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I will be so happy when the midterms are over and I stop getting 3 texts a day from the Talarico campaign.

Nine works that have stayed with me. Not included but included in my heart is virtually all of Terry Pratchett, as well.

ACPS needs to fix its shit. Protecting kids is one of the primary jobs of a school system

I am going to honor this by going to my local yarn store and buying yarn from a company that has just been bought by private equity so I can stock up before the enshittification begins.

The specter of communism, migrant caravans... what old chestnut are republicans going to revive next? Color-coded threat levels? The heartbreak of psoriasis?

They tell us a million bullshit things we can do to avoid being raped without telling predators to just not rape us.

Doesn't this mean they were paying in and not using any services, thus subsidizing ACA members who filed more claims? You know... how insurance is supposed to work? Fucking morons.

This will be part of holding on to the WH after the next election. The East Wing bunker, the drones on the roof, snipers on the arch, all the fencing and munitions around the WH... he's preparing. J6 was a trial run. He does not plan to leave

Miffed that #SpellingBee won't take "quintain" this morning. #NYTSpellingBee

If Dems retake the House and Senate, impeaching these two should be high on the light of things to do. Investigate all those payments and gifts and grifts.

Fucking toddler having a fucking tantrum because he can't force himself onto the Kennedy Center. (I know, how rapey.) He's ruining DC completely.

FFS, we all know that Trump is freaking out about the AI warnings because he's heavily invested in AI, right? This is why we have rules about elected officials' investments - so we can trust that they're acting in OUR interests, not their own.

Does anyone actually believe this bullshit, aside from the nuttiest of the nutty? Really?

Why isn't this (and that weirdo cult video) on the front pages of every newspaper?

My second gripe of the morning is that I'm really sick of the enshittification of absolutely everything in this AI/venture capital/internet-centered world.

I wish the NYT would stop trying to push Erika Kirk on me. What she learned about grief is that it's monetizable. It's a platform to promote herself.

Everything about this article makes me happy

Ugh, he’s a total nut job

Save this clip for 2029

Retaliation presupposes that the US threw the first punch here, which it did. "I get to hit you! You don't get to hit me!"

Jeanine Pirro is a DUI hire.

Thing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.

I'm sorry, but I'm just not interested in re-making the Democratic Party to appeal to Republicans. Never-Trumpers can vote for Dems or not. Their opinions on "electability" mean nothing to me, especially looking at their track record.

Six living writers, 5 books read: Laura Lippman Tana French Maggie O'Farrell Mick Heron Carl Hiaasen Colson Whitehead

See, the reason they call things "red flags" is because one of them is usually a sign that there is more bad stuff to be discovered. You act when the first one pops up (and a Nazi tattoo is a big one). You're not supposed to let them pile up for a while before you do something.

I used to walk my kids down there in strollers when they were babies, then they stopped in on their way home from middle school...Places like this are so very rare these days. They had Bates knitting needles, cast iron pans, coloring books and old games as well as hardware. Ayers, we'll miss you!

We could have had everything in America. We destroyed ourselves due to racism and greed. It's so painful and pitiful.

I have been in Northern Europe for the last week (Iceland, Faroe Islands, Scotland) and what’s become even more glaringly clear to me than ever is how badly the US has fucked itself (and the world) on renewable energy. Wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable sources are so prevalent here.

Really loving this time-honored tradition of transphobic conservative women finishing fifth in races.

Yes! This puts into words what I have been thinking about all the discourse about boys and masculinity over the past few years. Instead of politicizing accommodating bad behavior, let’s fucking teach boys to be better people

This is the dream

How inspiring. Oops. I mean insipid.

I just got a looooong fundraising text from Platner to which I responded with a hearty "Oh, HELL NO"

Finished this shawl and got photos today. It’s the Photography Shawl by AnimaKnits, in Brooklyn Tweed Shelter (RIP). I love how architectural this pattern is. It reminds me of an Art Deco-era skyscraper. #knitting #knitsky

To add to this - while my husband and I are doing well, I see a difficult world ahead for my kids and for other Americans, and that makes me pessimistic. Because not all of us view the world solely through the lens of our own personal well-being, but that of others as well.

He’s becoming pure id. No moderating superego. This is what happens with frontotemporal dementia

But I'm sure he's polling at 100% amongst those who identify as MAGA. 100% of people who identify as liking plums like plums!

Sam Alito in Callais: the 14th/15th amendment only care about intentional discrimination! SCOTUS today: jk! not even that! (unless the “intentional” discrimination is attempting to comply with the voting rights act, in which case it’s unconstitutional intentional racial discrimination)

Totally agree. Don't really have anything else to add

This is so true. The south never really stopped fighting the civil war.

I feel like we're just a few weeks away from critics of the administration encountering faulty windows.

Today's theme is Irish band movies featuring Maria Doyle Kennedy. Sing Street this afternoon, The Commitments this evening. This is my self-care activity.

I hope someone will ask him in one of these interviews about how the immediate result of Callais was for southern states to fall all over themselves to disenfranchise black people. The conservatives on the court may be over racism, but the country sure as hell isn't

⬇️⬇️⬇️. When my kids were little, I filmed them racing. Older son held out a hand to hold his little sibling back so he could win. This is the legal equivalent of that.