JillF50
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What fresh hell?! -Dorothy Parker
No lists please.
No lists please.
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I respectfully disagree with the jury’s verdict in the Judge Hannah Dugan case.
The trial evidence showed that Judge Dugan did not obstruct ICE agents from arresting an undocumented immigrant.
Let’s see what happens on appeal. Meanwhile, our support for Judge Dugan continues.
The trial evidence showed that Judge Dugan did not obstruct ICE agents from arresting an undocumented immigrant.
Let’s see what happens on appeal. Meanwhile, our support for Judge Dugan continues.
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I respectfully disagree with the jury’s verdict in the Judge Hannah Dugan case.
The trial evidence showed that Judge Dugan did not obstruct ICE agents from arresting an undocumented immigrant.
Let’s see what happens on appeal. Meanwhile, our support for Judge Dugan continues.
The trial evidence showed that Judge Dugan did not obstruct ICE agents from arresting an undocumented immigrant.
Let’s see what happens on appeal. Meanwhile, our support for Judge Dugan continues.
More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/s...
More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/s...
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For those asking about sentencing, the 1505 charge carries a 5-year maximum, but Judge Dugan's guideline sentence will be much lower, because she's a first-time offender & there are mitigating factors. And of course, there will be an appeal before the conviction becomes final.
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
For those asking about sentencing, the 1505 charge carries a 5-year maximum, but Judge Dugan's guideline sentence will be much lower, because she's a first-time offender & there are mitigating factors. And of course, there will be an appeal before the conviction becomes final.
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The 9th Circuit administratively stayed the return of Guard troops to Gov Newsom’s control, but upheld the rest of the order. Here’s the background you need to understand what’s happening in this case (for people who don’t want to live in a militarized US) open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
December 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The 9th Circuit administratively stayed the return of Guard troops to Gov Newsom’s control, but upheld the rest of the order. Here’s the background you need to understand what’s happening in this case (for people who don’t want to live in a militarized US) open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/s...
More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/s...
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre: Epstein accuser’s memoir sells 1 MILLION copies in two months
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"Publisher Alfred A Knopf announced on Tuesday that more than half the sales for Nobody’s Girl came out of North America; in the US, the book is now in its 10th printing after an initial run of 70,000 copies."
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"Publisher Alfred A Knopf announced on Tuesday that more than half the sales for Nobody’s Girl came out of North America; in the US, the book is now in its 10th printing after an initial run of 70,000 copies."
Virginia Roberts Giuffre: Epstein accuser’s memoir sells 1m copies in two months
Giuffre’s family calls the success of her posthumous memoir, Nobody's Girl, ‘bittersweet’ after her death in April
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Virginia Roberts Giuffre: Epstein accuser’s memoir sells 1 MILLION copies in two months
😃
"Publisher Alfred A Knopf announced on Tuesday that more than half the sales for Nobody’s Girl came out of North America; in the US, the book is now in its 10th printing after an initial run of 70,000 copies."
😃
"Publisher Alfred A Knopf announced on Tuesday that more than half the sales for Nobody’s Girl came out of North America; in the US, the book is now in its 10th printing after an initial run of 70,000 copies."
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Who went bra shopping with John Berger? Whose childhood routine involved visits from the snake charmer? Who disliked the “big, unfriendly giant” Roald Dahl? Was it the same person Dahl told to try children’s fiction because “the little bastards’d swallow it?”
I read some memoirs by Booker winners:
I read some memoirs by Booker winners:
Ten of the best memoirs by Booker Prize-winning authors | The Booker Prizes
Discover the inner workings of some of the greatest Booker Prize-nominated authors with our list of captivating memoirs
thebookerprizes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Who went bra shopping with John Berger? Whose childhood routine involved visits from the snake charmer? Who disliked the “big, unfriendly giant” Roald Dahl? Was it the same person Dahl told to try children’s fiction because “the little bastards’d swallow it?”
