Susan Portelance

Yeah, I miss pre-dipshit Twitter so much.

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs.

They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun.

That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

A selfie of hubby, me and our border collie.

Same photo, six years later.

2019 vs 2025. Sane camping spot.

Yuck. Jets are starting the season pretty battered.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

I thought that was interesting for a Fox channel.

This was such a societal mistake, and there's a reason I have never even come close to engaging with sports betting content. It's going to ruin a lot of lives.

"What you fail to see Mr. Pope" is truly the most incredible assemblage of words I have seen coming out of X, the Everything App, in quite some time.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Great tune

Alberta to apply to Major Projects Office for new bitumen pipeline to northern B.C. coast | CBC News The Alberta government plans to develop and submit a formal application to the federal Major Projects Office for a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest coast of British Columbia.

It is endlessly fascinating to me that Alberta's premier will go to war to fight what she sees as interference in her province, but feels entitled to make plans for BC

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Most morally offensive part of hegseth's speech was the idea that manliness and courage consists of bullying and abusing people weaker than you rather than standing up for justice against people more powerful than you. Real andrew tate shit

RIP Jane Goodall. We learned so much from you.

A statue of a naked woman in a shallow, long pool.

A bunch of trees and a pond

A different view of the pond

A statue of a ballerina

We spent part of the day at Assiniboine Park today. We are lucky to have such a nice spot here.

Over 40% of Americans approve of a President threatening civil war over his fantasy version of his opponents. As a journalist I still feel some obligation to try to understand. As a human I want to stay as far away as possible, and don't know if I'll ever bring my family across the border again.

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

Werner Herzog gazed upon the "empty and soulless" abyss of AI-generated movies Werner Herzog gazed upon the "empty and soulless" abyss of AI-generated movies

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.”

Get their ass, Werner.

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Chanie Wenjack's death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in residential schools. While you reflect on this National Truth and Reconciliation Day, take a moment to learn his story.

National day for truth and reconciliation

Captain Crunch is just awful. Torture device.

ICE is here in Chicago, clearly going after the worst of the worse, or as they apparently call it, "Adorable families with small children attempting to enjoy an early fall day at a park."

May shame follow those participating in this cruelty for the rest of their lives.

Wow!

They do good work together.