Federal prosecutors urged the court to sentence Vance Boelter to two life prison terms ahead of his sentencing for the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

When disrespectful clods desecrate, they also destroy the ability for pros to actually see little things they are trained to notice. Like Heinrich Schliemann who dug thru & tossed aside layers of history & potential learnings till he found gold, these amateurs are destroyers of worlds - literally!

The American memoir "Mailman" was a really great book. Loved it. Now we have a Canadian book about a Montreal garbageman - which I intend to read after "I deliver parcels in Beijing" #books www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816578...

Hegseth is a choking-on-liquid-bronzer idiot, but the people who buy into his stupidity are worse.

I get the worry. I do think the instant language translation via your glasses is cool & useful though.

Another wonderful bit of news. Generosity and kindness live on.

Jeez, 😂, I thought it would take minimum of 2 weeks before the bashing began, but 1 DAY! A record.

"Less urgency is felt about the rest of the world’s plummeting faith in America." True. "Yet America still acts as if it were the most admired place on earth." Depends on the Americans, but yes, some, perhaps many, do. "Mistrust is thus a synonym for incompetence" Also the blatant criminality.

I love this! Baby spinach and salmon rule. The perfect lunch year round - avocado, maybe a hard boiled egg on the side & some lentils if it is super cold outside. Gonna have to try the pumpkin seeds and watercress.

Sweet post of the morning. 🥰

If the remaining GOP for T Rump voters can't see how this shows how criminally wasteful, incompetent & possibly/probably corrupt this is - what would it take? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Massachusetts have sent firefighters to Canada to aid them with the wildfires. We help our neighbors. Not threaten them with tariffs!

My doc said I have the blood pressure of a teenager so those of you who scorn tea as somehow pinky fingered dainty can kiss their own cortisol. Mine doesn't exist. 🧘‍♀️

Nice job, state AGs of NY, California, and Colorado!

Connects a lot of my dots...they all spawned out of the same goo and, still stuck, pull it with them wherever they goo.

Trump's own file release tonight says Russia was working to attack Biden and boost Trump's re-election campaign.

This gentleman echos my comments today. It is so important to let Ukraine know that we see this & this matters.

I didn't know FDR's dad was a philanthropist & hands-on charity volunteer, though it makes sense. He worshipped his dad & tried to emulate him where possible. Maybe that's why Eleanor appealed as a partner. What I found more surprising is that his mother grew up in a slave owning southern family.

Yet again Russias rulers show their depravity by deliberately attacking & murdering civilians while Ukraine targets buildings & business that supply that murder. The difference is stark, takes amazing courage & self-restraint on Ukraine's part, & cannot be ignored. It matters.

Bummer, have often bought the bags of taylor farm baby spinach until I moved to the pound boxes. No sickness experienced from it nor from the string beans. This whole sad event makes the impact of losing such vast numbers of independent farms across the country so clear.

Go Democrats❣️ Art for the people.

I lov😍 Velázquez❣️

England & France giving everybody a boost. Nice.

Lupita is gorgeous, end of story.

I happily voted for Kamala and don't regret it. Guess what, I can feel that way while still finding the smears against Biden distasteful & defend him.

Interesting reminder of that war's complexity. I would just note that nothing in the review was new to me because while *popular memory* in the USA is greatly shaped by film & entertainment, that is not where I have gotten my history. I understand how that happens, though.

Project Hail Mary on Prime is a very clever & entertaining ad for the useful forms of AI as well as space travel aimed at 1 part educating and 3 parts persuading. Done very very well. It's also pretty woke. 😘

The most important thing to remember about Trump’s press conference last night is that the war in Iran is still out of control, gas prices are still through the roof, and the administration is still hiding the Epstein files from the American people.

‪The Getaway v1972 - McQueen: wrinkled/sexy as hell & a formidable star. Frantz - w/Paula Beer my new fav. Project Hail Mary - Ryan Gosling made us laugh from start to end. Stella: a life- Paula again - she's great, actors are great, but the book is waaaay better. Read it. #LetterboxdFriday

Loved her in My Left Foot. Such heart.

