"Have the water wars begun yet? Or is it still all about the oil?” - Only Lovers Left Alive p.dw.com/p/52Sfa

Bring back earnestness and sincerity as virtues...

Dear Journalists, You seriously don’t have to always be like, “2 + 2, said by some experts in math to equal four.” You can just say the thing. It doesn’t make you biased. Really. It’s okay. XOXO, Simeon

I’m a Mainer and this is what I just sent to the Platner campaign. Step aside now, @grahamformaine.bsky.social.

My husband just walked by me grunting and growling like Frankenstein's monster (he left to get the oil changed and car tires rotated). He is NOT a morning person. 😂🥰

supreme.justia.com/cases/federa... Case law is against the Speaker refusing to swear in individuals who meet the Constitutional requirements. @azagmayes.bsky.social Sue that fool!

This right here.

Night before last I dreamt I found a spot on a sandy bank by a river under a tree, and otters came to play with me. Then suddenly it was all people there, and it was noisy and crowded and I was so sad not to have my quiet solitude on the river bank and my otter friends.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

In Azerbaijan, critics of the tyrannical government dressed up in donkey suits to mock them -- and were imprisoned: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Wut

The Colorado Springs Gazette, normally a right-wing propaganda outlet, has a surprisingly good front-page article today with lengthy comments from the event organizers, reporting on the very visible presence of veterans in the crowd, etc. gazette.com/2025/10/18/w...

Share a tv show that you love from the 2010s My choice: Better Things

An observation i've had about most Republicans for most of my life, but especially in the last 20 years. They don't want to work.

If you see this post a chef:

Block em all. bsky.app/profile/did:...

don't follow them don't reply to them don't repost them don't dunk on them don't talk about them especially do not make threats about them or at them and their soft power vanishes

My new favorite celebrity podcast is Good Hang with Amy Poehler. She's so great. 🥰

I just called all of pritzker's offices and left messages praising him for standing up to the federal overreach but also bitching him out for not walking the talk with his own state police.

Sigh.

Today's the 166th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. On this date last year I published this @truthout.org interview with the great historian @profmsinha.bsky.social on the history, lessons and legacies surrounding Brown and the mid-19th century abolitionist movement.

I have put off doing the taxes until the last possible moment. After I feed the dogs and myself, it's happening.

I hate overpriced pajamas. #pajamasforthepeople

A federal judge can swear in that new house member. GO AROUND THE SPEAKER AND END THE DRAMA.

‘’The transformation that occurs when the afflictive emotions are subdued with the sharp discriminating awareness is the arising of the wrathful deities. The actual nature of the afflictive emotions is primordial wisdom, thus the five poisons are the five wisdoms.’’

Through the power of awareness the afflictive emotions collapse, and this collapsing reveals their true nature, primordial wisdom. This collapsing or transformation is the wrathful deity. ~ H.E. Garchen Rinpoche

Fun fact: in chapter nineteen of the Second Treatise, John Locke writes that when the legislative power is usurped from that body in which the People have placed it, and exercised instead by a person or body not authorized to do so by the People, government is dissolved

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus: Candido Jacuzzi, inventor of the hot tub

Share someone who looks stylish wearing denim on denim.

Fair travels, Diane! One of my most favorite performances of yours is Love and Death, so I'll be watching that in your honor.

Sign you live in a police state

Current listening. All hail the traveler John Lodge! I like to imagine this music was playing when my parents met at the naval hospital in San Diego.

Yesterday I recommended Tucker and Dale vs Evil to my therapist. It is one of the best horror comedies i've seen.

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression. To fight it, white people have to stop pretending government oppression arrived overnight and start dismantling the systems that have been incubating it all along.”

I met the guy in the chicken suit at one of my senators offices and he explained that he used to be a media man and they always ran with the weirdos when it came time to decide who got on screen. So he has a chicken suit and he gets on screen.

So wild.

Yup, the NYT literally hired a reporter to plant puff pieces on Epstein! The NYC/DC media abetted Epstein because they were from the same social circles, circles that apparently do not have a problem with child rape. A page from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (it gets worse from there...)

Amazing how no one asks officials: 1) Why didn't you pursue the Epstein case earlier? He was indicted two decades ago. 2) Why did the past three admins appoint people tied to Epstein/Maxwell to major cabinet roles? The key to whether a politician is bullshitting: will they discuss Robert Maxwell?

I decided this Halloween season to watch the entirety of a horror franchise id never seen before. I picked Final Destination. I very much enjoyed it. My husband called it trash and I agree, but I loved it.

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Do not fall for secessionist propaganda or “Texas is invading Illinois”! Pay attention to who is saying this, who is screwing you over, and what their end goal is.

Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.

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Went to a favorite easy trail to hike with my best girl for more leaf peeping. I'm not recovered enough for the whole hike, but we made excellent progress and Emma loved her time in the woods. It was so good to be back on a trail. I've been here 8 years and am still moved to tears by the beauty.

Everything that has happened was predicted by people who were called alarmists.