#lisa mueller

[dk-thrive]

Something sudden, a windfall, a meteor shower. No – a flowering tree releasing all its blossoms at once, and the one standing beneath it unexpectedly robed in bloom, transformed into a stranger too beautiful to touch.

– Lisel Mueller, “How I Would Paint Happiness,” Alive Together (Louisiana State Univ Pr; First Edition, December 1, 1996) (via The Vale of Soul Making)

[funeralmourners]

as if i were a saint about to die

[thomasmuellerfcbayern]

[sluttyvroomballs]

It's 1 am and I still can't get over with how beautiful and handsome Thomas Müller is 😍

[gameofthunder66]

The Good Student (Trailer) 2006

-watched 9/19/2023- 2 stars- on Tubi (free)

[castrotophic]

not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)

You're the Top by Ellen Bass

Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy

Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker

Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller

At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey

In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr

Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Midsummer by Charles Simic

Today by Frank O'Hara

Naturally by Stephen Dunn

Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang

Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck

The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell

Lucky Life by Gerald Stern

Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander

Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley

A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill

On Coming Home by Lisa Summe

G-9 by Tim Dlugos

Five Haiku by Billy Collins

The Fates by David Kirby

Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason

Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin

Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young

Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown

Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck

ASMR by Corey Van Landingham

A Welcome by Joanna Klink

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay

You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras

We Were Emergencies by Buddy Wakefield

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably In the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio

Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lisa Needham at Public Notice:

It has often been said that Donald Trump was running for president to keep himself out of prison. Mission accomplished.

But the fact that Trump wasn’t behind bars long ago, that he didn’t suffer any consequences for his criming and now likely never will, can be laid squarely at the feet of one man: Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland dragged his feet on prosecuting Trump for election interference and pilfering classified documents, making it easy for him to run out the clock.  Coming in on the heels of a literal insurrection, Garland was a bad fit for his job from the jump. He made clear early on that he didn’t see addressing issues from the Trump era as a priority, declaring that he would not look backward. Garland is an institutionalist, leading him to see his real job as protecting the Department of Justice rather than imposing any consequences on Bill Barr and others who turned the DOJ into a corrupt playground. Someone who saw the abstract notion of an institution as more important than actual people and actual wrongdoing was never going to be the person who aggressively pursued an ex-president whose crimes were always in full view, which was what the country desperately needed back in 2021.

Bringing a knife to a gunfight

Rather than moving quickly to prosecute people — including Trump — for January 6, Garland’s first moves were to take actions that actually favored Trump, all in the name of protecting the institution. In May 2021, the DOJ went to court to block the release of most of a Bill Barr memo that might have revealed how hard Barr worked to avoid charging Trump with obstruction of justice after the Mueller report. There, Garland was continuing work that had begun under Trump. But while it made sense that Barr would want to block the release of information revealing his role in helping Trump, it made no sense for Garland to want the same. The country had both a right and a need to learn everything possible about what happened during the first Trump presidency and led to a spasm of treasonous violence. That’s far more important than getting a generally favorable ruling on the DOJ’s right to sit on memos. 

Garland also moved quickly to defend Trump against defamation claims by E. Jean Carroll, brought after Trump claimed she made up her accusation of sexual assault to sell books. The DOJ filed a brief substituting the government as the defendant for Trump so it could argue that Trump’s defamation of Carroll was done in the scope of his employment as president, which would likely have resulted in the case getting dismissed. As with the Barr memo, Garland decided it was more important to preserve the DOJ’s general ability to protect federal officials from defamation claims than to acknowledge the unprecedented nature of Trump’s behavior and let him suffer the consequences he clearly deserved.  Taken in a vacuum, neither of these actions would be quite so galling. In both instances, Garland was generally trying to maximize the DOJ’s power, which isn’t necessarily awful. But what is galling is that he took these two steps with such swiftness, only a few months after being confirmed, while not showing nearly the same concern to address Trump’s crimes. 

Fairness to the point of absurdity

Garland’s desire to always appear evenhanded is also what led to the ridiculously aggressive pursuit of Hunter Biden, naming a special counsel and ultimately successfully prosecuting the president’s son for tax evasion and lying on a federal form to obtain a gun. And don’t forget how swiftly Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate President Biden’s retention of classified material. In early November 2022, the White House voluntarily disclosed that some classified documents had been found at Biden’s think tank. The FBI opened an investigation five days later, and Garland raced to name a special counsel, appointing Robert Hur in January 2023. Hur was a Trump appointee, serving as United States Attorney for the District of Maryland from 2018 to 2021, and he demonstrated his hackishness by releasing a report in February of this year that did grave political damage to Biden by gratuitously describing him as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

While Garland couldn’t move fast enough to protect the DOJ and to aggressively pursue the Biden family to show his evenhandedness, he didn’t get around to naming Jack Smith as a special prosecutor until November 2022, nearly two years after the insurrection. By that time, it was likely already too late. This is true even if Smith had not run into unexpected obstacles, such as Trump winning over the Supreme Court with an absurd argument that he was basically wholly immune from criminal charges.

[...]

All those motions and appeals take time, which is why it was a bad idea to wait until November 2022 to appoint Smith, who then had to convene a grand jury to consider criminal charges over Trump’s willful retention of classified documents and his lies to the FBI about it. Smith didn’t issue an indictment in that case until June 2023. Smith had to convene a separate grand jury for charges related to the insurrection, so the DOJ didn’t indict Trump on those charges until August 2023.

This left Smith overseeing two incredibly complex cases against a defendant with nearly limitless resources, given that Trump could keep tapping political action committees for his legal bills, shifting the cost to his campaign donors and the RNC. By March 2024, Trump had racked up $100 million in legal fees, and while he kept draining the coffers of various PACs, donors were always eager to replenish those funds. Therefore, Trump could file as many frivolous motions as he wanted and run out the clock without taking any money out of his pocket. Smith never honestly had a chance that these cases would wrap up before Election Day. Garland’s foot-dragging on naming Smith is precisely what allowed Trump to run out the clock on his federal criminal charges, setting the stage for a presidential run that culminated Tuesday with his shockingly thorough defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Appointing Merrick Garland to AG was a terrible choice in retrospect, as his timidness allowed a criminal to get off scot-free and run for President (and win).

[trickricksblog08]

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁: 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

Where They Go One They Go All

1. Hillary Clinton

2. Bill Clinton

3. Nancy Pelosi

4. John Podesta

5. John Brennan

6. James Comey

7. Maxine Waters

8. Adam Schiff

9. Hunter Biden

10. George W. Bush

11. Dr. Anthony Fauci

12. Huma Abedin

13. Bill Gates

14. Anthony Wiener

15. George Soros

16. Lindsey Graham

17. Mitch McConnell

18. Kevin McCarthy

19. Chuck Schumer

20. Kamala Harris

21. Robert Mueller

22. Mike Pence

23. Joe Biden

24. James Clapper

24. Lloyd Austin

25. Dick Cheney

26. John Kerry

27. Alexander Soros

28. Loretta Lynch

29. Andrew McCabe

30. Peter Strzok

31. Lisa Page

32. James Baker

33. Eric Holder

34. Tony Podesta

35. Susan Rice

36. Harry Reid

37. Paul Ryan

38. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

39. Sally Yates

40. Mitt Romney

41. Jerry Nadler

42. Klaus Schwab

43. Michelle Obama

44. Sally Yates

45. Andrew Cuomo

46. Herbert Raymond McMaster

47. Deborah Birx

48. Mark Zuckerberg

49. Nikki Haley

The17Letter

[darkmaga-returns]

Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director, has released a list of 60 “deep state” adversaries he plans to target immediately when he begins his role next year.

The list, which includes President Joe Biden and network analysts, is detailed in his 2022 book Government Gangsters.

