✨ Sara ✨ 🦄

Still teaching I see

I have to be in a very specific mood to listen to Joy Division, but damn, Closer is such a fantastic album.

I've already seen some effort to bury this as "there's not a lot new here." As if, "What's one more rape victim?" is sound editorial judgment. Republicans kept the Benghazi story going for years on nothing new, but that didn't stop to press from covering every nothing burger they served up.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Yup.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

“Shielding”. Because Musk, the richest man on the planet, needs protection. Unreal.

Air tags? Life 360 app? Good ol’ Share Location on Apple phones? Nah. Had to be Flock cameras. Right.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Omg.

This is particularly obvious given current trends by conservative evangelicals: Megan Basham posted that most Mainline churches aren’t Christian, and Eric Metaxas claimed that Christian colleges who don’t invite Erika Kirk to speak are fake. They’re chomping at the bit to define the In Crowd.

"[NYT]—and all of the media—could have investigated Lindsey Graham’s denials decades ago. It’s clear to me that Washington reporters, like the rest of us, had heard the stories for many years. Yet they thought it was an “invasion of privacy” to go there, even as he was harming the community"

I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

😞😞😞

I don’t usually do these but the ones tonight were fun so… 1. Rockfeller 2. Clearly Eurovision and all that it entails. 3. Made a chicken thigh stew with red kidney beans & spinach that was pretty tasty, and ate it over pasta.

Losing Orban and Vucic is a blow to Putin. Let's hope a big setback to his most important Western ally (Trump and MAGA) is in the cards for next week.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

Another fantastic election result.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Good good good.

I refuse to give AI credit for anything... but I have enjoyed all the videos of people taking up painting and crafting and making music simply to show how much they hate AI. This is the best way to revolt. It is so beautiful. Please keep doing it.

all of this has always been about getting back at the uppity women who wouldn’t fuck them

The littles are asleep, the bigs are out, the dog is curled up on the floor and I am…

Voting has been accomplished. 💪💪💪

It’s so interesting to see an adult man this scared, frightened of a much younger man.

Do you know why the cops keep pulling me over and giving me a breathalyzer after I have six drinks at the bar and swerve into oncoming traffic? Because I keep crushing the test, that’s why.

If she really had that much joy and there really was no coercion, he wouldn’t have had to stand next to her and tell her exactly how to vote.

Tom Skerritt was one of those faces that was somehow always there, as I grew up. I remember watching him in Picket Fences, for example. He’s also in one of my favorite movies, Contact. RIP to one of the greats.

So good.

‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”

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They’re not eating salads.

I was going to finish my current movie but then got to chatting with Second Eldest and then had to tidy up the kitchen and now it’s too late for tv so I’m just on my phone drinking wine. As one does.

Why is it these two pictures were like Menthos on my Coca-Cola heart? 🥺🥺🥺

Coupled with incompetence.

A strong woman standing up for another strong woman in the face of an amoral man is a wonderful sight.

Why can’t people platform the enabler of Amy Acton’s sexual assaulter in peace?

The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit

Makes sense to me.

SpaceX got almost $6 BILLION in taxpayer-funded defense contracts last fiscal year. Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has spent over $360 MILLION in our elections this cycle. This should be illegal — but it isn't. I'll be introducing a bill to close the loophole that allows it.

It’s Eldest’s birthday tomorrow so she asked Second Eldest to make Caramel Mousse. So. Freaking. Delicious.

Recognizing a bad faith plant in a town hall and politely but firmly gutting their gotcha like a fish is an underrated campaign skill.

Three Facts: 1) Tommy wasn't a voter. He was a Christian Nationalist plant by Josh Hawley. 2) Tommy isn't worried religious law superseding our Constitution. He admitted he's trying to enact Christian Shariah above the Constitution.