I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Yep. This is Laramie!

Bruce Springsteen on Amazon Music music.amazon.com/artists/B000...

Just in case you need to decompress a little bit this morning, here's a photo of the clouds clearing off Sandia Peak. Also, FUCK ICE.

Because it helps prevent a layer of ice from forming underneath the snow.

James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.

It's about the 2026 elections. 😡

Via Nina Harlan Kohl

"Exactly. One louder. Why don't you just make 10 louder and make 10 be the top number and make that a little louder?" youtu.be/uMSV4OteqBE?...

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Five years after the Jan. 5 pipe bombs nearly changed history, the #FBI finally has a suspect. What they also uncovered is the hypocrisy at the heart of Trump’s Jan. 6 rewrite. #uspolitics #PamBondi #danbongino open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Trump turned the Kennedy Center Honors into a 30-minute monologue about marble dust, HVAC units, and sending troops into U.S. cities, and somehow that wasn’t even the scariest part. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

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The scumbags at the Discovery Institute formerly limited themselves to spreading lies about evolution. Now they are branching out into politics and blatant Right-Wing ideology. Here they demonize advocacy for the homeless of "Ideological Capture".

NO KINGS! (But giant robots are OK)

I think that counts as canon

*Someone* doesn't know how to read a graph. h/t @kata2saya.id

I knew they were UP to something!

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

President Trump is directing the Justice Department to prosecute his perceived political enemies, upending the career ranks and raising questions about selective prosecution.

Epsteinnaminophen #EpsteinFiles

*looks up with his crown of tentacles giving a wonderfully baroque highlight around all six of his eyes.* "Oops." *closes the book bound in the skin of flensed infants* "Well. This'll make game night interesting." *puts on a hat. the tentacles object to confinement like cats do*

"This is MY pigeon, go find your own."

DM if you're willing to help on research for this. Sadly, I think it's time to write down names for the victims.

At this point I'd settle for one who is intelligent, articulate, and only somewhat obnoxious.

Why is it that when I read his statement, I could hear his voice saying it? 😆 It would be so good to have a good and decent person as a president, again. One who is intelligent and articulate and doesn't talk about sharks, batteries, and uses taxes to benefit people, not k*** them.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Worthwhile reading. A bit of BlueSky history, and where it might be going. america2.news/without-sky-...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Very cool!

People are getting fired for allegedly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder. It looks like a coordinated effort | CNN Business share.google/P9FPPRDvsstK...

Well yeah, the FBI Anti Domestic Terrorism teams have been reassigned "other" duties, so of course they were unprepared for this and any copycats. Foreign terrorist groups are surely aware of this too, but they hardly need to act while we are busy terrorizing ourselves.

Charlie Kirk is the new Horst Wessel.

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.

and if you haven't seen this one already, I think you will like it :-) bsky.app/profile/lore...

Again, Charlie wanted it this way. As dad always used to say: careful what you wish for, you might just get a shitload of it. Here, have some thoughts and prayers. Oh, don't think we should have political violence? I agree. But Charlie welcomed it. More here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dgk...

Charlie Kirk was an anti-semite, racist bigot. He did not do "politics the right way." He used faux debates and Gish Gallops and goalposts on skis to turn a debate into a platform for anti-semitism and bigotry. That Newsom and Klein won't call a dead Nazi a dead Nazi is an indictment of them.

If you see this group "National and Homeland Party" in your followers, be aware it's probably some flavor of fascists. The good news is they aren't popular, even on Echs, and don't seem very active.

Our country is being destroyed. But hey, look at these eight Maine Coon kittens.

Oh crap ...