“[Dad] brought home a boombox from his construction site, the equipment victim of an errant brick so every few words crackled. It became Big Band at midnight and Hip Hop at dawn and Country at lunch.”
🔥 Lauren Kardos (@lkardos.bsky.social) in The Bulb Region today.
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Hmmm, I wonder if that’s the reason it took her three months to drop my charges? Nah, couldn’t be. Just because people have a D next to their names does not mean they are committed to the same things as you. They will sell you out unless we make them pay a political price for doing so.
Rabbit hole trip from your post: LIFE masks from April 1860. Lincoln’s right hand was still swollen from shaking hands with supporters. To steady his hand in the mold, Lincoln went out to the woodshed and cut off a piece of broom handle. americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...
Worthwhile thread!
The fact that a social safety net program delivers at all is impressive in light of the fact that the GOP platform does not promote social safety net programs.
Before and after welfare reform in the 1990s, I worked for a USDA-agent org that admin'd the child and adult care food program. What's happening now is also devastating for program staffers who are being set up to fail every single day. My heart goes out to all on both sides of this equation.
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If they move to Indiana, would/could they still call themselves the Chicago Bears?
Amazing!
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No words. Anger and sadness, but no words.
I suspect that the owner of the hives took perhaps an insurmountable hit in terms of staying afloat. Hive owners contract to move their hives around on dangerous road trips because they need the income and crop growers literally can't make it without pollinators. And those poor bees. Sigh.
"Dolores’s realization that Dolores can assume a sort of invincibility if only Dolores is willing to desire nothing more than exactly what Dolores already has is alluring, then calming."
little 🔥 today from gg roland
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"The truck was destroyed." So, were the hives destroyed as well? This is serious business. The hives were being transported to pollinate a crop, something humans rely on. They weren't on a joy ride. Not funny.
“Is it true that the university does not really want to know the whole truth about its history of slave ownership in the Caribbean?” Um, yes.
This is funny! I laughed a lot! I also feel in my bones that Fisher-Price will pivot in my lifetime.
The cover of Black Arts. It features Stacey Abe Gillian's The Sitting 1 as its cover art.
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the fact that the majority of transported loads of any sort make it to their destinations without incident is, to me, like the post office delivering mail. if you sit down and really think about what needs to happen, you'd never believe it actually works out, but it does.
Book cover of "There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America" by Brian Goldstone, displayed against a pink background beneath the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes logo and the words "Current Interest — Winner."
Honored and humbled (and truly stunned!) to have won the LA Times Book Prize.
My profound thanks to the five families at the heart of this book, whose trust and generosity made it all possible. I will never stop being grateful to them.
you be the judge: glaucoma or a portal? either way...
Rockford to Chicago!
it appears that her stepson called ICE as part of an estate grab, which is beyond awful as well
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Me in 1992 in IL: Immediate D&C upon examination for a miscarriage that wouldn't complete. These drs knew what they were looking at. "... citing Davis for failing to quantify the volume of blood loss and choosing to monitor Ngumezi’s condition instead of immediately taking her for a D&C procedure."
It works! Thank you for doing this.
that's part 2. part 1 is pulling a gun in the first place.
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New Yorker cartoon by bob. Hospital patient with bandaged head and surgeon holding a wind-up toy monkey with cymbals, "We found this in your brain."
On my mood board.
1. Trump's ICE rushes to deport people branded "alien enemies."
2. Judge Boasberg orders them to stop.
3. ICE ignores him.
4. Judge threatens contempt.
5. Trump-appointed appellate judges knock that down — and the lone voice of dissent on the bench warns about the grave implications of doing so.