Gratia Léger
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Now that we’re all about “complying with the law” re Minnesota, does that extend to complying with the law re Epstein files?
January 17, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Now that we’re all about “complying with the law” re Minnesota, does that extend to complying with the law re Epstein files?
I’m still waiting for the Epstein files. What about you?
Deadline was December 19. We’re 4 weeks past that.
Deadline was December 19. We’re 4 weeks past that.
January 16, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I’m still waiting for the Epstein files. What about you?
Deadline was December 19. We’re 4 weeks past that.
Deadline was December 19. We’re 4 weeks past that.
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There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds.
The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.
The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.
January 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds.
The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.
The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.
I went to see Hamnet tonight. I loved the book, and the movie succeeded in stripping out pretty much everything that got me to read it twice.
It was ok as costume dramas go.
It was ok as costume dramas go.
January 15, 2026 at 4:26 AM
I went to see Hamnet tonight. I loved the book, and the movie succeeded in stripping out pretty much everything that got me to read it twice.
It was ok as costume dramas go.
It was ok as costume dramas go.
Yes
Friends—I need you to connect to your rapid response in your city. Your ICE watch. If you don’t have one, start one. I’m watching Minneapolis and we need to be prepared for what comes next. Know the activists in our neighborhoods. If you don’t know your rights now is the time to learn. Have a plan.
January 14, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Yes
Yes, please. Whenever you’re up for doing these, you’ll have an audience.
January 14, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Yes, please. Whenever you’re up for doing these, you’ll have an audience.
Where are the Epstein files?
This.
2/What’s really happening is that Trump has managed to take the spotlight off of DOJ‘s failure to comply with the Epstein files transparency act. Let’s not let him get away with that.
January 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Where are the Epstein files?
Agreed. And my friends who make it won’t see this. Also won’t see all the evidence that we have the worst healthcare of the entire developed world. Better technology, but worse healthcare.
We’ll lose the technology edge now, thanks to Trump.
We’ll lose the technology edge now, thanks to Trump.
January 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Agreed. And my friends who make it won’t see this. Also won’t see all the evidence that we have the worst healthcare of the entire developed world. Better technology, but worse healthcare.
We’ll lose the technology edge now, thanks to Trump.
We’ll lose the technology edge now, thanks to Trump.
Or when conservative Christians call universal healthcare "socialized medicine" and say it doesn't work because ordinary people have to wait a long time for elective surgeries, or else go to India and pay themselves. Whereas here, they have to pay fully inflated US prices themselves, or do without.
January 14, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Or when conservative Christians call universal healthcare "socialized medicine" and say it doesn't work because ordinary people have to wait a long time for elective surgeries, or else go to India and pay themselves. Whereas here, they have to pay fully inflated US prices themselves, or do without.
Yeah, I've heard that. I laugh every time I do. Just like I laugh when people say it's communist to want everyone to have shelter, medical care, and food.
January 14, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Yeah, I've heard that. I laugh every time I do. Just like I laugh when people say it's communist to want everyone to have shelter, medical care, and food.
Yuck! I'm mostly dealt with the burdock (which is said to have been the model for Velcro. May not be true, but it's certainly plausible) and stick-tights, which infested the yard and were impossible to get out of my mother's golden retriever's fur).
January 14, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Yuck! I'm mostly dealt with the burdock (which is said to have been the model for Velcro. May not be true, but it's certainly plausible) and stick-tights, which infested the yard and were impossible to get out of my mother's golden retriever's fur).
Cool article about overpass protests. The police have turned up at my group's protests multiple times, and chased us twice (claiming we cannot attach signs to the bridge for 90 minutes with bungee cords), which suggests our messages are getting attention.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Hyperlocal and highly visible: the power of freeway overpass protests amid Trump 2.0
Since Trump retook office, protesters across the US are sending messages that are hard for drivers to miss
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Cool article about overpass protests. The police have turned up at my group's protests multiple times, and chased us twice (claiming we cannot attach signs to the bridge for 90 minutes with bungee cords), which suggests our messages are getting attention.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Can we clone Murphy, Van Hollen, Booker, Kelly, and replace Schumer, Fetterman, Slotkin, and a few others with the clones?
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Can we clone Murphy, Van Hollen, Booker, Kelly, and replace Schumer, Fetterman, Slotkin, and a few others with the clones?
Oh my. That's a sticker variety I've not encountered before.
I'm lucky that Argyll's short hound-like fur doesn't collect much, but that's not been the case with everyone I've had de-sticker!
