Judith Paltin

And three Torahs tomorrow! Thank you for this beautiful post after a painful week.

I try to avoid naming a favorite in a field, especially an art. Besides, I find it extremely difficult. Virginia Woolf taught me a lot. One of the things, was Jane Austen was her muse. I know very little about Jane, except today is the 250th anniversary of her birth, so ... Happy Birthday!

We could have warned you about Air Canada!

Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban

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Perfection

AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

Way, way too much milage from this gif, and we're only about a month in.

📌QUESTION: How can a private citizen, with zero govt. clearance be walking through the doors of OUR federal departments and the treasury, ransacking the places, stealing information, and NOBODY is stopping him?

📌And what the fuck is law enforcement doing right now?

📌THIS IS A COUP.

Children, this is what's known as a straw argument.

Dear reader, he did not.

Poor Pete Hegseth tonight, thinking "oh crap, now I actually have to quit drinking." Would some generous and effective professional in addiction please reach out to help him? The country (and world) needs this!!!

The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration.

It’s fucking brilliant.

The test of whether a Nazi salute was intended is whether today or very soon he publicly disavows that interpretation of the gesture, and says the Nazis taking comfort from it right now are mistaken.

In fairness the resulting fire and explosion might have set off the sprinklers.

Trump tariffs: Smith opposes blocking energy exports to U.S. but Ford wants to keep option open | Globalnews.ca Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Canada needs to be prepared for tariffs to come into effect when Donald Trump takes office, but cutting off the supply of oil is not the answer.

Is anybody going to explain what a half erect thumb means?
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"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

As an American of average means who was lucky to move to Canada in middle age, whatever its difficulties, the Canadian single payer system is infinitely better than the US for health care recipients and I would not willingly ever go back.

Fascism was bad in the 1930s and 40s. Could it be better this time?

So Mace walked into the House today with her arm in a sling and posted 500 tweets that she was the victim of a violent assault and THIS is what happened????

Exclusive | Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators Advisers asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC.

Oh hell yes, let's absolutely get rid of the FDIC. Would love to have re learn all the lessons of the New Deal again.

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OMG the concepts of a plan again. That's bc he doesn't care at all about the well-being of Americans. In areas he cares about, like punishing his enemies, he's gone beyond concepts.

I am... When is the panel?

The MSA has a new website! www.moderniststudies.org (Notice the new easy-to-remember URL.)

"He's very very shmart" some apparently drunk senator defending a nominee accused of drunkenness

Over a year after Lahaina fires, Native Hawaiian homeowners hit another breaking point Expiring financial help, insurance gaps and rising rents leave Lahaina homeowners struggling to either stay and rebuild or leave and start over.

This is so tragic. It shouldn't be this hard.
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The Annual Tuition Hike Event as predictable as rain here comes the UBC tuition fee rate hike

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Having to endure some stupid flashing light hologram advert thing pumping out techno so loud I can feel it hitting my chest while waiting at Kings Cross I appreciate again how *quiet* Vienna is. No music in public places, restaurants and cafés is the norm and that is how it should be

Thanksgiving Should Be in October A modest proposal for fixing the back-to-back-holiday crunch

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Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians