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Posted by Anna Rascouët-Paz

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-greenland-iceland-leavitt/

Trump said "Iceland" when he appeared to mean "Greenland" four times in his speech. Leavitt later denied he mixed the names up.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-greenland-iceland-leavitt/

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Posted by Jordan Liles

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-jesus-church-quote/

Users shared the alleged quote in the days after protesters disrupted a St. Paul, Minnesota, church service as part of an anti-ICE demonstration.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-jesus-church-quote/

ysabetwordsmith

This poem is spillover from the March 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

librarygeek. It has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. This poem belongs to the Big One and Shiv threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains intense topics that may distress some readers, especially glass artists and fans of glass art. Highlight to read the more detailed warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes upset friends, crying man, emotional first aid, Shiv's awkward but effective crisis response, Chihuly Garden and Glass destroyed by earthquake, salvage operations, insufficient organization causing emotional upset, reference to clumsiness, sorting broken glass that used to be art, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your taste and headspace before deciding if this is something you want to read.

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badfalcon

So I have chronic insomnia, right? It’s pretty normal for me to still be awake at 2, 3 in the morning.

And usually this comes in extremely handy at certain times of year when the tennis is happening in the middle of the night.

Except.

EXCEPT.

I am sleeping really well right now??

Like… going to bed. Actually falling asleep. Turning off the 1:30 alarm for Sunshine. Having a day off today, not getting up for work, and turning off the 08:00 alarm for Jannik. And I’ve only woke up at 11:00 this morning like some kind of well-adjusted adult human. Who authorised this?

I don’t know if it’s since handing my notice in at my job (which, honestly, feels suspiciously relevant), but apparently my brain has chosen now - during prime nocturnal tennis season - to be like: “ah yes, rest. healing. circadian rhythm. wellness.”

Absolute traitor behaviour.

Li is also wondering if having an alarm set for the middle of the night makes my brain go “it’s okay, you’re only sleeping for a few hours,” like I’m tricking myself into thinking I’m just having a nap and that’s why it’s working?? Which is extremely stupid if true, but also… uncomfortably plausible. We might try it post-AO, because at this point I am open to psychological warfare against my own brain.

So now I’ve got some matches to catch up on while I finish the reading for my assignment, like a fool who accidentally became well-rested.

Honestly, I’m not mad about sleeping better. I am mad about the timing.

My insomnia saw the AO on the calendar and said “actually no 🧡”.

Current Mood: amused

kaberett

Saw the Child! Was given a Very Important Solar System Biscuit.
Successfully slogged through a Whole Entire Exercise Routine, thanks be to company, and only tried to fall over for balance reasons rather than presyncope reasons. The Socks Continue Good. (We shall leave aside the part where my watch firmly told me I should start winding down for bed right before I began it...)
A has indulged me to the tune of staying up late (post-wiggles and once we have finished our takeaway, which we have) so that the bread I did not manage to bake earlier in the day will be Ready To Be My Breakfast.
Brain was willing to put down sudoku and actually read some book today! I am a bit closer to finishing a reread and embarking on the new thing!
It feels like I might actually be able to fall asleep in reasonable time today. Goodnight. <3

cosmolinguist

I finally got around to watching the gay hockey show.

Highlights from my social media thread:

First impression is how nice it is to hear some people who talk normal! Aww, some Canadian raising! When I write smut about gay linguists north of the 49th parallel, I'm gonna call it Canadian Raising.

Okay yes it's nice to see some butts and clavicles and forearms and all that, but also this is just making me miss my BlackBerry.

I watched this with a friend who'd been told that stuff doesn't start happening until episode 4. So by the end of episode 1 he was like "What the fuck happens in episode 4?! What is my friends threshold for stuff happening?! Because this is my threshold!" I replied: "This is more stuff than happened to me in like the first thirtysome years of my entire life."

omg why has being that awkward never gotten me that...result [I relate to Kip a worrying amount] Why isn't someone else the one saying "can I be too intense for a bit" to me for a change?

Yeah it's hard when you can't be out. You can't even like go fuckin... art shopping or whatever. It gets everywhere, after a while. This is what homophobes don't get: they think gayness can just be hidden like evangelical hypocrites hide it, just a behavior that stays dark and shameful. They don't know what it's like when someone makes you light up and you can't put a bushel basket over that.

Do they get a gay sports bar?? I want a gay sports bar!

I want a Canadian boyfriend with a cottage!

I miss loons.

We watched the whole thing and it's exhausting. So many big feelings!

Also I read a Margaret Killjoy thread that made me cry (content notes: ICE, Minneapolis). But also laugh. Especially this bit

Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get out our real winter gear out of the box for the year."

