Mindy Lawrence is writing a rom-com!

There’s something afoot in Iowa! Second flip of a GOP state seat there this year. Well done!

If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them:

—Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings
—More guns don't make us safer
—A majority of Americans want gun reform

We don't have to live like this.

Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.

This is what dictatorship looks like.

2,000-plus Pima County kids get free books through Dolly Parton's program Even her biggest fans have trouble choosing Dolly Parton’s greatest hit.

It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...

Just saw all your comments from last night’s post and someone shared a pic, Orlando showed up and used chalk to bring the rainbow crosswalk back! We love this so much!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

I sat across the deposition table from Ghislaine Maxwell when she lied repeatedly – one question after the next. We have witnessed that again with the release of Maxwell’s interview where this convicted felon repeatedly and brazenly lied on the record to the government. Maxwell ruined countless young lives with impunity for too long. Her effort to recreate history and distance herself from Epstein should not and will not be tolerated. The documents don’t lie, the multiple witnesses that testified against her at trial didn’t lie – the only person lying is Maxwell.

Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.”

Full statement

Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president?

Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out

this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇

Newsom releases new ad 🔥

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.”

I also encountered some very common birds, northern red, show-eye, blackbird, magpie robin didn't shoot the winter Gogai mountain bird condition is really good. #photography #birdwatching #birding before it's too late #photography #nature

political cartoon depicting the interchangeability of the two capitalist parties.

-Laura Gray, 1946

NY’s @GovKathyHochul: “All of a sudden this happens when they refuse to release the Epstein files. No one’s buying this… Texas, knock it off, and we ll knock it off. But we’re not gonna sit on the sidelines.”

Good news! The pointless weekly “five things” memos that federal employees have been emailing into what felt was a black hole are officially being retired, the Office of Personnel Management announced.

Texas Dems Offer Fiery Response After Abbott Threatens To Arrest And Expel Them For Leaving The State That is how you do it 👏🏼

And this is how it's done.

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

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I am trying dictation for the first draft of my new book, and boy is it a different skillset to talk a novel out loud! I think it's helping me get the trash draft done faster but it's going to add a lot of clean-up time in editing. 😂 #writingcommunity #amwriting #romancewriter #writers

That's wonderful news!! So happy to hear this.

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

South Carolina voters:

There is a better choice.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "We're trying to play by one set of rules. And these folks on the other side play by a completely different set of rules. So much so that the president United States called Greg Abbott and told him, in essence, find 5 additional seats so he can rig the election next year."

Powell called out Trump for making stuff up to smear him

"I'm not aware of that, Mr President. I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed. You just added in a third building is what that is. No, it was built five years ago. We finished it five years ago. It's not new."

BREAKING: Oversight Democrats just passed a motion in subcommittee to subpoena the DOJ to release the Epstein files. Total vote was 8-2 in favor (all Democrats voted in favor, 3 Rs for and 2 Rs against)

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files.

As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed.

Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

They'd rather go home than face the truth.

Ruben Gallego

YouTube video by Annie Andrews Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid" (Captioned)

There are a lot of new folks here so I wanted to reintroduce myself. 👋

I’m a mom, a pediatrician, and person who is willing to say what needs to be said.

And I am a Democrat running to send Lindsey Graham home.
youtu.be/OEBFi3kxNP4

Large crochet dumpling with eyes below two paperbacks of Time Loops & Meet Cutes

After eating some magical dumplings at a night market, Noelle Tom gets stuck in a time loop.

Time Loops & Meet Cutes is available in paperback, ebook, and audio!

jackielaubooks.com/books/time-l...

today's random theater photos:

four views of a 1906 production of Cymbeline

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.