♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”

“I’d have no problem releasing the video”

“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”

5 days apart 😬

(From @therecount.com )

December 7, 2025 “I think it’s really important that this video be made public,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said today on Face the Nation. Himes was referring to a video of the September 2 U.S. military strike on...

December 7, 2025

"No one oversees their own demise willingly, even when it is the false self that is dying," writes Fr. Richard Rohr

Join us this second week of Advent, as our “Daily Meditations” delve into the hidden work of grace, the mystery of faith, and the path of unknowing. buff.ly/HjDkYeK

Thank you to the Center for this wisdom last week:

An eclectic musical adventure... Radio Paradise streams highly curated, eclectic mixes of music -- chosen by real humans -- with unparalleled audio quality.

I get it.
Everyone can figure out what works for them, but
I went to my favorite three artists websites and bought the latest Cd form each, directly.
Then I augment with college radio (like weekday mornings WERS), classical from WCRB
and I am having a great time with the several channels here⬇

The GOP enacted civil service reform.

The GOP will destroy civil service reform.

The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own

VA directs leaders to identify employees and affiliates who are not US citizens Noncitizens will then be referred to appropriate agencies that handle immigration enforcement for individuals not authorized to be in the U.S.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has directed its top leaders to identify any noncitizens employed by or affiliated with the agency for further investigation. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

a woman in a red dress sits on a bridge over a river ALT: a woman in a red dress sits on a bridge over a river

I wish I could find the rest of this sequence.
The compound camera move is pretty cool.

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

Yes! An ode to close reading. (via @annehelen.bsky.social)

Ty
Loved this
I once took a short lesson with Ellen Bryant Voigt that helped me read/write this way.
Great Books training was necessary to help me teach close reading,
& when class sizes were manageable I saw what teaching it can do.

& I think the author might appreciate a counterpoint from Collins

Russia’s major milblogger Yuri Podolyaka says that after 3.5 years of war the army still can’t provide basics - underwear, socks, even uniforms. Troops buy their own kit or rely on volunteers, while the Defence Ministry knows about the problem and does nothing.

"It won’t be a big deal if some Galya dies in Chernihiv":propagandist Gasparyan calls for a "cleanup"of Ukraine

He claims that peaceful Ukrainians supposedly "deserve"to die.

Once,Russians played the role of "liberators,"now suddenly they declare:"Why should we care about this population?"

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

Spiffy!
And worn by clowns everywhere.

Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.

And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.

Ukraine has started operational missions with F-16 fighter jets provided by NATO partners, arming the aircraft with U.S. glide bombs to strengthen its ability to strike targets and pressure Russian air defenses.

My law firm is currently litigating 65 voting and election cases in 30 states. We have plans for another dozen or so.

The 2026 midterm elections are shaping up to be a fight to protect free and fair election. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."

Gable's last film.
Some say it did not help his health making it.
Stress from Monroe's dramas or, in my opinion,
the physicality of the role he played.
Gable did his own stunts; from taming a wild stallion hard to pitching himself off of the hood of a parked car.

是的
我们仍然需要： "完成我们正在完成的工作，为国家疗愈创伤，照顾那些将经历战斗的人，以及他的遗孀和孤儿~尽一切努力实现并珍惜我们之间公正而持久的和平" —Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
而现在，我们又迎来了这些独裁者在这个世纪造成的新伤口

Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.

“The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri’s alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden, Reuters noted”

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

With all due respect, while I agree that these little men and their oversized egos are constantly in need of propping up their impotent manhood, I think this is about more than just that.

I think they want regime change in Venezuela, and access to their 303,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves.

Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.

Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

INCREDIBERRY: "It's kind of hard to convince people you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers… It makes perfect sense if you don't think about it."

恭敬地
At the defeat of Southern rebels,
President Lincoln told us to "bind up the nation's wounds."
It would have been fair to continue to punish rebels, but it'd be too unfortunate for a Nation of diverse people—Many Northerners didn't like that then.
We'd have missed our fortune—Our United states.

If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.