Emily Smith Pearce

Once broke down in tears while reading a book on the T.

If anyone has old sport’s trophies 🏆 or medals 🥇 may I suggest sending them to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in DC.

I cannot get my head around the fact that Rob Reiner was Meathead.

Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”

Stephen Miller to Vanity Fair photographer: “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.”

Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.”

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... @shaneisland.bsky.social

And if you’re the mom/grandma in this situation, please reach out. I just need three generations of (grown) women! Thanks.

Thankfully this gives me more material to exchange cringey looks with my teenager. It’s a personal challenge to keep from openly cracking up.

My church is now using what appears to be AI images on its worship music slides. It’s giving 1980s myrtle beach airbrush shop vibes.

Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship Witnesses say one man was detained while doing yard work while his wife and child were inside.

ICE raids a Charlotte church and arrests a member whose child was inside www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

The demolition of the East Wing feels like a daylight heist, too. Did anyone even save pieces of it?

After watching season one of Slow Horses, I have changed my mind. I will allow a ginger Darcy, just this once. You’re welcome.

That feeling when you walk out the door first thing in the morning and a frog lands on your head!

Sometimes I think about the family recipe of my college boyfriend’s that was a kind of snickers-type ice cream dessert called, for some inexplicable reason, Peter Robinson. I guess I’ll never get that recipe. There’s some things google just can’t answer.

Same!

Same!

Yeah I thought I was losing my mind!

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:

-Is not accused of committing any crime

-Is nonviolent

-Was in this country legally

-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to

-Has been locked up for six weeks

SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA

MOBILIZE
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today is the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first law to bar a specific ethnic group or nationality from the US. though it was repealed in 1943, this law continues to echo through history.

saw some folks clowning on this but hard to think of a better use for a bulletproof vehicle right now.

It was always performative outrage.

Or south of the border 😑

So good. Watch this documentary about teens in my home state ❤️

Dear Lord, people do not know where to put commas.

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? (Gift Article) The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.

“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend.

“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

Montana has a measles outbreak with its first cases in 35 years. Here's what you should know New Mexico, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas have active measles outbreaks and U.S. measles cases have topped 700 as of Friday.

New Mexico, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas have active measles outbreaks and U.S. measles cases have topped 700 as of Friday.

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

I always feel like finding ramps is like winning the produce lottery.

The whole fucking point of "due process" is that everyone gets it. Everyone. All people. Timothy McVeigh and Mark David Chapman and Ken Lay and Harvey Weinstein and also guys who stole candy bars from 7-11 and ran stop signs. The worst monsters on earth and the most angelic sweeties. Everyone!