Raymond Chandler would have been 135 years old today.
He didn't begin writing till he was 44, but he left us 27 years worth of wonderful prose.
He didn't begin writing till he was 44, but he left us 27 years worth of wonderful prose.
02:51 PM - Jul 23, 2023
Less that 24 hours after The SCCOTUS ended Affirmative Action 4 Black Women are either fired or step down in the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion space.
08:45 PM - Jul 02, 2023
The news showed up in my emailbox with this rather alarming subject line:
04:04 PM - May 09, 2023
$600K for 1 voter fraud investigation, $750K for a 2d. Both told Trump ALL fraud claims were FALSE. He brought 60+ lawsuits, defamed Dominion, Smartmatic, elections officials, poll workerks and sparked a riot anyway https://www.washingtonpost...
06:47 PM - Apr 27, 2023
The Biden administration will revise HIPPA laws to bar health care providers and insurers from turning over information to state officials for the purpose of investigating, suing or prosecuting someone for seeking or providing a legal abortion. https://www.politico.com/n...
02:05 PM - Apr 12, 2023
Republican overreach on the state level is horrifying. Thank goodness the people of PA were spared.
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Zeketayler @ZeketaylerIf Republicans in Pennsylvania had kept their House majority, aside from constitutional abortion restrictions, raising the voting age to 21 was on the docket. Despite the 26th amendment in the US Constitution, it could have temporarily stripped young voters of their rights during pivotal elections.02:50 PM - Apr 07, 2023
03:16 PM - Apr 07, 2023
This is an excellent answer! No wonder I keep hearing Justin Jones is someone to watch. https://youtu.be/mVANLCCXh...
Representative Justin Jones on the Meaning Behind "No Justice, No Peace" - YouTube
From the 4/06/23 Tennessee Expulsions
11:19 AM - Apr 07, 2023
Missouri DEFUNDED ALL ITS PUBLIC LIBRARIES to punish them for suing under First Am to return 297 banned books to shelves (e.g. Maus, graphic novels of Batman and X-Men, books about da Vinci and Michelangelo).
https://www.vice.com/en/ar...
https://www.vice.com/en/ar...
09:00 PM - Apr 05, 2023
08:02 PM - Apr 04, 2023
Merriam-Websterr:
"Check out our new totally real editions that have nothing to do with April Fools’ Day"
"Check out our new totally real editions that have nothing to do with April Fools’ Day"
01:22 PM - Apr 01, 2023
"Before we send an innocent man to prison, shouldn't we let him choose his own judge, bury the evidence, and set the entire system aflame?"
Cartoon by Ivan Ehlers
The New Yorker, 9/6/22
Cartoon by Ivan Ehlers
The New Yorker, 9/6/22
12:45 PM - Apr 01, 2023
Guess I won't use ChatGPT for the web site author bio! Among other mistakes, it added years to my age (ouch!), gave me a BA from a school I didn't attend and an award I didn't win... and KILLED ME OFF ON MARCH 22, 2022!
01:19 PM - Mar 26, 2023
Trump does his bracket -- Danziger cartoon is as on point now as it was in 2017.
12:24 PM - Mar 26, 2023
Happy Tolkien Reading Day!
Here's a LOTR quote in anticipation of Trump's Waco rally today:
"We will have peace...when you and all your works have perished. You are a liar, Saruman, and a corrupter of men's hearts. You hold out your hand to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of Mordor...
Here's a LOTR quote in anticipation of Trump's Waco rally today:
"We will have peace...when you and all your works have perished. You are a liar, Saruman, and a corrupter of men's hearts. You hold out your hand to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of Mordor...
12:14 PM - Mar 25, 2023
I hope after other aspects of this are dealt with, the so-called "degenerate psychopath who truely [sic] hates the USA" sues him for libel.
01:06 PM - Mar 24, 2023
"Ron DeSantis was...supervising torture, beatings...laughing because we were shitting ourselves...screaming and yelling...can’t breathe...throwing up...I looked at him and he was actually smiling...enjoying it" https://harpers.org/archiv...
harpers.org
See No Evil,
From a November discussion on the Eyes Left podcast, between Mike Prysner, an Iraq War veteran, and Mansoor Adayfi, a former detainee at Guantánamo Bay. mansoor adayfi: As you know, Guantánamo was created out of the legal zone, out of the legal system. Torture was the mechanism of Guantánamo. Tortur..
