“Artist’s rendering of White House transition of power. Image via Kensington Palace/The British Monarchy.”

Sunday’s WaPo paperback bestseller list has four books (out of ten) whose new popularity is clearly driven by concerns about 45 and President Bannon:
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- It Can’t Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis)

I lost a lot of respect for her when I learned she was a Scientologist.

One thing that happened in the strike in Poland was that women whose bosses didn’t support the strike just quit their jobs. Not everyone has the privilege/security/ability to do that, but i thought it was pretty ballsy and awesome.

One method suggested below that can be time-coordinated with a strike would be to refrain from shopping on that day - bring your lunch instead of buying it, get your groceries the day before, and so on. Even if you’re not physically missing from the workforce, your lack of consumer activity will be counted when they…

She was so great; no mistakes, flubbed lines or delays, and total commitment to the character.

The sooner people realize McCarthy is in the top 5 of the funniest people who ever lived ever the better off we’ll all be.

A mom and her cubs. They go down to a greenbelt running through our neighborhood at night, so I don’t hear them much. I thought this photo was cool since they seemed to just be posing.

Plano, TX. A lot of people are complaining about them, but I think they are completely adorable and they help with rats...I wouldn’t let my small dog out in the backyard without supervision though.

That’s an awesome picture. I had one standing right outside my sliding door once, with four little eyes visible in the bushes behind her, but I was too busy calming down the freaked out domesticated cats on the other side of the door to grab my camera.

May I also suggest the following, which is more appropriate than totalitarianism I think. I’ve been considering tweeting passages as I read it, it’s too scary the parallels. I’ve never dog-eared so many pages in one book.