Oldest continuing a revered family tradition
Oldest continuing a revered family tradition
Oh, I’m so sorry.
I don’t normally ask to hear from the president but it’d be nice to see if he can still complete a sentence
In all seriousness, it was pretty awful and does, to me, seem a representation of current societal dynamics and norms.
And…included a threat of sorts Now, that’s an apology 🙄
And that one was a doozy
Mark Ruffalo reads Eugene Debs youtu.be/zuGp-0G1p4M
Hear, hear!
For who could think I could see the grace of other souls born, and reborn
Me: oh, what are you studying? Him: I’m a D.O. Me: so, an optometrist. Him: (had not yet learned the art of the eye roll) uh, no. 🎁
With awful and deeply sad consequences
that men simply don’t go to the doctor as often. The problem begins early: After pediatric care, young men largely disappear from medical settings until after serious issues arise. Women tend to see their gynecologists regularly; men have no clear equivalent.”
“Over the past several years, men have died at higher rates than women from 14 of the top 15 causes of death. The only exception has been Alzheimer’s disease — and that, at least to some extent, is because more women live long enough to develop it..That disparity has many causes, one of which is 🎁
That’s rarely good. Private equity reminds me of parasites that lay eggs in a host, larvae consume the host eventually killing it off. Let’s hope rehlko 🙄 beats the odds.
All the sweeter for him as this combines vengeance and ecocide
The need to destroy overrides most all else
Exactly!
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“So, I’ve grown less apparent apparently” Marie Howe
💙
“To hear the selected fact requires the intuitive waking dream state of the unknowable O, which starts with our having the faith and courage to face our own ignorance, to stop thinking about what we know so we can focus on learning what we don’t know.” - Reiner, A. (2023).
Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died twelve years ago today
I’ll be joining you in spirit later in the week. Happy baking.
Macoun’s :) I am a softie for fruit.
Cutting you off from Galit Atlas! For shame.
I live to hear abt the fabulous pastries at your fancy croissant place 😁
And the best…still some local peaches:)
I’m abt 42°N. Noticed it opprox 2 weeks ago. Ah well. Happily, we’re still having some glorious days.
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www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/t...
“We’re notifying the court now that Trump’s irrational stop to Revolution Wind will jack up energy bills, hurt workers and weaken our grid.” CT AG Tong Would you look at that. Cx wind projects overwhelmingly impacts blue states (7 states, 9 projects). Vengeance and ecocide w the stroke of a pen 🎁
How now? Where’s the King?
“I think being a writer is a bit like being a linguistic archaeologist: you have to dig through layers of stories, but also layers of forgettings.”
LMAOOOOOOO
Sure seems to be an awful lot of wishing out there right about now
A tell in this administration is that when Trump is actually worried about something, he sends Count Baldy the Vile out into the light to stir up the masses by spitting some form of nonsensical, vampiric bile.
Blue states can also buy vaccines in bulk and distribute them via their chief medical officer or via doctors, says @sbagen.bsky.social. The idea would be to make vaccines available to all, including those restricted under RFK lunacy. Great stuff from Sam here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Please choose a therapist who is suitably horrified by this.
Texas House GOP lawmakers have passed a bill that would allow anyone to sue Drs, abortion med manufacturers, & companies like FedEx & UPS, through which these meds are mailed, in a fanatic effort to limit access to these medications. #Pinks
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
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...
@shakespeare.lol
she said that “black” with a hard r
me pretty much every day: 🤬
“Donald Trump, JD Vance and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground if that’s what it takes so they can rule over the ashes.”
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
I love Eve L. Ewing‘s poem “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store.” poets.org/poem/i-saw-e...
"What happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all." —Mamie Till Mobley (Emmett Till's mom) RIP Emmett Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) 💙🕊 #70Years
Oh, goodie! Just like the Nuremberg Rallies.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
I absolutely love the FEARLESS Dr. Peter Hotez!!!!!
The irony is that most countries would give Kilmar Abrego Garcia asylum from persecution *in* the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
“The story of the human race is a story of refusing to accept violence as ordinary and normal. But what’s happening now with Donald Trump in charge is a fetishization of violence, a celebration of violence.”
There. [Strikes him.]
This is obscene thehill.com/policy/defen...
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
“What is happening now with Donald Trump in charge is a fetishization of violence”. - Sen. Chris Murphy on ‘All In With Chris Hayes’ 8/27/2025 (Trump has fetishized violence for as long as I can remember)
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
The ousting of Dr. Susan Monarez as CDC Director, followed within hours by the resignations of Dr. Deb Houry, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, and Dr. Daniel Jernigan, mark a collapse of public health leadership with consequences that reach every American household.
“With some encouragement, the bear ultimately left, but only after showing interest in the strawberry ice cream” A bear after my own heart
they want you sick, dumb, and poor. you’re a lot easier to control that way.
America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying RFK Jr. www.vox.com/health/45922...
I’ve not forgotten the sight of so many state police speeding by, silently, as if homage to the dead had begun. Then the work. Over and over and over again
adding "doctors" to the list of professions that, alongside judges and lawyers, have so far given a good account of themselves under authoritarianism
You are right about that
“religious talisman” 🎯
Will it be ever thus?
one that annoys me is that what these people think is cutting edge new political thinking is just warmed over slaveholder ideology
"Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go"
From the ‘looks like some good news for a change’ dept: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-...
“In 1807, the U.S. Congress joined with Great Britain in abolishing the African slave trade, although the trading of enslaved people within the United States was not prohibited.”
‘1841 Supreme Court heard the case of the mutiny on the Amistad. John Quincy Adams joined the Africans’ defense team. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the Africans had been illegally enslaved and had thus exercised a nat’l right to fight for their freedom.’
Must be a sight to be seen (and heard)
Was just talking abt how quiet it’s gotten. That and the number of starlings mark the beginning migration here.
“…How to say this made you want to live? No hand to hold still here it was: someone giving someone comfort and someone memorizing hard how to ask for it again.”
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🚨 MAJOR BREAKING Democrat Catelin Drey FLIPS Iowa SD-1 — a district Trump won by 11.5 points in 2024 — defeating Republican Christopher Prosch in a landslide special election and breaking the GOP supermajority.
perfection @superchunk.bsky.social
perfection
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Cracker Barrel caved so the race is on to find the next thing MAGA will cry about uncontrollably
“The beating heart of the GOP no longer cared about principles or policy. There was a nihilist wing in control that scared me; they were happy to let it all burn.”
“The US, just months before its 250th birthday, the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here [T]oday America is different and even if we fight our way back, it will never be the same again”
Look, we have a new statement of principles for the Republican Party.
I can't believe this asshole had it right all along.
lol not quite yet
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
Mary Oliver:
“We are watching and taking names.” This is how it’s done 🔥 Well worth watching in its entirety.
Trump's executive order telling DoD to create a military occupation force to be used on US soil against Americans includes direct instructions to give vigilantes opportunities to join the operations in support of the goals. Who could've seen this coming? Me! And warned about it before the election.
Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens. Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
this is why gorsuch is complaining about lower courts defying SCOTUS. a lot of communication between SCOTUS and lower courts is informal, especially in re: shadow docket cases, and SCOTUS has been sending unmistakably clear signals to roll over for trump. and lower courts have responded “make me”
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
“Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.” ― Matsuo Bashō * * * Simon Gaon, art
Hermann Hesse :: Siddhartha 1922 (aliveonallchannels)
