[Exit King.]

person (not visible) in a bright pink inflated axolotl suit holding a sign saying ATX SALAMANDERS AGAINST AUTHOROTODANIAN REGIMES.

I stand with salamanders, & against authoritoads.

How to ACTUALLY Deal with Tear Gas YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

youtu.be/LOXyZWeRvVY

Who broke the internet today?

How kind of you! Thanks so much!

Celebration #50: August 2010 by Barry Maxwell | A birthday toast.

@short-reads.org has been kind enough to drag me back out into the light. Thanks for giving this little birthday remembrance some love.
www.short-reads.org/celebration-...

For Mother's Day: a good friend is the "Mediocre Mom" over on Substack. Have a look. They're witty, smart, and far from mediocre.
themediocremother.substack.com

Fiona Apple - Pretrial (Let Her Go Home) (Official Music Video) YouTube video by fionaappleVEVO

youtu.be/ki1nvcNbYH8

NEA Literary Grants Terminated, Staff Depart as Trump Proposes Eliminating the Agency At least 38 publishers and a number of literary organizations received letters from the National Endowment for the Arts saying their grants were withdrawn or terminated, while four literary arts staff...

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The Beths - "Metal" (Official) YouTube video by The Beths

It's always good news when The Beths have a new song out.
youtu.be/YrVEgP0LkDA

Does anyone know an ICE agent personally? Like, what sort of lives do they lead? Are they all die-hard MAGA types, running around in their off hours with the giant US flags and trailer hitch nutsacks hanging off their trucks? Do they have friends? Do they stomp kittens for kicks?

ICE abducts Montana resident with legal humanitarian status Beker Rengifo is the latest victim of Trump's reckless and illegal war on migrants.

Close to home.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-whitef...

The definition of "the right thing" is vastly different across the population, government, and hell, the globe. You and I are obviously on the right side of anything, so we're cool. So many others ought to listen to us, but don't. (kidding/not kidding)

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

www.thehandbasket.co

US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.

Rwanda? WTF?
www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-rwanda-...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Missoula, MT Rally 4/16/25 YouTube video by Mark and Maggie O'Connor

youtu.be/q876DdsTW18

I'm wondering about the roots of the El Salvadoran concentration camp arrangement, like when did Trump talk to this "cool" dictator about the whole thing? When was the contract signed, payments made? Do we do this with other countries? Are there other black holes out there under contract?

I feel like the new dictatorship is saying, "C'mon, hit me. Hit me. Plant one right here," so we'll throw a punch, giving them an excuse to bring out the guns.

I'm crushed by these, as well as the caving of law firms. The Kaimin, U of Montana's student paper, has been pushing for admin transparency and intentions, but I'm not sure if anything at all has been clarified. Not holding my breath for them holding their ground.

FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY WITH BERNIE AND AOC: MONTANA YouTube video by Bernie Sanders

youtu.be/5pst2Y7_OlA

Extraordinary Rendition and Deportation Distinguished – Extradition

extradition.uslegal.com/extraordinar...

Terminology matters.
~Deportation uses rule of law and a *process* to remove a person from a country.
~Rendition (or Extraordinary Rendition) "generally implies that transferred suspects have no access to the judicial system of the sending state to challenge their transfer."

I have therapy today. Will EMDR take the fascism away?

About student visas: The First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, applies to everyone within U.S. borders, regardless of citizenship status or immigration status.

Inciting violence or other illegal activities fall outside that protection, but otherwise, protests and the like are fine.

I wish Trump had consulted with my writer's group before he decided to tank the economy. We would have had some good ideas for him on how to build tension without destroying the world. We could have helped him with character development too.

Damn. The price of whatever is up *again.* I'm gonna start growing my own.

Shannon Dale What I Understand I dreamed of a man with a gun in a food store and how he brought me with him to a corner. What he wanted was to sleep, I needed to be unscared enough to take a gun. I smelled it o…

A friend of mine, one of those students I look at and ask "whaddya need *me* for?", just got published today! They're awesome. Check it out at Sweet:
sweetlit.org/shannon-dale...

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...

Some Facts on the Department of Education because even the president seems to have no idea what they do

Wrote a quick and dirty illustrated explainer on The Department of Education because if I have to hear any more misinformation about it I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. open.substack.com/pub/aubreyhi...

We Should Be More Scared of Measles YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

youtu.be/84M8fvERhYs