the situation in Iran is incredible right now, and I have no idea how this will pan out. at the same time, the hypocrisy & irony of Trump's posture on this is - even for him - shocking.

hard truths

Episcopalians going *hard*

tonight I am making a lamb chile stew because fuck it, I'm too angry and frustrated to be otherwise productive. here's the recipe (1/5): 3­-4 large pasilla chiles 2 anaheim chiles 1 jalapeno chile 1 serrano chile 2­-3 cups (8­-10) tomatillos 1 medium yellow onion, chopped 4 cloves garlic

If you are a veteran, this kind of visible presence at anti-ICE protests is really valuable. These clowns all want to play dress-up soldier, so actual soldiers mocking them to their faces is devastating.

looking forward to our own Mayor doing less mimicking of Trump, and more of Mamdani.

"I'm Not Stiller" by Max Frisch. 1st published 1954. transl. Michael Bullock.

One of the few who is saying what needs to be said.

in more good company

When George W Bush was President and people asked why they were doing illegal things a very common response was just that “things had changed” and the media just kind of accepted it and it’s remarkable how much the second Trump term is just a retread of the worst parts of that administration

You being on X does not take up space for fascists, racists or predators. You cannot physically remove them from a digital space. In fact, by being on it you just increase the value of that space. You make it a better space for them to be. They want the conflict and the attention.

Might have more donors if they did what's right

The Minneapolis pastor had observed "ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic" and insisted they take him instead of harassing her. An agent then “came, got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, ‘Are you afraid now?’” trib.al/CZ3Lff5

what do you call it when a rogue armed government agency tells an elected official they dont care if theyre breaking the law

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday.

Tzedek, tzedek tirdof. A critically important message in these troubled times.

It seems I now have good company in my peevish crusade to undo one of the now egregious mistakes of the post-9/11 GWOT brain melt.

Trumpism in one chart

The fact that JD Vance is the face of the administration’s attempts to smear Renee Good is noteworthy, because they always trot him out to defend whatever they know is indefensible. Both because he’ll say literally anything and because even they hold him in contempt.

He is a bit late to the game with this thought but it really does align with what I have been thinking and saying for quite some time now.

The metaphors are coming to me fast and furious.

thinking a lot lately about the divergence of people who feel it is most important to punish wrongdoers, and people who think the sanctity of life is an inviolable rule. And between the two, what makes us human.

Occam's razor is really underutilized in the punditry when dissecting the driving factors for the actions of the current administration.

as a nation we are making many of the same mistakes we made 20+ years ago, amped up & twisted. at my place of work, we are busy investing in making many of the same mistakes & efforts we made 10+ years ago, naively & without strategy. I feel like I cannot escape the cycle, no matter my own effort.

This was a photo I snapped last spring of a vermilion flycatcher I found it last week cleaning up last years files and couldn’t believe i missed it for instant processing Glad today’s #BirdOfTheDay gives me a chance to show #Feathers&Form off this beautiful bird in flight 📷🌿🪶

Your regular reminder that the Supreme Court’s opinion giving presidents criminal immunity is not a serious decision for a serious democracy. @brennancenter.org www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Ken Burns Announces New 10-Part ‘Mr. Biscuits’ Documentary After Adopting Cat https://theonion.com/ken-burns-announces-new-10-part-mr-biscuits-documentary-after-adopting-cat/

#SomethingBeautiful a little orange dragon from a medieval manuscript

It sounds like these goondas are being told that 18 U.S.C. 111 means they can arrest anyone who protests or “opposes” them. They seem to have missed the “forcibly” part. Also, not for nothing, but this crime is a misdemeanor www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Helpful short thread by Justin Wolfers. Scroll up to read the whole thing.

because I can freely download two different child pornography generating apps on Apple's App Store and the Google Play store, both very popular and highly ranked, I must conclude that Apple and Google endorse that activity

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

We're living in a fucking infomercial for fascism, and I am getting tired of it already. Not gonna buy. Don't want the free steak knives with purchase. [for those of you too young to recall the 30+ minute infomercial on late night tv, ask an elder in your home or community. It was hell.]

If Doge could dismantle USAID, VOA, OMB, CFPB, IRS and State, and decapitate the government infrastructure in a matter of weeks, the damned congress can dismantle DHS and do away with ICE when the democrats take the house and senate.

If you stop using a framing of "what cops have been trained to do" and instead frame with "what cops have been seeing on TV and in movies for decades;" and then recall that this is an administration governing as a reality TV show and content generator, it's not confusing or contradictory at all.

Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com

I glanced at this header and first read it as "Trump High on ICE, Global Power and His Health" and thought "yeah, high on his own supply is about right" but then I reread it correctly. The interview that would have been under my headline would've been way more interesting but reality is what it is.

There are a lot of ways to combat this line of argument with your Foxpilled family, but I think the simplest is: What parent would try to run over a cop and risk getting arrested when she had to pick up her kid from school?

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

I hope to have another 25 years of living and being and doing. I am disappointed to have to do it in a world being enthusiastically turned to dogshit by a handful of abusive chodes. this is an incredibly sad thought.

I spend so much time working to convince myself of my own humanity but now they are murdering the poets and I have no words what is this tribe and what gibbous rage inflates them no kin of mine #poetry

I hate it here. bsky.app/profile/seth...

I'm feeling the same sort of outrage & righteous fury I felt after the Charlie Hebdo murders 11 years ago. Like the Hebdo staff, Renee Good was murdered for challenging the forces of hatred. We should respond the same way we did 11 years ago. We should all be Renee Nicole Good. Je suis Renee.

woke up this morning with the pervasive thought in my head that as far as applied usage is concerned, there is no longer any daylight between “unitary executive,” “autocrat,” or “authoritarian.” The John Woos, Elliott Abramses, and Sam Alitos of our world put us on this path. Evil really is banal.

there is light outside flaring up in the window a distempered dawn #poetry #haiku

this is fucking insane.

66 organizations get the boot. absolutely wild.