Geoff Kemmish

Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social Follow Organizers in Twin Cities making rare plea for folks to share broadly: ICE ops have changed & escalated this week. They've moved to a 'flood-the-zone' strategy, nabbing anyone they can from bus stops, the sidewalk, cars, or homes. This means indiscriminate abductions and obviously no warrants. Jan 7, 2026 at 10:53 AM © Everybody can reply 81 reposts 10 quotes 68 likes

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social A step up the ladder of escalation US Intercepts Russian Tanker in Atlantic "The US has launched an operation to seize a Russian tanker in the north Atlantic." www.ft.com/content/fce8.. US intercepts Russian tanker in Atlantic Move follows failure of previous bid to capture vessel as it headed to Venezuela @ www.ft.com Jan 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM @ Everybody can reply

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service @ www.huffpost.com Jan 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM @ Everybody can reply

Elizabeth Jacobs... @elizabethjacobs.b... Follow back RFK Jr. has just unilaterally declared that the CDC will stop recommending several vaccines for children. As best I can tell, the vaccines RFK Jr. Will no longer recommend are HepB, rotavirus, RSV, COVID19, Hepatitis A, and influenza. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/ 5673251-cdc-reduces-childhood-vaccines/ © thehill.com Jan 5, 2026 at 2:31PM @ Everybody can reply

One year in. Just the last two days. How did this happen so fast?

“You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favour. And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in…Nothing in there about orders. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.”

Sam Vimes - Night Watch

It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care

“OK. Ok. Let’s believe he’s a good man. But his second-in-command - is he a good man too? You’d better hope so…And the rest of the court, they’ve got to be good men. Because if just one of them’s a bad man the result is bribery and patronage."

Sam Vimes - Men at Arms

As an apprentice with EdF, I was taught to use “ VAr “

That’s easy for him to say

And pollution that will last for tens of thousands of years. We have no viable plan for dealing with the waste from the 1970s power stations and submarines. Where are the plans for all the future pollution that we are rushing to create ?

*Maelog - a curse on all auto-correct software.

They want us to be frightened of one another, thinking there must be an enemy, but the only enemy now is the grags and those poor fools like your brother… They are the victims of the sneaking bastards in the darkness.

Marlon Cheerysson — Raising Steam #pratchett

“OK. Ok. Let’s believe he’s a good man. But his second-in-command - is he a good man too? You’d better hope so…And the rest of the court, they’ve got to be good men. Because if just one of them’s a bad man the result is bribery and patronage."

Sam Vimes - Men at Arms

… then one day a man said ‘No more kings!’ and we rose up and we fought the bloody nobles and we dragged the king off his throne and we dragged him into Sator Square and we chopped his bloody head off!

Men at Arms

-220% ? Positively Trumpian

Volunteering to follow Faridge’s ranting probably qualifies as masochism.

Johnathan Swift had it down cold.

So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea
Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller yet to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum

Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the [world]; the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trollen folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy.

The Colour of Magic

All the little angels rise up, rise up.
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!

— Nightwatch

Granny had never had much time for words. They were so insubstantial… They were as soft as water, but they were also as powerful as water and now they were rushing over the audience, eroding the levees of veracity, and carrying away the past.

— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters

Guys, please. It’s been unused and rotting quietly on the tarmac for five years, but nobody made them an offer.

He’s the mark … again.

Better check to see if it still has four engines before going for a test drive.

Only in dreams are you free. The rest of the time you need wages.

— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters

Saddest evening of my life was a pTerry book signing in Lincoln Square when he announced and described ( a bit ) the embuggerance. Ending with singing the “ Esso Blee Dooler“ song from our youth. Thanks to your Dad there just maybe enough good people around to get through it all.

Very few around - they were only made for a couple of years and there’s no way they would meet the federal safety regs. Wildly over-engineered and, for the time, overpriced. Took me a year to find one. Never going to sell it.

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people. You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

— Havelock Ventinari, Guards Guards

You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it anymore you tell them another lie … And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable.

Supreme Grand Master — Guards, Guards

The S&P500 continuous contract - one of the S&P derivatives herd. Right now, a falling knife. Not a good idea to try to catch it

<s>We have always been at war with Canada</s>

In a story by Natalie Allison after the assassination attempt against Trump, acquaintances of Trump say there’s a “new softness” to him — he’s “existential,” “serene,” “emotional” and “spiritual.”

When the story of media complicity in the rise of American fascism is written, this tweet by a Politico reporter last July should be duly noted.

At a book-signing in Lincoln Square, he recommended ‘Sourcery’

The “ Standings “ web page says 13 - but no details.

Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

— Feegle war cry. The Wee Free Men

[T]he children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.

— Sam Vimes, Nightwatch

More importantly, given his history, will they get paid ?