12:48 AM - Mar 09, 2023
12:14 PM - Mar 02, 2023
Definitely something to watch out for here.
(Photo by Shmuel Thaler, santacruzsentinel. com)
(Photo by Shmuel Thaler, santacruzsentinel. com)
05:39 PM - Feb 25, 2023
I'm rewatching Dublin Murders, based on two Tana French novels. It's excellent -- writing, acting, cinematography. I'm surprised it didn't get more attention. https://youtu.be/zUZxz7mic...
Dublin Murders | Official Trailer | STARZ - YouTube
No one knows the whole truth. Meet detectives Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) when Dublin Murders premieres November 10 on STARZ,...
01:05 AM - Feb 25, 2023
I'm glad Party Down is back. One of my favorite bits from last season was Roman, would-be writer of hard sci fi, coming on to a woman who tells him she loves sci fi, too. It goes well... until she elaborates: https://youtu.be/ywWhhkWnt...
Party Down | ‘Hard Sci-Fi’ Ep. 5 Clip | STARZ - YouTube
Do we think Roman got her number? Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2 of Party Down now on the STARZ App. Season 3 premieres February 24.#STARZ #PartyDownSubscribe to ...
05:52 PM - Feb 24, 2023
Classified documents were uploaded to the cloud, emailed to a Trump employee then moved offsite before ending up back in a Mar-a-Lago suite FBI searched weeks earlier
https://www.mediaite.com/n...
https://www.mediaite.com/n...
04:55 PM - Feb 24, 2023
Snow closed Highway 17 between Santa Cruz and San Jose (gateway to Silicon Valley, where so many of us work).
I hope commuters get a snow day. It's a winding road, and we aren't used to snow here
https://www.santacruzsenti...
I hope commuters get a snow day. It's a winding road, and we aren't used to snow here
https://www.santacruzsenti...
12:39 PM - Feb 24, 2023
Remember when Republican lawbreakers couldn't avoid jail by obstructing justice, perjuring themselves, and asserting bogus "privileges" to judges their boss appointed?
01:31 AM - Feb 23, 2023
Am I the last person online to discover ChatGPT? I love it. I ask a question and instead of a google page of mostly useless links, I get paragraphs of information, citations, thoughts (if AI has thoughts), clearly written and presented. It's not R. Daneel but it's positronic enough for me right now.
01:11 AM - Feb 23, 2023
A day ago, I'd never heard of best-selling British writer Peter Grainger. Now I'm engrossed in his 1st DC Smith book--dry wit, light-touch banter, refreshingly non-emo detective. Google compares his style to le Carré's. No one's really in le Carré's league but I'm glad there are 9 more in the series
05:56 PM - Feb 21, 2023
Great list if, like me, you're looking for journos/news outlets to follow.
(And my Notifications are working again -- previous ones are gone but new ones are showing up again. I like how quickly bugs get fixed here.)
(And my Notifications are working again -- previous ones are gone but new ones are showing up again. I like how quickly bugs get fixed here.)
01:46 PM - Feb 21, 2023
If you've notified me and I've seemed to ignore you, it's because Notifications is wonky. Red dot is always there, but clicking on it leads to a page saying I have no notifications--all my previous ones have vanished. I'm sure this'll be fixed soon, just wanted people to know I'm not ignoring them
01:35 PM - Feb 21, 2023
I find these lists super useful. Thanks to all who post them.
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Cathy Leder @cathylederGreat people to follow - 406:00 PM - Feb 20, 2023
@stevenbeschloss
@TalesAndTypos
@joyannreid
@RobPalmerIRL
@thegeekbuzz
@MaryInCognito
@caleb
@NickKnudsenUS
@mswmediapods
@AmiBerger
@damemagazine
@skrishna
@natsecmedia
red
@Ynb
@politicussarah
@theonion
06:17 PM - Feb 20, 2023
