Seasonal Michellergies

Do you think @kenjennings.bsky.social might know?

Wasn’t it the last shutdown when they found that baggy of coke in the cloakroom?

An It’s the Great Pumpkin play set. Shown are figures of Linus with his blanket and signs welcoming the Great Pumpkin, Sally standing with him, Lucy in her witches costume, Charlie Brown with his ghost costume, Schroeder playing his piano, PigPen in a cloud of dust, Frieda with her naturally curly hair, the World War One Flying Ace, Woodstock, and a bunch of pumpkins (it is a sincere pumpkin patch after all)

🎃MOST SINCERE PUMPKIN PATCH🎃

Harry Potter: I’ve not read past Order of the Phoenix or watched the movies past the Prisoner of Azkaban. I wasn’t spoiled until 2018. It was actually very easy to avoid. And now that JK is a nightmare, I’m smug about the whole thing 😄 (HP came out the year before I graduated high school)

I wrote a poem about this very thing back before 2017. Just the lack of hope on the internet, period. It’s disheartening.

Careful, you’re gonna get the lectern guy after you 😉

Machete Kills in Space | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi Machete Kills in Space: Directed by Robert Rodriguez. With Danny Trejo. Voz flees to outer space after attempting to start a nuclear war on Earth and there is only one man who the President can trust ...

It’s coming

nora reed designs ad reading "new this week" with a variety of pendants, some cufflinks, earrings and a bolo tie. the background is an image of a glass sheet in purple and green that eventually became one of the pendants pictured.

hello everyone! i am nora and i have a fused glass jewelry shop at nora.jewelry. i have a bunch of new stuff this week!

i specialize in pendants, cufflinks and bolo ties but i have recently started doing more with lightweight, easy to wear sterling silver earrings.

shares would be appreciated!

"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country." My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five. He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor. "Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk." "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city. That was last week. This week changed everything. This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia. He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities. Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight. The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own.

Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield. "Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..." As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government. The president who would be king. Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York. A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish. Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man. You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong. Nothing excuses this. Nothing. Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front. The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet. We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart. Here, ready to rumble. Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble. Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us. Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice. What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis. "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered.

One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us. You're right, Dad. I know. I'm a Memphian, soon under siege. (Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
barnes@dailymemphian.com
mcashiola@dailymemphian.com

Stand with Dan.

Oh this is exciting! I’m 3 weeks away from having insurance for the first time since I was kicked off Medicaid 6 mos after my 7yo was born! You best believe my first stop is getting boosted for any and everything. All at once, put me out for a week, idgaf, just give me those glorious antibodies! 🥂

Those cookies look amazing! There’s something about a monster M&M cookie. Happy Friday night to you and yours, indeed! 🥛🍪🥛🍪🥂

Trump’s acetaminophen mispronunciation mocked by PBS alum Lamb Chop On Monday, President Trump struggled to pronounce "acetaminophen" while announcing the drug's potential link to autism in pregnant women.

I’m just constantly delighted and empowered that the kids shows I grew up with are still morally intact.

Took me a minute, but I think I got it! It is a neat looking stitch

Two multicolored black bordered granny squares triumphantly joined together after *hours* practicing, by the Castle Line Slip Stitch join in a variegated teal.

Haha, Teacher!!I have figured it out! 🧶🤓💡

Two blue granny squares with yellow and white flowers, joined by the Castle Line Slip stitch. Photo is a still from Liza Walters’s YouTube video.

Castle line slip stitch. This is a still from the person’s YouTube video (I’ll link it if you’d like it 🙂)

Multicolored crocheted granny squares laid out in a pre-constructed cardigan pattern, in some rando’s living room somewhere. There are crocheted items everywhere and a couple of weird toes.

🎶I’m making a long cardigan, I’m not sure about this crochet joining stitch, it’s kinda fiddley. If I don’t sing I’ll shout and throw 🧶 balls🎵

Lisa: what prize did you get?
Bart: mustache comb, what’d you get?
Lisa: fake mustache. Wanna comb it?

I like that it’s a soapbox castle

I just watched The Taking of Pelham One Two Three the other day!

I went for a walk!

Hope you’re having the best day, Menswear Guy!

READING RAINBOW Returning with Mychal the Librarian Hosting

Mychal the Librarian will host a new Reading Rainbow series.

And they’re going to reinstate the draft to do it.

Yes, and he’ll do it by reinstating the draft.

Hard to be lectured about passing physical standards by a pudding pop who cannot pass the same physical standards.

He’s incoherent, but like, really, this time.

The guy who openly walks out becomes a national hero. 3 changes the whole world.

2 of those guys standing up and walking out would change the world!

Patton he is not.