Meaghan Walsh Gerard

Well that is lovely

“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement

According to @wsj.com, the Department of Justice told Trump that he is in the unreleased Epstein files.

House Republicans are shutting down Congress until September to avoid voting on releasing the Epstein files.

Release the Epstein files.

Book cover image: Three greyhound dogs in countryside with text The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

It’s a searingly hot summer in an unnamed year in the English countryside. And then people start hearing the howling, and someone claims to see something unnatural. Superstitions bake in the summer sun as odd happenings continue. Review: www.mwgerard.com/review-the-h... @henryholtbooks.bsky.social

AP reporting 👇🏻

The destruction of public radio is truly an existential threat to books and book culture. I can't say it enough.

fun fact:

we're advancing our analysis for PFAS compounds. the equipment we're considering measures particles down to the parts per *trillion* level.

so imagine filling 66 empty football stadiums with tennis balls.

one of those tennis balls is red.

go find it.

*that's* parts per trillion.

No no you don’t get it. My letter to El Chapo asking if he remembered all the briefcases we exchanged is just an innocent reminder of our friendship. It doesn’t mean anything. You’re reading too much into it.

This is where I tell you that, just like Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert is a profoundly kind, generous and decent man. He has been that way to me and I've never heard a bad word about him, ever. He deserves better than this and I have no doubt -- like Conan -- he will get it.

Lemme guess. It was part of their cowardly settlement with the tyrant…?

They should give free bereavement PTO for pets. My grandmother was an asshole, let me mourn my dog.

Blue Ridge Public Radio was a literal lifeline for those of us in Western North Carolina in the days after Helene.

When there is no cell service or internet, radio is all you have left.

It's infuriating to watch this Administration attack these local beacons of hope working for the common good.

She didn’t make it. We are devastated. Please love your animals and be kind.

The vet says to not give up hope yet. I’m trying. I miss her being home so much. I visited today for 2 hours and she looks awful. It hurts so much.

(We have also drained her college fund, which adds more stress. But we agree we should still try at this juncture.)

Headline 1, "Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life.'" Headline 2, "The 10 richest Americans got $365 billion richer in the past year. Now they're on the verge of a huge tax cut."

The United States summed up in two headlines.

Maisie smiles near a garden. A ball sits between her paws.

My very beloved dog is critically ill and it is too early to tell if she will respond to meds and pull through. I’m beside myself. Please hug your pet, donate to a rescue, volunteer at a shelter.

#adoptdontshop

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from all tribal lands in her home state | CNN Politics All of South Dakota’s nine indigenous tribes have voted to ban Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands.

@weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social @michaelsteele.bsky.social , K Noem is banned from all tribal land in South Dakota, all of it. Thought you might wanna know that, Michael that’s the kind of governor she us. MSNBC didn’t have an article so here’s CNN.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

Until a few months ago, secret police were such a foreign concept in the US that they were a feature of Welcome to Night Vale—the “vague yet menacing government agency”

Letter from Amelia Griffiths containing four specimens of seaweed pressed and pasted onto a sheet in a variety of shades of pink and maroon. Her scrawl contains descriptions of locations an characteristics of her findings.

Second leaf of a letter from Amelia Griffiths containing 3 sections of a seaweed specimen pressed and pasted onto a sheet alongside her writing.

These beautiful pressed seaweeds are the work of 19th-century botanist Amelia Griffiths. Sent to Dawson Turner, writer of 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘪, around 1808, this volume is currently on display as part of our exhibition 𝘐𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵: 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦’𝘴 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘴.

🎣 We're starting a #bookclub! 📚 Each month, ORK members read a book and then meet (virtually) to discuss it.

JOIN: www.ogeecheeriverkeeper.org/book-club/

First up is THE SOURCE by Martin Doyle.

#Books #Reading #HookedOnBooks #Georgia #CleanWater

I'm not going to be part of her 100% American participation of a workforce replaced by automation. My family owns about 5 square miles of Oklahoma. We produce a shit-ton of hay!

I happen to like Mexican people, a lot. They're authentic and hard working. And helping to find ppl in TX right now too.

DOOCY: So what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said she had on her desk? 

LEAVITT: I think if you go back and look at what the attorney general said 

DOOCY: I've got the quote. She said, it's sitting on my desk right now to review.

Sounds an awful lot like Soviet practices forcing people to work in mines or assigned work camps for some borscht and not getting interred in a Siberian gulag.

So… just legalizing slavery then?

Ted Cruz's rush from vacation after tragedy doubted as flight data revealed Flight data shows Sen. Ted Cruz could have rushed back to his flood-hit Texas constituency after the deaths of 100 people — including 27 girls and counsellors at a summer camp, the Daily Beast reporte...

Ted Cruz : i came home as soon as i heard

Press :

Ted Cruz :

Press : on your orig-

Ted Cruz : on my originally scheduled flight yes

Please don’t jump on the NWS employees who did their best in TX. Their office staff/budget was cut by ‘Doge’, incl. the person whose job was to get info to emergency mgmt agencies.

Demand better from the Feds. Restore NES, NOAA, FEMA funding.

So Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years for trafficking girls to nobody?!?!

Hill Country flooding: Here’s how to give and receive help Catastrophic flooding in the Texas Hill Country has killed 79 people. Rescue crews are searching for missing girls from Camp Mystic. Here is a guide on how to help those affected.

As heartbreaking news continues to emerge from central Texas, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social and I are thinking of everyone affected and grateful for the extraordinary work of first responders.

Here are some ways all of us can help: