Kelsey Writes Historical Romance (She/Her)

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.

ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.

We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

It’s so much easier for me to write in large chunks like this. Preferable, even.

Idk yall I just think we kick him out of the white house and go from there

Not great!

These Fio pictures have been a highlight of the day, tbh.

a few months ago I joked (??) about forcibly seizing and converting the Times building into affordable housing; I would like to amend that plan to include forcibly seizing every cent of the owners and management’s bank accounts to pay for that and then provide finished units for free.

Just checkin' the facts!

A view across a pond to a footbridge and a hillside covered in manicured shrubs and trees, many evergreen but some with bright orange, yellow, and red autumnal leaves. The colorful leaves are reflected in the still waters of the pond.

Autumn colors in the Japanese garden at the Seattle Arboretum this past weekend 🌿

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In the early 90s we had youngish neighbors who refused to go along with our super evangelical neighbors insisting they attend their church, and so the churchy neighbors spread rumors they were satanic. We finally got to know them & they were just PhD students at UCD. That era was so ridiculous.

Adorable young opossum on a bar

Look who's at the bar!

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

Yes. I think it's also a sign of how status quo propaganda around "good change is inherently painfully slow" has seeped into the wider culture, even among radicals (you are not immune to propaganda, etc).

But it was never true! That was just an excuse used to deny basic demands and shut people up.

“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”

--Megyn R. Kelly

“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”

--Also Megyn R. Kelly

Plus, it’s really all connected. Every single thing that’s wrong with Trump and his administration stems from abuse, corruption, and desire for power.

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Amazing, I love this

Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility

An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon

ICE vs the clergy

Millennials are so done.

“Quiet! Quiet!” 😬

@rezekjoe.bsky.social I’m still thinking about this

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

The Stirm family reunites. Loretta Stirm is seen in a black sweater, center of the photo.

A few days before his homecoming, Stirm received a "Dear John" letter from his wife, Loretta, who told him their marriage was over & that she’d been seeing other men. The couple went through a bitter divorce. Stirm lost his legal battle against his ex-wife over money from his military pay & pension.

Robert Stirm, Air Force lieutenant colonel in iconic Vietnam War photo "Burst of Joy," dies at 92 Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Stirm was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five years before his release in 1973. One of Stirm's prison mates was the late Sen. John McCain.

Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Stirm was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five years. When he was freed & arrived home at Travis Air Force Base in 1973, an iconic photo captured his daughter running toward her father.
He passed away on Veteran's Day, 11 Nov 2025.

I think people have to get out of the cult first before this is possible. 🙃

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Dark times call for reckless purchases.
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Cover of Unveiled, book one of the Turner series by Courtney Milan: a white woman in a blue dress.

Collage of covers for The Turner Series books by Courtney Milan: Unveiled, Unlocked, Unclaimed, and Unraveled.

"This book is so good, I want to put it in my mouth and eat it." ~ Sarah Wendell at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
/jb

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Republicans have been launching investigations into the Clintons for basically my entire life. I am 36.

I stress clean and he cooks. It helps, I think, that my MIL was a single mom and he had to learn early.

A cache of 18,000 emails offers another window into Epstein’s mind. Bloomberg parsed Amazon receipts from that inbox—filtering, verifying, and cataloging book orders—to build this timeline.

Also sounds like people who don’t understand books. “I want to set my books up so nobody needs to talk about them online or writes fanfic” is such a wild thing for someone to say if they want to make money.