denim = ‘de Nîmes’ because they were made in the French city of Nĭmes jeans = ‘Genoa’ because they were worn by the Genoese navy khakis = Hindi word for “dust-colored, brown” JNCO = “Judge None Choose One"

I have met with the specialist and I have a giant honking bruise on my left boob, so no surgery, a fitting end to this medical drama’s D plot/comedic relief.

In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

And now ask yourself, why isn't this story/footage being reported by CNN? It's nowhere on their homepage, not in their TV coverage, nowhere to be found on any of their platforms.

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

To add to my Swedish medical misery (and my feeling like a nesting doll of idiocy) my hot Swedish husband is now driving back from his vacation in the North, so I’ve been going through this alone.

Onthisday in 1789, the Bastille was stormed in Paris, a key turning point of the French Revolution. 3.5 years later Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. We look at the deluge of prints that emerged depicting his death publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8221146...

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 "New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology." apnews.com/article/new-...

I am now in my third medical facility and second ER of the day. I got a The festive intake nurse who called my implants “airbags” and said Americans were arrogant. Which, okay, he was not wrong but also HEY.

So that minor bike accident (hit a curb, fell over, didn't seem like a big deal) seems to have maybe ruptured the implant in my left boob. It's not good, and I'm feeling like a frightened idiot.

Today, I learned that in 1983, Fred Cincotti, an assistant to the NYC Attorney General, was convicted for owning and operating a house of prostitution, the Melody Burlesk, a strip joint on 48th Street. Who owned the Melody's building? Harvey Weinstein.

Read our full statement on the ICE shooting in Biddeford: maineimmigrantrights.org/maines-immig...

This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke.

Bugger it. Sam Neill was just one of those people who always seemed like A Good Sort

Aw fuck, Sam Neill was a tremendous talent and a terrific follow on Twitter back when Twitter was good. From all accounts, he was a standup human who really loved his sheep, his chickens, and his pigs.

“Remembered as Trump’s little assistant.” Jamelle, as ever, got to the heart of things in this scathing remembrance of a man who knew better.

Today in dumb adventures in balcony gardens:

Now who will Seth Meyers do a Tennessee Williams-inflected impression of?

*spit on the ground* And that's that on that. May his memory be fleeting.

We are alive. Lindsey Graham is not.

The Swedes are not afraid of making me hobble from one end of this hospital to the other with a fucked-up knee.

There is a very odd television show playing in the waiting room of this Swedish hospital. It appears to be a British period drama that takes place in a Catholic hospital? Is that a thing?

Fun fact about bike accidents in Sweden: the municipality requires you to fill out a form documenting what happened and where so that they can fix the problem if possible.

So my idiotic bike accident fucked up my knee, and now I’m in the Swedish equivalent of urgent care waiting to see how badly.

Cuba is First in the World to Invent a Lung Cancer Vaccine Despite Decades of Sanctions and Blockade. hrnews1.substack.com/p/cuba-is-fi... -

I fell down riding my bike and bruised my knee and my ego. #zeugma #ouch

I'm a donor. Will you please join me in helping them to defray postage costs? Thanks so much.

I'm glad I chose a novel project that challenges me but damn I could've gone a little easier on myself.

These kinds of laws have an invisible ripple effect across the country. A good number of corporations will just change their policies instead of making a NYC-specific protocol. A lot of the consumer protections we have started in one state or big city.

I would love to see more reporting like this, tracing the products made by incarcerated labor through our daily lives—a lot of people are not aware of how many things they use/consume that are made by incarcerated people.

Nope. Absolutely not. We need to leave the sea alone and mind our land business. What she does in her depths is between her and some ancient salty god.

Anyway, here are some reindeer, who are stopping traffic in the North of Sweden, where my hot Swedish husband is driving.

This essentially has been my plan for a decade.

Here's a CNN piece on Kelsey Pfendler's astonishing feat.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

In The Parallax View (1974), Warren Beatty's character pays cash for a seat on a plane after boarding. Was that a thing that happened in real life? Or just a movie thing, like individually wrapping the two sides of a gift box?

I cannot wait for Gillibrand to be primaried by a Democratic Socialist.

I've been reading the Church Committee Report, viewing a lot of archival footage, and watching a bunch of 1970s conspiracy thrillers, and wondering whither went the spines of the Congress and the media.

Zendaya in Givenchy Couture SS1997 for The Odyssey photocall in Paris #fashionsky Law Roach said never ever doubt me again to his critics. I am speechless.

Redford’s glasses in Three Days of the Condor are everything

If you're looking for a deeply immersive read that will suck you in with a lush, hallucinatory vampiric fervor, this is it. Two fangs up, way up.

Seven years ago, when my Hot Swedish Husband was still the lead singer in a quasi-famous rock band, he had this gig at a biker jamboree on the border to Norway. I'd guess three hundred bikers crammed onto a two-acre property, mostly just harmless biker clubs but a few 1%ers too.

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

lupita nyong’o looking like a goddess in christian cowan fw26 at the world premiere of "the odyssey" in london

Here it is, the cover of the paperback edition of my book, Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters. Now featuring some snazzy quotes! It’s out on August 27. geni.us/BreakingMicWright