That lack of a national childcare program, meanwhile, is why immigrant women now play such a big role in the US childcare industry. Because, without substantial public investment, childcare can't be both affordable and decently compensated. So, that underpaid work falls to those most vulnerable. 8/

We don't have a government. We have a bunch of guys who heard things on social media. We don't have due process. We have entire groups being punished for the alleged actions of a few.

Using the phrase "culture of immediate gratification" to describe the concept of not waiting a week to report on the president's public claim to have bombed another nation

I just took a two hour nap. I feel amazing.

ok, enough reading about the horriblenss of the world. back to my books, soft pants, and party mix. 🎉

the elderly puppy is snoring while lying in the sun right now and it's my very favorite sound.

People who sympathize with Palestine over Israel voted for Harris by a 25 point margin People who sympathize with Israel over Palestine voted for Trump by a 48 point margin. The competition is fierce but I think "Thanks, Dearborn" has to be the dumbest Dem scapegoating line in modern history

This is fucking trash.

Here's Trump giving more credence to the fear that Israel plans to remove Palestinians from Gaza and ship them to Somaliland, a self-declared country in the Horn of Africa that no UN member state recognizes – except for Israel.

This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.

!!!!!!!!!

it was 66 degrees at midnight, it is now 37 (with a feels like of 18) and still dropping.

So...um... you named your company after a character who pretty famously missed two people sneaking into his home despite having an extensive security system. A system which included 24/7 monitoring and active military personnel.

it's just not possible.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

if you want to get shit done, rather than a “strong man”, instead of autocracy, have you considered a democratically elected unicameral legislature which directly appoints and can remove the executive?

I'm convinced there's a very effective coven operating in Brazil and I want them to come here and do me a favor

it was a rough year, in many ways, for me physically. I was horribly ill when it started, I think I lost 20 pounds within something like 2 weeks thanks to a bum gallbladder. once that was all over I lost nearly all the hearing in my good ear during a viral illness.

“There’s a responsible way to use AI” “There’s a responsible way to pay more for electricity, poison Black people, and encourage teens to kill themselves”

I am very deep in the middle of a mid-period Kinks phase and I can't stop.

Trump’s Christmas Day attacks on Nigeria a complete failure and cost nearly $30 million. Witnesses report the US struck fields and farmland in areas with no history of terrorist activity or presence. On top of that multiple US missiles failed to detonate & sunk into the dirt.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

In the span of a single quarter last year the dnc raised over a billion dollars… in a single year they don’t have a single thing to Show for it

Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

The wildest thing to me is that multiple Black people had to die in a manner akin to public spectacles for 2020 to happen and the backlash is being fueled by white guys who can’t sell a screenplay or manuscript.

it is now the time in between.

This is what they’re comfortable doing on camera, not enough people internalizing that part.

nearly every time I watch an older movie for the first time I check the seattle times archives to see if my uncle john reviewed it and what he thought about it. sure enough, we agree on die hard.

the long prophesied Final Discourse

saw a massive meteor while out walking the dog just now. what a magical, magical sight.

had a long & elaborate dream about scott last night. he didn't die, instead he'd been in prison for the last 22 years?! he looked the same as he did when I last saw him and was very eager to tour japan again. I got started working on the karp rider and talking to promoters right before I woke up.

today I have made a pear tart, scallion pancakes (lunch), and chocolate chip cookies. all gf, as I have to be. it's now naptime.

I would lose my mind dancing to this version of his song in my room when I was 8: youtu.be/nNOfFaTokUQ?...

I have an announcement to make: I finally watched Die Hard.

As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

jesus christ, it's like he's onstage at the last waltz or something

Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

WHAT IS CAUSING THE RISING DEMAND, CNN

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

my dad got him this cookie jar YEARS ago. one cannot even hum anything close to this song without chaos ensuing in our house.

Anything Democrats do beyond this point to hold back on a full-scale push for invalidating and prosecuting this rogue criminal government is simply a signal of support for every single horrible thing it does 67% of voters specifically disapproving of an *Attorney General* is beyond unprecedented

I have eaten only cookies and party mix so far today.

I baked the dog some xmas cookies too

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? I feel pretty, pretty good about my chances

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.