Kelly, hi.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name “Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”

*Not sorrows, but emissaries of the bittersweet:

maru mori (“the heartbreaking simplicity of ordinary things”)…
the wends (“the frustration that you’re not enjoying (something) as much as you should)…
anoscetia (“the anxiety of not knowing ‘the real you'”)*
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It seems like a bad sign when they fire the people who tell the military what’s legal and what is not.

Let's remember that Posobiec first made it to the White House press room less than a year after Roger Stone picked him up in summer 2016. He got a press pass from the Canadian propaganda outlet Rebel Media; he and his new Belarusian fiance (his "producer") threw white power signs in the White House.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

I think they don’t have a plan so much as a thing they want to do, and they are waiting for some moment of opportunity where they can do it. “Give me an excuse” is the ethos, and people looking for an excuse usually find one eventually

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Before he belonged to the world, Kermit was created to bring joy to one person.

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

As a fun reminder, the paper to come out with the first hard evidence that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs didn't come until 1980 *and* the Chicxulub crater wasn't officially identified as the source until 1990 (despite its discovery in 1978).

does any body else just kind of freeze up when u see this much cheese like it suddenly becomes impossible to choose and then the cheese monger starts plying you with delicious cheese samples to help u decide

“The two great auks now join a few other famous last survivors, sometimes known as endlings, that persist in museums as grim mementos of loss.”

Endlings. What a word.

That was the message they wanted to send.

We can do anything to anyone, regardless of how peaceful they are.

Republicans sending troops in to create unrest to prove Trump’s lie true after the fact is really just like claiming elections should be overturned because of voter trust issues they created. Always the same post-hoc shit.

A relaxed tabico cat lies on white sheets, under which are my legs. She looks like she knows she owns the place after living here for just a few days.

Cat tax.

My newly adopted cat, who arrived sweet and very chill, is now scared of me because she also arrived with an infection. Six days of pills down. Four to go.

Next i have to tackle her matted fur because no groomers here do cats.

Hopefully she’ll like me again. Someday.

I’ve been musing that Kristi Noem sees herself as Vance’s VP when Trump is carried out of the Oval. (Whether he’s carried out feet first or kicking and screaming.)

Mmhm. “food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.”

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For the love of all that is holy, Chuck Schumer, retire.

Go spend time with your family. Let people who understand what’s going on, who have even a modicum of fight in them, do what needs to be done.

Every time you speak you make it clearer that you cannot do this.

so much worse. What does the next six months have for us? Nothing is off the table for the regime

Thinking about how the former America looks a few months from now. It’s rough.

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Another tragic accident.

Hand to hand combat every night!

The classic white politician Dean Brown accidentally posting his black, gay guy sock puppet on main: Dean Browning @DeanBrowningPA 000 Replying to @ADunks5 I'm a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under Trump though. I feel respected - which I never do when democrats are involved. 10:48 AM • Nov 10, 2020 • Twitter for iPhone 4 Retweets 40 Quote Tweets 2 Likes

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'Stopped me cold': Ex-Trump insider reveals 'eyebrow-raising' reason for military meeting There may be a surprising reason why President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called an in-person meeting of America's top military brass this week, according to a former Trump-world ...

🚨 Trump used Al to scan US generals' faces for loyalty and to root out whistleblowers.

"This is how authoritarian power consolidates itself — by quietly monitoring every reaction, every hesitation, every private doubt, and turning it into a scorecard of allegiance."
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"Just the other day, a cyborg from the future came up to me, tears in his remaining eye, and said, "Sir..."

The Library Louse @TheLibraryLouse "Are you ok?" Oh my god no, but for the purposes of this conversation yes I'm fine.

every day of 2025

The best thing Dems can do at protests after this is bring American flags and wave them (not just at the No Kings protests but at anti-ICE ones). The optics of ICE firing on/abusing people embracing American flags looks awful and goes against all their propaganda that we hate the flag

Funny… these dusty stories about circumventing Nazi destruction of important things—well, they seem like notes we should be taking

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