In the book’s appendix, titled “Members of the Executive Branch Deep State,” Patel lists those names alphabetically but acknowledges that the list is not exhaustive.

Patel said other “corrupt actors” could include Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA), ex-congressman Paul Ryan, author of the Trump-Russia Steele Dossier Christopher Steele.

Patel also reassures the public he will be going after “the entire fake news mafia press corp.”

Here’s the list:

Michael Atkinson – Former inspector general of the intelligence community Lloyd Austin – Secretary of Defense under President Joe Biden Brian Auten – Supervisory intelligence analyst, FBI James Baker – Former general counsel for the FBI and Twitter executive Bill Barr – Former attorney general under Trump John Bolton – Former national security adviser under Trump Stephen Boyd – Former chief of legislative affairs, FBI Joe Biden – President of the United States John Brennan – Former CIA director under President Obama John Carlin – Former DOJ national security division head under Trump Eric Ciaramella – Former National Security Council staffer Pat Cipollone – Former White House counsel under Trump James Clapper – Former director of national intelligence under Obama Hillary Clinton – Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate James Comey – Former FBI director Elizabeth Dibble – Former deputy chief of mission, U.S. Embassy, London Mark Esper – Former Secretary of Defense under Trump Alyssa Farah – Former strategic communications director under Trump Evelyn Farkas – Former Pentagon official under Obama Sarah Isgur Flores – Former DOJ communications head under Trump Merrick Garland – Attorney General under Biden Stephanie Grisham – Former White House press secretary under Trump Kamala Harris – Vice President and former presidential candidate Gina Haspel – Former CIA director under Trump Fiona Hill – Former National Security Council staffer Curtis Heide – FBI agent Eric Holder – Former attorney general under Obama Robert Hur – Special counsel for Biden document investigation Cassidy Hutchinson – Former assistant to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Nina Jankowicz – Former head of Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board Lois Lerner – Former IRS official under Obama Loretta Lynch – Former attorney general under Obama Charles Kupperman – Former deputy national security adviser under Trump Gen. Kenneth McKenzie (Ret.) – Former CENTCOM commander Andrew McCabe – Former FBI deputy director Ryan McCarthy – Former Secretary of the Army under Trump Mary McCord – Former DOJ national security division head Denis McDonough – Former Obama chief of staff, current VA secretary Gen. Mark Milley (Ret.) – Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lisa Monaco – Deputy attorney general under Biden Robert Mueller – Former FBI director and Russiagate special counsel Bruce Ohr – Former DOJ official under Obama and Trump Nellie Ohr – Former CIA employee Lisa Page – Former FBI counsel Pat Philbin – Former deputy White House counsel under Trump John Podesta – Former Obama adviser, current Biden climate adviser Samantha Power – Former U.N. ambassador under Obama, current USAID administrator Bill Priestap – Former FBI counterintelligence chief Susan Rice – Former Obama national security adviser Rod Rosenstein – Former deputy attorney general under Trump Peter Strzok – Former FBI counterintelligence agent Jake Sullivan – National Security Adviser under Biden Michael Sussman – Former DNC lawyer Miles Taylor – Former DHS official under Trump Timothy Thibault – Former FBI agent Andrew Weissman – Mueller’s Russiagate deputy Alexander Vindman – Former National Security Council official Christopher Wray – Current FBI director under Trump and Biden Sally Yates – Former deputy attorney general under Obama Adam Schiff – Senator-elect and former House Intelligence Committee chairman

Earlier this month, Patel announced the “massive declassification” of troves of information ranging from the Jeffrey Epstein files to the “P Diddy” list.

Patel told Conservative podcast host Benny Johnson that releasing documents that implicate the Department of Justice and FBI for their illegal surveillance of over 250,000 Americans.

[ghostgirl-22]

That’s the Kinda Love

This is SFW. Happy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate! Happy Thursday for everyone else <3

Pair: team throuple! But probably more heavy on Artashi.