I read some memoirs by Booker winners:
I read some memoirs by Booker winners:
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Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
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In a timeline cleanse before I pour myself into bed, here is a shot of a Christmas tree on one of our docks after today's snowfall. Tap for full size, particularly because it's a vertical. I hope you have had a great day!
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
In a timeline cleanse before I pour myself into bed, here is a shot of a Christmas tree on one of our docks after today's snowfall. Tap for full size, particularly because it's a vertical. I hope you have had a great day!
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The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
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Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
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NYC 1976. The last era of department stores.
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
NYC 1976. The last era of department stores.
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I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
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Ossoff: "This is one of the most consequential votes this Senate will take all year. By saying yea or nay to the clerk of the Senate later today, senators will decide whether people live or die. Senators will decide whether Georgians & folks across the country are financially ruined or have a shot."
December 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Ossoff: "This is one of the most consequential votes this Senate will take all year. By saying yea or nay to the clerk of the Senate later today, senators will decide whether people live or die. Senators will decide whether Georgians & folks across the country are financially ruined or have a shot."
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Just a reminder that books make great gifts! 📚🎁
And please buy from indie bookstores or bookshop.org who supports indies! Thanks!
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #supportindie #books #giftideas
Find the books I've illustrated and my collections of books I love
bookshop.org/shop/TraciVW...
And please buy from indie bookstores or bookshop.org who supports indies! Thanks!
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #supportindie #books #giftideas
Find the books I've illustrated and my collections of books I love
bookshop.org/shop/TraciVW...
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Just a reminder that books make great gifts! 📚🎁
And please buy from indie bookstores or bookshop.org who supports indies! Thanks!
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #supportindie #books #giftideas
Find the books I've illustrated and my collections of books I love
bookshop.org/shop/TraciVW...
And please buy from indie bookstores or bookshop.org who supports indies! Thanks!
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #supportindie #books #giftideas
Find the books I've illustrated and my collections of books I love
bookshop.org/shop/TraciVW...
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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And darker… As Carl Sagan said (prophetically) in his often-quoted book ‘The Demon-Haunted World’.
![“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American[sic] is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance…”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:leewy4zzpqsl72ogi35dd4ar/bafkreibaaw4uc2gifrt23zqjvnwneap7kaccsxi6noqkxa6h42o6pt5veu@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
And darker… As Carl Sagan said (prophetically) in his often-quoted book ‘The Demon-Haunted World’.
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If I could go anywhere in the world right now, it’d be the library near my first apartment.
They had an outside reading area.
What I wouldn’t give to be there right now, with a nice hot coffee and an obscure graphic novel I’m surprised they had.
They had an outside reading area.
What I wouldn’t give to be there right now, with a nice hot coffee and an obscure graphic novel I’m surprised they had.
December 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If I could go anywhere in the world right now, it’d be the library near my first apartment.
They had an outside reading area.
What I wouldn’t give to be there right now, with a nice hot coffee and an obscure graphic novel I’m surprised they had.
They had an outside reading area.
What I wouldn’t give to be there right now, with a nice hot coffee and an obscure graphic novel I’m surprised they had.
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Crimes against humanity.
"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..."
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
‘A sad, cruel moment’: 58 Florida children leaving US amid parent deportations
“The only losers are the children.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Crimes against humanity.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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This was a panel I did at Sundance in 2009 with Jason Kilar of Hulu, Reed Hastings of @netflix.com & Chad Hurley of YouTube. I was trying to tell Hollywood folks that these people & their startups — then small — would kill them eventually if they did not embrace the future. youtu.be/MvZ_KT1Ya04?si
Kara Visits Sundance and Interviews Hurley, Hastings & Kilar
YouTube video by KaraSwisher
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was a panel I did at Sundance in 2009 with Jason Kilar of Hulu, Reed Hastings of @netflix.com & Chad Hurley of YouTube. I was trying to tell Hollywood folks that these people & their startups — then small — would kill them eventually if they did not embrace the future. youtu.be/MvZ_KT1Ya04?si
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).