This was me all of last week. Made a pot of leek and potato soup, then the next day some sweet potato and peanut stew, and then the day after that some chicken potato chowder with dried cranberries. Comfort food ahoy!

The definitive proof that ICE was always a fascistic institution is that Trump didn't needed to reform It. No mass firing, no change in training, no mass hiring.

He simply said "go, my attack dogs, find brown people". And they went, because they were always fascists.

As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.

That one issue is *every* issue. As soon as a politician decides some people are acceptable sacrifices, anyone can be sacrificed.