I'm lucky that Argyll's short hound-like fur doesn't collect much, but that's not been the case with everyone I've had de-sticker!
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Oh my. That's a sticker variety I've not encountered before.
I'm lucky that Argyll's short hound-like fur doesn't collect much, but that's not been the case with everyone I've had de-sticker!
I'm lucky that Argyll's short hound-like fur doesn't collect much, but that's not been the case with everyone I've had de-sticker!
if DHS murdered every MAN who honked his horn or had a problem with authority, we'd be in a major population crisis.
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 AM
if DHS murdered every MAN who honked his horn or had a problem with authority, we'd be in a major population crisis.
We have a lot to learn from our Black fellow Americans!
White Americans keep looking to 1930s Germany for lessons on authoritarianism, but they ignore Black Americans who have survived it here.
Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.
Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.
January 13, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We have a lot to learn from our Black fellow Americans!
Is it schadenfreude I'm feeling, seeing all the clips of ICE slipping on the ice?
January 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Is it schadenfreude I'm feeling, seeing all the clips of ICE slipping on the ice?
Translation: While I was busy closing my eyes and covering my ears while saying "lalalalalala" for all the things you keep asking me about, my febrile imagination conjured up a perfect reel of the lies the Dear Leader is telling about this. I don't want to be the one he does artillery practice on.
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Translation: While I was busy closing my eyes and covering my ears while saying "lalalalalala" for all the things you keep asking me about, my febrile imagination conjured up a perfect reel of the lies the Dear Leader is telling about this. I don't want to be the one he does artillery practice on.
Listening to Rheinberger’s Abendlied to calm my spirit enough for sleep. Wish I’d thought of this sooner. It’s one of my favorite prayers.
Pet peeve: English-speaking choirs often can’t sing “werden”. They make it into “wirden.”
Anyone know a good performance by a German-speaking choir?
Pet peeve: English-speaking choirs often can’t sing “werden”. They make it into “wirden.”
Anyone know a good performance by a German-speaking choir?
January 13, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Listening to Rheinberger’s Abendlied to calm my spirit enough for sleep. Wish I’d thought of this sooner. It’s one of my favorite prayers.
Pet peeve: English-speaking choirs often can’t sing “werden”. They make it into “wirden.”
Anyone know a good performance by a German-speaking choir?
Pet peeve: English-speaking choirs often can’t sing “werden”. They make it into “wirden.”
Anyone know a good performance by a German-speaking choir?
Indeed. There are cases where my imagination is unable to hold together imago dei and a given face, despite my theological beliefs.
January 13, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Indeed. There are cases where my imagination is unable to hold together imago dei and a given face, despite my theological beliefs.
We really are, Alyssa. I wonder if Viktor Klemperer addresses how to speak about things when you run out of words. I confess that I started The Language of the Third Reich in Dictatorship: The Apprentice season and found it denser than I could manage at that stage of being overwhelmed.
January 13, 2026 at 1:52 AM
We really are, Alyssa. I wonder if Viktor Klemperer addresses how to speak about things when you run out of words. I confess that I started The Language of the Third Reich in Dictatorship: The Apprentice season and found it denser than I could manage at that stage of being overwhelmed.
F*** just isn’t cutting it any longer.
January 13, 2026 at 1:26 AM
F*** just isn’t cutting it any longer.
In my defense, no one else can spell Schuylkill. I've also seen it with 2 l's, 0 i's, and 2 y's. For a long time the river, the county, and the expressway seemed to have different variants. To say nothing of my youth, when the expressway was universally known as the Sure-kill Crawlway.
January 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
In my defense, no one else can spell Schuylkill. I've also seen it with 2 l's, 0 i's, and 2 y's. For a long time the river, the county, and the expressway seemed to have different variants. To say nothing of my youth, when the expressway was universally known as the Sure-kill Crawlway.
Bayou Bernard, no question, though I've spent more time in the Schuylkill River basin. Not so much that I can spell it without looking it up, mind.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Bayou Bernard, no question, though I've spent more time in the Schuylkill River basin. Not so much that I can spell it without looking it up, mind.
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Thornton Creek, I think. It’s a block from my house, and drains into Lake Washington which drains into Puget Sound. But my childhood home river is the Coosa, and I spent some good years in the Schuylkill/Delaware region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornto...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornto...
January 12, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Thornton Creek, I think. It’s a block from my house, and drains into Lake Washington which drains into Puget Sound. But my childhood home river is the Coosa, and I spent some good years in the Schuylkill/Delaware region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornto...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornto...