Frusco's Steaks in Philly is now out of business, but this commercial from the 90s still gets stuck in my head. Probably because the jingle is a shameless ripoff of a Sheryl Crow song, and it ran nonstop on TV. FYI, sound in the video takes a couple seconds to kick in, it's worth the wait. 😂

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"Obergefell is settled law" is to the 2028 election what "Roe is settled law" was to the 2016 election. Roe and Obergefell are supported by a majority of voters. Republicans will try hard to convince independents that Obergefell is safe, nothing to see here...just as they did with Roe in 2016 & 20.

anyway

The bigger fight? Buddy, I die without health care and your pals in the Senate — none of whom will ever go without access to lifesaving medical care — told me they were gonna fight so my premiums don't go up 50%. And then they folded.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

We need to somehow do the political equivalent of tying the Dems' shoelaces to the tractor like that one scene in Footloose.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

I am personally affected by the ACA subsidy ending and also my health insurance premiums are going way up next year. If you appreciate my work, there's never been a better time to become a paid subscriber. (Patreon gives me a better revenue split) www.patreon.com/posts/what-w...

And of course the Patreon version: www.patreon.com/posts/what-w...

I wrote about the fecklessness of the Democrats ending this shutdown for my newsletter this morning. www.burnsnotice.com/what-was-the...

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

I guess i'm looking for about another 100 Patreon subscribers to make up for this? C'mon i hate this so much. Patreon.com/katelynburns

2026 Primary Woke Wave

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

SUCKS TO SUCK

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

I mean this is so far pretty close to a 10 out of 10 night for Democrats. Winning everywhere! Statewide in PA and GA, huge margin in VA gov race. Sherrill tracking double digits as well! Mamdani above 50% in a the highest turnout in NYC since 1969. Big pick ups in VA House of Delegates.

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Why can't I find normal "fun size" Halloween candy any more? Just bought a mixed bag that looked fine from the outside, but it's these fucking teeny tiny ones. Like, c'mon. That's not a Baby Ruth, it's a Fetal Ruth.

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

"Trans people are looking out for one another not just with information, but with tools to verify sources, which can be incredibly challenging in an era of AI slop and misinformation." Read more from @sesmith.lol: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Shout-out to one of my coworkers who thought "labubu" was slang for lobotomy

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Having a lot of weird, mixed feelings about Breast Cancer Awareness month this year. Maybe I'll post something about it, though not sure if anyone would be interested in my thoughts.

Tragic.

The terrors persist but the joys remain worth fighting for

I'm pretty sure there was never a Smart Glasses Forwardlash

i mean they did also have a tank parade. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you're coming from here but they very much did have a tank parade.

you are no longer allowed to have imposter syndrome. not after this bari omgwtf weiss situation. you're literally not allowed to feel imposter syndrome ANYMORE

it's fucking wild how, if you're just willing to say "trans bad", you don't even have to be able to string 3 sentences together coherently in order to get a huge paycheck!

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again. burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...

I have reinvented myself and my career multiple times since I turned 30, and I expect to do so again. Do not believe you can't radically revamp your life as you age. You can, and you will, and you must!

I never played The Oregon Trail

If Bluesky goes belly up I'm not joining Threads or whatever comes next, I'll get a PO box and start exchanging handmade zines with folks over snailmail.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

We are over 4000 future community members strong now! (That's how many folks have signed up for Northsky Social.) Thank you for your trust and support, and we look forward to welcoming you to safer skies soon!

Not a great sign when the head of Bluesky is posting like "We have Elon at home."

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Shit's new levels of terrifying every day.

:checks increasingly terrifying news: uhhh... guess i'm gonna, um, get to work on this rewrite...

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

fuckin BOOM!! got him good.