POV: Tashi

Summary: ATP bring Lily to see them blow up the floats the night before the Macys Thanksgiving parade. Magic ensues.

—-

It’s not something Tashi’s ever gotten to do before. Growing up in the Bay Area it was remarkable to even see a flurry let alone all of this snow fall. The ground is powder white but thankfully they’re not predicting enough snow to cancel the parade. She’s watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade on tv with her grandmother every year since she was a little girl. And now she’s standing here the night before watching as they blow up the floats. It’s all so surreal.

“US Open winners stand up there. So that will be Art and Mikayla. And of course the families.” Their float coordinator, Lisa, is explaining to them.

“I’m family? Didja hear that?” Patrick says in her ear, grinning.

“You’re definitely something,” Art murmurs, grabbing him by the arm and pulling him away from her. Probably because they’re in public.

”And you love it,” Patrick says, getting in Art’s personal space instead.

Art rolls his eyes but doesn’t let go of Patrick’s arm right away.

All this sexual tension between the three of them that rarely if ever breaks is part of the reason they’re just playing into the throuple rumor. Since deny, deny, deny and lie, lie, lie wasn’t working. They were photographed a little too often in public all together and in different permutations. Sometimes more touchy than what could fairly be denied (though they tried).

She doesn’t know about the boys (or rather she doesn’t know about Art, she knows Patrick doesn’t really give a fuck) but she’s trying to control herself. She does lose herself sometimes but usually it’s mostly Patrick’s fault. And it’s such a scam that everyone has a camera. There are times when she could swear they were being discreet that ended up discussed for days on the internet. The attention is all over them and it’s just growing since Arts career making win against Yelnev at the US Open.

“Where’s my daughter?” Tashi asks. Last time she’d seen Lily she was on Patrick’s shoulders and he was showing her the baby from Family Guy.

Art gestures and Tashi follows his elbow.

Lily is pulling Tashi’s mom over to the Hello Kitty balloon. Tashi relaxes, smiling. “So where is Mikayla and her husband?” Tashi asks Lisa. Lisa is watching the three of them interact curiously. It’s clear she wants to ask but she’s too much of a professional and Tashi respects that.

“Well she uh— she knows the ropes. She did this 4 years ago. After Anna got hurt in the final and she won. I didn’t want to bring it up. What with Anna being a close friend and all.” Lisa explains.

Patrick snorts, “Anna Mueller? Isn’t she—“

”Positively lovely? Yes, Patrick,” Tashi says, doing everything to maintain professional composure. She knows he’s just calling bullshit but it’s been a while since he’s been in the public eye and Tashi knows better than anyone how seemingly nothing rumors become fodder for the general public’s collective boredom. Take that nothing challenger in the middle of nowhere for example. She never in her life expected to end up at the center of a media conspiracy or to have her own portmanteau. Let alone 2 of them. She still thinks her name should be first in at least one of them. Maybe it doesn’t work for Patrick though she doesn’t all together hate her cousin's idea… Tashtrick… but Tart is totally doable and kind of cute. Though maybe not enough of her.

“Right we love Anna,” Patrick says, gazing at her. “Shame about her career.”He adds but it doesn’t sound sincere. She wants to say shut up but then she’d look mean… so she shuts up for now.

“Yeah,” Lisa continues, “she says she and Tashi have always been close. I was so inspired by you guys I read her book. I love that she took up the mantle when you got hurt Tashi and the part where she introduced you to your husband—“

”Okay lets come back to Mikayla,” Tashi says, before she blows it and ends up saying exactly what she stopped Patrick from saying.

“Well that book was greatly exaggerated,” Art says. “And if picked up the mantle means 2 slams followed by nearly 10 years as a wannabe Hollywood insider I’m not sure she had any interest in living up to Tashi’s potential at all.”

