one of the most profound moments of One Battle - "sensei" saying this is a fight stretched out over hundreds of years - reminded me of something an activist reminded me of when I was reporting in Texas: we forget, but Texas has rarely been majority white and has never been majority English speaking

Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist too

minority night massacre

vibe in this room is Old Shriner / Basement / Lost Cause

Fun fact: in chapter nineteen of the Second Treatise, John Locke writes that when the legislative power is usurped from that body in which the People have placed it, and exercised instead by a person or body not authorized to do so by the People, government is dissolved

I think the only two I like are London's Sea Wolf and those few dispatches from sea in Dracula. But then, I've never read Moby Dick, so who can say.

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

I personally much prefer Anna Karenina, but then I personally wouldn't rec Tolstoy at all? Leskov, Goncharov, Chekhov, Gogol, all much better.

it took Putin between 5-10 years to truly bend the Russian Duma over like this

adding chorizo to this could be pretty great? thetastychapter.com/wax-beans-wi...

Who owns the army is THE constitutional question of the 17th century

this has Russ Vought's fingerprints all over it - the executive, grabbing that purse

"you're gonna get the dog" is such colorful, vivid imagery but in the absolute worst way

what really burns is that you know this discussion happens every day in the editing rooms and yet, so far, no NYT reporters are speaking up and explaining how their editors are silencing them - which leads me to conclude the reporters are ok with it - which - yeh - um -

Some messages are printed on 18-by-24-inch yard signs or smaller placards; others are drawn ornately by hand on paper or written in chalk. The few who will talk about the signs they created say the urgency of the moment compelled them to act.

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it being Natl Coming Out day, here's my story - 20 yrs ago this fall, I came out and was soon a divorced single dad of 3 with no family, no money, no anything, just a will to live and to be the best father I could be; it was fucking hard, pretty much every day, but I would still make the same choice

Spotted in Tulsa 🫶🏼❤️🌎✌🏽

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

It’s this multiple times a day

"repeatedly endorsed Hitler" -

actually looks *worse* than Warsaw ca. 1945

my Warsaw hood in the fall

worse, ICE is an armed gang loyal to only one man

The closing stanzas from Paul Muldoon’s “Hedgehog.”