Oh just because. Have a great Friday...weekend..

Just watched #cinemaparadiso and I'm crying my eyes out #tcm

BOTD: Eartha Kitt

Hey MAGA: If y'all are so concerned about fraud, then why is it every time we turn around, your crooked president is pardoning another rich white person for fraud? Where's your outrage? Or does it only matter if they're Somalian?

Word has spread on the long tailed tit grapevine that I run a very good bird café. This family group (likely brothers & sisters from a 2025 brood) came to dine. I’m passing on these 5 adorable tiny birbs (colloquial name: flying teaspoons) to you bc we all need a bit of joy rn🪶:

Exactly, it's about intimidation.

Speaking of #greenland and #denmark, this is a wonderful historical novel.

The letter “R” from the Hours of Charles of Angoulême, a French manuscript created around 1475.

Celebrating the 80th Birthday of not just a superstar artist, but a superstar human being. Dolly Parton. Dolly and Kermit singing Everyday People (1987)

Barack Obama hasn't been President in almost 10 years. MAGA racists cannot get past the fact that a Black man was President, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and will be remembered in history as one of the great leaders of the 21st Century. RETWEET if you love President Obama! 💙

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I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare: “the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

“Books are the training weights of the mind.” – Epictetus

Stark warning from former special counsel Jack Smith in today's congressional hearing: “After nearly 30 years of public service, including in international settings, I have seen how the rule of law can erode. My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country

On this day, 68 years ago, Jack Clayton's "Room at the Top" (1958) starring Simone Signoret & Laurence Harvey premiered in London, UK

This is, to my knowledge, the first instance of an official social media account representing the government of a democratic nation intentionally spreading altered imagery maliciously targeting one of its own citizens.

Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis The Minnesota Star Tribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The

The Coming Trump Crackup nytimes.com/2026/01/23/opi…

A beautiful moment at the “ICE Out of Minnesota” service at Temple Israel this morning: faith leaders singing a “This Little Light of Mine.” We must continue to share our light during these dark times.