a bowl of petunias

/me taps sign

VICTORY: A federal court just put the chainsaws down at East Potomac Park The plan was to turn a public park into a private tournament course for Trump & wealthy golfers. The trees stay while we fight it out in court @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are on the case 👇- TN

“logos golem” 👩‍🍳💋

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

Long post, no paywall: I wrote about meeting the love of my life during the worst time of my life, and the song I sent him to say I liked him: jude-doyle.ghost.io/e-bow-the-le...

Everyone who wants to kick trans women out of sports has exactly zero belief that any type of woman is capable of athletic achievement. It’s all “cis men who sit on the couch all day can lift more than a woman Olympic lifter or in fact any lady who goes to the gym even a bit” and it’s never true.

great context on the serbia news here -- gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

A prayer for election days. To be inserted before the חתימה of ברכת המשפט, or שומע תפילה if that's too radical for you הַנּוֹתֵן מֶמְשָׁלָה לְמוֹשְׁלִים וְשִׁלְטוֹן לְשׇׁלְטָנִים May the One who grants governance to governance and rule to rulers,

Obama: Folks say, 'Well, Abdul didn't like some of the things you did as president.' We are not gonna agree on every detail of every issue. You know who else didn't agree with everything I did? Michelle Obama. I'd say about 5 times a day she's like, 'You knucklehead! Why you do that?'

Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

Man, We Are Not Freaked Out Enough By What The Feds Are Doing To Ilhan Omar www.wonkette.com/p/man-we-are... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

I think a huge reason Elon Musk is so virulently transphobic is not simply that his daughter transitioned & went no contact, but that he did everything he could to make sure all his kids were boys b/c he hates women, & one of those children deliberately & publicly embracing being female enrages him.

I saw someone use the term "Izzys" to refer to Israelis, in the same breath as "Ruzzians" to refer to Russians. The neat part about using "Izzy" is that it's not only their phonetic shorthand for "Israel", it's also a common Jewish nick (usually ישראל but, less commonly, יצחק). In trying to create

the story goes like this

Online leftists are NOT going to like this article one bit because the points behind it run counter to their approach of being smug edgelords who are more interested in spreading doomerism and purity testing.

I think we should talk a lot more about the tactics of the civil rights movement but being a victim of violence is not really in conflict with a theory of nonviolence

every single Supreme Court decision is either “obviously evil thing is evil,” 7-2, or “the God emperor is beyond mortal law” 5-4, no exceptions

Christianity Today has seen about half its staff quit or laid off in the last 14 months. Former employees told me that new business leaders have intervened in editorial decisions and are effectively abandoning the outlet's commitment to independent journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

An election rigging song of sorts, if we're doing a music day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJOT...

WOW. Meta's own Oversight Board has weighed in on the No Kings account being taken offline during our Early Vote action: www.oversightboard.com/news/oversig...

I very much agree with this, but one thing it passes over is the extent to which the Left adopts Third World ethno-nationalisms under the auspices of anticolonialism. Arab and Palestinian nationalism is deeply intertwined with antisemitism and an uncritical adoption will make you antisemitic.

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

ah we are going to get some nice reverse disparate impact where having too many black people is evidence of anti-white discrimination

Their politics are all different, but the appeal of Mamdani, Ossoff, and El-Sayed as speakers and campaigners is that they don't seem afraid they're going to get in trouble. That makes them hard to bully or even make fun of successfully.

"We have seen this happen with the Great Replacement theory over the past few years. ICE officers regularly wear the ‘siege masks’ popularised by Atomwaffen. The ‘groomer’ slur was propagated by far-right spaces on 4chan." www.liberalcurrents.com/public-execu...

Loving where this is going.

I haven’t been following the discourse too closely but I basically agree that GLP-1s are conscious

Kristan Hawkins and Students for Life are being sued under one of Texas's bounty hunter laws for buying abortion pills. Mother Jones caught their dumb public stunt on camera. It's the very definition of being hoisted by one's own petard. Classic. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

Meanwhile, at anthropic

Actually, I’d recommend this transcript generally. It has some funny moments in it.

my friend erin found a model persona consistently elicited by banning bigrams that are in Wikipedia that i think is really the cutest. she did an SFT on its outputs so you don't need a freaky harness. and you should check it out, it's on huggingface: huggingface.co/errrinn/Gads...

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

The future of personalized media

If you fuck with our Somali neighbors, you fuck with all of us