One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This morning, Alex Pretti was shot and killed in Minneapolis by a group of Border Patrol agents after filming them. Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the VA who helped critically ill veterans. Alex's colleagues say he was a wonderful man

Another murder. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should have whipped those last 7 votes.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

We are now 30 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

trust the universe cold white days are not endless ice will melt in spring #haiku

Whatever the boss was announcing, the reaction from our co-workers was immediate. There was a murmur, followed by a swell of voices. More clamor than hubbub. Definitely agitated. I shot Muriel a look. We edged further back into the supply closet and armed ourselves with staplers. #vss365 - MURMUR

hawk and birdfeeder among the uninvited nuthatch not for you #haiku

like fetch to wave height long halls make tall dust bunnies then they multiply #haiku

I like to think I'm playing the long game, that working as Devon's assistant is a shrewd way of eventually moving sideways, up, and away from their petty bullshit. I'll stoop to conquer. I'll take notes, get coffee, fetch and carry. My vision board is way taller than it's wide. #vss365 - STOOP

You'd say kooky. I'd say quirky. Either way, Claude's an odd duck. He's that duck that doesn't like water and only wants to fly on three-day weekends. He's self aware enough to know he's a duck. But that's where it ends. Don't expect a quack. Don't wait for webbed feet at your door. #vss365 - KOOKY

thaw between two snows what's frozen cannot absorb puddles on the lawn #haiku

january thaw reminder that winter ends just not soon enough #haiku

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

black sticks on white snow cuneiform on the cheap winter what say you #haiku

Two years later, I saw the movie, Gregory's Girl, and immediately recognized how the switcheroo Dorothy and Susan pull on Gregory in the film is like what had happened with me, Pam, and Mindy in ninth grade. Clueless, each and every one of us. But, as always, me even more so. #vss365 - CLUELESS

"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

kitchen the next day champagne flutes on the counter calendar unwrapped #haiku

Their credence in vaccination fell victim to their love of conspiracy, their need for anger, their desire for villains, their delight in victimhood, and the warm comfort of their bubble. Measles didn't give a damn what they thought. It just returned, bubbles be damned. #vss365 - DELIGHT

"The mailman knew before I did. Dani first told me she loved me on a postcard sent from Myrtle Beach. Not a postcard of the beach. It was a generic, next-to-the-Gideon-Bible postcard from her room at the Holiday Inn. Two days to get to me. Love doesn't travel that fast any more." #vss365 - TRAVEL

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

blue jay on white snow where's your usual cronies hangin' with juncos #haiku

It isn't the bad decision itself that weighs you down. What if it isn't a disaster? What if it isn't as heavy as you think? Even rocks can float, you know. A piece of pumice can be so light and full of air that huge rafts of rock float away from an island volcano. #vss365 - AIR

white Christmas fleeting last night's snow is gone by noon what we used to know #haiku

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

I think these "before and after" images of post-release DOJ Epstein document redactions may have gone by too quickly last night and people may have missed seeing examples of how the DOJ is hiding Trump's name.

"Any regrets?" "A few. Not noticing Susan and Nanci in high school. Everything I did from age 18 to 22. Not traveling more. Watching the tenth season of American Horror Story. Oh, and that French bread pizza that burned the roof of my mouth last night. Nothing serious." #vss365 - REGRET

"I seem to recall you married Rick right out of high school." "And that went about as well as might expect." "Kids?" "Not with him. He bailed as soon as I got into the university. But I got a degree, dyed my hair red, and haven't looked back." "And Rick?" "Third wife seems nice." #vss365 - RECALL

countdown to solstice us wrapped in blanket darkness when the light returns #haiku

Trump says we need to go after drug cartels. Meanwhile, he disbanded a DOJ task force that took them on. And he pardoned a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking. Trump doesn't care about drugs — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy. It's a power grab.

Amen.

falcon's side-eye stare sparrows try to wait him out cold beneath a bush #haiku

"Either my mother sang me lullabies or she didn't. It's not as if I remember either way. It's more that I can't imagine her even doing it. I can't picture her holding a baby. There's no memory, of course. But also, there aren't even photos. That's the kicker." #vss365 - MEMORY

KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through. CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM —no KOSA —do not repeal Section 230 —no online digital ID laws —no age verification laws CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet

I continue to be baffled by @warren.senate.gov on these Internet bills.

Strange that House Republicans weren't able to solve this problem in a two hour meeting after procrastinating for all of 2025 and generally failing to come up with a health care plan for the last 16+ years

leaves in the gutter now frozen too late to clean winter wins again #haiku

"Bewitched? I'd say I was more bothered and bewildered. Anna's more like a stink bomb thrown in a unlit china shop and the floor's covered in marbles. You suspect she turned out the lights. You know she dropped the marbles. It makes her interesting, I admit. But..." #vss365 - BEWITCHED

"...launching a violent government purge of immigrants is even more ludicrously monstrous when it happens in New Orleans." Make their lives hell, NOLA.

"She never got my birthday right. Always a month early or late." "If it's any consolation, she never remembered mine at all." "Worst grandma ever." "She made a good homemade egg nog." "And she let us watch 'Buffy' and 'Ren & Stimpy' when we slept over." "Explains so much." #vss365 - CONSOLATION

no holiday cards that custom faded away now our mantel's bare #haiku

nighttime palimpsest dark shape where our shed once stood torn down yesterday #haiku

guess it's afternoon leave first footprints in the park sundial under snow #haiku

Randy was that guy in college who read Siddhartha and then decided to wanted to become a mystic. He tried Sufism. Then he dabbled in Kabbalah. Last I heard, he was practicing tantric sex with a dish-faced girl named Pug in a yurt someplace in West Virginia. #vss365 - LAST

"See that ol' moon? She just keeps comin'. This month like last month, year after year. Don't matter what the politicians do. Don't matter what we do to this here Earth. Nothing matters to that ol' moon. That's why I like her. She dependable like your Mama." #vss365 - MATTERS

racing to the ground snowflake falling through warm air must see it coming #haiku

Maybe it's not such a great thing that humans can pass the Mirror Test. We look at our reflections and know they're us. An orca can do that. A magpie. But that flat, flipped image we see isn't what others see. We can't know that view, see us walk in space. #vss365 - REFLECTION

Average electricity cost increase since Jan: Missouri ⬆️ 37% Iowa ⬆️ 30% North Dakota ⬆️ 30% Oklahoma ⬆️ 30% New Jersey ⬆️ 27% Nebraska ⬆️ 25% Montana ⬆️ 25% Wyoming ⬆️ 23% NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11% Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.