Liz Huff

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

#DIBLives Happy #InternationalDayofWomenJudges Judge Mella Carroll forged a path for women in Irish law: she was the first female chair of the Bar Council of Ireland and the first female High Court judge. Her rulings are regularly cited in judicial reviews. www.dib.ie/biography/ca...

After watching this shit show in Iran can we now agree that maybe having academics isn’t a bad thing?

I really would like some Starfleet: Starfleet Academy novels and short story anthologies.

Close up photo of the half Moon

Half Moon this morning as viewed from #SantaBarbara. #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #Photography #ChingaLaMigra

Settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150-600mm + Canon 1.4x Extender
Focal length: 840mm
F-stop: f/9
Exposure time: 1/250
ISO: 200
#Moon phase: Waning 49%

Kim: The vast majority of what I hear in these classified briefings can be said publicly, but they intentionally do this to as a tactic to be able to prevent the American people from hearing and questioning what it is that they're doing.

They know that the American people do not want a war

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

Let me tell you what may be another sign that these warehouses turned ICE detention centers are extremely unpopular. A source reached out and said they heard about a location. I looked it up and reached out to the owner of that location. Within 20 minutes, they responded that they received my email

Interfering in the internal politics of foreign countries is illegal in international law. Trump knows that. He doesn't care because he's an imperialist criminal and has the complicit backing of extremists.

In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

Keep it going...

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Trump tries his tug-of-war handshake with Paraguay's president, but fails to pull it off.

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Happy International Women’s Day!

Happy International Women’s Day
#IWD2026

Happy international women’s day

Happy International Women’s Day

Happy International Women’s Day. Forward.

In support of stand up for science here is an image of galaxy M51. Beautiful night. Clear and no moon

Holy shit. Crude oil futures going nuts tonight.

If you wanted to start a civil war in the US, what better way than:
- brutalizing populace w/a paramilitary police force
- start a foreign war
- crashing the economy
- interfering/stealing an election

His actions are indistinguishable from what a foreign adversary would to to destroy our country.

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

Ellen Powell Thompson: How Women’s Suffrage Benefitted from the Work of a Botanist in the Nineteenth-Century American West Ellen Powell Thompson’s life illustrates how environmental exploration and women’s reform were deeply interconnected.

📖 🔊We have your weekend reading (and listening)!

The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.

Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson.

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the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

I'm loving this era of Star Trek. Starfleet Academy makes me feel hope for humanity's better nature and has such amazing characters. Strange New Worlds somehow feels like classic Trek with fresh writing and better acting. Lower Decks was hilarious and somehow cynically earnest...

Scottish Opera offers hugely discounted tickets to people under the age of 26. In fact most of the theatres here do, usually for around £10. Which means you could see a whole live show for less than the cost of a ticket to one of Timothee Chalamet’s films. Just saying.

From a very productive time when I took every opportunity to paint directly from the subject, usually putting my bike on its stand and resting my drawing board on the handlebars. Magdalene bridge is crossing the river, punts are for hire and it wouldn't be complete without some ducks are happily swimming around.

One of my Cambridge on-the-spot watercolour drawings from nearly 30 years ago. This was done from the riverside board walk that leads to Quayside. I don't sketch in town any more - too crowded plus lack of stamina!
#watercolour #watercolor #Cambridge #enpleinair

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...