After having strangers show up in my mentions with racism, xenophobia, grammar policing & nitpicking a simple post about joy this past week, I'm moving my default to only comments from people I follow. There's been much more of this lately. My apologies but it makes this place healthier for me.

He promised to drain the swamp...
We got massive corruption & insider dealings.

He promised lower prices...
Costs are rising.

He promised no new wars...
He invaded Venezuela, bombed Iran & is warmongering with Greenland.

Trump: Corruption, costs, conflict.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

With less than two hours until the lights went out in Austin, and the energy was building in the paddock, I was in a rather quiet place.

The office of FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem.

Here's what we discussed.

www.sbnation.com/formula-one/...

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Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the posts of our lives. Here are the ones I'm proudest of from this absolute monster of a year:

THE WOMAN WHO WAS DRAGGED OUT OF HER CAR AND ARRESTED BY ICE SPEAKS OUT…

We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself.

📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.

I'M SO GLAD I DON'T HAVE TO PUBLICALLY BITCH AND WHINE AFTER A VIDEO GOT UPLOADED JUST TO GET A CORPORATE TWITTER ACCOUNT'S ATTENTION TO FIX IT

GRRRAAAHHHHH THANK YOU ALLLL

Husker dere da vi syntes House of Cards var litt dramatisk eller

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Happy 80th birthday, Dolly Parton 🥰

‘Two Doors Down’

"A Change Is Gonna Come" (1964) - Sam Cooke 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zD...

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."