Calah (cockatoo) and I float around the US in a small travel trailer to see pictographs and mounds, to attend Trekkie and Jewish events, to visit Alamo Drafthouses (up to 44), and to see family and friends. 🏏🎺 Schmancy punctuation user, too … : ; – — ‽
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A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
That list of Texas cities is not geographically comparable to Chicago. If all of those shootings were in one metro area in Texas, it would be a better argument. However, Coward Abbott dispersing TX NG across Texas would make more sense than TFG sending them out of state
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
All That Gary
But mail-in voting!
I'd buy that, says the woman with Caravaggio's Judith and Holfernes hanging in her bedroom
Offense Department
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement at 2?
"silky"
BTW, the model is 5'4", 170 lbs, and pear-shaped, and the Large is flattering and modest. It's about 8" longer than below-the-knee, so the model might add pockets after hemming
Hey, I can pause to use Merlin if I want! Doesn't matter how steep that last bit of the path was, I need a new lifer!
The Quince silk-blend sleeveless dress. Bias binding on the armholes and neckline, too, not just turned under. (No pockets, and there's a bit of spandex, but still remarkable) Their linen LS shirt has flat-felled seams and a tidy placket—another win. (The silk-blend LS shirt was not as well made)
Or the fabric is described as a weave, not a material. 🤷🏻♀️ Yes, I can see it's satin or twill. Tell me if it's silk or a synthetic, if it's cotton or a cotton-poly blend. Thread count or gsm would be lovely, but don't obfuscate the basics
I was shocked to buy a relatively inexpensive garment off the internet and find French seams when it arrived. Not that overlock nonsense, French seams!
I would not stop to buy gas in Vidor if I was passing through on I10
We could probably round up a few (or a dozen) folks to have an intervention
Perhaps he's receiving some treatment at the golf club?
He immediately slammed the window shut, I burst out laughing because I was so surprised, and with the ice broken, we got talking. Je comprends un peu le français, but his English was great. He was from Côte d'Ivoire, had just gotten French citizenship, but was working in Germany /3
On a train from Auvers-sur-Oise to Paris, I was freezing due to an open window on the other side of the car. The only other person in the car was sitting by that window, so I couldn't shut it. I mimed being cold and shutting a window, I tried Italian, and then suddenly said "Mach das Fenster zu!" /2
My high school German started with Georg and Ilse going to the Konditorei, but the residual German that has been useful in my travels has been the numbers (because French numbers are insane) and a sample sentence for the chapter on imperatives /1
Well, talking over each other is kinda what we do. CC was a big help
Neuroscientists have long believed that our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams, and the twitches we make are movements that slip through the cracks—but recent research tells another story.
Lego is no longer sending individual pieces to the U.S. due to Trump ending the de minimis exemption. This man ruins everything. www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
So glad I visited you this summer! Kayaking at Pictured Rocks was magical—like floating thru a flooded Utah national park. So many life-list birds, and petting a sturgeon at the Duluth Aquarium was unreal
Wow. Jolted back to a vague memory of seeing it at some summer event for kids back in the 1970s
Saw "Caught Stealing" last night at ADH Village, with Aronofsky in the preshow. Very fun, altho def some 'enjoy your pizza' moments that I could only peripherally view. Was glad to have listened to the Rewatchables episode about "After Hours"
Why do authoritarians always demand gratitude as tribute?
I'd put 4.5 Vulcans at the bottom, altho WTF Starfleet is certainly a strong contender
Her attorneys say she has not resigned
Desperate to meet their unreasonable quotas
NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: Trump approval rating: 37% Trump's handling of: Crime: - 12 Russia/Ukraine: -12 Foreign Policy: -16 Economy: -18 Trade: -18 Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19 Sending weapons to Israel: -28 National Guard to DC: -15 Epstein files: -48 Smithsonian: -27 poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
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Military Religious Freedom Foundation asked me to make this video to raise awareness of their work and need for support. MRFF has helped almost 100,000 people serving in our nation’s military to stand up against Christian Nationalism in all branches. mrff.org/donate youtu.be/RY_oKI11iGw
Here’s a poster so people can tell who’s who.
Me, too, River Side Casino. Me, too.
✶✶Chicago✶✶ is projected to have the fewest number of shootings since 2019. We've had a 32% drop in homicides and 39% drop in shootings in 2025. 1/?
"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie." youtu.be/O05nnigITsI
They have known this is where it lead and are setting up a self-defense claim already. "...we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” - Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts last July www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
What a dream!
Texas State Sen. Carol Alvarado’s 2021 filibuster holds the record for the longest filibuster for a female senator. Alvarado exceeded the record of former Fort Worth Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis.
Texas Senator Carol Alvorado has already heroically filibustered in the Senate. I think it was against the abortion ban bill. She is taking on a Herculean task with another filibuster. Mad props to women of the Texas Legislature. #txlege
Cracker Barrel lets RVs park overnight in their lots, so I thank them by having breakfast there the next morning. The apple butter on biscuits! Yum, yum, yum. Also, the sweet potato with cinnamon butter and pecans is a great meal/treat/dessert
Dare I hope that we'll get an early screening on ST:TC?
