Irene Marquette

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

Here’s the reason the United States bombed the Children’s school in Iran.

And yes, it’s Trumps fault.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Microdosing at the Laurie Berkner show

LA is fun because recapping a show is saying things like “Jon snow is in a glory hole and our neighbor is giving him a pep talk”

If the release of these files doesn’t lead to a mass castration event … what are we even doing

The pure cruelty of putting a five year old through all this for absolutely no benefit to anyone or anything

Letting a government office know I am not able to come to my appointment tomorrow because of the general strike to boycott ICE is a small satisfaction.

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless Independent research identifies few learning gains

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.

‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...

"In Minnesota, our siblings in struggle are lighting the way, and giving us a glimpse of what’s possible. They are creating a story we can live together, if we refuse the unpersoning of our neighbors and defend our collective humanity."

Thanks for this, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social!

Noem’s dog killing was bad, but to really understand her, consider the goat • South Dakota Searchlight Since Gov. Kristi Noem’s disclosure of her farmyard killing spree, everybody’s focused on the dog. But to understand Noem, consider the goat.

southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/05/02/n...

Does a combination vibrator/weed vape exist or is this my billion dollar idea?!

“Hurry! We are now in the 50th straight week of our cyber Monday sales event and it won’t last long!!!”

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

In ‘27 we’ll be in heaven

Here’s the thing with AI, it has never stood in an alley lighting a one hitter off a clove cigarette

The Trader Joe’s parking lot is Westworld. I just saw a respectable looking woman close her eyes and push her shopping cart just … away.

Marie Kondo’ing my closet by holding every item and asking “am I being so for real right now with this?”

obviously ridiculous on its own but consider these demos are encouraged to get permits/share route with pd. for this request to come ahead of that protest, which will likely be like NKs past (extremely calm), you gotta wonder if LAPD are Plotting Something a la 2020 NYPD Mott Haven cop riot

Everyone who was just on the road? Very disappointed in you

Nudity is God's Creation Let me tell ya about Rasa von Werder/Kellie Everts: Stripper for God

Wrote about a woman I've been fascinated by irenemarquette.substack.com/p/nudity-is-...

Trying to stay positive in the deluge of atrocities

Fall into Bad Femme Autumn With some movies I watched this summer

Some movie recommendations for naughty woman autumn open.substack.com/pub/irenemar...

Keep your friends close There’s a fine line between having a sense of adventure and being a complete dumbass and I’ve walked it many times. A story of danger, intrigue and my *almost* final film role

Started a substack! This is my first post -- about the time I went to New Mexico to shoot something with an unhinged old friend of mine and an alcoholic airline pilot and ended up fearing for my life. open.substack.com/pub/irenemar...

This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."

Thinking about when I couldn’t afford to buy my boyfriend the Essential Art House Janus films box set so I wrote an entire diary in the voice of a middle aged woman and titled it Essential Janice. “This seems like it’s more for you than for me” he said. Anyway we’re married now #janusfilms

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

I wish someone was obsessively monitoring my screen time and giving me hugs and nice snacks at intervals throughout the day

regular every day people are sacrificing, throwing down, and doing what they can to resist & stop this fascist death machine currently targeting southern california.

join the struggle. add to the winds of rebellion. people will be brave when they see others being brave🫡