Elizabeth

Just finished rereading this for the first time in 30+ years. The book was grim enough then, but an order of magnitude more menacing now that we have such openly hostile leaders.

Solidarity food pantry is just around the corner from me and I send them money every month. For October, I also gave to Atlanta Community Food Bank and to Community Assistance Center. I sent the Good Mews cat shelter some money too. More in November and December - winter is coming!

Kris and Dave

Make the companies and people who contributed to this monstrosity feel some economic pain. Including in particular Georgia’s Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher, major donors.

Protesters under a large tree

Protesters including an inflatable chicken in front of a park gazebo

Hundreds of people in Rhinebeck, NY took a break from the Sheep and Wool Festival to march in a lively No Kings protest Saturday morning. #NoKings

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

Why hasn’t this grifter ignoramus been impeached already?

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

Senator Ossoff is fantastic. He did a lot to put a stop to a big strip mine beside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. He supports a ban on Congress members owning individual stocks. He has been outspoken in defending the CDC and other Georgians harmed by the current regime.

Goldcrest - a tiny bird with grey and green-yellow and black feathers, and a bright yellow stripe on top of the head. The bird is perched in a tree.

Goldcrest - along with the closely-related Firecrest, this is the smallest bird in the British Isles. Not easy to photograph as they are often amongst dense vegetation & move quickly.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #bird #birdphotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #birdofprey

If I never see the word "crackdown" again, it'll be fine with me. Especially since it always seems to mean "tantrum" or "hissy fit" in current usage, and to have nothing to do with the rule of law.

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society spells disaster for civilisation as we know it

jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

This is what Kemp gets for trying to suck up to Trump: loyalty runs only one way, and nothing is ever enough. And there are still plenty of MAGA, like that imbecile Tori Branum, who are fine with this sorry outcome.

Unbelievable. Even for MAGA, this is beyond stupid.

A giant, avoidable fustercluck - and who benefits except Tesla? Meanwhile Georgia looks like a bunch of racist yokels.

Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"

Sing it.

Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."

Anti-vaxxers are making excuses for the CDC shooter RFK Jr. isn't helping.

Predictably, RFK Jr. isn’t helping.

Senators are Van Hollen, Welch, Schatz, Murray, Kaine, Durbin, Merkley, Sanders, Warren, Smith, Baldwin, Markey, Warnock, Heinrich, Duckworth, Klobuchar, Hirono, Alsobrooks, Lujan, Ossoff, and Murphy. Both GA Senators and Baldwin from WI but no one else from a Trump 2024 state. No NY, NJ, or CA.

Trump’s corrupt DOJ is going to put out a statement full of lies by sex trafficker Maxwell who is trying to get out of prison, while refusing to release the statements of the victims and witnesses which would prove she’s lying. DOJ is now siding with sex traffickers over victims.

Knitted chicken stuffie

I made a couple of these Emotional Support Chickens for the kids. Wish I could make one for all of us because we really need some emotional support these days!

Colorful lobster pot buoys on small wooden building

Timeline cleanse: buoy shack on Badger Island in Kittery, Maine.

The GOP is shutting down Congress to avoid revealing evidence that the President is a r*pist.

This cannot stand.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Opinion | A New Era of Hunger Has Begun

Nobody in America should go hungry. But they do, and the Trump budget bill is about to make things much worse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...