Winter Sunset - Central Park - New York City #FridayPhoto 📷📸🗃️

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

"Had an older president like Joe Biden babbled like this there would have been immediate calls to airlift him to a sanatorium. The man isn’t well, folks. Let’s stop pretending this isn’t a problem," writes columnist Rex Huppke. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4h2KxLA #25thAmendmentNOW

And she was wrong, of course. We still have to keep combatting these weird and wrong high school teachers.

Come on, Barack, you should know better. Israel is lying as they always do.

Keep hoping I haven't got scammed by Premium Ejuice, but hope is fading away. Should have noticed: glitzy surface, huge number of my order, block on printing invoice. List on their site of every ejuice you've ever heard of. No delivery. DO NOT GET SCAMMED BY PREMIUM EJUICE.

Checking with hive mind . Has anyone dealt with Premium Ejuice of Vaughan, Ontario? I think I've been scammed. Placed an order on Aug 22. Received acknowledgement saying, to check your shippment, click the link below. I click and nothing happens. I'm blocked from printing their invoice. No shipment.

The ICE Men Cometh open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

Don't cancer ghost people. Doing that is unbelievably cruel.

Yes!

The Toronto Star has a superb and complex article by Linda Svendsen reflecting on Alice Monro reacting to her fiction. It's fascinating reading but, alas, behind a pay wall. If you already subscribe to the Star, or don't mind subscribing, you might look it up.

There’s massive and increasing gender based violence against women. Preparing women, telling them the reality, and showing them statistics isn’t sexism. It’s fact that men are the main perpetrators of violence and not by a small percentage.

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Anyone want to argue with him?

BREAKING: I feel sick! krassencast.com/p/us-militar...

Agree. Pete doesn't hold a political office and has no official power. And yet people look up to him. Because people trust his character and moral compass. #Buttigieg

"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

“You use your mind like a millstone […!]” Marianne Moore’s “TO MILITARY PROGRESS,” for today’s military march #poetry

A reminder to reach out to the friends you've slowly lost contact with because life is so damn busy. Because life is also so damn short.

Job Opportunities Lecturer in Writing for Screen The UBC School of Creative Writing invites applications for a 100% FTE (full-time) Lecturer position in Writing for Screen, with a likely start date of September 1, 2025.

You can’t clear up disinformation with a blast of truth, because the cause of most disinformation in our culture is not error but a loss of trust in institutions and mechanisms of truth acquisition.

Team Kraznov.

Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied.

You replay things in your head because no one gave you closure. So you write your own. In your mind. Over and over. That’s not madness. That’s grief with nowhere to go.

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He did it. He crashed the entire economy. In exactly 90 days.

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"A new report looked into Tesla’s cash flow statements and capital expenditures over the last 6 months of 2024. Compared to the company’s valuation of the assets it had acquired, the report found anomalies — namely a missing $1.4 billion." Read more here: bit.ly/42amRy6

Day 68 into the GOP takeover: Prices are going up. Consumer confidence is plummeting. Classified info is being leaked. Social Security is being dismantled. Residents are being arrested for their political views.

Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

Here's looking at you, kid.

so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

If this doesn’t make you angry, I don’t know what will. 🤬

Snowy sentinel. This long-eared owl commands winter's hush with its piercing gaze. 📸 jason.koch

Hegseth, Waltz and company texting war plans to a reporter on signal is just the tip of the iceberg. This whole administration is full of incompetent, inexperienced, and unqualified clowns. Our national security is compromised in ways we’re just beginning to understand.

In any other administration of the past 80 years, the defense secretary and the national security advisor would, following an equivalent scandal, now resign.

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