Pray you once more,
Is not your father grown incapable
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man? Dispute his own estate?
Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing
But what he did being childish?

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

When you watch these heartbreaking videos showing the cruel and thuggish behavior of ICE agents, remember that these people are not being FORCED to commit these acts — they do so willingly. They could quit their jobs at any time. They could say “enough!”

ICE agents CHOOSE to do what they do.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

I missed this and I don’t wanna dredge up the trauma again but I have to say my piece, which is:

The White House using Jewish/Hebrew words to taunt this man is a violent example of what I'm always telling you: Jews are used as tools by the US govt. We are weaponized.

This is the real antisemitism

Patricia Bauman died a year ago.

ActBlue is a payment processor. Almost anyone who’s given to a D candidate in the last 20 years could be mischaracterized as a “ActBlue funder.”

Listing five Jews, two of whom are long dead, as “ActBlue funders” secretly behind the Tesla protests is antisemitism.

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

On the whole I’d rather have Hunter Biden messing with a laptop than Elon messing with the Treasury Dept’s computers

Egg prices hit record highs this week.

Much of the increase is the result of egg shortages brought on by avian flu.

How has Trump responded? By ordering public health agencies to cease communications with the public.

His presidency is a threat to our health and our wallets.

The forecast for the inauguration has trended COLDER and temps may only be in mid-20s for swearing in with wind chills in teens. Probably will be coldest inauguration since Reagan in 1985!

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/14/inauguration-day-forecast-dc-weather-cold-wind/

Ann Telnaes deserves praise for sacrificing her job at the disgraced Washington Post in service of journalistic independence
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

As a Buddhist, I believe in non-violence to solve our problems.

I have yet to see those condemning the left for lionizing Luigi Mangione even once criticize the right’s vile embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse, or Trump and Vance inviting Daniel Penny to be their political prop at a football game.

Our new secretary of education

Trump isn't even in office yet & we're already talking about letting him bypass the Constitution as though that's a normal conversation to be having.

so many ppl have left twitter they should call it ex