The Vatican Embassy is literally across the street from the vice president’s house on Massachusetts Ave in NW DC.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

It’s like that Twilight Zone episode where everyone turns into Banksy.

Love this. Author Elizabeth Dejeans (1868-1928) learned to type by serving as her father's amanuensis and then gigging as a secretary. She found the process laborious at first, but grew to "abhor" the pen. The skill served her well when it came time to pitch her own writing.

MacKenzie Scott should publicly offer to buy Washington Post

When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.

Local journalism matters.

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

💔

Drawing of the upper half of a terrier like dog with a collar, above there is a line of handwriting above stating the subject, date and artist

Charlotte Brontë's dog Grasper drawn by her sister Emily Brontë, January, 1834, both would later be known for such classic novels as 'Jane Eyre' (1847) and 'Wuthering Heights' (1847) #WomensArt

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

The WSJ found 13 similar cases. Thirteen. Makes it sound less like an accident than a strategy. "The Minneapolis shooting shares characteristics with others the Journal reviewed: Agents box in a vehicle, try to remove an individual, block attempts to flee, then fire." www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted

300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library Are we truly in the midst of a human-caused sixth mass extinction, an era of “biological annihilation”?

300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library www.openculture.com/2026/01/3000...

Saw Hamnet on the big screen today and I became Aunt Georgiana in Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee,” weeping helplessly, cathartically, joyfully.
Sublime, truly.

Six arch shaped stained glass artworks, each featuring a different image of a bird, plant or animal in individual colours

UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart.

How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.

‘A revelation!’: how Edward Weston transformed bums, veg and egg slicers into sculpture – in pictures Moving from one avant garde movement to another during the 1920s, the American photographer’s work helps tell the story of the birth of modernism

If Santa doesn't put a ticket to Paris in my stocking, at least I have @theguardian.com's lovely sampling of MEP's Edward Weston exhibit. I esp ❤️ the modernist nude of Tina Modotti, who starred in the film adaptation of Elizabeth Dejeans' The Tiger's Coat in 1920. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.

More people need to just call them on their lies immediately. They melt like this guy.

Writing about family secrets and resisting the urge to begin every sentence with "Curiously,...."

Swim-up bars in every hub! Who’s with me?

Do the same people who believe the moon landing was faked... also believe that Elon Musk will colonize Mars?

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.

revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

This is how people look when I start talking about my family history

Iowa doesn't have enough OB-GYNs. Is the state's abortion ban part of the problem? Iowa ranks last among states for the number of OB-GYNS per capita. State legislators are trying to recruit more, but some doctors say the state's strict abortion ban is partially to blame.

The laws have put doctors under increasing pressure, complicating the standard medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, premature membrane rupture, and other pregnancy problems. These laws are driving much-needed doctors from certain states.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.

Trump Antoinette strikes again.

In solidarity.

Herpey’s
(If changing a single consonant digraph is allowed )