The Lady Citrus

WHAT THE HELL

I am so happy I got to meet up with @eileenchongpoet.bsky.social in person at last.
Eileen also tagged along while I went and looked for the site of Qiu Jin's China Women's Newspaper 中国女报 in an alley of Shanghai.

In response to the Polygon and Giant Bomb news, I created an indie and worker-owned games media starter pack.

I’ll keep adding to it, so suggestions and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Please share!

Me: "don't be rude about other people's food."
A complete stranger, every time: "haha, except [this one food], which is disgusting!"

I have so many questions

Starting with "do I know you?"

I don't know why some people got some strong opinions about the casserole pizza

If done right, it tastes pretty good, honestly

I swear some people hate on it way too hard, even if it's for a joke

So, it's just "inclusivity" on your own terms? Really?

Let's look at the real issues: racism, excluding non-US voices, and accessibility.

Sir, it's just sheer racism and arrogance.

The vote failed on a 49-49 tie. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat, was in Korea for an ocean conference. Mitch McConnell, who also supported the measure, also missed the vote.

On April 24, ICE agents broke into a home of a family of US citizens in Oklahoma. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE terrorized the family, ripped apart the house.

It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.

I want to grow some of my food but the thing no one talks about around gardening is how expensive it is. Both in direct costs and the costs of your time. It’s around slightly better but grow food on direct costs but much cheaper to buy food if you include your labor costs.

“Infected an Entire Generation”: AG Bondi Targets Trans-Affirming Health Care in Leaked Memo The memo isn’t law, but it is the latest escalation in Trumpian efforts to wage war on trans people.

1. In a new leaked memo, Pam Bondi is directing the DOJ to go after trans care providers under "anti-FGM" laws.

She also has directed the investigation of HRT manufacturers.

She calls transgender people "infectious."

The latest from S. Baum.

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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

In New Orders, Trump Targets Foes of His Stolen-Election Claims In a series of executive orders, President Donald Trump has ordered penalties and investigations of law firms and former officials who have challenged his claims that the 2020 presidential election wa...

New from me at Cato: Trump's penalty orders have taken a scary new turn, selecting targets for having taken a stand on behalf of the integrity of the U.S. election system, and ordering the Dept. of Justice to investigate an evidently innocent man, Chris Krebs. /1 www.cato.org/blog/new-rev...

forever thankful we met

Montana Adult Trans Bathroom Ban Blocked In Court: "No Evidence" It Protects Women The ruling is the first such ruling to block an adult transgender bathroom ban in the United States.

1. Incredible news for trans people in Montana.

A Montana judge has temporarily blocked the state's bathroom ban targeting trans adults in airports, colleges, and more.

He ruled that the state showed no evidence bathroom bans protect women.

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A news article titled "Vizio TVs reportedly show Trump immigration messaging when in standby" describes an incident shared by a Reddit user. The user claimed that when their Vizio TV was idle, it played nature videos and calming music, followed by repeated messages from the Trump administration telling illegal immigrants to leave the country. The user recounted hearing the message loop multiple times, including statements from Kristi Noem, identified as the US Secretary of Homeland Security in the message, before the TV returned to the nature clips.

What in the dystopian hell...

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Here’s The Full List Of Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs Announced Wednesday Reciprocal tariffs the U.S. is imposing on other countries will range from a flat 10% rate to 50%, President Donald Trump announced.

We are imposing tariffs on WHOLLY UNINHABITED antarctic islands in this list (Heard and McDonald). The administration asserts—and Forbes reprints this uncritically—those islands have charged 10% tariffs on US goods that it needs to respond to. www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...

If this is true, then this is somehow dumber than I imagined possible and I have a VERY good imagination.

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.

The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

Who wants to set the over/under on when the first tariffs get walked back? I’m going to place it at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. Trump will announce he’s extracted some incredible concessions, like China is discontinuing its DEI program or something.

This is true: The Trump administration said it has imposed a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the U.S. and U.K. service members at the military base on Diego Garcia.

Central U.S. braces for tornadoes and flash flooding as powerful storm approaches The National Weather Service says a "multi-day catastrophic and potentially historic" storm is expected to impact multiple states beginning on Wednesday.

The National Weather Service says a "multi-day catastrophic and potentially historic" storm is expected to impact multiple states beginning on Wednesday.

When Harris said it would be $4,000, the “fact-checkers” tut-tutted and claimed what she said was only “half true” because there were some lower estimates. The “fact-checkers” lied; Harris was telling the truth.

The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets Selected and Translated by Yilin Wang The book's cover, painted in watercolor, has a lantern glowing with a golden light, and the image of a silvery moth flying towards it. The sky is dark blue in the background. The moth has two shadows reflected on the ground. The title is written in English and Chinese in calligraphy. The book is lying on top of fallen pink cherry petals.

My debut book of translations, The Lantern and the Night Moths, turned one year old today!🏮🦋

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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Look, y'all, I'm about to be real honest with ya: I know I'm bad at math, but holy crap did I not ever guess you could literally have a whole ass country's market lose 2 TRILLION DOLLARS IN 20 MINUTES.

Everyone's tests are forever now graded on one helluva curve, cuz @_@

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Trade: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Look, I'm not gonna promise it answers all your questions, but we tried to cram a lot into 21 minutes here.

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