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When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

It saves him the shame of having to order food.
Remember he doesn't know how to order wine or donuts even in his home country.
Imagine how badly he would bungle this in another county.

Let’s walk back to where we started. What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism. You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected. Racism, among other things, is a kind of chauvinism, a belief in one’s inherent superiority, based on nothing other than a meaningless accident of birth. It’s an ideology that papers over feelings of inadequacy, that tells you that — no matter what you have or have not accomplished in your life — you’re still better than someone, some group. Let’s suppose you’re the spoiled son of a self-made man. Let’s suppose that, despite your flash and bravado, you’ve failed at virtually everything you’ve tried. You’re the laughingstock of polite society, a punchline for the privileged. You think you’re superior enough to be the president of the United States — the highest honor in your country — but the actual president is a man of humble origins, a minority of the kind your family didn’t even rent to when you were in the landlord business. And he is claiming power that rightfully belongs to you. He’s even mocking you, ridiculing you for all the world to see. For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism.

Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Racism has a material impact on people's lives. I don't know what else to say. It leads to premature death on a daily basis.

In the last hour, dozens of GOP lawmakers began to denounce Trump's racist meme.

Minutes ago, the White House capitulated and deleted the post.

If those same lawmakers showed that same level of moral clarity when it comes to the Constitution & fair elections, the White House would capitulate.

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Please note that Korean adoptees, as well as relatives of Korean adoptees, can submit new cases to the new TRC3.
#adoption 🥚

Grace | grace Grace Pinson Transgender Activist wants to help others.

My friend Grace has done important activist work while in prison. Today is her birthday. If you can please send some money her way.
www.gracepinson.com

Look if I let myself start crying about all the women, especially women of color, that I saw pushed out of physics and astronomy by people who subscribe to sexist and racist views, I truly might never stop

The things I saw and heard

the grief feels enormous and bottomless

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Brooklyn Public Library on Instagram: "Take a baby plant, leave a baby plant — the newly-reopened Leonard Library’s Plant Library is growing community one leaf at a time. 🌿 Come nurture or adopt a lit... 1,158 likes, 23 comments - bklynlibrary on August 8, 2025: "Take a baby plant, leave a baby plant — the newly-reopened Leonard Library’s Plant Library is growing community one leaf at a time. 🌿 Come n...

One of the libraries I go to actually has a plant library, which is more of a plant free box
www.instagram.com/p/DNGdwtey06b/

YouTube video by Stanford Alumni Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History with Richard Ford

the author gives a talk on it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKx...

you might find this book interesting.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Dress-...

ugh! This looks so cool! I wish I would have known about it.
Thanks for telling us about it though.

Nourishment What the Duck?!?

Enjoying the fruits of our culinary labor is a privilege that is unique to the human condition....Meals are sustenance for more than the body when consumed this way. They become social, emotional and intellectual nourishment. artfullyexercising.substack.com/p/nourishment #FitnessSky

I learned how to unhook my bra with one hand from a maxim magazine

It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

Federal agents violently disrupt a church event.
This is a violates our right to freedom of religion.

16 Glee-ridden Words from Schitt's Creek Don’t watch without reading this, you little frippets!

Thank you, Catherine O’Hara, for your vivaciously venerable vocabulary.
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service.

I want more people to make the connections.

I'd take it as A

I think Covid is another reason people are doing indoor dining less or not at all.

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"Schumer got the GOP into a position where the only thing being argued over is DHS funding."
We are the ones who made DHS funding into a topic of discussion.

Schumer didn't do that. WE did.

how are you going to "rein in" the DHS? If it isn't a full disarming of them, allowing them no weapons whatsoever, it's useless. It's easier and more effective to not give them any new funding.
Defund Disarm Disband ICE

One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona The individual is in custody and receiving care, according to law enforcement.

Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.

literally someone said that to me when I walked IN FRONT OF THEIR CAR AT A STOP SIGN.
If you don't see me as I take my right of way in front of a stop sign you didn't look and you should not be driving.

There is a kind of peace that exists only because it refuses to tell the truth.

Pretti did not make a "tragic mistake by interfering with ICE agents." He helped a woman being tear gassed, and he was murdered for it. He's a victim of a crime, and this is victim blaming.

To be crystal clear: the police will never save us from ICE. Across the country, time and time again, they are HELPING ICE. To break ICE's power, we have to separate ICE from the violence and enforcement mechanisms of the police.

Call Hochul and tell her to support and sign NY4All.