justin de kahruvel🌻
@justinesparza.bsky.social
visual designer. pacific northwest. co-pilot to my 94yo mom. #dementia #kahruvel & #SalazarJack ’s soul. he/him. deep slumber enthusiast. life. liberty. happiness. freedom. #Vote #ShopLocal #NoKings #Impeach kahruveldesign.com /me is a mid century modern.
#WeeknightWriter A5: Keep going, everyone. We're all in this together, and there's going to be an "after". Be kind to yourselves!
Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1h agoQ5: What can we, the Weeknight Writers community, do in the next week to make your life a little more pleasant? #WeeknightWriters
We hold the line, we keep the faith, and we keep forging ahead.
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 7h agoBREAKING: Court orders Todd Blanche to appear in court next week to provide missing docs supporting key redactions of alleged victims, to explain why handwritten FBI interview notes of an alleged victim of Donald Trump remain withheld, & to provide a date when he’ll give the missing redaction log.
It’s so smoky the light coming into my bedroom is red and makes my face look sunburned.
1/4 This beautiful image, captured by Cassini’s narrow-angle camera on 18 January 2005, shows the heavily cratered moon Mimas drifting across the blue-tinted northern latitudes of Saturn.🔭🧪⚛️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/pia0... Image by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute #planetsci #histsci
My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
He started by committing housing discrimination. Cheated dozens of contractors. There were the charities and Trump University people he defrauded. He assaulted E Jean Carroll. 34 financial crimes. Even now he’s running a crypto scam He’s always been a criminal and con artist MAGA chose him anyway
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d agoPhang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
As of 2025, #CoreCivic had 492 institutional owners & shareholders on file with the SEC. The largest shareholders were BlackRock, Inc., Vanguard Group Inc, River Road Asset Management, LLC, & Cooper Creek Partners Management, among others. Jan. 1, 2026, Patrick Swindle took over as President & CEO.
MPR News@mprnews.org · yesterdayCoreCivic has sold the former Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton to the U.S. government for $495.6 million. The facility is expected to begin housing ICE detainees this fall, with CoreCivic continuing to manage operations.
This is Kimchi. She can sleep through anything. Including a brief demonic possession. 13/10 (TT: tamrikhurtsilava)
CoreCivic has sold the former Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton to the U.S. government for $495.6 million. The facility is expected to begin housing ICE detainees this fall, with CoreCivic continuing to manage operations.
Homeland Security buys former prison in west-central Minnesota for $500 million
CoreCivic has sold the former Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton to the U.S. government for nearly $496 million, with the facility expected to house ICE detainees while CoreCivic continues mana...
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Sen. WHITEHOUSE: Voting for this guy Todd Blanche today gives Republicans’ blessing to the botched Epstein Files release. Even Pam Bondi pointed at Blanche as responsible. It gives their blessing to his continuing role in the coverup.
In the afterlife, if you have just a few moments to spare, you can be reborn as a black Labrador, a hamster, or even a fleeting mayfly. Going human is really only for when you’re between projects.
In the afterlife, if you have just a few moments to spare, you can be reborn as a black Labrador, a hamster, or even a fleeting mayfly. Going human is really only for when you’re between projects.
Reminder: No one's ahead. No one's behind. Nothing's close so far. There is one result and it's the one we get when every vote is counted.
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 2d agoIt would be rad if we didn’t have minute-to-minute coverage of elections and just reported results when they were finished. This exasperated, hyperventilating theater is good for ratings but also just bullshit.
A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada.
Wildfire destroys about 230 homes in western Canadian Indigenous community, officials say
A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada. The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says the Bradley Creek wildfire devastated much of the reserve near Vernon, about 440 kilometers northeast of Vancouver.
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Very heartening news out of Missouri and Kansas. I know all of us here are by definition Terminally Online, but it gives me a lot of hope for the future of our country that folks are rejecting blatant authoritarianism and crony corporatism more and more.
Organizing yet more photos of my dad for a celebration of life we’re soon hosting in Pittsburgh and struck by the immense narrative difference between old film roll or Polaroid candids and the infinite retakes we get with ultra high-def iPhones. Simply changes the nature of memory and history.
Oh, and the Seattle library levy is kicking ass with more than 71 percent (a number that's likely to grow as later ballots are collected. Go libraries!
Decision Desk HQ projects Fred Wellman wins the MO US House 2 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 11:21 PM EDT
Two wins for abortion rights: Voters in Kansas and Missouri easily defeated ballot measures that could have threatened abortion access in their states
Noise. Pollution. The Ozone Layer. Acid Rain. AIDS treatment. Cancer cures. Crime rates. Child abductions. As much as we consume doom and gloom in our media, humans are very, very good at solving problems when we want to. We just have to want to.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2d agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
The Secretary of State’s Office has an excellent new results page that they’re using for the first time tonight.
Election Results
results.votewa.gov
William Lawrence wins the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 7th congressional district, @nbcnews.com projects. He will face first-term Republican Rep. Tom Barrett in this key swing district.
Done and dusted. Kris Kobach, Leonard Leo, and other anti-abortion, anti-public school funding conservatives in Kansas who tried to remake the state Supreme Court in their image have LOST.
Carolyn Fiddler@cfidd.bsky.social · 2d agoSome +other+ primaries in Michigan, and more than you maybe wanted to know about the Kansas ballot measure to upend judicial selection (which is already a little gerrymandered!) open.substack.com/pub/statehou...
Cindy Holscher has won the Democratic primary for Governor of Kansas.
HUGE: Adam Hamilton has won the Kansas Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Onward to November!
I have little to add to the chat, but I will say this: Those of us who spend a lot of time talking about politics overestimate how much other people care about, or are even familiar with, the labels we use to describe, denigrate, or celebrate candidates. Sometimes we’re high on our own supply.
