Some good news (for once)

by liberal japonicus In New Yorkhttps://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor   Anyone following closely and can discuss the role of Lander, WTF Clinton was doing endorsing Cuomo, and anything about the ranked choice system, feel free!

A poem

liberal japonicus1914by Wilfred OwenWar broke: and now the Winter of the worldWith perishing great darkness closes in.The foul tornado, centred at Berlin,Is over all the width of Europe whirled,Rending the sails of progress. Rent or furledAre all Art's ensigns. Verse wails. Now beginFamines of thought and feeling. Love's wine's thin.The grain of human Autumn rots, … Read more

And so….

Press conference in Minnesota. No Kings demonstrations around the country and around the world today, counterpoint to North Korea lite in DC. Open thread.

Another week spent trying to figure out what level of schadenfreude is appropriate

by liberal japonicus This Graniaud piece caught my eye. A group of men removed from the US to Djibouti, in east Africa, are stranded in a converted shipping container together with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers sent to supervise them after a deportation flight to South Sudan was stopped by an American … Read more