When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...
@bymatthewkelly.bsky.social is doing really strong reporting on this. Here’s their story on the (astounding) way this legislation was forced through.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Kyle consistently does excellent, important work.
Reminds me strongly of my British in-laws in that he starts out noting he’s consumed 50 sticky toffee puddings and then the entire video is about ways the puddings have disappointed him.
I wonder what that “Vincent mediation” was?
Great guidance from Rachel. Here’s a Mass. org that can connect you with folks who need rides to doctor’s appointments / job interviews, help registering their kids for school or learning English, so many things essential to survival. (I volunteer w them, they’re amazing.)
iine.org/get-involved...
Preordered from our local indie bookstore. If you do a reading or give a talk in the Boston area, keep us posted!
Rosemary’s Texas Tacos, a little house in a rural Hudson Valley town. Great food. Owner was a beautiful, bad ass woman with a purple mohawk and a purple hearse and a live parrot and a zillion high kitsch pieces of art and tchotchkes. Amazing surreal hilarious refuge for queer teens.
These are really powerful pictures, Leah. Thank you for being out there.
The Fugitive, Harrison Ford pausing from Fugitiving to talk football with a scared kid and save his life. youtu.be/D1Tfhc18EL4?...
Sigh.
It drives me nuts how often people make that complaint as a comment on a social post — and the post derives directly from original reporting published in a well established media outlet.
Yes, fear - and also, fostering the powerful trope that there are “real” Americans and “others” who are not like “us” and can be deprived of rights, excluded, treated as suspect and lesser.
Hand lighting three menorahs with rays of light across the photo
Inadvertently caught rays of candlelight.
Awesome, literally. The men and the little ship beyond them and the white sea, all viewed from a void — just an incredible picture, made under the most brutal conditions…
This is so dead-on that it gave me the exact combo of intense schadenfreude / involuntary pity that I feel when I read real Chotiner.
Yes - at a mosque, six days after 9/11 - “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. … those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind".
Yes. Honestly if you make the mistake of mentioning “I like giraffes” or “I like clocks” then you’ll get those kinds of dish towels and paperweights and T shirts for the rest of your days. Meanwhile, the other popes were smart enough to be “I like Michelangelos.”
Yep my Hungarian grandmother never properly assimilated after coming to Michigan as a refugee in the 1930s. She declined to abide by the major social mores for Midwestern suburban wives and mothers and became the first woman to run her own lab at Upjohn, doing cutting-edge cancer research.
This flew under the radar but has devastating potential. More than 230,000 refugees will have their cases reexamined and applications for permanent residence frozen. Each underwent years of vetting by our government, risked everything to come here, have nowhere to return to. Unprecedented.
Half the normal amount means no pies, half the fresh fruit and veggies, chicken not turkey, no cranberry sauce, etc. The same volunteers do this every year, it’s well organized, everyone is dedicated and reliable. We hand deliver and each family was so appreciative. The only thing missing is money.
For years, I’ve participated in a pre Tgiving food drive for 100s of Boston families, organized by excellent nonprofits. This year, due to fed cuts, each home got less than 1/2 the normal amount. Give to your food bank, folks. The need is huge. 1/2
Thanks for this - makes sense. But what’s up with the -1.8%?
Question that source.
He was quite generous and forgiving of the prior explorer dude who mistook a cloud formation for an island and thus fucked up Nansen’s entire land journey.
Glad you shared this. Stealing from EBT cards is a nationwide
problem. States could change cards from strips to chips and end it, so that’s something to advocate for. Until then, individuals can use the Connect app to lock their card when it’s not in use - much more effective than changing PWs.
My cat Max was Maximilianaire on special occasions.
I did enjoy his petty side too tho. Passing time on the long winter nights by reading aloud to the crew pages of incorrect things other explorers had predicted about the expedition so they could all laugh and laugh.
SO chill. And the food! Cloudberry soufflés! The crew gaining so much weight while MAROONED IN THE ARCTIC that they had to go on diets! So healthy that the doctor got bored and started tending the dogs! The windmill = electric light all winter! After Shackleton’s South, it was quite a read.
YES!! He got the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing the first international refugee agency,
part of the League of Nations, after World War 1. Spent the last 10 years of his life doing that work.
