The brilliant Tom Stoppard has died. Hard to fill his shoes the theater world.

Slava Ukraine... Fuck Putin...Fuck Krasnov...

There hasn't been enough attention to the "peace" plan offered Zelenskyy. It is so horrific, with such long term dangerous implications, it's hard to fathom. It's my hope that some normal Senate Republicans will step up & try to avert this. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?

Cuomo would be 69 as a first term House member

The new Mayor of New York City!

This is very good. MOAR PLEEZE.

Friends, with my whole heart I am begging you…if you share an article with us please 🙏 include a gift link. What’s the point of reading the headline and not being able to access the article? It’s cruel.

This is amazing!!

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

The sign wasn’t a gag.

This an awesome music video by scaredketchup. He has produce some of the greatest videos monking the Regime. Please support his work! youtube.com/watch?v=8w3o...

Sharing this brilliant bit of stitchery by an artist friend:

Lincoln at Cooper Union: "Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events." Sad how history repeats itself.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

so ICE is a jobs program for men who like to hit women and get away with it

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.⬇️