Must keep posting this. ICE has contracted with the successor to the mercenary firm Blackwater. As one keen follower pointed out: We have private military mercenaries operating on US soil.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3mc2fcgcbi22k

@crocodilu There's a car in front of her that's blocking the lane. Who does that being to? ICE? If so, they boxed her in. Good's wife isn't "antagonizing" the officer, she's engaged in good old-fashioned American banter. The agents are giving Renee Good conflicting orders. One appears to be pointing toward the street, as if to suggest she move her car, then the other reaches her car and pulls on the door handle. More videos are needed to complete this story.

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My orange harvest is done. My trees had 2,000 oranges, now there are only a few. There are 1,407 oranges on my front porch and I've already given away more than 500. Turning my attention to processing the oranges. Tis the season to be squeezing ...

The president of the Oglala Sioux says ICE detained four of its tribal members in Minneapolis. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/oglala-sioux-tribe-members-detained-ice-minneapolis/

@stux He had his cell phone on, taping his actions. Why? To clear himself, or to enjoy later.

All we have are Mussolini cosplayers who can’t make the trains run on time, Rockefeller LARPers who can’t build a refinery, and Nikola Tesla tribute acts who’ve never shipped hardware. History will remember this as the age of the cover band. We are ruled by guys who watched a YouTube documentary about Napoleon and said “I could do that” but meant the hat.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

RE: https://arram.senta-la.cloud/@locutora/115849958705395106

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https://www.booksns.com/182751/ I just want to recommend an Iranian romantic comedy to you all: My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad #SuggestMeABook Disclaimer: I have no association with any publisher or the late author. I've gotten so many great suggestions from this community over the years, and learned about so many great authors. Being Iranian, I wanted to bring something to the table from Iranian literature and recommend this book that I love to anyone who might

Hahaha, enshittification doesn’t even cut it anymore… may I introduce you to *drumroll* the crapocalypse! https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115847232165161059 https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115847232165161059

Either someone took over her Xitter account, or Tulsi has sucked it up and betrayed all the things she said about invading Venezuela in 2019.

I finally managed it ...

"Restorative Birding meets people where they are, whether that’s watching a backyard bird feeder, listening for birds during a quick walk at lunch, or experiencing the joy of looking through binoculars for the first time."

https://ebird.org/news/ebird-in-action-restorative-birding

#birding #birds

Need hope in this era of political nihilism? Come (virtually) to celebrate speculative resistance & protest with me, Karen Lord, @older & guests, for our new anthology WE WILL RISE AGAIN. City Lights Books is our host on Sat, 1/10, 11am PT. https://citylights.com/events/panel-discussion-we-will-rise-again-speculative-stories-about-political-protest-resistance-and-hope/

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.01.03 — How do you come up with the titles for your works?

Usually, something about the story pops up that feels right.

For example, I named Inklings by serendipity. The POV does magic that leaves picture-like scars that resemble tattoos, and she meets a Pacific Islander (LI) who is covered with tattoos, rare where the story takes place. He's surprised upon noticing one of her scars (blue feathers) and tells her she has "ink." At some point in the story, I wrote the word inkling in the sense of a thought. Hearing the word, my mind shot to a new meaning for the word: a person who had "ink," thus the romance story between the two characters became the titled Inklings."

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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Does this help anything? #Caturday

I remember when the FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something