Maybell Romero

Awww, thanks! It's a whole knee length dress.

I may just need to buy it for Carnival parties/daily life.

A little bit of a stretch for me since I don’t usually (ever) wear florals or anything floral adjacent, but I think it works?

Clarence Thomas is apparently one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, and famously knows the name of every single employee at the Supreme Court, down to the night janitors. His character is still bad! Not sure what “Alito is a kind in interpersonal situations” has to do with this.

A little armored one / turtle rabbit in the wild

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

I assume I need something "fancier" but I really like it!

I have a big gala I need to go to in a month or so and part of me wonders if I could go wearing this.

The cognitive dissonance of the "Don't tread on me" people demanding that the people of Minnesota (or of wherever the thugs choose to go) watch politely and without complaint (i.e., "heated rhetoric") as their cities are gassed and torn apart by violent, masked men in camo.

My current job, yes

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.

As seen on my FB, except in the case of academic institutions you could replace "since November" with "for three years" in some cases!

81 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we remember. #NeverAgain ✡️🎗️🇮🇱

Before Urban Raids, Border Patrol Tested Tactics in California Farm Country

As a reminder, before Trump even took office, Bovino used his violence against farmworkers in Kern County. Now he's back there.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Never doubt the democrats' ability to snatch a defeat from the jaws of victory

YouTube video by The Misfits - Topic Where Eagles Dare

Current writing music www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ON8...

Street art by Topsy at Swedish Medical Center, across Broadway from the Seattle University First Hill (main) campus.

OMG Law & Society is in Hong Kong next year?!

Yay; congrats!

They aren’t backing down. They’re just threatening people in other cities. Still illegal. Still unconstitutional. Even if they haven’t yet backed it up by shooting someone in the face.

Yeeeeessssss

NOAA cuts weather balloon launches due to staff shortages after DOGE layoffs | Alabama Reflector Weather forecasts in media are almost certainly derived from data and model computations made by the National Weather Service using weather balloons.

If you're wondering why weather forecasts were like, "You can expect anywhere from 4-179 inches of snow this weekend," it's because Elon Musk fired tons of NOAA/NWS folks who were sending up the weather balloons that help with accurate modeling and forecasting.

alabamareflector.com/2025/04/01/n...

People here in New Orleans are cancelling in person meetings and everything and holding them on zoom for "inclement weather," but what does this even mean? It's just colder than normal and it's not even raining? 😂

According to Google's AI, baked potatoes cook faster at lower temperatures. Who knew?

LA folks in Echo Park/Silverlake: ICE is staging at Vons on Alvarado, and have kidnapped vendors on Sunset and Alvarado and Sunset and Echo.

JFC

His mom, meanwhile, who’s been awake for about 5 minutes, after said washing of the dog butt.

The look of a dog who 1) got drenched and cold (54 but feels like 42 ❄️) when he had to go and do his business this morning, 2) got into something gross outside yesterday so pooped all over himself when hurriedly going and 3) just had his butt humiliatingly washed by his mom.

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

YouTube video by thestrokesVEVO The Strokes - Someday (Official HD Video)

Me listening to The Strokes while writing my article in our home library, staying home during Chewbacchus like a true old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=knU9...