"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com. I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team. Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

Drop 💙 and repost if you stand with Stephen Colbert

A national treasure. NOW DO COLBERT!

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Meet your new knitting companion! 🧶 Find Happy Sleepy™ on Ravelry today! www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Yeah that sounds about right

good job chat we successfully bullied a major corporation to the point that the late night host they canned is making jokes about it in his return monologue american fascism versus the cancel subscription button: who will win

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

LOL

Never. Change. Your. Last. Name.

New from @miriamwasser.bsky.social: A federal judge ruled on Monday that work can resume on Revolution Wind, a large and nearly complete offshore wind farm near Rhode Island. Construction on the project had been halted since Aug. 22, when the Trump administration issued a stop-work order.

oh fuck holy shit?

no one needs a Disney+ subscription to watch Jimmy Kimmel. If you have cable, you have a local ABC affiliate. Or, some wire and tinfoil on your roof should work, too. Finally, YouTube.

in point of fact, FDR’s open line of communication with black leaders like A. Philip Randolph absolutely strained his relationships with southern lawmakers and he did it anyway under the view that he was president for the whole country

god be like: dog is this true

Two sourdough beauties fresh out of the oven. Can't wait to tear into them! #breadsky 🍽️🍜

Had a fantastic bike ride today and am drinking up every last gasp of summer. The temps are perfect, just the slightest of breeze, and our raven familiars are demanding afternoon peanuts. Everything is terrible except this little spot, right here, right now.

The upside of rapture via: www.greenberg-art.com/.Toons/.Toon...

they are telling on themselves. If they fear the sunlight, then they have something to fear. Perhaps this will reduce the number of corrupt police officers and hold all of them accountable to the citizens who employ them.

Wow. Rep. Sean Casten sees the primary audience for messaging as "Republicans in DC". The audience is not primarily "the American people" or voters.

Not linking directly so as to deny him the direct engagement but this view is fundamentally wrong. The die-hard MAGAts don't care about you and they aren't going to change their minds. This is about standing up for what's right and championing those who are otherwise left behind. They vote, too.

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so that was an absolutely bonkers F1 qualifying. race tomorrow should be interesting #BakuGP

this is clearly two pigs that smell something REALLY good

I no longer carry a Thomas Guide in my car. And there's now at least one generation who doesn't know how to navigate using one - or be able to recite coherent directions (including visual landmarks). NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

Welsh born textile artist and knitwear designer Kate Jenkins creates fun crochet/knit creations #WomensArt

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 20th 2025) in less than 11 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

TODAY IS THE BEST DAY!

after a lot of procrastinating, I finally started R.F. Kuang's "Babel" yesterday. Now nearly 200pp into the book and it's delightful. An author who knows her subject matter and writes with empathy and a wry humor - what's not to love? there's no way, NO WAY, AI ever writes this well.

tonight's dinner brought to you by the fine people at @ranchogordo.bsky.social. quick-cooking black caviar lentils for our favorite vegan bolognese. No onions, no celery, but we made do with chard, carrots, and an embarrassment of mushrooms. so very, very good. 🍽️ 🍜

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

Reportedly, Hulu’s site is crashing from all the cancellations.

why is anyone still subscribing to The Washington Post?

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, on Thursday, alleging that the company willingly misleads consumers about ticket prices and cooperates with scalpers to markup resale prices.

This is one of the most important posts of the day.

Good morning from raven central.

It's this

I gotta say, this heat wave is shaping up to be absolutely delightful. Sun is out but not too hot and the breeze off the ocean is keeping tennis reasonable. Finally, we are getting a bit of summer. Right now, in this place, life is good.

“…but some of us will still carry on the light.”

> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧

“what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize?” - Ta-Nehisi Coates archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

Solid headline writing from the AP apnews.com/article/trum...

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

just rocked up to CVS and got my COVID + flu shot. In and out in all of 10 minutes, big smiles from the person doing the jabbs, and ZERO COPAY. why yes, I'll be heading back for my pneumonia and HepB in a month or two. because vaccines keep everyone safe.

This is so, so important. I had a boss who would privately reprimand colleagues who were doing, frankly, terrible things. And tell me, privately, that she'd done so when I asked. Unsurprisingly, it changed nothing about their behavior and encouraged others to do the same. Throw. The. Elbow.

County fairs are where you see the real world. This is where we connect with each other.

good morning from day (checks calendar) ELEVEN of dense fog/99% RH. the dehumidifier gave us another 2g of water overnight (8h) and the house is down to ~55% RH so that's better. still more to do, though. and I know the sun is just .... over there ....

Wine Reviewer: There's a great deal of restraint on the nose of this bottling, which shows crushed rocks, apple flesh and a hint of lime. The palate continues a similar track, as apple skins cut through the Asian pear core, with a firm tension throughout. WTF DOES THIS EVEN MEAN?!?!