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Making bookshelves great again.

Children, really. "In follow-up posts, Musk suggested that he would leave the Republican Party, accused Trump of involvement with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and backed a call for the president’s impeachment."

Oh the irony, oh the metaphor. One day, his starship blows up, the next day, it's his gov't career.

Truth found on a light pole. DWTN LA

Sign sat it all at the Last Bookstore in DWTN LA.

Kristi Noem’s Bag, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen (Gift Article) The homeland security secretary was dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. She also lost her passport and keys.

Only the best people… the Homeland Secretary can’t keep her codes secure and Hegseth can’t keep his trap shut.

And, in front of LA’s Federal Detention Facility, where the Trump administration jails legal residents and citizens, denying them their Constitutional rights

Hey, if you’re in LA, come on down to city Hall, we’re making noise today!

Travel to the U.S. from almost everywhere is falling under Trump — The Washington Post Charts show the scale of a steep drop in visitors from key countries and regions after President Donald Trump returned to office.

I've been hearing it everywhere and now it's official: international visitors are avoiding the USA thanks to Trump, hate speech and guns

The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US

Read the Naval Academy’s list of removed books The Navy released the titles of 381 books that were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library on the Annapolis, Md., campus this week because their subject matter was seen as being related ...

Maya Angelou’s seminal autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” and books on the Holocaust & KKK were included on the Navy’s list of 381 books yanked from the Naval Academy Library before a visit by alcoholic womanizer blowhard Peter Hegseth. No word when the bonfire begins.

California’s Monarch Butterflies Are Down 99%. Can This Plant Help? - River Partners The New York Times

Except they’re nearly extinct! We’ve destroyed the species! That’s a rather important detail for your post. riverpartners.org/news/media-s...

Paris park on a Saturday, incomparable. #placedevosages These guys would get shot in the #USA

Most people in this pic are waiting/shuffling to get into Notre Dame. People not in pic are inside, thanks to free timed admission tix you get online. I got mine 2 hrs ago, go in soon. #Paris #NotreDame

Visited the low-key museum in Reims, France today where the Germans surrendered on May 7, 1945. It preserves the room in Eisenhower's HQ where the docs were signed. I can't imagine the outrage of the people who beat the Nazis if they knew fascists were tearing apart the USA from within today.

Pableaux Johnson, the Heart of New Orleans Hospitality, Dies at 59 (Gift Article) As a photographer, cook and writer, he united communities through shared meals, vivid storytelling and a deep love of the city’s traditions.

Not sure how I missed this, but Pableaux Johnson, a great New Orleans food writer and a great friend to 1000s, died in Jan. At Lonely Planet, we published his first book on NOLA eats, it was superb.

Thousands protested in NYC today for Not My President’s Day. I was glad to be in town while in transit. Loved seeing all the people who care about human decency out on a day when the wind chill was 18F. We have to start somewhere! • Resist

Anne Telnaes, the ex-Wash Post cartoonist who quit over Bezos censoring the content, just posted this about Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center. Says it.

The view in Bolivia this evening.

I’ve been visiting Bali for 31 years – I’ve never been more worried for the island’s future I first landed in Bali in November 1993. Unlike today, the airport wasn’t jammed with flights from around the world, rather you caught one of the few flights from Jakarta each day and entered the isla...

Meanwhile, for your reading pleasure, I dump on Bali, which I do still love... It's complicated.

President Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under Trump’s Watch President Trump’s remarks, suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major e...

Trump giving his voters exactly what they want and understand: racism and stupidity.

When the franchise runs out of gas. [Spotted in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia]

The Sunday Read.

Target ending DEI initiatives amid Trump's order on diversity programs Target said on Friday it was ending its diversity, equity and inclusion program along with other equity initiatives, becoming the latest U.S. firm to pull back on these policies, meant to boost racial and ethnic representation at workplaces.

Target is pandering to Trump and his ignorant racist mob by ending its DEI programs AND pulling the plug on stocking products from minority and women-owned firms. Seems Target couldn’t jump on the hate wagon fast enough. Remember this when they go fake rainbow again and claim they’re inclusive.

Mostly sums it up. Also not a fucking idiot. At least in my opinion.

The American political landscape, seen today from 35,000 feet.