Meghan Humphreys

I haven’t wept, like truly sobbed, reading a book in a while. Hamnet broke that streak. I’m so tired now…

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Roughly 2 USAIDs

a man in a suit is riding a red bicycle with his feet up . Alt: Pee Wee Herman enjoying his bike ride (look ma, no feet!)

I survived biking on Friday the 13th rush hour traffic, in the rain, with some VERY jerky lifted truck drivers out there. I hope they feel inadequate that a middle aged lady on a bike was going faster than they could. Me, passing them:

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Hoo, girl. Past you (and current you) is smart

two men are laying on the floor and one of them says " would you classify that as a launch problem " Alt: Chris and Mitch from Real Genius are laying on the floor and Chris says "would you classify that as a launch problem or a design problem”

Oh my god, Real Genius finally came true but instead of the Air Force using it, it was the Worst Possible Bad Actors.

Two years ago

Can anyone at @councilofnonprofits.org or one of the state associations say if you're putting together a group response or recommendations for this? Seems very bad for anyone with a SAM dot gov account: www.venable.com/insights/pub...

Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

A reminder that, while some of the damage that Trump & GOP are doing might seems temporary, the damage they're doing to the planet is permanent:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

Put some respect on Anna Griffin’s name; this piece is a heartbreaker.

They know they can’t win unless they take away our voting rights. And they are trying to do it. That’s how you know they’re the bad guys:

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

They will be warehousing people.

And treating them as objects.

These are concentration camps.

Last year, the administration cancelled the solar for all program that was helping improve the grid and help low-income households in all 50 states and Puerto Rico bsky.app/profile/cost...

They’re the only things left driving our economy — nobody better figure out the answer to male loneliness or the whole house of cards will collapse.

They made something that 1) already existed 2) made it worse and 3) put Trump’s name on it.
ON BRAND!

Yes! (Fellow Mizzou alum who thought the same thing.) Haven’t seen the same level of book sludge on Kobo or Libby yet, hopefully it won’t make it there.

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

a cartoon says that having fun isn 't hard when you have got a library card Alt: a cartoon says that having fun isn 't hard when you have got a library card

My Libby account says I’ve read 865 books in the past five years. Struggling to imagine what buying 865 paper books would even look like sitting in my house, not to mention the almost $13,000 those might have cost me. #librariessavedme

a woman wearing a blue sweater and earrings is sitting on a couch . Alt: Dorothy from Golden Girls blinks in *I can’t believe this is my life*

Still remember in 2003 giving Dan Saltzman a tour of my employer’s new leed-certified office (which had bike storage and showers) and mentioned I’d been using it but biking over the Ross Island bridge was a nightmare. He said “why did we spend all those millions to fix it if it’s that bad?” Me:

My money is on this being a Yes Men stunt to point and laugh at the Very Bad Not-Billionaires who would do something so silly.

We could fully pay a year’s rent for over 4,000 Portlanders ($2,000/mo) with that. That’s almost enough to house everyone marked as unsheltered in Multnomah County overall! Please just house people, my god.

Because individual billionaires won’t do it, it would appear, even with billions they’ll never have the lifespan to spend.

a man in a suit and tie says i would like to think so Alt: Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock says i would like to think so

Weird as it sounds, media may need to retvrn to ye olden days when news outlets were weird subsidiaries of General Electric or (per 30 Rock) Sheinhart Wig Co. They may not have been news experts, but at least they used corporate profits to underwrite the news department.

Can this be performed on a nation, one wonders…