Michelle

a man and woman are sitting next to each other in a church . ALT: a man and woman are sitting next to each other in a church .

Time to reup the real National Security Strategy:

“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”

-Carl Dreyer

Apologies, was not trying to solve anything, merely offering commiseration about the transition from UK to US ingredient sourcing.

You can even get Quality Street in metal tins in Walmart in central Ohio (very important to my English husband). You can’t even buy them like that in the UK any more! Why central Ohio? 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is a regional one, if you’re in Rhode Island, they have Portuguese chorizo (aka “chourice”?). Which is a nice substitute, but completely different than the chorizo we got used to in Scotland.
Fwiw, most things food wise I got used to in the UK are available somewhere regionally in the US.

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

He has a doppelgänger in an old (terrible) boss of mine. Teeth, hair, many of his styling choices, it’s uncanny.
Every time Newsom is in my feed I feel like I’m being haunted.

That and pudendum may be the most interesting things I learned in my PhD, and I have still never been able to use them.

May I offer you obnubilate?

New kitten alert! The shelter called him Charlie,(our two adult cats are named Peach & Rosalina) Luma, Toad, Kirby, Luigi, and currently Nugget.

I told you we’d be back

Plan To Straighten Out Entire Life During Weeklong Vacation Yields Mixed Results

Plan To Straighten Out Entire Life During Weeklong Vacation Yields Mixed Results
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Same! But for me it wasn’t anger, but despair. I vividly remember that ending hitting me like a gut punch, while I sat in the hallway outside my
Math class reading between periods.

It is also why Hitlers plans.for "Germania" in place of Berlin, and the current Trump administration's plans for "beautiful" Public buildings is doomed to fail - they seek to create the veneer of a past, while at the same time denying the weight of the realities of that past.

Google “Rosemary Kennedy” and you may understand why he never heard of any of these conditions as a child.

Notice how this is materially different than “people find my opinions distasteful” and how little urgency and alarm around free speech under conservative rule.

A poster of a basic drawing of a penguin holding a fish. The test says in all caps HELP THE PENGUINS PAY THEIR TARIFF SEND YOUR FISH TO 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE.

You heard the man, everyone send in a dead fish

— “Backbreaking work on turnip farms and factory lines is good for you, actually”

— Destroying universities

— “You don’t need so many things”

— Elites attacking elitism

— Hate/contempt for cities

— “Suck it up for the greater good”

Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
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As a British/American, HARD same

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

[tweet from Jonathan Fine that reads "I really don't think people quite grasp just how much more well read highly educated people used to be in the past"].

Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.

Movies you’ve watched more than six times, gifs only

Dear US citizens, thank you for being part of our comparative study on the impact of scientific funding on economic development. Since there have been questions, let me reiterate that the study protocol prohibits us from disclosing whether or not you are in the control group. Sincerely etc. /s 🧪

Here is a personal story about class, gender and political orientation that no white NYT pundit in a diner was going to capture but explains so much about Nazi incels wreaking havoc in DC. I was a young assistant professor newly arrived in the city and matched by the usual apps to a staffer 1/

Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity

Trump: Trade war!

Colombia: OK

Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights

Colombia: Good. Was that so hard?

Trump: They gave in!