Just put the finishing touches on the People's (Gingerbread) House. I built the West Wing and the Panera Rose Garden as well as the Residence, but I can't get a good picture with everything in it. The West Wing is pretty useless anyway, right? Nothing good has happened there in 333 days.

Tomorrow will be a Thursday with no WTF podcast. I can't get my brain around that.

Fiona and I play a game on washday. I strip the bed and drape the sheets around her and say, Where's Fiona? I can't find her! It never gets old. We laugh and laugh.

Saw a display for s’mores where they had both normal Hershey and Hershey Cookies and Cream bars and I’m not Mr traditionalist over here but that is the end of western civilization

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Media, PA

I'm ready.

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

An entire sea cannot sink a ship unless the water gets inside of the ship. The same with the negativity of the world: it can’t bring you down unless you let it get inside of you. We cannot control what happens around us, but we can control our reaction to it. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊

Fetterman-Golden 2028 - "You never need to worry about us selling out because we already did." @fetterman.senate.gov

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

Thank you, Rep. Al Green. 🙏💜

When the big picture seems overwhelming, focus on local issues. PA HB 109 would require the PA Department of Environmental Protection to impose additional requirements on permitting requests in environmental justice areas. PA residents -- call your state rep. envirodelco.org/2025/03/atte...

🚨 PSA for Protesters 🚨

Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix* The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc… They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.

They're calling the July 4, 2026 celebration the semiquincentennial. Half of 500 years. Instead of fireworks, we'll continue this dumpster fire. Instead of parades, a bobsled run to hell in our handbaskets. No need to plan ahead for the sesquimillenial or whatever the fuck comes next. We're done.

A generously phrased comment on the Democratic leadership from @hcrichardson.bsky.social : "A little more starch would not be amiss."

This survey includes personal details to use when calling your elected representatives. Knowing that @fetterman.senate.gov has a tattoo for every murder that occurred while he was mayor of Braddock, I told him he doesn't have room on his body to tattoo all the deaths he & his colleagues are causing.

Sometimes the illiteracy of headline writers speaks truth, or even poetry. Yes, the White House reigns in Musk -- ruling his power-loving heart --just as Musk reigns in the White House.

I'm not much of a football fan, but GO BIRDS and also this.

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

I've been struggling to keep up with the fast moving coup at Treasury and the technical details of servers and suchlike. @pkrugman.bsky.social led me to @nathantankus.bsky.social and now I understand the situation well enough to be truly terrified. Thanks, guys.

EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic" www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

THIS is what we're dealing with. We need to make a LOT of noise to insist that this be STOPPED!

"Here's the plan, fellas: First, we hit the animal shelters. Any dog that looks like Cricket gets it." - Kristi Noem

I called both Senators on my way home from the gym. I am strong. I am INVINCIBLE. But I am fucking OLD. Now for Advil and some crocheting and my 9 to 5 news blackout.

Suppose 30% of the fed workers who were just ordered back to the office now need day care. And let's say 50% of child care workers are rounded up and deported. Who's gonna look after the kids? I know! Fired Justice Department attorneys.

California Department of Water Resources Statement.

I figured it out. Mitch McConnell's outie cast that vote, and I'll bet there was a pineapple involved.

Daughter: We're driving to Florida to visit the in-laws. Normal Pennsylvania Mother: Have fun! Be careful! Give them our best! Me: Bring me back some of that White Lily jawn for making biscuits.

It’s fun trying to find that line between “I need to remain vigilant of the horrors afoot” and also “oh no my heart is racing and my jaw is making weird creaky sounds and I can taste pennies.”

It's only Day 1, and already I'm sick and tired of it. Down the slippery slope we go. Bleak and depressing, with no end in sight. As current conditions worsen, it will only get dirtier and more dangerous. The snow. I'm talking about the snow. Maybe.

I heard that Trump and his tech bros are too MANLY to stand outside in the cold for his swearing-in. Probably because they never had to wait for a bus in January wearing a Catholic school uniform and knee socks with the rest of us badass bitches.

Fetterman's money-making machine reached out to me yesterday, as they have most days since I supported him against Lamb and Kenyatta almost three years ago. Looks like I accidentally unsubscribed myself. @fetterman.senate.gov

Making Christmas stollen today. Recipe note says, "I really don't know why anybody would use store-bought candied citrus peel and marzipan when it's so easy to make your own." Oh, honey. I buy the already-shredded rotisserie chicken in a plastic clamshell because rotisserie chicken is too much work.