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Thinking of friends, readers and writers, in ancient & beautiful Tehran, who have already suffered through so much. This timeline stinks.

Proof of life

A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” He has already made at least one run on the stove. A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.

How is it past midnight

I love this thread. I want to read all of these, now.

The art of delegation: So, you come home from two days away and nothing has burned down and no one is dead or hospitalized and that’s a win?

Send me photos from Paris tonight

Excellent book mail

It has arrived, a tiny untranslated bit of the fin de siècle from the Giant of Trieste!

Fabian Schmidt - a German green card holder with no history of violent crime - was held in maximum-security conditions for 8 weeks at RI's Wyatt Detention Facility. The reason was a decade-old drug misdemeanor. Details from my @rhodeislandcurrent.com report. rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/06/16/h...

Email your elected officials, demanding that they join Senator Kaine in preventing a war of choice with Iran. Call them on the phone tomorrow too. niacouncil.org/campaign/dem...

Playing politics with vets’ healthcare is so wrong, I don’t even know where to begin. 🤬

Please read our latest update to @liznangel3.bsky.social’s appeal on our behalf. We're so thankful to this community for reaching out with extraordinary generosity over the last couple of weeks. Please keep supporting us; these next weeks are critical. www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...

The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive by by Marcia Douglas (@ndbooks.bsky.social‬). Reviewed by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

Following the horrific mid-air crash at DCA in January, I remain concerned about FAA airspace management, communication, and deconfliction procedures. Rep. Ron Estes and I are calling for DOT audit of D.C. airspace to safeguard the flying public and military aviation operations.

This is Orwellian. I’ve already been warned to avoid travelling to the US if at all possible, but didn’t realise it was at the “scrub your phone” point

The Angel Belly of Healing is here to cleanse your timeline. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s.

Check out this great list! protectdemocracy.org/how-to-prote...

Half the strawberry harvest. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you what happened to the other half.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Sad. Low energy.

He had no audience, New York Times

Heck yeah RI!! #nokings #nokingsday #resist #june14

Hooray 🎉 PROVIDENCE! #NoKings 🇺🇸

Thank to everyone who showed up today! Providence RI was strong 💪🏽 Let’s keep up the energy as we have more to come! #nokings #50501movement #indivisible

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

#NoKings update: our brothers and sisters in Boston keepin things verrrry feisty #SoundUp 🧢 @beserioususa.bsky.social