Because I can absolutely hear this in my dad's voice.

I kinda wish I could have a day off for the strike tomorrow, but instead I'm gonna have a particularly stressful day at work! And then get a train back to Manchester! Bleh. I am donating money to various things -- here's another collection of links -- and I will be following on social media and trying to support my friends as much as I can from a distance. But I feel really weird being expected to have a normal day.

dhampyresa

Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat, by Julian Walker, Matthew Remski & Derek Beres

The central idea of this book is that the underlying principles of New Age philosophy and consipracy theories are very similar: Karma = "nothing happens by accident"; Illusion = "nothing is at it seems" and Interdependance = "everything is connected". An interesting and well-argued read.

I read this book early in 2025, at roughly the same time as The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care, by Rina Raphael (it was fine) so I'm not sure which of the two -- or even the Decoding the Gurus podcast I was bingeing at the time -- had this additional tidbit: part of the appeal of alternative medicine is the personalised aspect of it. You're not special, getting the same vaccine as everyone else, but this homeopathy is tailored to you specifically/this diet aligns with your astrological chart/etc.

rmc28

Heated Rivalry is on this year's Canada Reads longlist.

trobadora

I'm incredibly tired again today for no discernible reason. *sighs*

Today's writing

Still slowly working on things. Still not gaining any momentum, but haven't thrown in the towel either, so there's that?

Tally

( Days 1-20 )

Day 21:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 22:

china_shop,

trobadora

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

olivermoss

( Sorry political screaming before I go somewhere without internet for a while to get work done )

merricatb

OMG Y'all

pattrose made me a Wolfie and Felix moodboard! Look at these dorks they love each other so much! I'm so happy I'm going to stare at it forever!

A moodboard of Felix and Wolfie being BFFs

A moodboard of Felix and Wolfie being BFFs

olivermoss

In last night's post-game interview, here's the screengrab I took of Vince Dunn:

Here's the one the official account went with to promote the interview:

The vibe difference is hilarious to me. Vincess Dunn versus The Dunndertaker

greghousesgf

I am baking pumpkin bread right now and it's taking longer than I'd like. It's been in the oven for over an hour and it was still raw in the middle last I checked, which wasn't that long ago. I did a little experimenting with it and put Chinese 5 spice in it.

Current Music: unidentified jazz piece

oursin

So, at long last, I finally have an email address associated with My New Academic Position (this has been A Saga to do with their system upgrade).

I have also achieved reader's card for library of former workplace (spat out from the bowels of their system with A Very Old Photo of Yrs Truly).

And went and looked at the items I wanted to check, and found that lo, I was right and they did NOT have anything pertinent, as I had in fact hoped they would not. Though I had hoped to look, for another thing, at a couple of closed stack items and discovered that these cannot be ordered on a day's notice INFAMY I am sure I recall the times when there were regular deliveries throughout the day. Not actually critical, but irksome. (Also irksome was that I moaned about this on bluesky and got various responses that had no relevance at all to research libraries, in the UK, in particular this one.)

I then managed to get a digital passport photo at one of the photobooths on Euston station and have applied for a new passport, as mine is well out of date and I seem to keep seeing things that want 'government ID' to verify WHO I AM (over here, making like Hemingway....) so thought this was probably the way to go.

Also this is a trivial thing but in the course of my perambs of the day I walked past the statue of Trim, and his human.

In the niggles department, I did that thing of putting my phone down in place I never usually put it and flapping about trying to find it.

The lockers at the library have really annoying electronic locks.

Printer playing up a bit again. Though I think this really is that one has to let it mutter and sulk for a bit between turning it on and actually trying to print anything.

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and chilly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/22/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/22/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 1/22/26 -- I filled the trolley twice with large branches that I hauled to the ritual meadow. Now all that's left of the brushpile by the driveway is one big forked branch that I can't break down myself, and the leftover twigs that will need to be raked up. \o/

I've seen a large flock of sparrows, a male and a female cardinal separately, and a starling.

EDIT 1/22/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a pair of cardinals.

I am done for the night.

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olivermoss

* Heated Rivalry boys set to be Olympic Torch Bearers because at this point of course they are. link

* Here is an interview clip where Rachel talks about being angry at hockey and the books being a way to get her thoughts out. Based on things she said a while ago, well before the show, I got the impression that the sweetest, coziest scenes in hockey romance all are rooted in anger at the sport. That's one of things about the genre that's interesting to me.