It’s so much more bitchy than what she or even Patrick might’ve been able to manage and yet said with Art’s matter of fact casual tone it doesn’t come across that way at all. Not to mention he’s actually the golden boy who can do no wrong. Sometimes she resents him for it but right now as Lisa giggles and nods along with an “It did seem to be laying it on thick.” Tashi can’t help but be impressed.

She glances at Patrick and he looks back at her, amused. Tashi slots her arm in with Arts where he has his hand in his coat pocket as Lisa is called away by one of the workers.

“What?” Art asks. “I know I shouldn’t have but how much more fucked could we get for publicity right now anyway? Besides you’ve never liked Anna.”

“That’s not true. I loved her on the court.” Tashi smirks, “But you know what love means.”

“It means maybe you shoulda fucked her. To break the tension,” Patrick says. “Right Art?”

“Your mind,” Tashi says, with dry amusement.

“I know right,” Patrick smirks. “One of a kind.”

“Someone should study it.” She says, looping her other arm with Patrick’s.

“In a lab,” Art adds.

“Uncle Patrick!” Lily is running towards him. She’s actually really bonded with him for some reason. Reasons that are probably related to the fact that he’s an overgrown child himself. “Come look! Come look! they're doing Spider man!,” she exclaims. Tashi fights the urge to tell her not to run. The snow is slippery but she genuinely loves that Lily loves this too.

“No fuckin way!” Patrick says, matching her excitement as he walks over to meet her. He realizes what he said when Tashi’s mom is glaring and Lily starts giggling.

“I meant freaking by the way,” he says as Lily grabs his hand. “Kathy don’t kill me.” He adds, talking to Tashis mom.

“I think Uncle Patrick should pay you a dollar whenever he says a bad word, Lily,” her mom says. “Just like daddy does.”

”Yeah!” Lily says giggling. Tashi laughs as she and her mom exchange meaningful looks. If that’s the case Tashi’s now the only one exempt from the swear jar.

“Oh come on, daddy really pays you every time? That’s extortion you know. Your college tuition must be set..,” Patrick says, he spares one more smirk at Tashi and Art before Lily pulls him to the other side of the barricades where their filling up the spider-man balloon. But not before Tashi hears her say loudly. “What’s estortion?”

“Are we doing the right thing?” Art asks. Tashi takes another glance at the coordinator. She’s directing her staff where to put the banner on the float. “We do this every year Jason!” She sounds exasperated, Tashi understands the frustration just a little bit.

She turns to Art. “To the victor goes the spoils. You finally have a career slam and I’ve been dreaming of being on that float since I was a little girl. We’re absolutely doing the right thing.”

“Oh,” Art says. He starts guiding them over to the Spider-Man float.

“Oh what?” Tashi demands.

“I was talking about doing the whole throuple thing but I didn’t know that about you,” he says and he smiles. “Your childhood dream?”

She rolls her eyes. “Okay well… it’s also practical. I mean if I’m really going to coach Patrick and you really want to retire. There’s brand deals and publicity and all kinds of reasons to… And as for the throuple the whole world already thinks we’re all fucking each other anyway.”

“We are,” he smirks.

“Well they don’t know that. Like Kelly and Lauryn said, what’s the harm in playing it up a bit?” Tashi says, hoping it’s not a mistake to trust their publicists this time.

”Yeah true,” Art nods. “But let’s go back to little girl Tashi wanting to be in the parade, I can’t think of anything more adorable,” He says refusing to let her get away with changing the subject.

“Yeah well… my grandma loved that stuff,” she says trying to minimize how much she also loved it too, she gently bumps into him as they approach Spider-Man but Lily, her mom and Patrick are already on their way to SpongeBob which has just been lifted out.

”What’s your favorite float?” Art asks.

She bites her lip glaring at him but he’s so earnest she shrugs her shoulders and sighs. “Snoopy.”

If it was Patrick he’d tease a little more but Art just secures her arm and guides her away.

“Art they went that way,” Tashi says.

“I know,” Art says.