Thiel always sounds to me like what used to available only on late night/early morning radio when I was a kid. I had a friend who used to call up & give them grief & they'd ask how old she was (13) & then hang up on her when she asked what bearing that had on her opinion. Shades of Greta. 💪

I'm immediately suspicious of the supposedly organic "trends" feature when I see massive amts of the same Carney bashing junk by the same idiot types that go after Democrats. ps, I don't always agree with Carney, but blaming him for the worldwind of sht Trump sent Canada's way is ludicrous. 🙄

Second unnecessary blunder he has made in the space of 60 days, in my opinion.

“If we want to think in any kind of consequential way about the present and the future, we have no choice but to take Musk seriously—if not as a man, then as a manifestation of a cultural-political malaise.” —@mrkocnnll.bsky.social

Sen. Booker to Todd Blanche: "Your nomination should fail. The Attorney General's client is not the president, it's the American people. You've been protecting one person for most of your career…You should not be confirmed to this job."

The dirty air is heading south as we speak. A reminder that all we humans are in it together. Be careful Toronto. 😷

Whoever came up with the idea of cherry crumble tea gets a thank you. Human progress at it's breakfast finest.

I think that the humanities, as well as archeology, can take a person who feels isolated in their own time to a realization that there were people before who felt the same way, & there will be - should we survive as a species - people after in a similar boat. I am not a traditionalist, but... 1/2

An amazing miniature portrait of the #Roman empress Agrippina Minor (15-59 AD), made from chalcedony. Agrippina was the mother of Nero, and married to her uncle, emperor Claudius. It was rumoured that she poisoned her husband with a dish of mushrooms. 📷 me

"Senate Democrats blocked a $1.15 trillion Pentagon policy bill on Tuesday, as the sprawling legislation became a casualty in the monthslong fight to rein in President Donald Trump on Iran. The National Defense Authorization Act fell well short of the 60 votes needed to advance to the Senate floor.

People often blame the press for where we are now. I don't. I blame the entertainment industry that has sucked the bottom feeders of the press into their bs orbit.

I am not afraid of a stronger europe. I think europe should be afraid of a stronger europe. They've killed more of each other than we stinky horrible arrogant generous americans ever have. I keep hearing things will never be the same between us. Stop gloating that'a not an insult; that's a shame

Lyndsey Graham on Joe Biden per Hunter: ‘If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.’” Maga boys go after Joe cause they rather BS around with the 10 commandments on a wall than follow them.

Less like a divorce and more like one spouse telling another spouse to get a job so they can afford to eat out like they used to. I have been turned off by the virulent anti-Americanism I have seen that has impacted my sympathies. It's not just the US that will need to show remorse.

I was going to say, prior to reading this, that it is obviously an age thing. But I am not sure this is entirely accurate: "The party is split between a radicalised younger vote, which is increasingly Maga-like in tactics and tone, and an ageing establishment that is short of ideas." No. 1/2

Those patriots who stormed the Bastille cut off the head of the governor of that empty building with a knife from his own lunch table. Guess they practiced *start as you mean to continue* seriously. France needed to rebel big time, but once I learned that I was less enthusiastic about the day.

I haven't been to the glorious Met in awhile, & planned a trip soon to visit some of my favorite in the ancient world halls. I admit feeling some trepidation that my beloved great hall has been so drastically, & detrimentally, altered as per the article. It was so elegant. 🤞 it's not that bad.

It is difficult to be both an informed person & a cheerful one. It is also difficult to express a genuine opinion that is in contrast to that of the media cliques. One must always praise whomever they praise, & bash whomever they bash. I prefer to think & judge for myself. "All is seeming."

So sorry to read Sam Neill has passed. I thought he'd beat it. "My Brilliant Career" with Judy Davis, the excellent series "Reilly, Ace of Spies", & a star turn in "Peaky Blinders" are favorites.😘 Sam walked by me in a restaurant one day, he was shorter than me & rather messy looking. #swoon.

One of my favorite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume. Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD. 📷️ Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln