Thank god for midnight . . .

Friday, April 18, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . and a cloudy, breezy day is at hand for TulseyTown. The weathefeather indicates severe thunderstorms are possible with a slight chance this afternoon, becomng likely this evening, overnight and throughout the rest of the weekend. Today's Southerlies turn Northerlies this evening. Forecasts include the possibility of tornadoes and large hail along with heavy rains. Today's upper 70's are to drop into the 50's.

The earth is a living thing. Mountains speak, trees sing, lakes can think, pebbles have a soul, rocks have power. – Henry Crow Dog

An excellent update leading with the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, posted by Heather Cox Richardson in her Letters From An American. If you need a reminder: Garcia was mistaken and illegally sent to a Venezuala prison by Trump. It is an important case in that if Trump and his minions can get away with this, he can continue to do so with impunity … If he can do it and claim “mistake” he can do it to any one of us … you or me … for any reason. For Trump you or I would need to look like or sound like or say something he interpreted as opposed to him.

Tonight in 1775, Paul Revere took his famous “Midnight Ride” warning Boston-area residents that the British were coming. The event was immortalized in a ballad by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Here's the “true story.” “

On this day in 1958 the U.S. Government dropped its treason charges against the poet Ezra Pound.