Michele Doyle

Died. Coffee sprayed everywhere. Children checking on me because of ongoing helpless laughter. 11/10

Longing

I miss you in the dawn,
of gradual flowering lights
and prayer-pale stars
that passed the drowning-incensed hymns,
when early earth through her greenly-sleeping limbs
puts on the exquisite gold day.

e.e cummings

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

War Ballads by Hounds on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 12 Songs

(📣) WAR BALLADS is here! The new Hounds protest album includes:

“The Ballad of Jeff and Donny”
“The Devil Came Up to Florida”
“There Will Be No Kings in America”

and many, many more.

A full album preview, with 90-second clips, is below. music.apple.com/us/album/war...

Reading about this story from the Brazilian side brings home how the US now functionally operates as an elected autocracy. Brazilian officials note how they can’t even try to negotiate diplomatically, bc there are no channels and no process. It’s only the King and his whims.

The Venezuelan Men Freed from CECOT Are Singing The Venezuelan men freed from CECOT are singing a hymn about faith, holding on, and not giving up.

The Venezuelan men freed from CECOT are singing a hymn about faith, holding on, and not giving up. Their voices shake but don’t break. They’re singing to a God they believed in through it all, even when they were locked away with 0 light and no reason to hope. #cecot #venezuelan #venezuelan #freedom

Hey! Have you signed up for PBS Passport yet? $5 per month, you donate to PBS with it, and you get all of their shows. I registered for annual at $60/year.

Cancel Paramount, get PBS passport instead.

Heck. Yeah.

The rate of calls for "lethal force" to be used against American citizens by MAGA aligned Israeli-Russian troll farms has significantly escalated in the last 48 hours.

This is a significant escalation by the MAGA ecosphere as their call for violence extends nationwide.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

You are amazing. I’m so glad you are on the interwebs

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.

substack.com/redirect/169...

myceliumyouth on Instagram hiring someone who knows D&D to write some climate justice related adventures

Saw this on Instagram. myceliumyouth hiring someone who knows D&D to write some climate justice related adventures

ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate.

He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other.

The "agent" did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle.

Pasadena, California.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

OK, this is how it's done.

Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years Measles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years.

New piece by me!

I wrote about how freaky measles is, which many people don't know about.

It depletes immune cells, and makes people vulnerable to many other infectious diseases. This raises the risk of complications for years after an infection.

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

Happy pub day to @greenwell.bsky.social and her important and fascinating book bookshop.org/p/books/bad-...

Starved in Jail Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.

We would like to issue an apology to ChatGPT

Earlier today we said we would forgive ChatGPT for taking all the content from our website for a reasonable one-time donation of 48 billion English pounds

We have now upped that request to 481 trillion English pounds

I’m not of the mind that a protest has to be “peaceful” to be effective or morally just. But the truth of the matter is that the reporting on Los Angeles in the national media is aligned with the administration’s propaganda justifying its reactiveness and excessive force. Our friend’s daughter…

Definitely need the National Guard to quell this... insurrection of... line dancing?

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

PSYACT LA: Hybrid Warfare Against American Citizens Zoom Today — Noon PT / 3PM ET

The federal government is running a hybrid warfare campaign on American citizens as part of an illegal criminal conspiracy to expand its powers beyond the bounds of the Constitution.

Everything happening in LA is a PSYACT, a psychological action.
www.mind-war.com/p/psyact-la-...

+++ On this day, the 8th of June 1949, George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four, was first published. +++
It was a warning from history / not an instruction manual

#georgeorwell #dystopian #dystopianfuture #bigbrother #room101 #thoughtpolice #INGSOC #newspeak #thoughtcrime #otd

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

The Essential Terry Pratchett

“But Pratchett’s great strength as a writer — and as a human being — was empathy…Discworld is not about how to be good, but about how to do good, and why even the smallest acts of kindness matter.”

www.nytimes.com/article/terr...