Lady Gristledown

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:

wapo.st/448fDw6

Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World The 17-percentage-point drop in U.S. religiosity over the past decade is among the largest declines measured in the Gallup World Poll.

Turns out turning over your country's largest religion with a man engaged in a massive cover-up of his ties to the largest child rape ring of the century isn't great for church attendance.

Apropos of my name, I’m a fan of gristle in food.

Do you remember when you got a roast with a hank (about 2” x 3”) of white chewy gristle?

Mom would cook it all and I thought that gristly bit was savory and delicious!

Chili could use some gristle as well.

#recipes #food

Indivisibles in Los Angeles are ready for today’s protest at Spotify HQ. Join us at the top of the hour to demand that Spotify stops running recruitment ads for ICE: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

Trump bragged about grappling women by the pu**y & barging into rooms of partially dressed, young pageant contestants. A jury concluded he assaulted E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room. So nothing that’s in the Epstein emails is a surprise. It’s just confirmation.

Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

A shore tumbled pebble full of Goniatite fossils.
County Clare, Ireland.

Sarah Kendzior on X: I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my Substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems like a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe …

‼️ Why did you, @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team suspend the account of one of the most outspoken, independent and important critics of the Trump regime - my friend and colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ? By cutting her off, you also endanger her. Reinstall her account NOW!
Please share widely

The people STILL have power!

This is important - is Bluesky now also complying?

Gets ever more clear: we need social networks of we the people!

WTF? Actually?

3 Bob Ross Paintings Sell for $600,000 to Support Public Broadcasters The landscapes by the television host were sold as part of a campaign to help public television stations weather federal funding cuts.

Three Bob Ross paintings sold at auction in Los Angeles for over $600,000, the first of 30 canvases by the artist and television host to be sold as part of a campaign to help public broadcasters across the U.S. weather federal funding cuts.

Raskin: If this were to pass, this astounding provision would give eight Republican senators a personal payday of at least a million dollars each, paid for by the U.S. Taxpayers at a time when we are throwing millions of people off of their health care…

WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”

Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

Northern lights in west Twin Cities exurbs. Is it aliens??? Gorgeous!

Northern lights in the Twin Cities West Metro

Amazing we could see this despite light pollution. Thank you IPhone for creating more detail!

That is the best thing I’ve seen all day!

Thank you!

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole

If you still support Trump, I don’t judge you for your choice of political party.

I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity.

I judge you for your support of racism, misogyny, pedophilia, homophobia, treason & fascism.

So will others. So will history.

Moved from Houston, TX to Minneapolis in 1993. Plan to die here!

There’s a reason native Texans are the way they are. Takes too long to get anywhere much different from where they grew up. OK, Louisiana is different. Arkansas, Oklahoma, not so much.

As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔

BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility.

So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.

This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Four union media workers were fired, in violation of their rights at work—that is a canary for all of us in this business. If we lose power at work, trust me it’s not any easier to hold anyone with political power to account.

Watch target will re-launch their pride campaign tomorrow, a few months late

I’ve been wondering why the beef in my beef stew tasted sort of soapy myself.

I was about to blame the grocery store for some kind of “wash it with soap” to eliminate e-coli scenario…

I guess I should purchase the blue dawn instead of the green?

I sort men and women under 30 the same way I sort children.

Cute, but aren’t you out past your bedtime?