Granny Smith

You can go to your local post office and get a pack of pre-stamped plain postcards, and then write messages on them. Send a couple a day. Send snark. Send scoldings. Send uncomfortable facts. Heck, send interesting number formations. But those postcards must be handled and processed and delivered.

Alt text from the subject line of this email I refuse to open: "Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back?" @thenewyorker.bsky.social, go home, you're drunk. Conservatives have never been sexy, therefore there is no taking it back. Please hire some better editors.

$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.

this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

United Nations has backed a resolution to change the way Africa is represented on world maps. The “Correct the Map” resolution was adopted by a vote of 164 to one, with six countries abstaining. The United States was the only country to vote against it.👇🏾 www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n... #PINKS

Reagan was terrible

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

This is incredibly amazing 💙👇

Dolly Parton... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Quietly funded high school band programs We lost an incredible person.

Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Greece battles wildfires, Hungary shuts nuclear power plant due to drought reut.rs/4wdMTgY

#OtD 1 Aug 1834 slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved were "freed". Govt compensated former owners, at taxpayers' expense, paying them £20 million, and the enslaved were forced to work for free for four more years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8043...

If internet searches are going to continue to degrade, we need telephone books back. I can't find anything now. It's all AI hallucinations and trash advertisers.

Meanwhile, the United States has already seen more than 4 million acres burn in 2026, with over 42,000 wildfires reported nationwide. #SaveUSFS

Americans are stupid about maps to begin with, but this is truly beyond the pale

Accurate. I want faster, better trains.

Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?

This is awful! Again!

I spent two weeks this month fighting with my insurance company. They're terrible, but then, all insurance companies are

I've spent the past week and a half in a hot war with my insurance company. We don't have healthcare, we have $20k/yr insurance that doesn't cover care. I have to fight over the basics, and this round of fighting was over a serious issue. This is delay, deny, defend. It must cause deaths.

A 25 and 19 year old dead in another endless Republican Middle East war while Trump played golf, hosted a high dollar fundraiser, and tried to jump on a stage to act like he won the World Cup.

España hace historia: es el primer país con las dos selecciones absolutas campeonas del mundo al mismo tiempo social.elpais.com/62z…

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

Muse Image, un nuevo generador de imágenes con IA de Meta, permite a los usuarios crear imágenes a partir de las fotos de Instagram de otras personas. Cualquier adulto con una cuenta pública de Instagram fue incluido de manera automática. Esto es lo que hay que saber.

Good read

NEW from @propublica: Trump pushes out remaining members of bipartisan election commission ahead of midterms www.propublica.org/article/fede...

El debate | ¿Funciona adular a Trump? dozz.es/uf55f3

RIP Alex Jones, who died in 2026 from his head exploding like a balloon full of rancid jam, in his car. Long live The Infowars Elf. #infowars #alexjones #rip #infowarself #ai #swingandamiss @realinfowars.bsky.social

@grahamformaine.bsky.social You fucking asshole. You knew how many skeletons were in your closet. Fuck right the hell off. Susan fucking Collins is a fucking nightmare, and no, Janet fucking Mills was not a panacea, but you are a goddamn liar and fraud. Fuck you and your ginned up regret and growth

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022 with @newyorker.com)

Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Why don't our schools get the funding they need? Because there's not a lobby for public schools. Kids don't have a corporate PAC. We must be willing to take on the political system that always puts corporations over people.

Describe the economy in a single sentence

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Republicans and independents who vote Republican are evil. People who don't vote are malignantly ignorant

I just sent this out to Democracy Docket premium members, but in light of the Postmasters comments this morning threatening voting by mail, I felt it is urgent to post it online for everyone. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...

Doctors interviewed for a new study shared dramatic cases of patients stuck in legal limbo while waiting to receive lifesaving medical care.

Happy #Juneteenth! On this day we celebrate freedom and our commitment to the fight against racism. Our struggles were born from the same roots. Our struggles are one. Su lucha es mi lucha. Together we are more powerful.

Paul Krugman: "We surpassed Gilded Age levels of income and wealth inequality decades ago. We’re now in an era of oligarchy in which the power of great wealth and the abuse of that power by a tiny elite eclipse anything we saw in the late 19th and early 20th century" Chat, is that good?

Shortly after the 2025 elections, I published a list of seven voting laws every blue state should enact. While I stand by all seven, I want to highlight three. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...