On the bright side, I've just begun a new "watch all the DVDs" review of my movie library ... it's a long haul, so to tune me up, I usually start off as I have this year, with Deadwood.

Search on mob+crops+toxic and you'll see some version of the same sort of headlines here, concerning Italy in the late aughts/early 10s ...happens from all sorts of bad actors.

Checking in, seeing this ... if only going back to bed would fix it 🙄

Ed is this why they need my Social Security?

www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

.@emptywheel, in her Nate Sliver remarks, also references a voter segment I tend to think many folks have forgotten: all the missing MAGA voters who'd been influenced by DJT's anti-vaxx Covid strategies that led to an epic death count

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #790,896!
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This was in today's Atlantic magazine newsletter; I agree with it so thoroughly, I'm surprised to find it was written by someone other than myself

Let the healing begin....
(h/t to @kenwhite.bsky.social )