Lou Roper

Forest equalised anyway

We’re gonna need a bigger bus.

w/incompetent toady #348 Lee Z*ldin 'in charge' 😑

with bonus of giving Forest owner a kick in the shins

This is a critical moment for us to demand accountability and ensure we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.

BREAKING on MS NOW:

The House Oversight Committee just voted to subpoena Pam Bondi as part of the panel's Epstein investigation.

The vote was 24-19. 5 Republicans voted in favor.

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

wondering how to deal w/the state of nature into which the king had placed them the previous August @actualkatherine.bsky.social

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge

CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?

NOEM: A what?

CROCKETT: A law degree

NOEM: No I do no-

CROCKETT: Okay

“it’s tabloid garbage” is a non-denial trying to sound like a denial

great minds thinking alike, if I may observe 😁

'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

One hundred and sixty-five children were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike on their elementary school. This is an aerial image of the graves being prepared for their bodies.

I defy anyone to justify this.

Their big AI/data system donors are starting to realize they need the abundant cheap electrons only wind and solar can provide.

4 Mar 1394: b. Prince Henry the 'Navigator' #otd #Porto - intensified #Portuguese interactions with #Africa.

The results, to say the least, were of lasting consequence.

NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities

McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.

IN THE SAME SEA’s @feliciafricke.bsky.social and @heatherfreund.bsky.social together with @silvaperez.bsky.social have published “'Printed for the Proprietress': Women and Printing Families in the Caribbean, 1720s–1860s”, in Early American Studies 🗞️🌊🍀. Open access: doi.org/10.1353/eam....
🗞️🌊🍀.

@gvb1554.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate with US operations in Mideast after Trump threatened financial penalties.

MADRID (AP) — Spain's government denies cooperation with US operations in the Middle East, contradicting White House.

personally, I prefer (😁) 'Bartleby the Scrivener' (added virtue of being much shorter)

does the White Whale task ye, then? 🤣

For starters, the family name is Drumpf not 'Trump' (TM Friedrich Drumpf, Jr, a/k/a 'Fred Trump, Sr')

Custom House & warehouses reflected in the waters of the Purfleet.

King’s Lynn Customs House, Norfolk. 1683.

"One of the finest late 17th Century public buildings in provincial England" - #Pevsner
@yalepress.bsky.social

Originally a Merchants' Exchange, becoming a Custom House in 1718.

#Reflections #LocalHistory

Painting of wren from the side, looking to left. Brown back and tail, with pale stripe behind the eye and speckled feathers along the lower wing. Buff breast. Standing on greeny-black post.

#ArtDD2026
Jenny wren

No other inspiration for today's painting so retreated to a wren because Wednesday is #wrensday.

@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social 🪶

Americans are tired of the government wasting their money on Medicaid and schools. They want it spent on security details for Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and Kash Patel's girlfriend.

by J.D. Vance

This "Into the Stacks" feature was very fun to contribute to, in large part because it gave me a chance to highlight all of the wonderful work that @shafrhistorians.bsky.social have been doing in the past few decades to integrate religion more holistically into the study of U.S. foreign relations. 🗃️

'sinuous politician' of the day @jdmccafferty.bsky.social or 'marvelously led away from error'? 😁

4 Mar 1641: Impeachment articles read in the #Irish House #Commons against Bishop John Bramhall &co #otd - to block their appearance as witness for Strafford in #London (SSC) Years ago I spent a long time working out what happened in this trial, a matter of much spin.

NEW: Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) introduces formal legislation to direct the Secretary of the Interior to restore interpretive and educational exhibits at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia

Trump Admin removed slavery exhibits in Philly in January

I agree and go a little further on the writing. Writing forces you to make decisions in your thinking. Forces you to decide between competing ideas in your mind.