Hitler committed suicide. Mussolini was shot and then his corpse was attacked and hung. Pinochet died under house arrest, while facing criminal charges in Europe and in Chile. Idi Amin died in exile. The Shah of Iran died in exile. Pol Pot died under house arrest. Mobutu died in exile. Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad. Saddam Hussein was hung. The Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo was assassinated. The last Somoza dictator was assassinated in exile after being overthrown. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner, Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez all died in exile. Argentina's Jorge Rafael Videla died while serving a fifty-year sentence. Ferdinand Marcos died in exile. Only last winter Assad fled Syria; only last summer Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh. That hasn't been the fate of all dictators but for many of them the chapters after their power crumbled were not what they would have written. Nor is this reassurance that justice or democracy always wins or dismissal of the damage each of them did. I was just thinking and then decided to compile a list.

In a handicraft moment, I made this little list for you. I hope you enjoy it.

Maybe further up……..trump.

Trimming quilt blocks on a cutting mat set on a cutting board on top of my ironing board watching Alvin Bragg announce 34 indictments of what’s-his-name. A happy day a long long time ago.

My cutting station hack for @laurashawquilts.bsky.social.
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Fuck CNN.

"Political fairy smut" is a keeper

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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

So, according to Jake Tapper, Joe Biden was so infirm, so cognitively vacant, so frail and feeble, so incompetent that he was utterly unfit to serve & yet, at the very same time, he was able to hide all of that from the press, including the likes of Jake fucking Tapper?

Are you fucking kidding me?

Let's get #WokePope trending. It will infuriate all the right people.

So beautiful.

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Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

For the child with cancer, possibly a death sentence. Certainly a worsening of the disease.

Bastards.

A clam on a wooden railing with a stormy grey sea in the background

There it is. The clam before the storm.

News: remarkable, really…

I finally found my tweet from the last time this ridiculous bullshit popped up.🤣

True facts are true

I made this quilt after surgery that, among its many other benefits, enabled me to do EPP. I gave the quilt to my surgeon.

Second picture is the back using the extra blocks.

Enjoy your tumbling blocks adventure!

#BlueSkyArtShow #peaceful
Out on the Salmon River near Neskowin, Oregon. The sun is setting, there is no wind, it is misty, and very peaceful.
#river
#salmonriver #photography #neskowin #oregon #canoe

“You heard her, she said wait” 😂

Zoomies.. 😂

Weekend vibes.. 😂

When your cat escapes and your neighbor returns him.. 😅

A herd of elephants in South Africa came across a broken down truck full of oranges.. 😅

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

So. Things we import. Sewing machines, thread, needles, scissors, buttons, fabric - including free spirit, móda, Kona, Kaufman, Riley Blake, Gilda, and windham. Quilt rulers are made in the USA, but the acrylic is made in china, India, Turkey, and mexico. Also imported is coffee, tea and cocoa!🤨

Finished my 2024 Temperature Quilt today.

Thanks to Terry Rowland for the inspiration.
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Where is our humanity?