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Love to see a community come together when ICE Nazis show up to their neighborhood and send them packing ….👏👏👏👏 South Park neighborhood of San Diego

Trump is defying courts and ignoring the Constitution. That's why I'm taking to the streets on No Kings Day for a nationwide day of defiance. app.sosha.ai/s/4jWb7KnY

The Trump administration has begun firing appointees to the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Trump's handling of immigration drops underwater after Democrats fight back against ICE overreach and violations of civil liberties. app.sosha.ai/s/wSZYjhA4

I’m sorry, what?

Guys! I just found out that my story “Cruel to Be Kind,” which was published in December in the Dark Waters anthology, has been selected by Steph Cha and Don Winslow for The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025!

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

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Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄 Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.

I think this is a brilliant framing of this issue. If the government can send people to a third world country to a lifetime of involuntary servitude, that is slavery. Query whether this meets the “jurisdiction” requirement of the 13th Amendment (the officials sending them are!)

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

Having covered protests for the last quarter century or so I can tell you that this #handsoff happening extraordinary, and likely to build. (Oh, and that the big newspapers are acting typically clueless)

Too many members of Congress keep failing us. This isn’t just about bad nominees — it’s about treating this administration like the authoritarian threat it is and fighting back with every tool we’ve got: indivisible.org/campaign/tru...

People are taking things into their own hands

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor" #3E #EndOligarchy

Tell 'em Elvira!!

“The best thing about heroes is that they always win at the end. And if they aren’t winning, then it’s not the end.” —Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Kyiv

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

I'm Mar🐫 & I approve this message. 👍 #EcomomicBlackout (image by @donkoclock.bsky.social) 🙏

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

You can always count on ⁦‪ @aoc.bsky.social to bring it! "There's a fundamental math problem here. There is a constant reiteration of waste, fraud, and abuse." People are NOT disposable!

Even the lobsters get it. 😉 🇨🇦 @apnews.com apnews.com/article/main...

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Call your MOCs! Senator Murphy lays out exactly what is on the line. "There was a promise made to finance this tax cut with two trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid, poor kids, poor families, Medicare, seniors in this country." #DontCutOurMedicaid

Merriam-Webster for the win!

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

NEW: A military fighter jet has crashed into San Diego Bay. This is the 6th plane collision (and 2nd military collision) since Trump took office.

For those of you desperately in need of distraction from today's headlines, here's a photo of a bunny & a chick who are friends.

Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

Come one, come all to the #darkwaterspodcast this Saturday, January 18, from 8-10 pm EST, when several writers and I will be discussing our stories in the latest Dark Waters anthology! The link is www.crowdcast.io/c/41cfbz2vzafe