As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Okay I think it’s time to pick up my knitting again during this game…

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

That was a rough inning…

The Red Sox present:

By far the best standup comedy one liner of this stupid decade

This is illegal

Here are all the states Russ Vought announced just today he would be illegally stealing taxpayer dollars from. Have we ever had a President work so hard to hurt the people he represents? I'm not going to be intimidated by these crooks.

Sammy’s staying with my dad tonight and I asked for a photo update. I received this picture of her butt

He found a really good stick.

During the federal government shutdown, some programs are going to be hard to cover anywhere, but at least in MA we’re bridging funding for some programs (like Head Start). Every state should be stepping in, but I suspect many won’t…

Maybe, just maybe, he shouldn’t have retired specifically so that Kavanaugh could take his seat…

meanwhile at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Do you think I can get a Yankees Suck chant going at work tomorrow

Happy Crochet Day to all who celebrate.

I stopped knitting, Chapman let up 3 hits. Started knitting again, Chapman got three outs in a row. Coincidence???? (Yes, but wow way to not lose composure)

An absolute banger by Garrett Crochet. His final pitch in the 8th was 102 mph for the K @redsox.com

I’ll post about the shutdown tomorrow. Tonight is stupid knitting/crochet jokes and other things in that vein so I can pretend I’m not worried about all the things

I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell. Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.

Am I allowed to knit while Crochet is pitching

This is fair.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

My team is presenting at #FormFest2025 tomorrow on using RFIs (requests for information) to shift government benefit applications from tests to partnerships. If you haven’t registered yet, it’s not too late! (I won’t be presenting myself but I’m super proud of this group!)

Sometimes I think about how Michelle Wu and Eric Adams were elected in the same cycle

You don’t see this everyday. 😮

pardon the glare from the train window, but the sunset in Springfield Mass was *spectacular*

On this day 4 years ago, my building’s cute courtyard fountain was filled with soap early in the morning as a prank and this was the beginning of The Foam.

So exhausting..

Look at this cuuuute pattern I found. brb knitting this for all my PNW friends’ kids. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

This also reminds me of this classic puppy picture of Sammy. Just very happy to be under tables!

In any other job, this person would (hopefully) be fired, but there’s no real protections from a hostile workplace in Congress.

Even Sammy refusing to walk by hiding under a picnic table is cute.

it’s fucking insane that you can log off for a few hours and come back to find trump invaded another city in his own country

Rafaela with a walkoff double. The Red Sox are in the playoffs.

Rafaela pummels a walk-off hit to center, the entire dugout rushes to mob him as he reaches third base. The Red Sox are back in the postseason.

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I know there are 50 million things going on, but this is pretty important (Democrats doing something, formal documentation of DOGE) www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

I have to leave early tomorrow for a training, and I’m struck by how late coffee shops seem to open here? In Seattle, the place 3 blocks from me opened at 5am. Here there are a couple options open at 7am, but the closest won’t open until 8am. Wish I hadn’t left my travel mug at the office!

Going to start reading this for work. #CivicTech

I need more weeknight meal ideas. I’m cooking for myself so the prep is all on me. What are your go-tos?

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Thinking about this as we see local newsrooms shutter. “The results were unambiguous. All else being equal, the closure of a newspaper yielded a 6.9 percent increase in corruption charges, a 6.8 percent increase in the number of indicted defendants, and a 7.4 percent increase in cases filed.”

This thing is definitely haunted, right?

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I have 6.5 hrs of meetings tomorrow plus 30 extra minutes of transit from my office to the secretariat office midday. I’m preemptively tired.

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

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