If you live in the US and you’re white, unless you’re very lucky, you’re dealing with the awareness that a good-size chunk of your family not only would go Nazi if given the chance, but were given the chance and took it without any hesitation, and are Nazis now, so that’s what they were all along.

ICE 👉 Dossier Municipales à Bordeaux : l'écolo au galop 👉 Procès Marine Le Pen : c'est la faute à l'Europe ! 👉 Festival d'Angoulême : Charlie débat avec d'anciens Grand Prix En vente mercredi !

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

A splendid idea! Remembering at the time people commenting "we don't have a 'Homeland' we have a nation" plus that sense that the GOP was dying to roll back civil liberties & here was a golden opportunity to do just that.

Octavia Butler hits close to home

“It tells us about properties of planets that we can't observe directly,” said Meredith Hughes, chair of astronomy and professor of integrative sciences. “It tells us about how planetary systems evolve at ages of 10 million years to a billion years.” www.wesleyan.edu/about/news/2...

It’s Sundowning in America open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Picture of the Week! Debris discs: the leftovers of planet formation around other stars. (i.e. exoplanet Kuiper belts) www.eso.org/public/image...

THE BREAKDOWN: How Amanda Litman hosted a weekly Saturday dinner for a year (and you can too) open.substack.com/pub/priyapar...

A friend is testing out words for “so embarrassed it’s embarrassing how embarrassed we have to be” level of embarrassment and so far "ubershame" is a frontrunner.

Happy National Winie the Pooh Day! (aka A.A.Milne's birthday)

"My fear is not that we fail to survive this moment—it’s that we survive it only to return to the status quo that made it possible. That we leave in place the Electoral College, the filibuster, the gerrymandered maps, the money-soaked elections...don't go back to normal. Normal is how we got here."

Now & 2016 are what happens when the crowd chooses Barabbas over Jesus (h/t LDL on FB)

"The Unseelie Fae invite you to a night of revelry, intrigue, and enchantment. Beneath the winter moon, guests gather in the great hall of Bill Miller’s Castle for immersive dining and live performance." - Feb 7th Frost Moon Feast frostmoonfeast.wellattended.com/events/frost...

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Historian here He has sent swarms of Officers to harass our people He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislaturesQuartering large bodies of armed troops among us Protecting them from punishment for Murders which they commit on the Inhabitants Declaration of Independence1776

Reminder of the difference between Resistance & Opposition "We must develop and foster new tactics, platforms and leaders to oppose Trump and show a positive vision. Rather than a resistance, the concept of an opposition is more comprehensive and durable." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...

The Mad Stamp Collector "There is nothing more than the madness, and that is where we must begin." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Renee Good’s last words were to ICE agent Jonathan Ross: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” Then Ross shot Renee three times in the face. As she was dying, his last words to her were: “Fucking bitch.” And JD Vance thought that exchange exonerated ICE. That says it all.

I often feel that another aspect of this for Putin (and why he worked so hard to install Trump) was to discredit democracy in general - so he & Xi & the like can point to us and go "Democracy? Really? Look at the US! Look at the idiots they want running things! You really want some of that s%%t???"

NEW from my colleagues: Pepper spray used at protest against ICE in Hartford, Connecticut. www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

The Known World Players "Everyman" from last year's Pennsic! youtu.be/jFMXpiq1EgQ?...

JFC. Thought I woke up in 1989 and we were invading Panama to get Noriega again

You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.

(free PDF/epub version) Pas d'armes and Late Medieval Chivalry | Home www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Enjoy! www.medievalists.net/2025/12/20-n...

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Wow.....

How Project 2025 kneecapped the US press. 🦋 www.cjr.org/analysis/how...

A fun evening indeed! "The Unseelie Fae invite you to a night of festivities and merriment! This three course banquet within the great hall of the beautiful Bill Millers Castle. Enjoy interactive dinner theater access to the Moonlit Market." frostmoonfeast.wellattended.com/events/frost...

It invades your dreams....

"I used AI to generate ideas" ys just like "Ich used pickpocketing to generate a litel pettye cash"

I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social, and I walked away feeling much more hopeful than I had before we began. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Baked Apple Pudding.... youtu.be/xKboeeH6QMQ?...

Hitler was bad. An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.

A new (or old?) take on Wham (no, I don't know who the artist is)

"[Thanksgiving] is a festival which will never become obsolete, for it cherishes the best affections of the heart—the social and domestic ties. It calls together the dispersed members of the family circle, and brings plenty, joy and gladness." –Sarah Josepha Hale, 1837 edition of Godey's Lady's Book

So about a third of America was catfished by Russia (and others who wish us harm)

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

November 18, 2025

Miss PBS' Great Performances showing of "Twelfth Night" with Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Junior Nyong'o? well you are STILL in luck! www.pbs.org/video/twelft...

Good

from Tim Finn "And so the ‘Forever Enz Tour’ is happening! We’re looking forward to heading out on the road and sharing these Split Enz songs with you all. They’re as much a part of our lives as they are yours. See you next year. TF" www.livenation.com.au/split-enz-ti...