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If you can, here is a way to help two immigrants taken by ICE who have no family support here:

Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation "In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LGBTQ+ books.

This breaks my heart and outrages me. Please read queer books.

Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ... #lgbtq #lgbtqbooks #bookrecommendations

ICE has murdered THIRTY TWO PEOPLE in detention centers. Four in the last week.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

what enrages me: we have no idea how many they've taken. or where they are.

The Quiet Negotiations I watched Heated Rivalry like a lot of people and what stayed with me wasn’t the plot, the sport, or even the love story.

“Because our culture often treats visibility as a moral benchmark. If you are out, you are brave. If you are not, you are behind. But that binary ignores the reality of systems that still demand compliance before they offer protection.”

Trump Moves to End Gender-Related Care for Minors, Threatening Hospitals That Offer It

These fucking ghouls. Called my Senators. Call yours too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...

Jesse is letting me show him ep 1 of Heated Rivalry. Cross your fingers for meeeee

We’ve gotten about 10 inches of snow so far today. The dogs are having the time of their lives

The Gospel of Donald: Flipping Through The MAGA Translation Bible A previously undiscovered version of the Christian scriptures was recently unearthed during renovations of a Mar-a-Lago bathroom.

2 Republicans 10:2:

“White GOP Jesus stood in a Chick-fil-A dining room and said: ‘The only devil is compassion. Caring for people who are suffering or hungry or hurting or sick or alone or poor is a sign of weakness. To hell with the least of these..."

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Kristi Noem says no US citizens have been detained by ICE.

170 US citizens detained by ICE including kids.

Release the EPSTEIN files.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

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Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative The Committee for the First Amendment was originally formed by Henry Fonda in 1947.

Jane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

What in the absolute FUCK. The only words I have right now are F-bombs.

Oh yay! Mine was in the Ozarks. Hope you’re going somewhere relaxing too!

View from inside a dome house over a deck and the mountains

External view of a white dome house on a large deck

Night time view of an LED candelabra with a white Siberian husky and a woman’s legs stretched out on a bed

A white Siberian husky on a deck at night

I need to get myself a good one!

Yep I rented one for a personal writing retreat and it was so peaceful

Also that’s an adorable question

They’re definitely for my dogs! They’re made with safe and healthy ingredients for them since butter, sugar, and white flour are so bad for them

Thank you!! My dogs taste-tested the batter and they’re so excited

I use pumpkin, coconut flour, eggs, Greek yogurt, and the tiniest bit of baking soda in this recipe and it comes out beautifully

A muffin tin filled with pumpkin batter and a swirl of molasses and cinnamon on top

Pumpkin spice doggy muffins going into the oven! Swirl on top is blackstrap molasses, agave, and cinnamon #baking #authorswhobake #pumpkinspice

White husky laying in bed

Espresso machines are very good at that. Willow feels your pain

White square marshmallows topped with freeze-dried strawberry slices

I made some homemade strawberry marshmallows

Hi!!! I’ve been thinking about you! How are you?

This was great and I want everyone to see it. Because I want them to look at what journalism was, and what it used to do

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Brightly colored fudge pieces in a floral box

Dark chocolate fudge pieces in a floral box

Pecan fudge and unicorn fudge for the farmers market

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.