Emmy108

Officially my new pinned.

I believe the precise wording was "Shove that ballroom up your FAT ass!"

How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

Awwwww

Our $2M investment in the Sea Cliffs Exhibit Renovation Project has gotten a pretty clear seal of approval.

Algebra, numbers, principles of optics, medical encyclopedias, astronomy, hospitals, surgical tools, universities, coffee, lab chemistry--all of Arabic origin. This mfer had a brain worm, collects road kills, sounds like a dial up modem, works out in jeans. This is a uniquely American arrogance.

A federal judge ruled Maurene Comey was unlawfully fired, finding the Trump administration violated limits on its removal powers.

Georgians! And everybody else too across the country: vote remind others to vote help others to get to the polls volunteer. Do what you can to make the Blue Wave a tsunami so immense that they can't fight it.

Rimpa School - Plum Tree (18th-19th century) One of six-panel screens, ink, color, silver and gold leaf on paper, 186.7 x 434.3cm. ea Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

It’s an insult to Alaskan voters. This is a state where 100,000 voters managed to legibly & correctly write in “Lisa Murkowski” on their ballots in 2010 after she lost in her GOP primary, resulting in her pulling off a long-shot victory. I’m going to say those voters can handle the two Dans.

It seems that parents in Florida called the police on a black 3 yo kid because he kept the ball too long and he was too good. No joke. The police escorted the kid and his family out of the park. Watch till the end.

Repost by @Rainmaker1973 Head stabilisation of a kestrel. Click to see original repost

Every 5 year old has tried this one 🙃

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Robert Mapplethorpe Orchid (1982)

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HAPPENING NOW: 9th Circuit Oral Arguments on DOJ's lawsuit against California voters. DOJ is arguing that there is massive amounts of non-citizens voting, and the harm is irreparable because once the ballot is separated from its envelope, you can't trace it to the voter. 1/

BRENNAN: The DOJ lawsuit demands the Alaska result not be certified if voters are confused. The confusion is defined as Sen. Sullivan not winning. BLANCHE: That's not what it says BRENNAN: I'm quoting from it. You are telling them not to certify it. What right does the federal govt have?

I know that everyone is focused on Trump's attacks in California and Alaska. My team is fighting in court in both places. But understand the fight for free and fair elections is much broader. Elias Law Group is currently litigating 92 voting and election cases in 42 states plus DC.

Melania taking credit for something the Pope did? I’m shocked.

Record diesel prices are kicking Western ranchers while they're down. Drought means they have to buy extra hay, and pay truckers extra to deliver it because of fuel price hikes. n.pr/4iDdRuG

He should go all in on this closing message I think it’s working

More flowers in a thread!

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

A flower thread

Dancing our way to the weekend like 💃

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

the navy isn't as much of a surprise but i was not expecting we'd get the United States Marines in the national divorce

Big if true.

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, in new comments Thursday, did not rule out that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could try to prevent a state from certifying its election results — a process over which the federal government has no authority. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed he promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10B before ultimately placing at least $2B into his accounts. Paywalled, use archive. archive.ph/FHGAt

These NYCHA residents have fought to reopen their senior center for 25 years. Today, we're delivering — along with a renovated community center, child care center and modernized apartments for 5,000 residents.

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

The mad worldwide data centre rush brings environmental vandalism to Finland. Google ordered to stop but it's estimated that a quarter of a million trees over the 330 hectare forest have been killed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

While we're talking about Dwight Eisenhower...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) castigated the state’s election board for setting strict new rules for mail voting that are leading to thousands of ballot rejections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump adds several political appointees to the National Capital Planning Commission, replacing career officials as alternate commissioners, before next month's vote on his controversial triumphal arch.

Premiums are expected to skyrocket for the fourth year in a row, and employees will likely pay more when they receive care, too. The increased costs will put an additional squeeze on Americans' already-tight budgets, adding to the nation's affordability crisis. https://cnn.it/4end3aI

For Carrie Frances: 🎂 ❤️

This week, I was blessed to join Hindu New Yorkers in Queens celebrating Navratri, Durga Puja, Dashain, and Vijayadashami.  We danced garba, performed aarti, witnessed Sindoor Khela, and honored the Goddess Durga.

In the most recent New York Times/Siena University poll of likely midterm voters, 70 percent of young voters identified as Democrats or leaned that way. That’s 15 points higher than the last poll before the 2024 election. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

What the hell? Per WSJ, Ukrainian drones have been forced to fly more slowly because of new limits on Starshield, the military version of Starlink,put in place at Elon Musk‘s personal direction. Zelensky told Rubio the speed needs to be restored. How in the world are we letting Musk call the shots?

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7