Grudge Cat

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.

-Charlie Kirk

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Just finished re-reading The Secret Garden. It was even better than I remembered it from my childhood. Perfectly lovely little story about the power of friendship and the magic of being outside.

I've officially spent one full year of the last ten listening to audiobooks. Time well spent.

This is what happens when you empower masked mobs to grab people off the streets.

“We have seen medics in their uniforms killed and buried under ambulances crushed by Israeli forces. […] Countless bodies in the streets being eaten by dogs. People calling from beneath rubble, with help from first responders denied until no one was left breathing”

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

America in a nutshell.

In case I wasn’t clear…

There’s a kitschily-named concentration camp in Florida.

There’s a concentration camp in Florida.

There’s a concentration camp.

It has 32 men to a cage grabbed without due process for having brown skin.

People will visit there decades from now and say “NEVER AGAIN!”

Call your reps.
202-224-3121

The U.S. global education budget: $1.2 billion.

Elon Musk’s federal subsidies in one year: over $6 billion.

Rubio slashed 396 programs across 53 countries—cutting off girls, refugees, and entire school systems overnight.

If this isn’t worth sharing, I don’t know what is.

Too few people realize that widespread knowledge of Nazi death camps came very late. Many who escaped Nazi death camps took on great risk to warn others, and were not always believed.

that happens with some of mine, but then I usually re-read the entire series when the next book comes out.

I've also recently been reading a lot of T. Kingfisher in e-books, and reading memoirs/ biographies in print. just finished I'm glad my mother is dead by Jenette McCurdy, and started a bio on Harriet Tubman.

nice list! I just finished The Wandering Inn (audio), Sacrilege: Curse of the Mbirwi by Nyasha Hatendi
Sacrilege: Curse of the Mbirwi
by Nyasha Hatendi (audio), The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson (audio)

I haven't really dug into Libby since every time I've looked for a particular book, the wait list was really long. since I usually binge series, I don't want to wait for the next one.

libraries are amazing. I get all my e-books through Hoopla, my library card allows me 8 per month which is usually more than I need.

I always have at least one audiobook, one e-book, and one in print book going, so I can enjoy books in almost any circumstance.

I never used to understand when people would say reading is a hobby because in my head, everyone reads. Sadly adult me has found that is not true. Anyway, finished 5 books since Saturday.

YouTube video by The Judds The Judds - Love Can Build A Bridge (Official Music Video)

I miss the days when country was the music of the poor and oppressed. The stuff on the radio these days is NOT country. music.youtube.com/watch?v=0WO-...

cc: Etsy — we are seeing a lot of these messages

The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says Economists polled by Dow Jones forecasted an increase of 100,000 for the month.

Breaking: The US lost 33,000 jobs in June. They were expecting to *gain* 100,000.

The worst are the ones at work. I can cut off personal relationships but have to interact with those a$$holes daily.

Best description I've heard of the Dems so far.

“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday.

This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.