Deirdre

This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.

These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Minneapolis, Alex Pretti memorial, Mary Turner President of National Nurses United paid a very moving tribute to Alex Pretti who was savagely executed.

Nurses save lives every single day, we need to be fully committed to supporting them in this difficult moment.

The real question is: why is ICE bringing firearms into our cities and shooting people with them? The situation is only as volatile as ICE makes it. Get them out!

Orange and white cat, determined. Text reads, "our enemies are cowards and we are going to defeat them."

Thisis still tru. Btw.

Also Tolkien's whole "the hands of the King are the hands of a healer" thing, and how the true measure of a leader is the measure to which they can heal, unite, mend, repair, inspire, bridge divides, help those in need...

A reminder how ICE treats priests.

ICE agents are the worst of the worst. 😢

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I literally do not understand why the trump administration is deciding to throw away the minuscule credibility they have left for an ICE agent who filmed himself murdering an American citizen.

GREENLANDERS: “Trump, if you’re watching this— don’t come. Don’t buy Greenland. Greenland is not for sale.” (From Sky News)

Again: Putin wants NATO to evaporate. Too much *analysis* ignores the potential of his hand in making Trump do this to hurt our interests and help his.

Honestly I think this significant and incredibly damning

Release the damn Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Files

Someone else on here said it best - if Vance's is right that if you attack a law enforcement officer (which she didn't) then you can expect to get shot, January 6th would have been a bloodbath.

No words.

💔

#Justice4Renee

I wish I could foster her, but I can’t! I hope someone can help!

Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...

The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

So true! What an awful little pipsqueak he is! One hopes he is actually reformed enough by the end of the book …

Well, yes. But even so, Lewis can’t help writing Jane Studdock as the hero of the story. It’s a wonderful book, despite its flaws - and one of my comfort reads in these dark times.

Well, he says a lot of things, doesn’t he? 😂

Maybe he only shops for liquor?

People are left with a horrible choice that is no choice at all. People are going to be abandoning their pets left and right in favor of feeding their family. Consider adopting or temporarily fostering some dogs and cats. This would be a great place to drop a comment with information on this.

Nearly 8 in 10 Americans agree that spending by wealthy donors and corporations in our elections gives rise to corruption — including majorities of Republican and independent voters.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

We must overturn Citizens United.

On the other hand my father, who was quite a bit younger than Tolkien, was a devout Catholic, and loved some of the same writers Tolkien loved. Gerard Manley Hopkins was his favorite poet, and he would have had conniptions had anyone suggested that he was gay! So I think your point stands!

Tolkien loved a lot of queer writers The British fantasy writer walked the Wilde side

Fair enough! I think I may have been influenced by this article, which I read a while back. medium.com/sexstories/t...

Judges Order Trump to Pay for SNAP, Killing His Shutdown Strategy Two federal judges in different parts of the country ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for the nutrition program.

White House officials had refused to fund SNAP from a $5B contingency fund that existed precisely in the event of something like this. trib.al/Y9NOimD

In response, 25 states sued the federal government, and two federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to use the funds.

The administration is refusing to release federal contingency funds that are intended to be used to fund programs like SNAP in the event of a shutdown, which is what has been done in the past.

Refusing to do so is a choice by the president to starve Americans.

#Pinks

You make a good point! On the other hand, his close personal friend, Auden, was gay. I think Tolkien’s attitude might have mirrored Pope Leo’s fairly closely - though of course I don’t know!

That’s interesting about the brightly colored waistcoats! I didn’t know that, either!

Also, I don’t think it’s clear that Tolkien would have been anti LGBTQ.