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Hi. I’m back. ‘Cause the world is even more on fire than when I left. Sigh.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Please share this. Friends of the Everglades are organizing a protest to stop Alligator Alcatraz. Join us we have coalition members traveling overnight to be there by morning.

Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail
When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

Monstrous:

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

Progressive policies improve people's lives.

Centrists policies cater to the whims of the rich.

Progressives protect civil rights.

Centrists prey upon civil rights.

Zohran Mamdani is pictured speaking. Headline reads: "Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary." Photo credit: Scott Heins for The New York Times.

Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ

Imagine you are a 9th century cleric and you're like "people of the future deserve to know about my cat, Pangur Ban"

Amazing. This would work on me, btw.

a watercolor comic of 'stuff in nature I always stop to look at' mossy rocks, a little stream, a tree that fell over, dappled lighting

add yours!

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman. 4.2/5 on Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13543121 #book #books #b... TikTok video by GT Books

I was just wandering in the strange realms of TikTok and found this incredible video about Between Two Fires. Holy shit. Very Ralph Bakshi. I love it.

MSNBC reporter in gas mask in Los Angeles: I think it was Sheriffs deploying CS gas, tear gas, pepper spray, and flash bang grenades in large numbers.
Mounted units pushing against protesters.., every single gathering I saw today was 100% peaceful

D&D bards should have a “montage” power, where they can play an ‘80s-style banger that lets listeners massively train up their skill levels, which then last just long enough for the big fight at the end.

Menswear guy out here doing the hard work. This is amazing.

Poster board that says “We don’t wanna go to war today, but the lord of MAGA says nay, nay, nay!” with the orcs from the animated Return of the King adaptation. The orc with a whip is wearing a MAGA hat and has garish yellow hair. The orcs are fully colored in with marker.

Finished my sign. Can’t wait to explain to everyone tomorrow who these weird turtle guys are.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

This is unacceptable!!

This

What the actual fuck

Trump threatens war with Iran; Hegseth has plans for an invasion of Greenland.

Trump has effectively invaded Los Angeles and a California senator was manhandled in his own state for asking questions.

Foreign-born legal residents are being kidnapped and deported.

THIS ADMINISTRATION MUST GO

Right?

This is one of my favorite things about Tolkien. It is so open. He gave us so much to play with (other hand and hearts and all that). Reading his changing versions reads like real history- different points of view of the same events- it’s fun!! TROP is another version of events it’s gorgeous!

'Raise the Shire!' said Merry. 'Now! Wake all our people! They hate all this, you can see: all of them except perhaps one or two rascals, and a few fools that want to be important, but don't at all understand what is really going on. But Shire-folk have been so comfortable so long they don't know what to do. They just want a match, though, and they'll go up in fire. The Chief's Men must know that. They'll try to stamp on us and put us out quick. We've only got a very short time. - The Scouring of the Shire, LOTR

Hugs from so far away. I haven’t been around much lately because of all the stuff, but you have brightened my life and I am thankful for it.

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

I feel this one is particularly relevant lately.

Book 5 ch. 1: I actually laughed out loud at how every time Gandalf shows up somewhere, the general response is, "Oh shit, Mithrandir is here! We must really be in the shit now!" And Gandalf's response is a never-reassuring, "You are indeed! More than you can even guess!" And everyone's like 😮😬