Great Hollow Beach in the rain.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

In memory. Photo by Joe Schuyler.

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

Umm … it’s pretty stupid.

Can y'all please report this impersonator? Thanks! bsky.app/profile/muel...

I lost my beloved Fergus one year ago today. A sweet, shy but loyal companion, his name was taken from Yeats' poem. I was crushed to lose him then, but the feeling of sadness and loneliness without him has grown sharper over time. Miss you, my sweet orange boy....

Why did he have to be President again? He could've spent his waning days making corrupt real estate deals in Saudi Arabia, topping off the gilt at Mar a Lago, celebrating in the company of women with balloon breasts, tattooed eyebrows & rubber lips & cheating at golf. Epstein would've stayed buried.

Honest question: if the White House arranges a pardon or shortened sentence for Maxwell in exchange for her providing the desired testimony, how will MAGA react? Will that successful quiet the issue? Or inflame it?

Heard Sen. Booker's impassioned speech before joining all his fellow Democrats in walking out of the Judiciary Cmte hearing over the stampede to move Bove's nomination forward. Sadly, he was appealing to Grassley's decency and humanity, qualities which, in the age of Trump, have utterly vanished.

Sickening.

“This should be the final straw for us, America. Compassionate human beings should not tolerate this. Men and women of every faith should be unequivocally condemning this. People of conscience and morality should be unable to sleep...” open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United. Repost if you agree.

Couldn't resist.

Detained after an ICE check-in on the morning of July 9. His services at Children’s Hospital include spiritual care and emotional support for patients and their families and end of life decision making. This is a man who responds to coding children and comforts them and their families as they die.

I just heard on MSNBC that Netanyahu has composed a letter to the Nobel Committee recommending that Trump receive the prize. I feel like I'm in crazy land.

Donald is currently laser-focused on the flooding deaths in Texas and taking care of the survivors.

Yesterday's walk. A respite from all the discouraging news of the day.

Sad to read on Bluesky a number of posts from people ostensibly on the left justifying or championing their 2024 votes (either voting for Trump or refusing to vote in protest) even as we experience the devastating, wide-ranging consequences of the results.

#BLUEPEEPS! We need to get this into the hands of as many people as possible please repost this as often as you can thank you

Estimated 10,000 in Albany, NY. Great positive energy everywhere you looked. Just thrilling.

Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse. Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

Just got denied a real ID. My marriage license, which I've used for 57 years to get an updated SS card, a passport, a NYS license, and everything else where proof was required wasn't considered satisfactory. I had a mountain of other proofs of identity but now I'm too suspicious to get on a plane.

President Zelensky became the first foreign leader to meet the newly inaugurated Pope Leo XIV

I was reading the comments on a local news article about Medicaid cuts and a Missouri woman called having access to healthcare a “lifestyle” that isn’t meant for folks who can’t afford it. I have never read anything more sad, or American, in my life…

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ICE agents in Worcester, Massachusetts arrested a mother outside of her home with her newborn baby and 16 year old daughter. The 16 year old stood in front of the ICE vehicle holding the baby. She handed the baby to a neighbor & fled. Police caught up to her, in a heartbreaking scene.⬇️

Sigh....it never seems to end.

ANDRE KERNS on FB: Genealogist Jari Christopher Honora just shared that Pope Robert Francis Prevost descends from Louisiana Creoles of color through his grandmother, Louise Baquie (born New Orleans, 1868), and Haitian ancestry through his grandfather, Joseph Martinez (born Port-au-Prince, 1864).

One monstrous action after another:

Military service members don’t deserve to be told they can’t serve in certain roles because they are “Black or gay or a woman” by “a washed-up Fox TV commentator.” - Gov Pritzker 🔥🔥

RFK Jr’s comments over the past week have me feeling a certain kind of way 🤬 Add RFK Jr’s appointment of David Geier, and you have a real life nightmare. It’s so much worse than I think the majority of people can grasp. The best video I’ve found that explains in detail by @perezbrenna.bsky.social

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

Nice, very exuberant crowd at the State Capitol in Albany, NY.

The GOP-led Senate has these powers: 1) Cease all future deportations & payments to El Salvador's gulag. 2) Impeach and convict Trump of high crimes and remove him from office. 3) Arrest and try Miller, Homan, Noem and Rubio. Failing to take these steps shows they are on board with all that follows.

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Inch by inch, the Senate Republicans are starting to reclaim their power to regulate tariffs. But we mustn't forget they were mute about extrajudicial kidnapping, firing all women & people of color from military leadership, voter suppression, targeting trans people, etc. They're still monsters.

Next? Decimating the entire health agency.

Well, well, well......Looks like Trump is nervous that his unpopularity and the outrage of voters around the country might threaten the GOPs House majority. So upstate NYers (and the rest of the country) will be saddled with Stefanik for a bit longer.

Sadist Personality Disorder never exists in isolation. It’s always accompanied by sociopathy/psychopathy (ASPD).

Back in the F.D. Roosevelt era, Vice President John Nance Garner said the vice presidency wasn't "worth a bucket of warm piss" (which the media bowdlerized into "a bucket of warm spit"). Today we've got a vice president who isn't worth a bucket of piss at any temperature.

So frustrated as a New York Stater that both my so-called Dem Senators voted for the cloture bill. (Gillibrand also voted to confirm Scott Bessent, who has turned out to be reckless and very dangerous.) What good is it hailing from a Blue state if our leadership is going to vote like Republicans?

It continues to amaze me that any member of the Supreme Court is willing to show their face in public, as even the sane ones realize they are part of an iteration of a hundreds-of-years-old institution that not only does no one respect but no one should, and that will soon oversee the end of America

Trump and Vance are federal employees who've been on the job only since early January, rendering their status provisional. They should be fired; any projects they have initiated cancelled, and security should give them 3 hours to clean out their desks. Thoughts & prayers. Unemployment awaits.