Ashley C. Ford

I wish!

Hungary Seizes Ukrainian Bank Staff, $80 Million in Cash and Gold The move follows a dispute over oil deliveries and prompted Kyiv to accuse Hungary of hostage-taking.

By kidnapping bank employees and seizing a shipment of gold and cash, Viktor Orbán has resorted to acts of piracy against another European nation. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

I lost 😞

JUST IN: US customs agency says it cannot comply with tariff refund order reut.rs/3NjQxW0

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

I’m good at this

Chase Infiniti is going to be great in the Lena Horne biopic in like 8 years.

Iran school and nearby military base struck multiple times, satellite image reveals Iranian authorities say the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed 168 people.

BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ll ask the doctor

Strengthen the Freedom of Information Act Defending press freedom for the next generation

FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar.

Tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.

My body is trying to be sick, but I’m fighting back with water, soup, and the dark arts.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he's replacing Homeland Security Secretary Noem with GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

Free Press Indiana hires statewide editor in chief Lindsey Erdody will lead an Indiana-based team of reporters covering issues that impact Hoosiers.

@lerdody.bsky.social has joined AJP-supported Free Press Indiana as editor in chief of its statewide newsroom.

She is the second journalist to join the statewide team, following @smashfizzle.bsky.social’s hiring in September as women & girls reporter. More:

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Exactly! Noticing isn’t judging, and it’s noticeable!

I had hope!!!

It’s been on my mind. I love fashion but the red carpets have been harrowing this season.

Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm Essays on Hunger and Harm

highly recommend reading "dead weight" by emmeline cline on disordered eating. bookshop.org/p/books/dead...

Them things were 5 calories each, but I got in trouble for eating a whole box by myself

For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

Oh, I thought I was really good at maintaining platonic relationships with men in college, then I lost thirty pounds in three months due to depression…turned out that was what half of my white male friends had been waiting for!

I’ve had my own Body Stuff, but every day I thank the universe for having me grow up in a super Black environment where I wasn’t even considered cute until I hit 160lbs.

Everybody gets hit with Body Stuff, but white women and the thinness thing is just diabolical. Like…they want y’all to look you’ve been surviving off cotton balls soaked in milk and roach carcasses.

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.

After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.

(Published Dec. 2025)

A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

I think a lot of Opinion Pages would benefit from an editor who understands the difference between exploring a controversial idea as a concept versus exploring a controversial idea as a viable option for current or future action.

Ya’ll just say anything.

I am the de facto Lorax. I speak for the trees.