Carolyn Kellogg

The world sucks, so you get a cat:
Javier Mayoral, Sleeping Cat, 2021

a man is pointing at another man who is drinking . Alt: In There Will abe zblood, Daniel Day Lewis is screaming, I drink your milkshake!

I steal your cookie!

I'm not two-sidesing this. It is American agression, a war started unlawfully, already resulting in hudreds of deaths, if not more.

Middle East crisis live: Israel launches further attacks on Tehran and Beirut as Iran closes critical Strait of Hormuz Earlier, Donald Trump laid out US objectives, saying mission could go on for four-five weeks, adding US has ‘capability to go far longer’

It's terrifying to look at the news. Tragedy and horror. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

Good for them.

"Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31."

afscme31.org/news/america...

😂 And a little weird if you’re watching The Pitt!

I just typed “Huckleberry Funn,” I think I need more coffee.

Tell Congress: No War with Iran Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. This reckless escalation is putting U.S. servicemembers, Ameri...

Congress isn’t powerless to stop Trump’s war with Iran. From immediate oversight, to forcing a vote on a War Powers Resolution, to restricting or cutting off funding for unauthorized hostilities, tell your elected officials to use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate stop to this war.

US-Israel war on Iran live: explosions heard in Gulf cities and Jerusalem; evacuations in Beirut as conflict spreads to Lebanon Iran-backed Hezbollah says it launched rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Our government's actions are monstrous. Stop the war.

I am the de facto leader of the NBA in all-time points scored.

I have a Mehitabel in my family tree too! I love that name.

A woman wearing glasses and a Marmiekko dress with a sun flare behing, plus the corner of a house and some very dead grass.

I got to sit outside and read today. It's one of my favorite things.

The french fry shop from the 1966 Jacques Demy film, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.

I want to go to the french fry shop, you know, the one with the cocktails and beer and espresso. This one.

US-Israel war on Iran live: Israel launches wave of attacks ‘in the heart of Tehran’ as interim successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named Alireza Arafi joins Iran’s president and chief justice on temporary leadership council to fulfil supreme leader’s role until successor is chosen

I studied International Relations quite a while ago, but from what I recall bombing a historic city is not a good route to winning hearts and minds. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Apropos of nothing, except a happier time.

When I was a college dropout I still lived near campus and one day a friend told me to go see a speaker whose work I'd never read and when I got to the smallish lecture hall there was an interlocutor and translator and the guy that's how I got to hear/discover Derrida.

Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change

Thank you to The Guardian for keeping me sane. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A yard with dry grass, two chairs, a table, the corner of a house and a blue sky above.

Going to sit here reading for a bit.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

What a loser. On the wrong side of everything.

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

It took only seconds. Join me in calling on Congress to act.

Why are the Democratic leaders in congress not out calling for a stop to this? No joke, the last @schumer.senate.gov posted here was 10 hours ago and he was complaining about RFKJr and grocery prices.

This was a premeditated attack with no conceivable emergency: the choice to do this is Congress not President. Waging war on Iran is an obvious violation of the Constitution, no different than enacting tariffs (raising taxes) or defunding USAID (spending programs).

Iran launches retaliatory strikes after major US-Israel attack – live Donald Trump says ‘major combat operations’ under way as explosions reported across the Middle East

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

A screenshot that does not do the outfit/hair/makeup justice of Alan Cumming in a bejeweled blue cape witb blue fur trim and hia hair askew in The Traitors.

So much is terrible save for Alan Cumming dressed as Evil Bejeweled Cookie Monster in this episode of The Traitors.

It's funny I get the LAist email and every one begins with "we noticed you're not an LAist member" and every time I think, you wouldn't exist if I hadn't been editor. And found Tony to replace me when I went to grad school.

Best painting title ever:
Men fighting and women ignoring them
Mughal, 18th C

I had this crazy thought that Mitch McConnell and his Senate buddies are going to turn on Trump and bring all this to a swift end.

If I get to pick my fighter I’m definitely going with Danny McBride.