I am embarrassed that she is one my senators.

Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.

It's unfathomable to me that there is a group of people, leading our country, who are APPEALING the ruling that, yes, you have to feed the people you serve. You can't just let them starve because you feel like it. Rank evil that shakes some of my beliefs about humanity, frankly.

women to the rescue

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

Wow

BREAKING: Democrat Ghazala Hashmi elected Lt. Gov of Virginia, making her the first Muslim woman elected to statewide office anywhere in America.

Montgomery Schnauzer P.I. spotted in popular #yaletown gathering place, Bosley's by @petvalu.bsky.social - No trick, just gimme the treat! - #kidlit #dogdetective

@matthewjdowd.bsky.social from1935!

GOP: I can't believe Dems are trying to stop us from taking away your healthcare. Just for that, no food for you.

on this day in 1892 Ida B. Wells first publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

You still want to believe the political fuel that powers the American collapse into authoritarianism isn't the deep, abiding resentment of white men who pine for an America that sees and services only them? Gaze upon Leni Riefenstahl's recent work for Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Labor.

Plotting our next National Park coast-to-coast road trip, but since it won’t come until June, I would expect there might be one or two shorter adventures along the East Coast this winter.

I am a @peterbakernyt.bsky.social fan, however, that last sentence in his post is just more weak sauce by mainstream media.

Whatever this is every day seems like a combination of Baghdad Bob and the Five O’Clock Follies

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” 🍁 Khalil Gibran

I dunno. Something about all the pics from yesterday. The big zoomed out ones with endless speckles of humans. Close ups on individual participants. I don’t know where we go to upend the fascism and fix the damage, but feels like something.

#NoKings Miami!

Nauset Light, Eastham, Cape Cod. This will be our new neighborhood, beginning December 1.

Loved this excerpt of Gary Ferguson's THE TWILIGHT FOREST in @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Ponderosas offer, he writes, "a feeling of being sheltered—a sense that even when the world is dark there are places you can go to feel some measure of belonging." orionmagazine.org/article/twil...

"“We got 27 historical markers around town. We have so much history. When you sit there and you listen to all the history that’s here in this town, it’s incredible."

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

@msnbc.com, you could really use these kinds of insights that @matthewjdowd.bsky.social regularly shares.

True words from one of the better public lands-based accounts: “Public lands need support now more than ever.”

Pope Leo yesterday: “Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life, someone who says that ‘I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,’ I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

National Congress of American Indians" "Wounded Knee Was Not a Battle. It Was the Deliberate Mass Killing of 350 Lakota." nativenewsonline.net/currents/nca...

Because Democrats prosecuted Republicans for crimes they committed (to be precise, there was probable cause), it's only fair that Republicans prosecute Democrats for crimes they didn't commit. Do I have that right?

“US Tourism Sector Hit Hard By Collapse In Canadian Travel, With Border States Like New York And Michigan Experiencing Historic Losses” 9/23/25 … 1/

Hakeem Jeffries twisting a huge dial labeled “appeasement” back and forth as he anxiously looks out at a crowd of consultants, waiting for them to boo or clap

First week of autumn in NH’s White Mountains.

Someone asked me recently what we do about #science stories that are lost or destroyed or buried. I was lucky to have diaries to reconstruct this story; what if we don't? I said art - fiction, plays, poems - have a lot of power to take fragments and show how things might have been, or could be.

YOUR BOSTON RED SOX ARE POSTSEASON BOUND!

To add to this, in 1990, both house of Congress, under President Bush, passed a resolution expressing "deep regret" for Wounded Knee. Anyone who takes pride in what happened there is a scumbag of the highest order.

Rick Moranis officially returns to acting in first photo from 'Spaceballs' sequel table read featuring a cast reunion with Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, and more.

Add one more to the list. Canceled this afternoon after subscribing for close to a decade.

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Dutch late night TV has its take

WASH POST: “Trump has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks… including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

So what are the lessons we're going to be sagely told we need to learn about respectful political discourse now that we are reasonably sure that Charlie Kirk's assassination stemmed from a battle between two factions of the extremist right?

One of the last reasons I watched @msnbc.com was because of @matthewjdowd.bsky.social. Alas, the network is who I thought they were: weak and cowardly. Dowd did nothing wrong and spoke eloquently and truthfully. It’s more important than ever to have stand-up individuals. Shame on the network.

@msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com When will journalists stand up and tell the truth that Pres Donald J Trump is the chief fomenter of violent disgusting language that leads to violence? Why is truth-telling punished? Shame on MSNBC. @matthewjdowd.bsky.social

Hello, canyon. I've missed you!

happy bday writer Hilda Doolittle, wrote under H.D., b.1886, Bethlehem, PA. “We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.”

We did it. We had a book launch! Lots of people came, incl. some lovely kids who have the 1st book & came for the 2nd ❤️📚 And we got mobbed by a gang of 4 schnauzers! I think it went well. #kidlit

When your hotel not only welcomes dogs—at no extra fee—but also is a Lord of the Rings fan!

To study the decline of reading, @TheEconomist analyzed nearly 250 years of presidential inaugural addresses using the Flesch-Kincaid test. Washington’s scored 28.7, a postgraduate level, while Trump's scored 9.4, the reading level of a high-schooler. www.economist.com/culture/2025...

“You have to look with new eyes…” What a theme on the way out of this broken America darkness, @matthewjdowd.bsky.social. Brilliant and hopeful thesis on @nicollewallace.bsky.social this afternoon on where we have to go and what we have to do to clean up our democracy.

again i will say this today, the greatest threat to democracy, individual freedoms, and most citizens personal safety is not islam, socialism or wokeism, or someone's sex or sexuality. The greatest threat today is "christian" nationalism.