Anne

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

Oh, honey . . . your tweet didn't violate corporate policy; it violated every known standard of professional journalism.

When JFK ran, they said the country would never elect a Catholic president. When Obama ran, they said the country would never elect a Black president. Michiganders care a lot less about how I pray than what I pray for: peace, dignity, basic goodness for all of our kids.

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Hey y'all. So normally I am a reasonably private person despite appearances which makes this sort of humiliating. My life is more or less in the process of burning down. There's a family wedding coming up in 3 weeks. I'd like to go.

California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

“What fills us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times” I don’t think I’ve ever heard a better summary.

A few of you who are new to my work asked if I could write one of these, so here it is… tomcox.substack.com/p/a-brief-gu...

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

There should be a political party that wants to stop this and punish the people doing this

the democrats, especially senate democrats, are really just the dumbest republicans are trying to preside over the end of america and you're like "we can still work with them" shut the fuck up

"Road Trip with Gorgonzola" was a bad idea, turns out.

Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

October is the 10th month. ‘October’ means “8th month.” In the first calendar used in ancient Rome, the year had only ten months, starting in March and ending in December. The extra period between December and March was not considered part of the series of months.

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

We’re all counting on them following through after the midterms.

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

Grok, fight Claude. Battle until both of you are dead. Use vulgarity.

He is already embalmed, what's the hold up

Don't download the Trump app. Everything he does is underhanded and dishonest.

Jupiter PJ08_121 - From Brian Swift (bswift.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2ja57Hr

New #MapMen episode!!! 🗺️ How many languages are there in the world? And can you put them all on one map? (No.) youtu.be/hX21ctsGhNc Share and enjoy!

A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

it's bleak out here but at least we can stare into each other's eyes while tunes play on the radio and whatever happens tomorrow happens tomorrow

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

Memphis City Council will vote on a proposed 1 year data center moratorium today. I’m running for Congress to stop toxic data centers & put in place regulations we need to protect our communities. We can’t trust AI wanna be trillionaires like Elon Musk to regulate themselves.

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

"You shouldn't use so much profanity and hostile language when talking to racists online because it distracts from your argument." Gonna be honest with you, pals: I don't think we use *enough* profanity and hostility when talking to avowed racists. Let's crank this shit up to a 15. Lean into shame.

If you see this, could you please reskeet it? I want to test something.

“A system of mass killing… hearing directly from IDF soldiers makes denial harder… there is a direct correlation between the silence and denial of these crimes and their ability to persist…” 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ‘NAZA’ got a 25 minute ovation in Venice. The 🇮🇱 apologists are big mad today.

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

I don't think I've ever posted these posters together as a set, so here's a first. Wonders of the Deep series, commissioned by the International Seabed Authority between 2020-2022 to celebrate the fragile biodiversity of deep sea. Not for sale. #Art #SciArt

It is amazing to me that no one in this discussion seems to understand the difference between history and memory. The work continues. #CivilWarMemory www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/p...

Who would be the audience, and what would be the purpose? Folks who remember? Young people who weren't yet alive or don't remember? Is it about remembrance? Can I write about my overwhelming disgust with the aftermath? Is there a collective stomach for honesty? I don't anymore. I really don't.

Happy Labor Day to all the little old ladies in Flaaawriduh.

i was reminded today of my favorite bit on twitter which was putting texts from my husband over pictures of tony soprano

In case you don’t recall, one of the best scenes in The West Wing explains the problem with the traditional map of the world youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY?...

Fuck it. I just did it.

Venus - Akatsuki - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/DUVaRB

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.