Carolyn
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Carolyn
@carolyncook.bsky.social
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My brain keeps reading “ICE” as “incel” and I’m just going to go with it. At this point they are pretty interchangeable.
January 10, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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The ICE agent who shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago tried to goad her out of her car.

He said “do something b*tch” and shot her 5 times.

The ICE agent who shot Nicole Renee Good did the same thing. Stood right in front of her vehicle and yelled “f*cking bitch”.

They hate women & it shows.
January 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Mainstream daily newspapers & ABC, NBC, CBS, or FOX (of course) continue their both sides “measured” responses in the face of an ever growing and extremely long list of wrongs and catastrophes.
History will remember them the same way it’s going to remember politicians of this era.
Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.”
No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true.

This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I’ve always hated Americans need to organize rallies instead of taking to the streets in the hundreds of thousands like other countries that have shown that is how you make change and take down violent regimes. I hate it being so bad we’re starting to get there but proud people are waking up g up.
January 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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Amazing how “national security” always seems to sit directly on top of an oil reserve. A U.S. president casually talking about running another sovereign country should alarm anyone who’s cracked a history book since 1953. This isn’t strength—it’s imperial muscle memory dressed up as concern.
January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Sinatra has gone woke
December 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The Sound of Music hits different now. I’ve seen it dozens of times, tonight Edelweiss at the festival hit hard. I teared up. Didn’t see it coming but in retrospect not surprised.
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Instead I hope people post their favorite quotes from his work. There are so many, but The Princess Bride was perhaps my favorite. Not too long ago young niece & nephew saw it for the first time. Shortly after my sil posted a video of them recreating “have fun storming the castle”❤️
December 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I wanted to put this separately-don’t let the orange monster insert himself into this and make it about him. It’s what he wants. Don’t give it to him.
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I did not know the Reiners, but like everyone who works in entertainment I know people who did. The wonderful things said about them are true. This is a horrible tragedy, for his family and loved ones. It feels personal when someone so integral to the culture of your life is taken this way.
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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"As recently as a few years ago, there would have been Republican voices denouncing Trump’s bizarre and unAmerican attacks on immigrants. Those voices were the canaries in the coal mine. Their silence now tells us what has been lost."

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
The Silence of the Canaries
Trump has normalized xenophobia
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Are you a drug kingpin? Disposed despot? Laundered money for monsters who abuse children, or for terrorist? A billionaire? All the above? Then what are you waiting for? Get those pardon applications in asap & you too could be spending New Years Eve in Aspen!
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anyone have a recent small business Los Angeles list? The one I have is a couple of years old and the first few I’ve tried have closed😔.
Also, did Etsy get rid of its way to search for local businesses? I can’t find it
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Need a smile? Here you go😂
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I hope this family takes them for everything they have. I hope other families join together and file a class action lawsuit. Since politicians won’t do their job once again victims have to try & hold monsters accountable.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“up to” is doing some heavy lifting in pretty much every sale I’ve seen…
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Serious question-like for everyone food prices have gone way up. What I don’t understand is why so much of the vegan food I buy has doubled and tripled in price. Why are soy products getting more and more expensive when soy farmers are hurting because tariffs keep them from selling their crops?
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but take a look at the local news in the biggest red metro areas in the country. They aren’t covering it. People are not hearing about the majority of what’s happening. Not even a little.
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
And ffs people stop buying from Amazon. I know it’s not easy. It’s inconvenient. Bezos is now funding campaigns against democrats. Don’t give him your money to do it.
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
He’s illegally:
-sending the military to invade US cities
-murdering people without trial and disappearing others
-shutting down entire departments of government, killing hundreds of thousands in the process
-ignoring court orders
-taking billions in bribes
And so much more.All enabled by Congress.
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Perhaps media outlets could do 4 daily stories & takes on Epstein et al instead if the usual 8 and cover this. And ICE recruits getting busted for child porn basically saying “do you know who I am”, FBI agents being pulled off investigations into violent pedophile rings to stalk immigration courts…
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I hate that I’m always mad/disgusted/despairing over (waves hands around),so when I saw the new bits about the Nuzzi book & her exes newsletter, a mess I was unaware had returned to the fore, I thought it might be a fun gossipy distraction. (I refuse to read tmz or the daily mail so yes…
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM