans. And the world needs them.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

#NOKINGS New York City, NY

based nancy

We're living in a strange time youtu.be/x-NXwRUQcmg?...

How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation. Report, block, and add the Trump White House and other regime accounts to blocklists. Do not engage. #3E #BlueSky 👇❌🚫 @whitehouse-47.bsky.social @homelandgov.bsky.social

IMPORTANT SAFETY TIP FOR NO KINGS! We’re seeing viral posts urging people to sit down/stay silent if violence emerges. PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT. In certain circumstances with activists highly trained in civil disobedience this *can* be effective. At a mass protest, it is a recipe for disaster.

honestly

Tom Snyder: ...but you're kind of like a spaceman? Ace Frehley: no, actually, I'm a plumber [bursts into laughter] youtu.be/elwJNGS9aQ0?...

Ace Frehley youtu.be/L-4vMQOOiUY?...

Do I like change? No I do not like change. I'm not even comfortable when they change the font on an app I'm using. Don't think I don't notice that shit. The whole world is burning and I can't even have one constant on which to depend? Was it so much to ask?

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I’ve been noticing increasing numbers of young women being hauled out of their cars by ICE here in Chicago. Given that there is no ID and no warrant and unmarked vehicles, why are we not assuming that there is human trafficking going on here under the guise of “immigration enforcement”?

IQ tests are ableist and ill-equipped to allow all neurodivergent people to truly show where their intelligence lies. Dyslexia doesn’t make someone dumb, it just makes it harder for them to show that they’re smart.

just leaving this here www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

The loss of Keaton is a blow to any fan of 1970s cinema. So iconic. “It made my career,” she said of “Annie Hall.” “It was everything. It’s the reason we’re sitting here having this nice conversation. Everything always goes back to that.” #RIP

this is a crazy memory but I used to watch this as a little kid on a Disney Action Viewer with cartridge. I just came across it by accident and it was oddly comforting to see it again youtu.be/Gyhq4jnz_do?...

I’m sure my insomnia has nothing to do with the utter chaos in this country.

Just in case someone needs to hear or see it

felt

my comic book alter ego. apparently.

yesterday I learned that a man who strangles a woman is seven times more likely to later kill her. www.domesticshelters.org/articles/ide...

Don't go into tomorrow worried about how you are going to cope with it. Go into it knowing that you will cope with it, come what may. Knowing that you are a warrior, that you are worthy, come what may.

does MAGA read the Bible?

I was in art school at a time when it was chic to read Foucault and Derrida and Bachelard, and repeat quotes in critiques like: "wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones" which drove me mad because wolves don't live in shells

And if you don't (got this) It's Sunday. sleep and take it easy a bit. everything is a lot right now. rest is important too.

I heard Dr. Goodall speak when I was an undergraduate in the late 80s. I spoke to her afterward. Had to. I held on to her words and always will.

is it normal to be tired all the time

I don't think anyone is lol-ing when they say they are. not in this society

Day 30, #1: These Days A call to arms - Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe in excelsis. Consider your scales rearranged. #REMtop30 has been a blast; man-sized thanks to everyone taking part and to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for hosting. Happy throngs, take this joy wherever you go :-)

Now The Baseball Project, which is the same people but some of them are on different instruments this is very Gemini just saying

Watching Mike Mills and Peter Buck from REM and... other people I'm still trying to identify, sorry. They call themselves The Minus 5. livesessions.npr.org

Bob Mould and the Baseball Project on Mountain Stage. Chris Stamey too. www.youtube.com/live/SB3INwb...

My favorite Peter Sellers scene.

Release the Epstein files

I have eaten the mail that was in your mailbox and which you were probably planning to read Forgive me It was soothing So sensory And so soft

Be strong for those who cannot be. Be kind, but especially to those who seldom receive kindness. Be aware of your weaknesses, but also your strengths. Be smart, be brave, be loyal. In short, be a true warrior, and know I am proud to stand with you.