Sylvia Pellicore

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

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

Important PSA theonion.com/election-off...

In Michigan, Musk paid for calls targeting Muslims that painted Democrats as pro-Israel, and also paid for calls targeting Jews that painted Democrats as pro-Hamas.

no but seriously you all gotta watch the trailer

So all those outlets who sold out your colleagues for access: how’s that working out?

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Everyone needs a thneed said the Once-ler.

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

…I don’t want to be married to my car? (I mean, I understand that some people do, but I always thought of it as a very niche community on DeviantArt.)

BioWare was responsible for so many of my favorite games and gaming moments. The number of games that actually affected emotionally - not just fun or engagement but emotional reactions to the story - are low and BioWare was responsible for most of them. Losing the studio like this is a tragedy.

for those only dimly aware of cybersecurity people screaming, "a security certificate which underpins the entire internet used '4' for a private key that is supposed to be 116 digits long" and "a popular web language lets anyone run code on your server" are two different issues from the same day

This is unfortunately one of those binary situations where you’re either dumb or lying

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Yep! Look, I want to live in space as much as the next dork who grew up on sci-fi. But other planets are bleakly hostile to humans.

This is so horrid

We have not kept this exquisite spite business alive for 18 years just to let a moral panic take it out without the mother of all fights first, and the people manufacturing this moral panic can fucking kiss my fucking ass, I'm too invested at this point to just hand them the win.

What's always amazing to me is how cheap politicians are to buy. $40k in campaign contributions in return for a $10M contract??

HOT TAKE: I propose President von der Leyen, Prime Minister Carney, and President Zelensky meet next month to negotiate an end to the – US war on Iran – US trade war on Canada – US sanctions war on Cuba – China-Taiwan cold war, – South China Sea territorial war, and – Russia hybrid-war on Europe.

North Carolina friends, if you can vote in person, do. You can vote curbside, and I will happily drive you. If you can’t, follow every rule to the letter.

This is heartbreaking. Bangladesh has many areas where people don’t have easy access to vaccination. Political turmoil paused the country’s highly successful vaccine program in 2024. Now babies are paying the price.

It’s depressing to see schools use AI to create flyers, banners, & t-shirts. When I was in high school the faculty would come to the art department to have students create these things. I learned so many skills that have followed me my entire professional life. That’s what I thought school was for.

Bruh

No words for how completely awful this is.

One would be good and the other would be bad because one cause is good and the other is bad. We are not in the realm of procedural justice concerns anymore, liberalism is not obligated to be neutral on the question of its own existence.

This is a medical device. Suddenly deactivating it could straight-up kill people. There’s only a few manufacturers of continuous glucose monitors in the US. It’s normal for insurance companies to only approve one brand. You need a prescription. It’s not really possible for people to say no.

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

I dont want to hear shit about how trans people need to accept "reasonable compromises" puberty blockers instead of hrt for minors *was* the compromise 2 years hrt and hormone testing requirements for trans women athletes *was* the compromise taking more of our rights away is not "reasonable"

“It’s only fascism if they manipulate elections!” “It’s only fascism if they disappear people off the street!” “It’s only fascism if they take over the media!” “It’s only fascism if they jail their political opponents!” Is there even anything left?

This is inspiring in the way that kids running a lemonade stand to pay for their friend's chemotherapy is inspiring: the kids are amazing but they should never have to do this. if this inspires you at all, let it inspire you to create a real right to vote so they can just vote on campus.

I'm a big fan of the complaint she was "summoning witnesses with no notice on federal holidays." Well, yeah, that's what happens when you suddenly start destroying things on the weekend before a federal holiday. Maybe next time don't do that.

Ilhan Omar got derivative citizenship when her father was naturalized. She didn't do anything to get citizenship except be her father's child. What the fuck conduct can they point to on her part. Rationality is not their point in any of this, but we need to point out that there's no fucking way.

No effing idea how we got MapQuest in the divorce.

They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

Confiscating the passport of the elected representative of the opposition territory in a raid with a flimsy pretext to attempt to strip them of citizenship is something we have words for when it happens in other countries

If you live in Durham, NC or environs and need a voting buddy, message me. I will use every ounce of my ”middle-aged white lady who needs to speak to a manager“ to make sure your ballot gets counted.

Sometimes when you know someone who died of a thing, the good news starts as a kick to the chest. But people’s kids are going to live because of this and that is good news even when it hurts.