So I'm from Virginia. I currently live in TN and I also lived here as a teen. It's a little complicated. Anyway, the Rutherford County PUBLIC library is where I spent a lot of time as a tween/teen. It shaped me. It saved me. This is a PUBLIC LIBRARY not even a school. And I'm proud of *Luanne.

Sherman left the only acceptable metal monuments to the Confederacy wrapped around trees.

Masturplating?

NEW: On Monday a judge said videos of recent depositions from DOGE members can be published online once again. The ruling is something of an about face for Judge Colleen McMahon, who originally ordered plaintiffs in the DOGE-related lawsuit “claw back” the videos they had published to YouTube.

Um… this is terrifying. A GOP sheriff running for CA gov has seized 500K ballots cast in a Nov. special election. He says he’s going to count them himself and compare to the official results. He’s calling it “a fact-finding mission”. I call it pretty damn scary. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/22/n...

I always smile when I remember this 900 year old Sam & Max fanart, carved into some old twelfth century church in england

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

Just sitting right here for no particular reason at all. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Waffles hath a goode tyme

Gerald Kersh wrote: "There is no satisfaction quite so deep and evil as that of the man who can say: "Aha, now we're all in the same stew!" " He did not know MAGA though. Deeper and more evil.

Here’s a story about an 18th-century woman that caught my imagination. There are scant details but her strong personality really comes through. I wish we knew more about her. 1/10

This is insane. A reporter in Israel received death threats because he wouldn’t change his (accurate) news story about an Iranian missile attack to allow gamblers to win a bet on Polymarket. These online gambling markets are a menace. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fighting for Vaccines open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

From Substack account.

Holy moly is AIPAC afraid of Kat.

Moved to Vermont about 5 years ago this summer and I have seen the meme where people think Stephen King is making this stuff up until they moved to New England. Friend asked if that was my experience and I replied with a photo. True Detective stuff right there. 1/

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

Dark money groups are paying influencers to spread attacks about our campaign. Voters deserve to know who is trying to manipulate our election.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Books are one of the safest way for anyone, but particularly children and young adults, to experience our wondrous world second-hand, to prepare them for reality and lives beyond the ersatz traps we make for ourselves. Timi, insecure parents who won't improve themselves know and fear this.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

So proud to be a part of this project, and to have worked with so many excellent writers. I hope you love it. Thanks, @sandyernestallen.bsky.social for having me.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Otherworldly sunset through the Costco cart return door

For those keeping score at home: I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week. To be continued...

Video these stills are taken from.

While waiting for the school bus, our barn cat found time to get some training in with dried milkweed. He's itching for Spring. Located but failed to capture a mouse at 3 a.m. yesterday.

Welp, I did it Everybody follow @oocmags.bsky.social!!!!

Hey if you want the pattern for the fern shawl Violet knits in Murder by Memory, and which Dorothy wears in Nobody’s Baby, that’s going out tomorrow for newsletter subscribers! buttondown.com/OliviaWaite

Be right back, getting to work on La Comedie Humaine updated for the 20th Century.

Reading A DUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Will and Ariel Durant to see how they justify their early age gap, among other reasons. Printed by Simon & Schuster, 1977. The book is so nice! Huge margins! Opens flat! As old as me, yet the paper is so smooth and not darkening, or growing brittle, as I am!

it feels like a small thing in context of all of the other things but it is a piece of the larger authoritarian project that there are fewer places to publish essays now and the carefully edited essay as a public form for thinking and responding and criticizing and analyzing is in trouble, i think

The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases. We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.

We had some warm weather over the week but now mist, snow, and sleet. I don't need no Olive Garden to know how to ROCK, though.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

Cartoon by Jeff Stahler 🎯🎯🎯

🧵 This has been running around in my head a few days. I think mystery fans, noir fans, Dorothy B. Hughes fans, and Phoenix residents in particular may be amused. It's a strange moment of coincidental synchronicity I experienced as a reader, and may be a respite feom fresh hells. 1/

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

I have been attacked by owls twice at what would become the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve.

30 years. This video should be on every network.

Woman who attended SOTU to highlight her arrest without cause arrested without cause at SOTU. ““I just stood up. I stood silently, with no signs. I was not blocking anyone’s view of the hall. And then I was arrested.”

Reading a book by John De St. Jorre on Maurice Girodias and the Olympia Press has me going back in memory to early interests and how I absolutely *mainlined* listening to Bach and Glenn Gould between ages 16 and 18. Gustav Leonhardt also.

I just love real America so much.

When this ICE shit started, a mutual I’d never met asked how to help. I sent him to a friend’s kid’s preschool that was struggling to find patrollers. He’s been there almost daily, even in brutal cold, at a school where he didn’t know anyone, to keep folks safe. We finally met and got beers tonight.

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

He later cut his hand on something non-axe-related and unknown. That log earned the right to burn whole. Axe needs sharpening, and knots will stop them from splitting. Yes, that is a 12-foot skeleton.