Jennifer Wray

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"does the president know what is real and what is not" is a legitimate question that should probably get asked a lot more

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

You need to look in to your heart you piece of shit

Box for a Playmobile toy showing a helmet-wearing construction worker holding a newspaper right outside of a port-a-potty that beckons him with a partially opened door.

I own a different version of this one, a port-a-potty play set that includes a construction worker with his own newspaper to read while he relieves himself.

Playmobil figurine suited up in fire gear and gloves, with a flashlight, a snake-grabber stick thingy, two snakes and a clear box to contain them in.

I love Playmobil’s extremely specific characters and designs. Like, a firefighter performing a snake rescue—sure, why not!

“Become a courts reporter,” they said.

“You’ll get weekends off,” they said.

“Because there won’t be any hearings on the weekend,” they said.

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

"In honor of all the people who brave the unthinkable struggle of having to be American every day: The Thin American Line" A b/w US flag, with a squeezed normal flag in the thin blue line spot.

maybe the best dog halloween costume ever: a suspicious beagle is wearing a clown carrying a plate with the dog's head on it.

Josh Crowley (sp?) (@jdcrowley) on twitter: "If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct."

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

Crowd chanting, "lick them boots! Lick them boots!" at ISP.

A few hundred people here in protest of the detention center now.

A coalition of Jewish orgs have just arrived and are singing and praying outside the industrial park.

I’m a heart attack survivor and acetaminophen is pretty much the only OTC painkiller I’m allowed to take, but I do so very cautiously. I recall hearing as a teen about my uncle’s buddy—an alcoholic who used Tylenol to treat his hangovers, a one-two punch to his liver that led to his early death.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

i did the dismal math on this recently and i haven’t gone more than a year without losing a loved one since i was a teenager. most years it’s more like every ~6 months. tell people you love them, man. tell it to them all the time even if it feels embarrassing

Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Trump Christmas Cold Open - SNL

I think we’re about the same age (I was born in ‘78) and my parents would let me stay up late to watch SNL. As a result, this sketch lives rent-free in my head. youtu.be/v9WoSitRLgY?...

Report: Friend Has Been Going By Middle Name This Whole Fucking Time CALABASAS, CA—Astounded that it had never come up at any point in the six years they had known each other, local woman Lucy Reed, 25, reported Tuesday that her friend Nicole Silberthau had apparently ...

Report: Friend Has Been Going By Middle Name This Whole Fucking Time

MICHIEL COXCIE (1499-1592), CARTOONIST; WILLEM DE PANNEMAKER (ACTIVE 1535-1578), WEAVER Noah Builds the Ark "Story of Noah' series Brussels-Brabant, 1563-1566 Tapestry; gold, silver, silk and wool In 1556, Philip II acquired a set of tapestries that told the story of Noah. However, in 1559 the ship carrying them to Spain sank and only two hangings were saved, so the king ordered another set in 1562. It originally consisted of ten tapestries, only three of which are still extant: one shows God commanding Noah to build the ark, another depicts the disembarkation after the flood, and the third is this scene, where the biblical patriarch is giving his sons instructions on how to build the ark. For the borders, Philip II chose his coats of arms and a few animals alluding to the four elements silhouetted against a landscape in the background, whose painstaking details must have posed quite a technical challenge. This tapestry arrived in Madrid in 1566 and was displayed in emblematic settings like the Monastery of El Escorial.

spiritually and emotionally I am these lions from a 1500s painting

Ah, dang! You beat me to it. (I had a small, nonspeaking role in my high school’s production of The Lottery. Not to brag, but I’m better than your average 14-year-old at miming throwing rocks.)

"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE.

If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

Just a friendly Friday afternoon reminder from your friendly neighborhood lawyer to keep your doors phones & computers locked don’t let anyone in you don’t know & ask anyone who claims to have a warrant to slide it under the door first! Make sure address is correct & it is
dated & signed by a judge

The year is 2001. Sinclair is using a tragedy to suppress what songs the radio can play.

The year is 2025. Sinclair is using a tragedy to suppress what shows the tv can play.

The year is 2050. Sinclair is perfect. I have no complaints. I named all my children Sinclair.