While I love the Shane/Ilya books, it's Tough Guy that deals the most with the impacts of hockey culture. Love Shane and Ilya, but I think Tough Guy is very interesting book and there's a lot there to discuss.

lydamorehouse

Your laser-eye loon art for the day is a faux Antifa Regimental Badge for the Northern Defenders, Loon Liberator Brigade.(warning: this may be AI generated. I never saw an artist attribution.)

It is such a shame that antifa is actually just a bunch of collective action groups because I would sign up for this brigade just for the gear! (Well, and the paycheck if that were real.)

So, yesterday in the Defendre le Nord regiment, I did a bunch of stuff that felt a little bit like nothing, but which is probably 100% mission critical. I have a friend who is acting as a drop-off point for folks who are donating things from out of state and I went over to their house yesterday to help them open packages, sort, and get stuff ready for delivery. Then, we drove together over to their contact's house and unloaded everything for distribution.

As we unloaded the last box, I asked the contact if there was specific immigrant owned/operated restaurant nearby that they knew was struggling and needed a couple of customers. Having gotten that info, we drove over and had lunch.

I should explain to folks from out of town what it is like to go into a Mexican restaurant right now. You don't just walk in. There's someone standing guard inside over a locked door, they unlock it long enough for you to slip in, and then they lock it up tight again. Somewhere on the door is posted a 4th amendment statement that says something to the effect that this business does not give permission for any search and seizure operations, including but not limited to the seizing of persons.

The atmosphere was a bit grim, but the food was amazing and I double-tipped the folks working there because holy shit none of this should be happening. They fucking kidnapped another child, y'all. None of this is right? But, that's fucking cruel beyond measure. (Not that that's news to them. They have no problem roughing up grandfathers either.)

I had hoped to join my singers again last night, but they have a tendency to gather exactly when I am making or eating dinner, so tonight I will have to try again. I just saw on Facebook that my mutual aid group, the Food Communists, are in desperate need for hands, so after I drop Mason off at his haircut (his partner is coming to town tomorrow!) I'm headed over there to help out for a couple of hours.

K. Also have to clean the house ocassionally, so I am off. Yesterday's dinner was knuefle soup, today's lunch: egg salad on an everything bun with cottage cheese! Fueling the revolution one meal at time!

Stay strong!

P.S. Vance is visiting us today, apparently. Wish us luck. They'll probably try to plant some aggitators to get violent.

snopes_feed

Posted by Laerke Christensen

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-attack-black-church-choir/

The video circulated as ICE continued immigration enforcement operations across the U.S.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-attack-black-church-choir/

mxcatmoon

Here's a new one on me: Has anyone ever gotten gibberish as a spam comment on AO3?

It was a huge block of text that looked like this:

.'smylxL2P>sS5j=RIE]ScX-7DR&V\FU?[79jO94@\f!IB:w[3"aJv%J:}pIRO$q=K `q4Bv_ C6=q%OD-8MY^(;|EHNh3bS7C3e#gf}IsNZ(ETXFlS'V4ZipY|rr^2_kVqs]?ty4a8

It was from a guest. Yes, I have guest comments turned on for most of my works, I get so little engagement with my work that I'm not going to turn it off unless I have to, heck I've only gotten a couple of spam comments in all the time I've been on AO3.

I marked it as Spam and moved on, but I've never seen it before. What's the point of this one?

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snopes_feed - Did Trump confuse Greenland with Iceland at Davos? Leavitt denied it, but evidence shows he did
snopes_feed - Did Bondi say, 'Jesus Christ would never have stormed a church' in protest of its leaders?
ysabetwordsmith - Poem: "The Bones of Chihuly"
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kaberett - some good things make a post
cosmolinguist - Good ice and bad ICE
dhampyresa - Mini book review
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oursin - Certain things accomplished (with some niggles)
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
anais_pf in thefridayfive - The Friday Five for 23 January 2026: Hair
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lydamorehouse - Antifa Regimental Gear!
snopes_feed - Video of ICE agents' supposed 'attack' on Black church choir isn't what it seems
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The Cheerful Insanity of Me

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Did Trump confuse Greenland with Iceland at Davos? Leavitt denied it, but evidence shows he did

Did Bondi say, 'Jesus Christ would never have stormed a church' in protest of its leaders?

Poem: "The Bones of Chihuly"

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some good things make a post

Good ice and bad ICE

Mini book review

ahaha

Write Every day 2026: January, Day 22

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Moodboard!

A Tale of 2 Vibes

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Certain things accomplished (with some niggles)

Birdfeeding

The Friday Five for 23 January 2026: Hair

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Antifa Regimental Gear!

Video of ICE agents' supposed 'attack' on Black church choir isn't what it seems

New type of spam?

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