Born deaf and blind, she's caught in Trump's anti-diversity crusade: A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump admin cut the program's funding over diversity goals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

I just woke up from a dream I was a lawyer practicing dog law. To be clear this was not human laws about dogs, but laws made by dogs. My client was dachshund who's dog bed had been moved by husky.

Cats: We can see the bottom of the food dish.

Netflix kept recommending Last Christmas to me, so I threw it on tonight. This has ... taken a lot of weird and unexpected twists.

Of all the examples of people dying because somebody inexperienced was in charge, the biggest, most horrifying was Elon Musk and DOGE. No idea what AID did, didn’t care, blew it up and at least 600,000 people died unnecessarily as a consequence. Mass murder out of ignorance and bias. Thanks, Elon.

I forgot the Packers played on Saturday again this week, and peeking in at the halftime score, it appears this was the correct decision, even if inadvertent.

I've quietly watched Brynn go through this for the past year. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I'm glad she can share her story now but it's rough. She gave her life to helping people and doing medivac rescues with the California national guard and she's being tossed out line trash because she's trans

I have some ideas of boring legal shit I want to write about, and I'm really missing lexis/westlaw right now.

"Love drug users while we're alive" is as important a point in supporting people who use drugs as it is devastatingly sad. Reminds me of: "For one hundred years now, we’ve been singing war songs about addicts. I think all along we should have been singing love songs to them."

(The annual song of the ADHD girl who already possesses a plethora of different kinds of notebooks and journals)

I think it may finally be gay hockey show time... 🍿

Hey journalists can we make 2026 the year of Not Taking Billionaire Claims As Scientific Predictions The Market, Nay, Western Civilization Itself, Can Rely On Sure In The Knowledge Such Titans Would Never Lead Us Astray

it’s probably because the murder rate is historically low, right guys

Britain: oh crap are we really going to have to do a nuclear war plan against the Americans France: oh yay we get to dust off our nuclear war plans against the Americans

*laughs and then sits down to contemplate her large ass and neurodivergence* 🥃

Not only is this a ridiculous lawsuit that I must publicly make fun of — but I really can't even tell you how much fun a good lawyer could have with Matt Taibbi in discovery. I'm practically salivating. Maybe I'll activate my law license to offer pro bono legal advice to defense counsel. 😂

A short text explaining what is going on with ICE as a resource for kids (like … teens?) to read or for parents to read and had to talk to kids.

This is a very serious opportunity for the farm sanctuary I work for. We take care of the most vulnerable animals that have no other place in this world. Please consider a donation to meet this enormous matching miracle!

I spoke to her attorney yesterday; she is still in the country as far as they know bsky.app/profile/aila...

Love this.

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Merry Christmas and I hope Jólaköttur the Yule cat didn’t visit last night 😆🎄🐈‍⬛ (The Yule cat of Icelandic folklore is supposed to eat people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve)

Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.

I see the Panthers are being invoked. I like to remind people about what the U.S. government and local police forces did to the BPP. This recent book is useful. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

*cracks knuckles*

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” - Ray Goforth

You're like "hey why don't you listen to voters, find out what voters want to vote for?" And Dem leadership is like "NO fuck you, this Thiel-funded thinktank is my friend. That's my emotional support Ezra Klein"

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

There is an orchestrated effort to deceive actually www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Boxing Day

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

"The Black musicians reclaiming the genre with their own shows and festivals hope it will pave the way for a new generation of rockers who feel at home in the hardcore scene." The rockers putting their Blackness at the fore of hardcore and punk:

still one of the funniest redactions I’ve ever seen in the Titan investigation interviews MYSTERIOUS SUBMERSIBLE EXPERT: “well I’m sure you’re familiar with my film Titanic”

Hi, this is a time sensitive query: tomorrow was made a Federal holiday by executive order. I'm trying to figure out if immigration court hearings are in session at 26 Federal Plaza and can't get clear information. Please help.

Japanese cat accounts have also largely coalesced around the hashtag #Blueskyねこ部 (which roughly translates to "Bluesky Cat Club") bsky.app/profile/pac2...

Public Domain Day is Jan. 1. Among the works becoming public domain: The movies Animal Crackers, All is Quiet on the Western Front, and Alfred Hitchcock's Murder! The books The Maltese Falcon, As I Lay Dying and The Murder at the Vicarage. (1/3)

This is the answer to Trump’s litigation threats. Not capitulation. Discovery.

I love this for both of them.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

when u lose a brain cell after a sneeze

biscuit got an executive membership to costco for christmas #Blueskyねこ部

One fun thing about the Japanese is we love the FUCK out of Christmas and have only the loosest concept of what is going on

12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights

Possibly the greatest holiday present we ever received was in early July 2020 when we were gifted a smiley ass street kitten.

The black cat atop the stones at Stonehenge during the Winter Solstice 2025 celebrations, delivering its blessings for the coming year.