George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽As 2025 ends, the pattern is unmistakable. Trump’s second term is unraveling under its own weight. A hollowed out presidency, factional chaos, and policies that keep backfiring. Step back from the daily noise and the consequences are impossible to miss. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-policies-backfire-unpopular
Frank D’Elia
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driftglassH.R. Is Quickly Coming To Mean "Honors Rendered"
https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2025/09/hr-is-quickly-coming-to-mean-honors.html
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️Some good mews, for a change - Stowaway Italian kitten finds forever home in N.S. after transatlantic voyage
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/stowaway-italian-kitten-forever-home-eastern-passage-1.7636542
#cats #kittens
Canadian official who discovered Grim the kitten decided to make him part of his own family
Tony, Pretty MuchFree speech was pretty good while we had it. Good luck getting it back, dumbest electorate on the planet.
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-trump-fcc-brendan-carr
The Conversation U.S.Trump’s Brazil tariffs point more to his enduring bond with far-right Bolsonaro than economic concerns https://theconversation.com/trumps-brazil-tariffs-point-more-to-his-enduring-bond-with-far-right-bolsonaro-than-economic-concerns-260993
Crooks&Liars
Prof. Sam LawlerUpdating talk slides so you all get to be horrified along with me at the current Starlink numbers.
There are now 7,652 Starlink satellites in orbit (>500 more than there were in February, when I last updated these particular slides).
2-3 Starlinks per day are burning up in the atmosphere. That's a lot of weird metal in the atmosphere (and undoubtedly lots of random bits getting to the ground too).
Starlink is a stupidly wasteful and dangerous way to use orbit.
T. Thorn Coyle they/them"I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad."
Happy Birthday to bisexual icon, entertainer, and antifascist resistance member Josephine Baker.
David HoNothing to see here. Good thing the US health care system is in good hands.
Sheril Kirshenbaum“In 2017, ‘a confidential doc is leaked that reveals Facebook offering advertisers the opportunity to target 13-to-17yos across platforms during moments of psychological vulnerability when they feel ‘worthless,’ ‘insecure,’ ‘stressed,’ ‘defeated,’ ‘anxious,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘useless’ & ‘like a failure.’ Or target them when worried about their bodies & thinking of losing weight.’
They knew when a teen deleted a selfie & would bombard her w beauty ads, assuming she deleted it bc she felt ugly.” /1