Jennifer Weeks

The wheels are coming off

"All the beers are for me."

Los Lobos
Neville Brothers
Johnny Clegg
English Beat
Nick Lowe

We have a vegetarian and a non-fish eater in our house, so Xmas eve is grazing boards (meat, cheese, fruit, raw vegs) and Xmas typically is fancy pasta

the lesson is ALWAYS play the long game :)

And for most of them, no one is actually paying attention.

Pentagon investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly revives Cold War persecution of Americans with supposedly disloyal views President Donald Trump and his supporters cast their domestic opponents as disloyal, traitorous or worse, rather than seeing dissent as part of democracy.

During the Cold War, crusades against domestic enemies focused on alleged communists. Today, any kind of dissent is a target. By @gregorydaddis.bsky.social for @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/pentagon-inv...

And previously called Kelly commander, which is below captain in the Navy

I had two normal pregnancies, other than being of "advanced age" (37/41), but both of my daughters were tangled in their umbilical cords in labor. Routine situation for a skilled doc or midwife, but there could have been oxygen deprivation or worse without them.

A Navy captain is two ranks higher than an Army major, the level where Hegseth topped out in the National Guard, and the last step before admiral, so Kelly significantly outranks Hegseth, without even factoring in Kelly’s combat and astronaut experience

Kelly in uniform on the witness stand, explaining service members' oaths, would be like A Few Good Men in reverse, except that he probably wouldn't yell. (Kelly, calmly but pointedly, to DOD lawyer: "You want the truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH.")

Trump's DOJ is suing @boston.gov over the Trust Act - a local law that limits local law enforcement's participation in federal immigration policy, builds trust, and promotes public safety.

I'm filing a brief with the courts today to stand with Boston, the safest major city in America.

Or Odenkirk and Steve Carell

A WEEK

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Harris brings joy to the presidential campaign − and GOP mockery of ‘laughing Kamala’ is nothing new to Black women Why are Republicans talking about Kamala Harris’ laugh? It’s the latest stage in a long history of marginalizing Black women.

Exactly. For more, we did this piece @us.theconversation.com during the campaign last year theconversation.com/harris-bring...

Give the tetras a break, it's boring swimming round and round a fish tank 24/7.

The Crimson has done good, aggressive coverage of Larry Summers' role in the Epstein files and the university's response

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players, sold separately in the Elizabethan Minifigure 50-character pack.

Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe) -- bonus points for the audiobook read by an actor from Northern Ireland
A Civil Action (Jonathan Harr)
Master Slave Husband Wife (Ilyon Woo)

"Laura Ingalls Wilder got a tin cup, a candy stick and a penny for Christmas when she was a girl, and it was more than she could ever have imagined."

She has a future in romantasy.

Student journalists @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social dissect Larry Summers' text exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein, which included code-naming an Asian woman 'peril' and debating the odds that Summers (who was married) would 'get horizontal' with her.

Grendel -- read it after Beowulf, as happens in a lot of English classes. It was the first book that made me really sympathize with a monster and see that he wasn't ever given a chance to be anything else. He's also very (darkly) funny.

The woman who ran the cafeteria at our elementary school would take kids into the kitchen to pick out something if they forgot their lunches or couldn't eat that day's entree. She was tall and stocky, and would joke with parents, "Do you think someone my size will let kids go hungry?

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

From ‘Jaws’ to ‘Schindler’s List,’ John Williams has infused movie scores with adventure and emotion Composer and conductor John Williams has shown for more than 60 years how music can take movies to new heights.

Fun fact: John Williams, then a studio pianist but later the GOAT of movie composers, played piano on the original recording of "Peter Gunn" theconversation.com/from-jaws-to...

Walk This Way — Or Roll Amid federal cuts to alternative transportation projects, states like Massachusetts are leading the way in creating universally accessible trails for hikers of all abilities.

With so much national political noise, it's easy to overlook successes close to home. My first article for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social Journal looks at the movement to build trails for people of all abilities, including those on wheels @appmtnclub.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Didn't Cuomo say he'd leave the city if Mamdani was elected?