Jill Y.

There was a German in valet parking. A Belgian and a Swiss at odds over vol-au-vents in the kitchen. A small contingent of African spies (Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon) on the janitorial staff, relatively careless about Francophone eavesdroppers. She spotted a very young and nervous Turkmen agent shoving a dead-drop spike into the eye of a gaudy reindeer statue at Christmastime, and duly stole it, learning his real name (Kasymguly) and workname (Kevin) in the process. The waitstaff had a Russian agent named Vladimir and a Ukrainian agent named Volodymyr and they'd nearly killed each other in the west parking lot one night. The Polish agent Wtodzimierz, who was considerably older and world-weary, smoked a cigarette, watched them brawl, and predicted they'd both be fired for coming to work with visible bruises. He was right, which was a pity; Volodymyr had been very handsome indeed. They were replaced, in due time, by Dmitri and Dmytro, at which point she began to wonder if Kyiv and Moscow were being deliberate about all this for their own inscrutable reasons.

sorry to poast too much about this but its my first published fiction since high school and i had fun imagining the many many spies at mar a lago
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Real clapping for Stalin vibes here.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

This is solid advice. Here’s a picture I took of a black mulberry tree thought to date back to the 17th century, in the garden at Keats House in London. This the garden he wrote Ode to a Nightingale in, so imagine what this tree witnessed!

Literally how I found out.

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

@ChristiInJail
More good news! Paige Hoekstra, one of the Tumbler Ridge victims is out of surgery and in recovery!
She was airlifted to Vancouver, which means she’s far from home & there will be a lot of expenses for her family, so consider donating to their gofundme
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Donate to Support For Maya In Her Road To Recovery, organized by Krysta Hunt My name is Krysta, and I am the Cousin of Cia, Mayas mother. I am starting this… Krysta Hunt needs your support for Support For Maya In Her Road To Recovery

Thought I’d add the gofundme shared by our local paper up north here in bc, donation protected. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest

THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

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hey - quick note - individual humans are capable of truly awful things.

if you've never thought to describe a criminal as 'cisgendered' before, maybe there's absolutely no constructive reason to feed the right-wing death machine with regards to the gender identity of the Tumbler Ridge suspect.

Maya was one of at least two-dozen children and teachers wounded when a 'female in a dress' opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School

Confirmed GOFUNDME link in article ⤵️for 12 year old Maya that was shot in the mass shooting yesterday in Tumbler Ridge, BC #Canada 💔

Link: www.myprincegeorgenow.com/243764/news/...

Could anti trans MAGA people kindly shut up about the Tumbler Ridge shooting?

Canada doesn’t have regular mass shootings. We handle them differently than the US.

Stop using it to push a political agenda.

Stop using it to punch down on an entire group of marginalized people.

Please STOP speculation over the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter. They are not male, female, or trans, citizen or immigrant, until appropriately identified as such.

And shame on anyone spreading anti-trans or anti-immigrant hate using it.

Let's mourn the community and help it heal.

My elderly Canadian parents (who had no prior exposure to Bad Bunny): “Awww, that was nice of him. He seems like a good guy.” They were chuffed.

Excellent.

This is the one. Very clever.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Ok I’ll watch the Chrétien-Harper roadshow

This is beautiful writing… this in particular:

“I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it “broken.”

I’m not a Carney sycophant, but I’ll take our PM not being weirdly homophobic and instead leaning into the premise of the show with evident joy. I saw a photo of the embrace earlier and assumed it was AI, but nope. Real. In our times, this is important.

A black dog of indeterminate breed is lying on a brown floral couch. She looks a bit like a shrunken lab, weights 50 pounds, and and has white markings on her muzzle and front paws. She has a purple feather boa wrapped around her neck.

I’m sorry to hear that, Sophie. Here’s my Nellie on the anniversary of her gotcha day. Sending good thoughts.

There was hyper local resistance at scale with great frequency in an age predating social media. Another example is Janusz Korczak’s work in the ghetto and his heroic final act escorting children to Treblinka. It plays into terrible stereotypes and erases heroism to downplay the scale of resistance.

I think also of the protests against Aktion T4 too, no? This forced Hitler to reverse public course (though it does move into the wild euthanasia period). Also, internal resistance in the ghettos and camps (eg Ringelbaum archive, prisoner revolts at death camps)?

I found the Tarnschriften really inspiring, as another example of organized resistance. www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-r...

Protesters clashed with federal agents for another night outside the Whipple Federal Building, which holds ICE detainees. Agents fired less-lethal munitions and deployed chemical irritants at the crowd.

📷️: Jeff Wheeler

Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE (RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...

NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week.

It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...

Mark Carney just shook up the world His speech in Davos might be the most important one ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister. Its consequences will determine his place in history — and ours.

My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli
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