“It’s not like I’m gonna break down and cry if I see his float being put together,” she says. “I’m an adult.”

“I know,” Art says again.

She laughs and then lets herself be led down the block. The sky is opening up again, little flurries falling all around. They’re actually heading away from the crowds towards the entrance. “Art we can’t leave without them.”

“Tashi, I know,” Art says.

“So where are we—“

”Oh my God! Hi Donaldsons! I love you guys!” Some guy calls from the other side of the street.

“Congrats on the Open Art!” Someone says.

“Thanks man,” Art says.

“Team throuple!” One of his friends shouts. And someone whoops.

Arts all flushed from the cold and if it wasn’t cold it’d be because of the attention but he’s smiling.

”My life makes no sense,” Tashi says as other people walking in double take to get a look at who they are under their winter coats and hats. She notices several phones being taken out. Some attempts to be sneaky, some blatant.

Art stops them in front of a street vendor and the woman sitting there all bundled up has all kinds of stuffed animals with the characters in the parade.

“Hi,” Art says.

”Hello!” The woman exclaims. She’s older with a thick accent and Tashi is almost certain she has no idea who they are. Which… thank God for small mercies.

“Can I have that one?” Art asks. He points to a little snoopy plush holding, of all things, a tennis racket. Tashi can’t help but smile a bit.

“Oh yes sir, that’s 18.”

“You know that’s overpriced,” she says in his ear, “And I’ve outgrown stuffed animals.”

He grins at her and pulls out his wallet. “I want the little one too for our daughter.”

Tashi swallows a lump as the owner takes out a little Woodstock with a sweatband on his head. Okay it’s really cute.

Art pays entirely too much money for the little plushies but Tashi kind of adores him. Even if she’s not gonna gush all over him.

Lily isn’t anywhere near as restrained, she gets really excited for the gift and gives them hugs and kisses. She clings to the little snoopy while Tashi holds her and points out the big one as they blow it up.

“And mommy used to watch it as a little girl,” Tashi explains. “He’s my favorite.”

“He’s gonna be my puppy,” Lily hugs the plush.

Tashi kisses her cheek. Watching her as she stares with wide eyes, snow flurries landing in her hair, all the magic of it making her feel like a kid again too. It makes her heart ache in ways that it doesn’t all the time. Something Tashi realizes now was probably what Art actually wanted when he decided to share the plushies of her favorite characters with Lily.

“Lils look at his tail,” Patrick points out as the balloon fills out and Lily squeals excitedly.

“Wait, is he better than Spider-Man?” Tashi asks.

“No mommy,” Lily says and Tashi smiles. “But he can be Spider Gwens puppy.”

“Oh okay good,” Tashi laughs. “You’re still my baby girl.”

”’m a big girl mama,” Lily says.

“I know,” Tashi says, and when Art catches her eye and smiles she can’t help but fall in love with him all over again. She’s not gonna gush but something tells her he already knows.

—-

The next day on the float Mikayla and her husband have her husbands niece with them. She’s older than Lily and much more cynical but even she’s waving excitedly at the onlookers. Tashi is excited for where Mikayla’s career is going. She’s a phenomenol tennis player and her husband is a sweetheart. It feels so much more bearable than if she’d had to share a float with Anna Mueller when she won 7 years ago.

More snow flurries are falling and like magic it doesn’t even feel cold. Patrick is sitting next to Tashi chatting with Mikayla’s husband on the other side of him. They both look around occasionally remembering to wave.

Art is in back with Mikayla, her niece, and Lily. Lily clings to Snoopy the whole time they’re on the float while her dad is holding her, she copies him as he waves to the crowd. They’re getting a bit more attention than normal for a tennis float but of course it’s all planned that way because of the so-called throuple publicity Patrick brings.

Tashi knows its dorky and if Patrick knew she had it he hasn’t said anything yet but she keeps plushy Woodstock in her coat pocket the whole time too. She rests her arm on Patrick’s shoulder and he smirks at her. “They’re going to take another picture, Patashi rumors will be all over twitter,” Patrick points out.

