Nicole Thomas Wyeth

Ah, the joy of binging a show I didn't watch 23 years ago even though I wanted to... Just started The Wire.

2002 I must have not had HBO, then when I moved to the UK there wasn't the steaming services like they have now.

I'm on E.4 of S.1. Can already tell it's going to break my heart.

Booked my tickets for a bunch of Folkestone Book Festival sessions in Nov.

Really looking forward to seeing so many writers but especially @joannechocolat.bsky.social & @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

Was so nice knowing I could go to what I want without negotiating my time with a day job!

The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.

Many of the most accurate descriptions of American politics can be found in the comments on Balloon Juice. This one, from commenter Davis X. Machina (from about 15 years ago), is particularly apt today.

This sounds so interesting!

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

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Bob Dylan wrote Masters of War, wishing death on the warmongers who send young men to do their killing and dying. On the one hand, it's a powerful song. On the other hand, Kissinger lived to 100, so thanks for nothing, Bob.

Watching The 1975 at Glastonbury. Never hooked into them so thought I would give them a try but I really just can't find the groove in, & Healy is rubbing my fur the wrong way.

Frankly, I'm fucking bored.

Maybe it's because I'm old.

(But I really don't think that's the crux of the matter.)

Van Gogh on the beauty of sorrow and the enchantment of storms, in nature and in life www.themarginalian.org/2018/08/22/v...

I feel slightly guilty that I am projecting forward to being holiday happy with no thoughts of being crispy from nuclear fallout, but I just spent nearly 500£ on new bras, a takini bathing suit, caftan, and two sundresses.

"Let me exercise my role as G7 chair" -- Carney steps in to stop Trump from taking more questions

Overhearing two young women discussing books and one is sharing a book she just read, and as she described the ending, I realized she was talking about 100 Years of Solitude. My heart feels full.

So much is shit in the world right now. I am taking my pleasures where I can, and tonight it is in this rain, and the light sparking, crackling in the night clouds.

We don't get thunderstorms very often in the UK. Or I don't remember them like I did in America? They make me feel happy which I know is odd.

In the middle of a good olde fashioned thunder & lightening storm avec rain (natch) which makes me happy. Now I don't need to water the garden in the morning, and I love the rolling crackle and flash of light.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE.
Tells me everything I need to know about you.

"I want y’all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us."

Read what Doechii said during her #BETAwards2025 speech: rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Trump was yucking it up at last night’s UFC fight while escalating the situation in LA—putting residents and cops at risk from his safe space. If it’s serious enough to call in the National Guard, a real leader would’ve stayed at the White House. He’s just playing politics.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Interesting that none of this type of military force was at the United States capital when it was under assault

If you’re in Los Angeles right now, make smart decisions and keep yourself safe. Trump and his people are clearly thirsty to escalate this situation—they’re practically giddy about it all over social media. Just be careful, because they want violence.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.

Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

Smart move by the LAPD—they need to stay ahead of this wag-the-dog operation Trump and Hegseth are running.

#OurForeverLibrarian
Dr. Carla Hayden
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By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food."

"Hmm."

"But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things."

"Oh, I guess that ..."

"And then we go to war with California."

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there.

What an unbelievable asshole.