“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

The rest of it. All the British isles stuff is from my dad’s side.

English 8.0%
Breton 5.2%
Danish 5.1%
Dutch 4.2%
Balkan 2.2%
Irish 1.5%

Did a MyHeritage DNA test. Way more Baltic & way less German than I expected.

Big surprise is how many Finns I matched with. Are they overrepresented in the data? Is it a Finnish fad to do DNA tests?

East European 28.6%

Baltic 19.4%

Scottish and Welsh 14.4%

Germanic 11.4%

Yeah, I saw some scattered online comments that it was a chemical release but no follow ups this weekend in regular media, or reports of evacuations or the like, so IDK. Unless whatever chemical might be in that cloud shows up in another country we might never know bc Russians won’t volunteer it.

This crisis was engineered. Ds tried to pay troops yesterday.

bsky.app/profile/kase...

Yep, they straight up engineered the crisis. Ds tried yesterday for a bill to pay military.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

That is one weird looking fire. Not that I know much about fire, but I’ve seen a lot of them thanks to this war & never one like that.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

They arrested Rosa Luxemburg!

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

It’s fantastic. Trump & Miller so want this to be 2020, to have scary images to point to, & this utterly defeats the narrative.

What is the percentage referring to?

Trump is attacking in the very places least likely to produce juries of Trumpists.

The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Early Iraq war sweeps of "all military aged males" in a given area were more focused than this. This is what "taking the gloves off" and "the enemy within" look like.

Just like the time he showed up at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner (charity for children with HIV/AIDS) & took a seat on the stage that had been reserved for a major donor.

He even posed for photos & he never contributed a dime to the charity.

Orwellian.

Article is paywalled. Link to internet archived piece in next post.

www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

That grinding sound you are hearing is the Ukrainians relentlessly dissecting arguably the most important part of the Russian economy. And they are doing this with almost no help from their partners--indeed the US has tried to stop them from attacking into Russia. kyivindependent.com/russia-to-be...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Task last night was all about Martha Plimpton for me.

I said “aha” aloud not bc of what was revealed about her character, but that I finally understood why they’d cast her.

Is that good or bad? IDK but I will probably have to rewatch the earlier episodes now to see if I missed a hint earlier.