Wow!
It will start this week
The filibuster hasn't started yet, and staff can deliver your testimony to the senator during the filibuster. So you can't use this dodge every week for the rest of the semester, but it'll be good for a while
@abbycox.bsky.social
Texans, please write something for Sen. Eckhardt to read during a possible filibuster against the Trump legislative map (which passed the House today):
I will not date them even with photographic evidence that they have received the fish or started acquiring fish all by themselves
I am absolutely certain that if you had grading to do, you could write 5000 words to help the senator filibuster redistricting
Oh, c'mon! Surely you can come up with a few thousand words to help with a filibuster! Quote the Founding Fathers on the virtue of representation! My submission included "why redistricting instead of flood relief?" and "why would anyone trust a rep who had absolutely no incentive to represent me?"
Take heart! That's just the Texas House. There's a filibuster planned in the Texas Senate. If you are a Texan, you can help with the filibuster without staying awake for days: send some germane material to be ready into the record docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can also submit letters via this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you are not a Texan, pass the word to your favorite Texan. Maybe tell them why you are worried about this particular bit of insanity to give them some ideas for their contribution to the effort to delay this effort, to deny the GOP bullies in Texas and in the White House an undeserved boost /n
So reflect on how redistricting will impact you, your loved ones, and your community. Write it up. Cite op-eds and articles on the topic. Anything to give the State Rep some relevant material to read into the record! /3
Here in Texas, they can't just read the phone book or Dr. Seuss during a filibuster. The text that they deliver has to be related to the issue at hand. /2
Rise up, Texans! It's time to make your voices heard and help delay the GOP's blatant power grab. Write about what concerns you regarding the redistricting effort, and send it to a State Rep who can use it as powerful filibuster material. #texaslege #redistricting 🧵 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
White Christian Nationalists with oil money. Texas has no campaign contribution limits, so oligarchs can threaten to primary current office holders (fund a newbie to run in the primary, wasting fundraising, smearing reputations)
It's not clear that it is. Good case to be made for unauthorized use of DPS
Exclusive video from Texas Rep. Nicole Collier on the House floor.
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
I'm attending the “Fill the Capitol: Put Texans First!” event on Wednesday. For details: www.mobilize.us/txaflcio/eve...
Laura Loomer is truly a vile person jweekly.com/2025/08/18/u...
I'm trying to imagine him having the intellectual curiosity to even want to visit a museum 🤔 Nope, not remotely possible
DPS officer unable to perform duties, has tantrum. Perhaps they shouldn't hire toddlers for this job?
Steve is losing his marbles
This is Fascism. Altogether now, FA-SCI-SM. I mean FFS what has to happen for *EVERYONE* TO REALLY GET WHAT THE REALITY OF THIS COUNTRY IS RIGHT NOW??? These atrocities cannot continue. FULL STOP.
Merlin told me I was hearing goldfinches while I was traveling up north this summer. When I played the sample calls and songs, one flew out of a nearby field to check out the source of the sounds. I was astonished by how very vibrantly gold it was!
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Banana for scale?
Why doesn't he just move to Scandinavia or wherever people are pale enough to suit his tastes? Ugh. /4
Or maybe he means when power was only held by male landowners, which in his fantasy was an exclusively European group? 3/
He clearly doesn't mean before the mass immigration of Europeans, which is the only time North America was anything like homogeneous. 2/
“If we never had mass immigration, if we were still a homogeneous nation, we would not feel as much of a need to form communities like this,” [Orwoll] said. 1/
That 'sentence' needs some editing; it is almost completely unparsable. I feel cheated of the several minutes I spent trying to assign referents and to establish hierarchies among the clauses. I hate whoever wrote this, and whoever allowed it to be published
Texas Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan.
Gene Wu is with her. www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/Mw...
Tuesday, Aug 19, starting at 8:30am, people will be protesting this absurd over-reaction on the south steps of the capitol in shifts throughout the day. I'm not a morning person, so I'll probably be there a bit later
Patriots will be gathering to support Rep. Nicole Collier, 8:30am, south steps of the Texas Capitol, Tuesday August 19, and protesting her detention in shifts. I don't have details (and I don't know whether I'll be there on the dot), but if you can make it to the Capitol at some point, please do!
/2 DPS officers are the who, according to a couple of sources. Which law allows the Department of Public Safety to enforce House Rules is as yet unclear to me, tho. What those DPS officers are permitted or required to do is still unclear in any reporting I've found
A complicated medical history doesn't prevent death by starvation or physical trauma
Poor Elise. How simply frightful. How humiliating. How delightful.
And what exactly are the duties and responsibilities of these escorts? Are they supposed to admonish, chase, hinder, handcuff? Who are they? Are they DPS? Assistant Sargeants at Arms? Rangers? Surely not APD…
My fluffy dinosaur is proof when she's annoyed
"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."
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novel
Ooo! Fund-raising idea! Instead of a kissing booth or a dunk tank, people who aren't cowards can volunteer to let people throw 'sandwiches' at them for some amount of money. (Obvs don't want to waste good food, so we'd need some sort of sandwich-shaped plushie or beanbag)
