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Nicole sits in an airplane seat, tired and slightly smiling at the camera.

Final leg. See you soon, Seattle.

THE SALT STONES Seasons of a Shepherd's Life By HELEN WHYBROW

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As my daughter declared around age 5 or 6, “Yay is right in the name!”

Men Explain Things to Me by REBECCA SOLNIT

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Undead, undead, undead!

What the literal fuck?! Monsters, they’re fucking monsters.

We’re into the final day of this Kickstarter! So excited to be bringing Mutants & Masterminds into a new era.

Nicole in tortoise-shell glasses and a burgundy coat looking into the camera.

Wednesday at GAMA Expo has begun.

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

I’m so glad you had a good time!

GEEK LOVE A NOVEL by KATHERINE DUNN

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MN’s U.S. Attorney ordered to appear at contempt hearing Tuesday over violations in immigration cases The judge said he called the hearing for the U.S. government to explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt

"U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan’s order cites “numerous unlawful” failures by the U.S. government to return belongings to immigrants ordered released from detention, including their cash, cellphones, jewelry, driver’s licenses, passports and more."
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Drift The UNMOORING of AMERICAN MILITARY POWER Rachel Maddow

Posting a little early since I’m at a conference this week and I don’t want to miss, especially after I started late…

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THE SHATTERED KING by CHARLIE N. HOLMBERG

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A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Well, this should be a record-breaking day nokings.org

I don’t know anything about RSD besides that it exists but I’m very familiar with what you just described. I’m sorry, I hope it passes soon.

The West is marshalling all this effort and tearing any pretence of international law to shreads all to empower an apartheid state that has been openly committing genocide for the past several years.

Any notion the West was some kind of moral arbiter of the world is dead and buried.

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Rare reverse imperial boomerang considering we don't give a shit about this in America either

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

The only reason I want Anthropic to survive is so they can pay out their class action suit to the authors and creators they stole from.

VERA WONG'S UNSOLICITED ADVICE for MURDERERS by JESSE Q. SUTANTO

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This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

Dean W. Ball Y @deanwball X.com Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War. This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

Scary af, by @deanwb.bsky.social

Those are some huge leeks. Satisfying chop!

Deal!