@lightwraith
Work in Shimmer (now defunct), Luna Station Quarterly, Entropy Magazine. Pen name: Leonie Skye https://hazylightwraiths.wordpress.com Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology, I do evaluation and data analysis, swimming, quilting, wandering Portland, OR, She/Her
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
[Exit Murderer.]
The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.
Disguise sloughing off to reveal whatever goo lies beneath.
I love her forever. Fuck this stupid country.
Trump is setting the stage to claim extraordinary powers to take over the 2026 elections — from banning mail-in voting to imposing new obstacles to voter registration. All of this will be justified on the grounds of national security. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
Absolutely horrifying. This refugee survived genocide and died because of the gross incompetence of federal immigration agents.
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.
I can’t stop thinking about the last five days of Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s life.
He was wandering around cold, hungry, confused and alone.
Sick and slowing dying.
He survived an actual genocide only to die in America due to the incompetence & cruelty of this regime
How cool is this?
Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library of Congress: not "seen by anyone in likely more than a century"
He pioneered jump cuts, double exposure, black screens, forced perspective
Watch it here:
Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.
Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos
Abolish US Men’s Hockey
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
Anyplace experiencing rain right now - It belongs to Portland, give it back!
Goddamnit
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
Let these assholes never know a moment of peace.
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
Quick round up:
- the government is covering up evidence the president is a pedophile
- he’s openly taking bribes from foreign governments
- his masked agents are shooting citizens in the streets
- the FBI is helping him steal the election
- he’s threatening war against multiple allies
👍👍👍
They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas.
For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare.
www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
BREAKING: A judge orders the U.S. to release a 5-year-old boy and his father taken into custody during the Minnesota immigration crackdown.
A young Fred Korematsu
A photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners.
Decide. Who are you?
The winds of public opinion are at our back. We will press this Administration until we see impartial investigations, the departure of federal forces, and an end to this campaign of retribution.
In the image, we see the 27-km LHC eight surface points from an aerial perspective. Point 8, home of the LHCb experiment, is located close to the French town of Ferney-Voltaire.
Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator
Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area.
Read more: home.cern/news/news/ce...
Dummy
I think the power of a song like Bruce Springsteen's "The Streets of Minneapolis" is not just that it cuts right through the moral smoke screen the feds are putting down, and not just that it is very direct, but that it claims the wider scope and vindication of history and the future to come.
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
