*secret thing* UPDATE: Since Kennedi was redecorating the bonus room, I said to myself, “Diane (that’s what I call myself), you need a window seat for that room.”
So I built one with storage and 2 built in dog houses.
Before & after 1/6
A lover letter to cinema through and through. Thank you to the Academy for honoring “Sinners” Writer Ryan Coogler with the Academy Award® for BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY at the 98th Academy Awards!
@theacademy | #Oscars
More than 600 women are suing Chesapeake Regional Medical Center for allegedly enabling a doctor, currently in prison, to perform unnecessary hysterectomies & sterilizations. This life-altering violation was a betrayal of women's bodies, their choices, and their futures. Accountability is the only path to justice!
BREAKING: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice.
https://t.co/h3Oz9KV9cC
🔥🚨HOLY HELL: JAKE TAPPER just cornered Kristi Noem on live TV.
He showed undisputed video of Jan. 6 rioters attacking police, then reminded her Trump pardoned all of them.
Noem claimed Trump enforces the law “equally.”
Tapper shut it down:
That’s not true. There’s one standard for Trump supporters and another for everyone else.
Receipts matter. 🔥🔥
Ted DiBiase Jr. leaving court after the first day of testimony in his federal conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering trial. The former professional wrestler is accused of embezzling $2.9 million in Mississippi TANF welfare funds.
This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal, former commander of Joint Special Operations Command, spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by @HRC for six transgender service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban.
“I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.”
Full remarks:
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey just brought the facts to the table in his condemnation of ICE.
"Let me give you a statistic. 50% of the shootings that have happened in Minneapolis thus far this year have been ICE. In other words, we've only had two shootings. One of them has been ICE."
A reminder that Rep Underwood has passed nearly two dozen pieces of legislation — many more than her colleagues who get much more media attention. She is a rising star in the Democratic Party.
For those unaware this Black woman is the reason why the expanded ACA subsidies exist she introduced legislation in 2019 and Biden added the provisions into the American rescue plan in 2021. She’s one of the most accomplished lawmakers in congress compared to others who were sworn in around the same time as her such as AOC.
Pastor: I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic. I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.' The next thing I knew, they were putting handcuffs on me, and they put me in the back of an SUV. I asked them if I was under arrest. They said to me, 'Well, you're white, you won't be any fun anyway.'
🚨 BREAKING: Rochelle Bilal, the Philadelphia Sheriff, is facing calls to resign after saying she would arrest ICE agents and calling them “fake law enforcement,” adding: “You don’t want this smoke.”
Escalating rhetoric as tensions with federal agencies intensify.
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.
Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.
What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.
You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.
Yolanda Adams on homophobia in the Church
"Listen, I am 64 years old. I have seen everything in the church. And again, it has everything to do with the way you were nurtured. My family nurtured us to believe and know that everyone that gets to this earth got here because they are God's children. And why would you want to ever hurt anything that God loves? I have cousins, I have friends, I have dear, dear friends in and out of all music and arts and sports genres. And I never looked at them as anything other than beautiful people. And it is not my job ever to, to hurt anyone or debase anyone because of who they are. God is not surprised by anyone he created. He knew who you would be before your mom and dad got together. So, why am I disrespecting what God respects and loves?"
Moskowitz on Noem: "Is she hiding her face like her ICE agents now? By the way -- is this what the $800 billion went to? Every day we see her after some new tragedy, she's wearing a different outfit with a different hat. She looks ridiculous. She's not just an embarrassment to the country, she's an embarrassment to you and the president. She deserves to be removed from her job, and if not impeached."
I cancelled my World Cup tickets.
The ICE may decide that I am a gang member, and I'll be locked in prison for a year with no charges, no hearing, no trial, no right to consult a lawyer, no phone call.
The US is not safe to visit.
BREAKING:
U.S. Senate officially passes a resolution to block President Trump from taking further military action in Venezuela without congressional approval.
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is gonna prosecute me under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for saying something that is in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It’s nonsense. What I said in November is the exact same thing Pete Hegseth said in 2016. This is about stifling people’s speech.”