Charles MIles

magical realism and it's just getting taxed on your spell ingredients and not being able to support yourself on a court wizard salary

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Just the paramilitary secret police manhandling an opposition political candidate.

Looks like every single one of my books; and my wife’s, are there

This will cost billions of dollars to make new signs and letterhead and website changes

Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.

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Honestly I need some space too

The person heading the House of Representatives doesn’t know what to do other than pray

Not joking about this at all: if someone thinks it's appropriate to be cruel about young children drowning in a flash flood because it happened in a red state, they should not be allowed indoors. They should be out in the forest burying their own scat

These are little girls in their jammies. The only human response is heartbreak

If your response to hearing that a bunch of people died in a flash flood is anything other than heartbreak and compassion I think you might be the baddies

“When federal agents are explicitly encouraged to arrest people to meet numerical targets, when constitutional protections become negotiable—we have moved decisively beyond the realm of policy disagreement into territory that has a specific historical designation.” open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

"By militarizing ... in L.A., Trump is goading Americans more generally to take him on in the streets of their own cities, thus enabling his attacks on their constitutional freedoms. As I’ve listened to him and his advisers over the past several days, they seem almost eager for public violence."

Just landed in DC for the veterans rally. Who is going?

This tracks

The worst part about Andor season two is that now I’ve watched them all and it’s over

They’ve been saying it privately for 10 years. If they haven’t found their voice yet they never will

There is something deeply symbolic of our times when the richest man in the world is heading up the abolish of the agency that feeds many of the poorest people in the world.

I think now wouldn’t be happening if the entire nation wasn’t already suffering from PTSD from 9/11.

The education department cancelled a federal grant to provide fresh vegetables to students in our school district. Vegetables are woke DEI

Reminder that British and French troops deployed in support of the US the only time in history Article 5 was invoked

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

If you are stressed about politics, here’s 30 seconds of a very relaxed pug.

😂😂😂😂😂

You gotta pay the bills somehow

This is obscene.

@rhondakatrin.bsky.social

READ THIS THREAD IF YOU CARE ABOUT VETERANS CARE.

I can’t count the hours of overtime I worked in the lead up. But it nearly doubled my income in 1999. And we still ran into trouble with our billing system on January 1, 2000.

According to Korean constitutional law, if martial law is declared in a state of non-war, the National Assembly can vote to make the president stand it down. The National Assembly is gathering now. We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.

Pro tip: don't run around starting wars if you can't afford to take care of your veterans.

Why in God’s name did I respond to this post, which literally had the word “bot” in its name.

As much as I may agree, the idea that a Trump Justice Department will investigate Trump is somewhat less than zero

Gen Xers, and especially class of 88 and 89: What songs are most emblematic from high school for you?

Muppets are consistently under-rated

A couple years ago I read Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys, based on the same school. Devastating reading, even more so because I had -never heard of the place- Adding this to my to-read list tonight

Always seems to go fine when the ballots are secret.

Yikes