Morag Joss

Och, you. ❤️🥹🙏🏻🌟

Beautifully said.

“Psychologically, [Trump's] deteriorating. He’s getting worse. He’s dangerous. He’s a nut job. He’s a criminal. He’s a malicious human being who has no conscience, no morals, no remorse, no empathy. And he controls 5,000 nuclear weapons.”

Er, the choice of verb here?

‘Promises’ vs. ‘threatens’?

I guess it comes down to what you wish for but I’d expect @theguardian.com to be alive to the distinction.

HL a cliche in a kilt, now a national embarrassment.
I like to think that faraway, phonographic scratching was just his natural voice.

‘Roamin’ in the gloamin’,
On the bonnie banks o’ Clyde,
Roamin’ in the gloamin’
Wi’ my lassie by my side.’

Be glad this wasn’t part of your cultural inheritance.

Yes, I remember when I had my first child and had to build 30 data centers to feed them.

I’m sad to say I won’t, not until you’ve got rid of him, and most of the fuckers who enable him.

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The point is his name has changed, and the change should be followed through. It’s not that hard.

Why do @BBCNews, after naming him Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, then refer to him as Andrew? Is it ‘Jeffrey’ or ‘Ghislaine’?
Deference dies hard.

There are many reasons, actually.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Everyone should read every word of this thread.

Today there was BIRDSONG, and SUNSHINE, and enough of both to suggest that winter might actually fuck off sometime.

I’ve always thought Oberon a beautiful word, let alone it’s her lovely name ❤️

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."

Man oh man that Emily could write.

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

Everything is here

“What would you think
To be thus used? This is the strangers’ case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity.”

Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

Imagine. That would almost be like a republic with a Bill of Rights or some shit.

When your visiting son-in-law says he’ll bring some logs in ❤️

Trump urges Republicans to 'take over' and 'nationalize' voting "We have states that are so crooked and they're counting votes," he said.

Trump on Monday called on Republicans to "take over" and "nationalize" voting as he continued to make false claims about the electoral process in the U.S. with the 2026 midterm elections on the horizon.

"On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1 More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].

So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) “damn” countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti’s TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90 Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination). Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law. Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary’s decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI. Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely. Secretary Noem

has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up, twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all. See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id. The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes, the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary, Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A. As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]

Dkt. 100 (§ 705 Reply) at 20–21.4 “Do not travel to Haiti for any reason” does not exactly scream, as Secretary Noem concluded, suitable for return. And so, the Government studiously does not argue that Plaintiffs will suffer no harm if removed to Haiti. Instead, it argues Plaintiffs will not certainly suffer irreparable harm because DHS might not remove them. But this fails to take Secretary Noem at her word: “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” See Section IV.B.2.b. Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

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Michael Jochum’s Post Michael Jochum is in Arvada, CO. Cultural Arson Donald Trump is not shutting down the Kennedy Center for two years because of concrete, steel, or some mythical “revitalization.” He’s shutting it down because artists are fleeing. Because musicians, composers, directors, and institutions with actual integrity want nothing to do with a building that has been commandeered by a man who treats culture like a prop and power like a toy. When Philip Glass pulls his Symphony No. 15 Lincoln because the values of the institution are now in direct opposition to the work itself, that’s not a scheduling inconvenience, that’s a moral indictment. When the Washington National Opera packs up and leaves, that’s not renovation, that’s evacuation. Trump didn’t inherit a “tired and dilapidated” Kennedy Center. He poisoned it. He purged its board, stacked it with loyalists, crowned himself chairman, slapped his name on it like a casino, and then acted shocked when the artists, those inconvenient, principled, difficult people, refused to play along. This isn’t construction. It’s a cover story. A two-year cultural blackout designed to clear the stage, silence dissent, and make room for whatever grotesque celebrity cosplay he plans to roll out in 2028. You don’t shut down a living institution unless you’re trying to kill what’s alive inside it. Trump knows nothing about the arts. Nothing. His lifelong relationship with culture begins and ends with branding, flattery, and submission. That absurd story he tells about playing the flute as a child, like that somehow qualifies him as a patron of the arts, is as laughable as everything else he’s ever claimed about himself. Art is not a talent show. It’s not loyalty theater. It’s not something you “fix” by firing everyone who disagrees with you and replacing them with yes-men in cheap suits. The Kennedy Center was never supposed to belong to one man, especially not one whose aesthetic sensibility peaked at gold-plated fauc…

This response to Trump announcing the Kennedy Center shut down is everything. A true tour de force.

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This new drug might really change outcomes for people with diabetes.

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ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants

FLAG: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal ICE memo reviewed by NYT.

The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they suspect are undocumented immigrants.