who can forget the famous Boston Tea Party, in which a bunch of Boston's Finest gathered to sip on some tea after cracking the skulls of some dirty hippies who dared protest the King

The whole interview is worth it

Also, neither Republicans nor Democrats as a political party are a protected group of people that need to be coddled. You can be harsh with the people you vote for and even the people you don’t. A lot of folks don’t understand democracy. That’s partly how we got here.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

BTS’ “ARIRANG” becomes the first album to debut directly at #1 on the Spotify Global Countdown Chart since the chart’s creation, breaking records before its official release. (cr: Spotify/TheePopCore)

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Anyway going to Florida I guess

Exhausted despite finally getting *some* sleep last night, perimenopausal night sweats keeping me up the last week or so. Stressed about BTS ticketing. There was an issue with my car insurance getting my renewal to the MVA and they're threatening my tags. I have a very short fuse today, don't test.

the room is so silent for Trump's lie-fest in Davos that you could hear someone fart

From Blaine: "Grandparents were about to go outside for a walk. They came into our home ... My brother asked for a warrant. They showed a “warrant”, it was on a phone. He asked to see if it was signed by a judge they ignored him. They then only took my father and shoved him in the car and drove off"

listen you absolutely *know* ICE is gonna show up to those stadium shows in jersey and boston, k-pop stans you could make preemptive strikes

Honestly can still not believe BTS are coming to my home town, feels like a fever dream.

I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?

New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

If the media keeps treating this as normal I don’t know how we all don’t end up just as whacked out after 3 more years of it.

They're bragging. That's why they released the video.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Ahhh it was lovely to spot Enchanting the Fae Queen in this @bookriot.bsky.social list: bookriot.com/new-romance-... Only 2-1/2 weeks until pub day! #romancelandia

Krista *will* bite.

I have to say, as a man with two mothers, I find the derisive deployment of language like "lesbian" and "lover" by those on the far right who are trying to justify Renee Good's death particularly disgusting and dehumanizing. These women. They are wives. They are a family. That's it.

I'm still very much here. I fear I will be stuck here until BTS promo starts or the world gets better, whichever comes first (spoiler: it's BTS promo).

Forgot to post this here the other day but I finally reassembled the last of my lego flowers from when I moved over the summer. Got a little vase for them so they stay in place better.

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

I try to stay off the book of facists, I mean Facebook, but one of my friends summoned me to argue with some douchecanoe in the comments on another friends post so I did what I had to do. Duty calls.

We've actually been an empire for a long time now though.... :/

They're trying to escalate. They're trying to start something so they can put it down violently. Why else would she say stuff like this?

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

I made a very pretty online store where you can buy my ebooks (and a couple of audiobooks) direct from me, so that the money goes directly towards treats of my three cats and two dogs. Supporting me supports corgis. payhip.com/kristadball

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

This is a terrible timeline how do we reset?

BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability. But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down. They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Y'all I want to cry but I'm also terrified of the ticketing wars about to come.

After 3+ years of being a fan. Finally my first group comeback!! Let's gooooooo!

Here's a cat picture for a break in your timeline. I'll probably add a couple more during the day.

Well 2026 got to being 2026 in a big damn hurry didn't it

YESSSS

I feel like the entire BTS fandom is bracing for midnight in Korea to hit to see if we get an official comeback announcement 😅😂

This is my life since Sunday. #bts

@kristadb1.bsky.social the jacket I embellished at the beginning of ghe year. Hand sewn badly because I am not great at sewing and I have a hate hate relationship with my sewing machine 😅

Fantastic album all around.

Oh sorry one last thing about openAI and co: consider they might be trying to push ai into everything because they need to recoup their (enormous) investment. And at some point they'll need to make people actually pay for ai use. Like, pay lots of