Patty Dignam

“The big question…is how to hope and what to hope for. We are citizens of a corrupt country, of a corrupt vision. There is such a sense of death and of being buried under the weight of technocracy.” May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Clear autumn skies at Lake Champlain.

#Galway

Still trying to carve tomorrow from a tombstone…https://www.thebeat.ie/paul-brady-the-island-song-meaning-lyrics.php

Evening in Swampscott.

Aquinnah in October.

Maman (1999) by French-US artist Louise Bourgeois #Womensart

Happy Leisure Day Weekend

Best baby shower gift I've seen in a while.

RADIANT.

#Galway

Learning to sail in #swampscott.

Drey Dossier is doing such important reporting. youtu.be/PG2FoKycepQ?...

#Galway

"To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible." How the great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh found himself when he lost his self at the library www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/23/t...

My kid is a keeper, but can be a dead ringer for haaland otherwise.

Cheerful interlude: all these days of not hearing the dulcet tones of Sham Bondi or Grifty Noem is doing my nervous system a world of good.

This 2-part report on Epstein & Summers is really something… youtu.be/V1JclWYNwHQ?...

rethinkeconomics.org/edu-material...

Let’s go, tidal wave.

Congress: 25th amendment NOW.

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Trump is spending $1 billion a day waging war on Iran. Meanwhile... Trump's sons are investing in a drone company that could soon receive Pentagon contracts. And of course Trump's Big Oil donors stand to gain windfall profits as the price of oil skyrockets. War is a racket.

From now on, all billionaires should be assumed to be pedophiles until they prove otherwise.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Release the #Epstein files. #Impeach the cheetoh and his whole cabinet. Abolish #ICE and seize the assets of every last #Mar-a-Lago faced failed housewife and every #looksmaxxing failed son and send that money to public libraries and community health centers.

There is a version of American manhood not based on zero-sum terror we’d do well to revive before it dies out entirely. youtube.com/watch?v=xf8a...

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

U.S. billionaires got an astounding $1.5 TRILLION richer in the first year of Trump's second term. Remember — this is happening as they get even more tax cuts in exchange for the social safety net being cut for everyone else. "New Golden Age" for who?

Protest sign idea: 1st draft…

“We, who seven years ago Talked of honour and of truth, Shriek with pleasure if we show The weasel’s twist, the weasel’s tooth… we traffic in mockery.” Yeats, poems.com/poem/ninetee...

#ABOLISHICE #PROSECUTEICE

Release the Epstein files. Impeach crusty Noem. Jail sham Bondi. Abolish Ice. Deport little Marco to Havana and the Cheeto to Cecot.

I mean, he’s gonna run it like he runs everything else…into the ground.

Rich powerful men raped children. www.thedailybeast.com/key-epstein-...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Students always know what’s up #woke #speech #highered (gift link): Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

Let’s have a toast for the scumbags and the jerkoffs. youtu.be/qWNOdaKFK7U?...

Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.

I’m really looking forward to singing this for realz when the ultimate boss battle is finally won. Happy holidays, kids. Keep singing of you can! youtu.be/Dkq7WZTzkLQ?...

Accurate. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

My #comfort #books What are yours? #booksky

This morning near the Lynn/Swampscott line.

I do love me a crisply furious petition: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

More shameful capitulation… www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Pretty winter shore effect. #swampscott

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...