Aaron Jacobs

A musician playing a guitar in sugarcane that is somehow in the middle of a football field

First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!

YES, the US book and publishing market absolutely affects the Canadian market. They’re putting out literal millions of titles per year to our 10,000. So the US administration’s chilling effect on #LGBTQ publishing will change what new books you’ll get to read in the next few years. What can you do? - Follow queer authors and their publishers (check out those Canadian and small and academic presses). - Follow literary journals that feature queer work. Share their content. - Most of all, buy their books new whenever you can! Sales of new books determine whether a category will be supported, or an individual author’s next book will make it to print. (Even indie authors have to feel like they can get their books out and recoup their costs.) And do your book shopping in queer spaces where queer and diverse books are prioritized. Spaces like this only exist if you buy books from them. (US friends, this goes for you too.)

I hate to keep pushing, but my books are some of the only reliable income I have. If you can, please pre-order my new novel, By The Way, and support an indie and LGBTQ+ author and illustrator!

By The Way: shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/by-...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Wow. This is devastating.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

Kristi Noem, Donald Trump and the entire Administration are lying. They murdered a man in cold blood and are trying to cover it up.

Here is everything in one clip, exposing their lies.

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Are we at war with Venezuela?!?

I don't know. You don't know either.

It sure would be nice to have a legitimate Pentagon press corps right about now.

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A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Buy the book at your local, independent bookstore! Better yet, buy three!

Oreoboros

It was just right there for the taking, wasn't it?

Opening shot, interior MI5.

M: Well, I guess that's it for Bond.
Q: Quite. But he's a Time Lord, you know.
M: Fascinating! I had no idea.

(CUT TO:) Daniel Craig glowing with regeneration energy, morphs into new actor.

And then never mention the Time Lord thing again.

a graph of US coffee prices

Graph of intense pain and suffering (this is after the 50% tariffs on Brazilian coffee)

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

A timeline cleanser.

Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society.

The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time From pop culture and history to sports and more, these are the best podcasts ever made.

Marketing Dept gets to add "creator of one of Time's Hundred Greatest Podcasts of All Time" to my bio now and forever so that's pretty nifty time.com/collections/...

Wait, wait, wait. This isn't the parody NYT Pitch Bot?

I did Nazi that coming . . . .

“I would like to speak to the manager—someone is wearing the same thing I am!”

Today in Boston.

Over a million people turned out.

Even the drone couldn't get it all.

#NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

WTF?

I told you we’d be back