Kate Fitzpatrick

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Strands #436 “Keep on keeping on” 💡🔵🔵🔵 💡🔵🔵🔵 🟡

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Strands #435 “A little respect” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵

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Strands #432 “Outsiders” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵💡🔵🟡

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Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

When you realize the tacky Versailles-wannabe trash on the fireplace is just Chinese polyurethane spray painted gold.

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Strands #428 “On the side” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

Strands #426 “Say "ah"” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."

Marco Rubio is going after people who are living here legally and peacefully, who are not a danger to America or our foreign policy interests. He has strayed so far from who we are as Americans. He’s an embarrassment to the country.

Meanwhile, in Canada…

this mf is out here delivering his standard rally speech to a bunch of graduating college students

Strands #425 “What a trill!” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵

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Sorting through books in my office. Here’s an (incomplete) collection of edited volumes in which I have a paper.

This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.

Peter Dutton DOES NOT want people to see this

Confirmed: Peter Dutton and the Liberals will scrap Labor’s plan for Cheaper Home Batteries. They just don’t get it.

People on train encouraging each other not to order books from Amazon but from AbeBooks (which happens to be owned by Amazon). Thereby reminding me to go directly to the booksellers rather than through AbeBooks.

"His Burlington courtroom was packed on Wednesday with supporters of Mr. Mahdawi, who remained hushed as the judge issued his order..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

New in PN: @therickwilson.bsky.social on Marco Rubio's great debasement "He’s not only betrayed every value he ever claimed to have, but he’s profoundly — at a level I can barely articulate — harming the country. It’s an astounding comedown for a guy who was once thought of as someone of principle"

When even Rand Paul is like, “Yeah, that’s too extreme.”

Anyone else find it strange that a man with a 14-year heroin addiction is railing against Narcan—the lifesaving drug that helped drive a sharp drop in overdose deaths after a federal distribution program? No one said Narcan cures addiction. It prevents funerals. That’s the point. The facts 👇🏾

Now that’s how you roll out the welcome mat.

More pelican fun. Happy Friday.

Leaving this here without comment

Pip & Beike re-enacting the Battle of Sluys in 1340.

House Republicans are a mess: Delaying budget talks again by two more weeks so they can come up with more bullshit ways to cut Medicare and give tax breaks to corrupt billionaires. God forbid they do anything to help ordinary Americans who are struggling thanks to Trump’s tariffs.

LMAO -- a reporter breaks news during a briefing to State Department spox Tammy Bruce that her boss Marco Rubio is the new national security adviser "I just heard this from you," Bruce says

www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...

In Australia we remember Ted Kotcheff not for Rambo but for his masterpiece Wake in Fright. RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/m...

Good Night World

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Poor Terry - given the oportunity of a lifetime and fucks it up, comprehensively!!

Trump was actually pretty right about that, first time around. But how the suckholes gather…