Messywanderer

"Please continue peacefully protesting": Sen. Padilla after forced removal from DHS presser

10 writers by whom I've read five books.

Samuel Beckett
Penelope Fitzgerald
Hilary Mantel
Flann O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
Terry Pratchett
Philip Pullman
Dorothy L Sayers
PG Wodehouse
Diana Wynne-Jones.

Israel is that spiteful and vindictive shitty rich kid who doesn’t like to share and hates other kids having the same kind of cool toys as them. They go and break and destroy that other kid’s stuff then point and laugh and mock them because the poor kid ends up with nothing.

Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Kristi Noem press conference in LA Video shows Padilla escorted out as he tries to question homeland security secretary at Los Angeles presser

California senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference held by homeland security secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles on Thursday.

In video of the incident, Padilla is being restrained and removed from the room by multiple men.

Bunny enters a book arch with her beloved book. On a book pile is a happy chipmunk

Say Friend and Enter the Bookclub
#sketchbook

Between 1970 and 1985, a typical American family could save 10% of their income for about five years and accumulate a 20% down payment on a median-priced existing single-family home, according to a New York Times analysis. As of 2023, it would take nearly eight years, the data shows. nyti.ms/3FKEzkx

WATCH: California Sen. Alex Padilla is handcuffed and detained at DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in LA 👇

WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to the ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie

So… does Iran have a right to defend itself?

A small bird with a glossy black head and shimmering purple and blue feathers sits alertly on a slender branch.

Velvet-purple Coronet #hummingbird at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #colombia

#birds #nature

A doctor’s impassioned defense of later abortions A third-trimester provider writes the memoir Dr. George Tiller never got a chance to.

A doctor’s impassioned defense of later abortions

Tune into @CSPAN, I am about to speak on the floor of the House on why Congress has become the court of last resort for an authoritarian President. Watch now on www.cspan.org

Abbath and Horgh

some of you can't handle two high agency males going at it and it shows

Why Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern? A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during COVID.

Outside New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is regarded as a liberal paragon among world leaders. Why did her own country turn on her?

A shelf of 3 books about Roger Moore, Thomas More, and Henry Moore

In the midnight hour
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

With a rebel yell
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons on this morning's Fox & Friends: "Here I am on January 6." (It's June 6.)

Diddy trial live updates: Ex-girlfriend ‘Jane’ continues testifying in Sean Combs’s sex-trafficking trial Sean “Diddy” Combs’s federal sex-trafficking trial continues on Day 18, with anonymous witness ‘Jane’ to resume testifying a day after giving her account of “freak-offs.”

More bombshell testimony from an alleged sex-trafficking victim of Sean “Diddy” Combs is expected on Day 18 of the hip-hop mogul’s federal sex-trafficking trial.

Follow along for live updates here:

Least surprising breakup since Stephen Miller and his suit made of human skin

Rahm Emanuel leans into relationships with Obama and Bill Clinton as he looks to the future The former Chicago mayor believes those connections to the Democratic old guard are a political asset.

Rahm Emanuel, who has publicly flirted with a 2028 presidential run, told us he’s loyal to Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — and believes his connections to both men are an asset.

OK, who needs to see a cute hedgehog today?
🥰💕🦔💕🤗

A family of gray and white mushrooms grow from a crack in a mossy log under the sunlit green canopy of a spring forest. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

In Cambodia, Our Journalists Put Nike’s Claims About Factory Conditions to the Test ProPublica reporter Rob Davis began with a simple question: Had Nike truly become a beacon of environmental stewardship and fair labor practices, as it claimed? To find the answer, he had to travel ac...

NEW: ProPublica reporter @robwdavis.bsky.social began with a simple question: Had Nike truly become a beacon of environmental stewardship and fair labor practices, as it claimed?

To find the answer, he had to travel across the Pacific Ocean.

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