"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

🔥 MISSOURI voter to @RepMarkAlford: “You talked about abuses in the Medicare & Medicaid system… Trump just pardoned someone who defrauded the system for about $1.3 BILLION. I find that curious.” (Esformes was then arrested for domestic violence)

No One Cares About Vague BIRDS shermanoaksreview.com/lint/no-one-...

Cat On A Not Tin Roof

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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Come one, come all. Well, not ALL, there’s only 90 seats.

@NPR.org, might you tell your correspondents to cut it out with the “sort of”s and “kind of”s? I’ve heard “sort of absolutely,” “kind of extremely,” and worse. Ten of these in a single story makes reportage sound like guessing. Also, no authoritative answer to a question begins with “So yeah...”

When Meatloaf, the singer, a play made For Doris who On Moonlight Bay made, It was easy to see, Categorically, What a Day, and a difference, Aday made.

Oh boy.

It's about time these stories weren't accompanied by an image of someone frolicking in the water or eating an ice cream. It's not going to stop getting hotter, we really ought to fucking grow up and treat this seriously🤦🏻‍♂️

Possible time-travel story title: That Was Now And This Is Then.

Would it be legal for Elon to offer R. Senators $1 m each to vote against the budget bill?

"They could criticize Trump's authoritarian tendencies while supporting the movement that enabled those tendencies. They could maintain their status within conservative institutions while avoiding the discomfort of genuine opposition to authoritarianism." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-d...

Find myself thinking a lot lately about Gödel’s Loophole. theconversation.com/kurt-godel-f....

This is the man Donald Trump put in charge of your hard earned benefits: "I'm like, what the heck's the commissioner of Social Security? So, I'm Googling Social Security. You know, one of my great skills, I'm one of the great Googlers on the East Coast."

We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding. Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.

A refresher from the #Picasso Museum in #Paris about what can happen when an autocratic head of state makes himself the "decider" of what is and is not art. [Also a h/t to @MelBrooks for his Schnappsed-up Nazi playwright in "The Producers."] My column: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

“www” uses three times as many syllables as what it’s short for.

Tiny books in matchboxes as part of book promo!

May Day Los Angeles

LA Times Festival of Books!

Most of these white male Mass Shooters are Trump Supporters. #GunViolence #TrumpMustGo abcnews.go.com/Politics/bla...

Neither a borrower nor a Linda Ellerbee.

S.S. Act: Interfering with Social Security payments can result in penalties under federal law. 42 U.S.C. § 1129B prohibits corruptly or by force or threats attempting to intimidate or impede Social Security Administration officials or obstructing the administration of the Social Security Act...)

“Herzog, of filmic auteurs the Achille-est, Found where the Amazon basin was hilliest, Built his own Troy, provisioned it, fenced it, Donned armor, then went off to battle against it…”

It’s far too late to worry if The ship has run aground It’s underneath the water And everybody drowned Maybe you’d have noticed if You’d ever looked around And heard the captain swear that he Was five full fathoms bound

Again.

There were 13 church leaders & christian school employees who were arrested, pled guilty and/or were sentenced to prison for child sex crimes this week.

Hey Allegra, play me not sneezing.

You know what would be scary would be hammerhead cats.

No man is an island, but some men are incontinent.

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

"As hopeful boy-toads squat in their parents’ basements mashing XBox buttons with comic-yellowed fingers, their future overseers are building the gibbets from which to hang them." A diatribe on media and these times. andrewnichollswrites.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

After this, I demand something that will make them all as unhappy as I feel now, and I will pay for the part that involves live eels.

If you look around the room when you're going in for brain surgery and can't figure out who the patient is... the patient is you.

I seriously don’t believe I have ever read anything on a newspaper or magazine page that contained a picture of someone holding a basketball.

Sophocracy: government by the worst people you knew in high school.

The Los Angeles Times has removed its new AI-powered “insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan

Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:

Think about this and please make sure to "repost" it so that everybody understands what's really going on. Don't just "like" it -- "repost" it -- this is important!

North Hollywood yesterday. Protest went for several blocks.

And, BTW, Denali isn't just a river in Egypt.

It is better to carry a regret to your grave than to carry a piano to your grave.

A difficult (but funny) poem about a difficult film about a difficult feat. www.amazon.com/DP/B0DM8WZ39Q

Motto In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing about the dark times. BRECHT