“I don’t go on Twitter,” Tashi shrugs. What she doesn’t say is that she kinda wants them to take her picture. Not for any rumors but just because she feels really happy.

Even if all her dreams didn’t go the way she planned and it still stings like the therapist said it likely always would. But every once in a while this mess that she calls life actually feels just… perfect.

A/N:Pretty much wrote this for me lol. Forgive me it’s been a really difficult November. For the some obvious reasons (I’m an American minority) and some not so obvious. Hope it was fun if you like this kinda thing. Even if a bit random lol.

[nicolerrichie]

Nicole Richie's Best Books of 2024:

The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Something Wild by Hanna Halperin

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough

Antarctica by Claire Keegan

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton

Stones by John Williams

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Sula by Toni Morrison

Dream Work by Mary Oliver

Colored Television by Danzy Senna

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne

Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller

Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry David Thoreau

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Remember Love by Cleo Wade

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

[running-tweezers]

Music Tag Game!💕

Very late I am so sorry

Tagged by @autisticempathydaemon (so happy to have infected you with the Killing Kind Marianas Trench virus, btw)

Rules: On Repeat playlist, shuffle post the first 10 songs

Disclaimer: I’m currently making playlists for an 80’s AU I’m writing with my OCs, and that is skewing this playlist heavily lol

A song for my #1 specialest little blorbo OC Zephyr’s 80’s playlist. I love my weird freaky goth child more than I love to breathe.

A song from my other special little OC Nate’s 80’s playlist. Technically he belongs to the bestie but him and Zephyr are a package deal now and I have joint custody.

I spent a lot of the beginning of this month sick and unable to sing, and the SECOND my voice was back I was belting this in my kitchen

Is it even one of my playlists if this album isn’t present somehow?

I am a Carly Rae Jepsen stan first and a human being second

Literally one of my favorite songs of all time, has not left my top songs in 4 years

Once again, a song for my Nate’s playlist (but if you wanna hear me doing a very unprofessional impromptu karaoke style rendition of this song you can hear that here)

Yet another song for Nate, what can I say, the boy has taste

Pls listen to Chappell Roan, I saw her live on Halloween last year and it was such a great show. Her music is very fun and very gay, she’s fantastic

Morgan Redacted Audio is a Talking Heads fan, pass it on

No Pressure Tags: @redactedbloop @floofdeloop @your-local-mom-whore @zeerohpunk @batch-of-pengwings @4letteraroace @angelicaether @pinksparkl and whoever else wants an excuse to share their music 💕

[thomasmuellerfcbayern]

[sluttyvroomballs]

Uh guys, what the actual fuck 😭

[dertaglichedan]

Government to pay former FBI officials $2 million in settlements over release of anti-Trump texts

CNN — 

Ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reached settlements with the Justice Department that will see the government paying out a total of $2 million in their lawsuits over the department’s 2018 release of their text messages.

Former agent Strzok will get $1.2 million and Page, who was an FBI lawyer, will get $800,000, according to settlement agreements obtained by CNN.

Strzok and Page finalized their settlements with the Justice Department in court filings Friday, after alleging the department violated the Privacy Act by releasing to the media texts they exchanged criticizing Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.

“While I have been vindicated by this result, my fervent hope remains that our institutions of justice will never again play politics with the lives of their employees,” Page said in a statement provided by her attorneys.

The Justice Department declined to comment on the matter.

Strzok played a senior role on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team until he was removed after an internal investigation first revealed his texts with Page, with whom Strzok had an extramarital relationship, that could be read as exhibiting political bias. Page, who had also briefly served on Mueller’s team, resigned from her role as a lawyer for the FBI after the messages were discovered. The release of the messages became political fodder for Donald Trump to oppose the Russia investigation during his presidency.

Strzok has other ongoing claims in the lawsuit against the department for his termination during the Trump administration.