We need a few hundred more Dems like Louise Lucas

Pintos abound in these parts.

I think about it a lot.

One year in, new NM militarized border zone overwhelming courts, ACLU says • Source New Mexico A year into an established military NM border zone, courts are flooded with cases the government cannot win, according to the ACLU.

One year after the federal government announced a new national militarized zone to deter illegal border crossers, federal courts are swamped with criminal cases the government knows it cannot prove, according to a new report from the ACLU of New Mexico.

My brother had rubella, went into convulsions that rewired his brain. He was never the same.

Looking pretty good in Loudoun County…

As donors understand

Now I also need to lie down

French friends met there as grad students and have now been married for decades. Trés romantique!

It was a tragic situation. And now I worry about all the babies who can’t get measles vaccines until they’re 6 months old.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges related to its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.

Have they asked any donors whether they feel defrauded?

That's horrible! And I actually know a woman who died of the flu. A horrible tragedy.

Grand reading room in the Bibliotheque Nacionale, Paris.

The BN has some comfy chairs amid all the grandeur.

I asked X, Paramount, ABC, and Meta where their donations to Trump's Presidential Library went. None of them could give a clear answer.

Tens of MILLIONS of dollars are missing.

Why should Americans trust that this money isn’t going straight into Donald Trump’s pockets?

I first learned about wandering the stacks as a small child, exploring the wonderland that was our public library. College stacks became my places of mystery and delight. I could hardly agree more.

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This might be the most illuminating poll I've seen in quite some time.

‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

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Mexico City tree canopies make the city extraordinarily beautiful.

Albuquerque is trying to do this.

Not a penny to make life more affordable for American families, but $70 BILLION for ICE to terrorize our communities.

Susan Collins votes yes to proceed to the budget resolution, the first step in the process of giving ICE and CBP another $70 billion of funding.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Let's recall that this is the guy who said on tv that he doesn't wash his hands after he goes to the bathroom.

Have you been to the Bibliotheque Nationale? Ooh la la!

So. . .perjury?

WWI Combat: 53,402 deaths
WWI Flu: 45,000 deaths

Pete Hegseth: “Let’s make the flu a threat again!”

Apparently, “readiness” now means making our troops as vulnerable as they were in 1918. Bold move.

Quid Pro Corruption

Get him outa here.