Offspring has gone directly from reading Pride and Prejudice to The Haunting of Hill House, and I am so excited for them to encounter that first paragraph.

wow

How close was that to the 7pm announced start time?

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

The thing about the David Brookses of the world and hundreds of others like him is that only one or two have used their clout to do anything substantive about the horrors underway. Can you imagine having such a platform and only harrumphing *at the people standing up to the threat*? It's pathetic.

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

why the fuck was a DHS agency doing the search

"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]."

I think Todos os Olhos (the eye one) might be my favorite, but they're all rewarding in different ways. Happy Tom Zé Day!

Notably, the bakery did not have him arrested.

one more day to apply!

"He said several drivers he had helped connect with detained groups also found themselves detained by the police. 'The situation is very crazy today: Whoever we are sending to help, they get held also.'”

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

Pwned in the dementia ward today. I walked into the common room looking for my mother, and a woman I didn’t know said, “You aren’t funny.” “I’m sorry,” I said, “I’ll try harder.” “Please don’t,” she said.

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.