Everyone should read every word of this thread.

Today there was BIRDSONG, and SUNSHINE, and enough of both to suggest that winter might actually fuck off sometime.

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger." Man oh man that Emily could write.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

Everything is here

“What would you think To be thus used? This is the strangers’ case; And this your mountainish inhumanity.”

Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks. Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

Imagine. That would almost be like a republic with a Bill of Rights or some shit.

When your visiting son-in-law says he’ll bring some logs in ❤️

Trump on Monday called on Republicans to "take over" and "nationalize" voting as he continued to make false claims about the electoral process in the U.S. with the 2026 midterm elections on the horizon.

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This response to Trump announcing the Kennedy Center shut down is everything. A true tour de force.

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FLAG: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal ICE memo reviewed by NYT. The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they suspect are undocumented immigrants.

When Keystone Kash's FBI raided the Georgia election office, they not only took all the ballots and equipment, they also took the back-up images of the ballots. Taking the back-up images means that they can tamper with the ballots without anyone being able to prove they did it.

It’s almost a heresy not to adore the book, and I didn’t. Haven’t seen the play. I’ll see the film sometime.

I’d rather stick a red hot poker in my eyes than watch MELANIA, the Movie. How about you?

I cannot tell you how many people, including me, have been seriously screwed by this. Both sides deserve to be locked in a room without food, water, heat, or mercy until a deal can be reached.

‘“I know they are working on a game plan to make sure they are going to recalibrate or maybe work from a different direction to get back to what they wanted to do to begin with," he continues,’ Well thank God the Governor of Texas is showing some leadership

Democrats in the Senate must grow a spine. They can rein in this murderous regime next week. Why on Earth would they continue to fund this tyranny? Call your senators now: indivisible.org/campaigns/ho...

No. They do not "appear to" contradict it. They contradict it.

After the first shots are fired, the man collapses on the ground. Agents back away. At least another 5 shots are fired toward the man who is already incapacitated on the ground.

It’s insane that this “Board of Peace” is even happening. A corrupt, narcissistic president is trying to lead world leaders around by the nose. And the press foolishly tries to treat this farce like it’s some kind of normal diplomacy. It’s just Trump’s latest “reality” show, with him as the star

I've a friend fae Dundee who swears she once heard the following dialogue in the Blackness Road kerry-oot, between two firemen from the station at the bottom of the road and the server: - Eh'll hae peh. - Eh'll hae a brehdie. - Plenn ane orran ingin ane? - Mmn, a plenn ane an' an ingin ane an'a'.

‘That time, I thought, would never come.’ ‘Amundsen’ Alice Munro - in Dear Life (Vintage, 2012)

Five bucks to the first reporter to say to her “Hey, you know what? Go fuck yourself.”

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I had long tried to avoid using term Gestapo to refer to ICE. Now I'd be lying not to use it. This is from today. Look at how ICE agents try to block media from taking photos of their assault of the woman

a few further offerings against the prevailing terror flower basket bling (day 2)

Already happened www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

Glad this has been pointed out.

before murdering renee good, the ice goon was frightened for his life, we’re told It’s meant to justify the murder nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems

Every time I think I can’t get angrier, I find out that I can.

Feel like it shld be front page, 34-sized font headline news that the person who gave ~$250 million to Trump campaign and then was co-president for a few months, dismantling agencies and stealing Americans' data, built an AI tool that is being used for child porn. This Sept. piece is instructive

This is like when someone hears you’re from Long Island and asks if you know Bill from Ronkonkoma.

Happy New Year youtu.be/dbnsIydaYYg

Mine too. What is that?

My older brother, this Christmas season, set himself the task of organizing my mother‘s holiday recipes and testing out, for the first time in many years, all of her cookies. He started simply, with the sugar cookies, cut using her cutters into all the familiar shapes, iced with her trademark…

I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

😢🚨✊ “This document proves if the FBI had done its job in 1996, Epstein’s decades-long sex trafficking operation could have been stopped at the outset... the FBI’s negligence allowed Epstein to continue abusing hundreds of girls and young women for nearly 25 more years.” thehill.com/homenews/adm...

The volunteers got their steps in yesterday 🙂 - so proud of the finished result of our hard work. ❤️

What is writing style? It's what's left over once you've outgrown clichés and you no longer ape the work of those who've served as inspiration. Using ai short-circuits that process entirely. Go ahead and do it, I guess, but don't tell us you've done any real work.

"We are going to reverse every renaming, pull down the gold leaf, and rebuild the East Wing" should not be the Democrats' main 2028 plank, but there are worse things to run on. It's one of those visuals you can actually start executing in Week One. Do it, put it on TV, rub it in, hurt some feelings.

Amazing, but don’t let it divert us from the other teeny orange toadlet currently occupying the White House