“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

I've done a lot about Google Search and I honestly could do more about TPUs, but there's not a ton out there about the buildout. That being said my Signal is ezitron.76 if you work at Google, especially in Google Cloud or Capex 😀 I have so many questions 😀 please tell me stuff 😀

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Resharing Samaa's fundraiser as her accounts on the app keep getting deleted... please keep helping her and her family as much as you can 💕💸🍉

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

I just made my calls to Schumer and Gillibrand. PLEASE call your senators and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding. #DidThisToday Find your senators here: reps.fyi

I told Schumer and Gillibrand that a "promise" of a vote on ACA funding from Rs is worth NOTHING. You cannot trust them on ANYTHING. No deal without funding the ACA. If they cut this deal and ACA funding is cut, they will be responsible for the deaths of people who can no longer afford insurance.

WTAF @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Do NOT vote yes today. You’d be betraying so many Arizonans who trust you.

US-based folks, here is something you can do today to help the resistance: 1/3

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

You can support the family here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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Food banks are going to need even more help than usual when 41.7 million Americans lose SNAP on Nov 1 because of the Republican shutdown of the US government. If you can help in any amount, please do. You can find a nearby food bank using www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

NEVER FORGET: In July 2025, the GOP passed the BBB with $75B in additional, multi-year funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). BUT the GOP Congress will NOT negotiate to EXTEND ACA Subsidies for 20M+ Americans for $32B. #GOPPriorities

If you don’t remember the flour massacre this is a story about it- Anwar’s husband was killed while waiting on aid www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

If you're in the Bay and feeling paralyzed in the face of the oncoming ICE raids, here's a link to a stellar mobilization webinar that ran yesterday. It's incredibly grounding, practical & tactical, and will give you the guidance and resources to do what you can, where you can.

It's a good time to reup this thread. Our neighbors are going to be in greater need than ever very soon, if they aren't already, in which case they'll be in even greater-greater need. If you're in a position to donate stuff, some thoughts on best practices for donations:

And if you donate, please donate money (if you can) - food banks get a LOT more bang for your buck. As my friend the ED of a food pantry says: Every $1 you give can provide as many as 3 meals.

And donate/volunteer at food banks now.

In the event of an encounter with immigration agents in the East Bay, make sure you and your family know your rights. (1/2)

Each county in the Bay Area has its own hotline for reporting and verifying ICE activity. In Alameda County, it's ACILEP at (510) 241-4011, in San Francisco, it's Rapid Response at 415-200-1548. For other counties see immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-r...

Please, please donate to all the food banks in your area, as much as you can. Money helps them the most tbh, but if all else fails, canned and dry goods that are not expired can help, too.

If you plan on going to any protests, please, please, PLEASE implement some personal digital security protocols beforehand and encourage others to do the same. I recommend these checklists (next few posts in thread):

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

If you plan on going to any protests, please, please, PLEASE implement some personal digital security protocols beforehand and encourage others to do the same. I recommend these checklists (next few posts in thread):

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story. "The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists. I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Election ballots mailed on Nov. 4 may not be counted, state officials warn

Activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla say the Israeli navy has begun intercepting their vessels as they approach the Palestinian territory.

let the gourd times roll

I have raised £277. I am so thankful. I have found a return flight for £1209! When/if I raise £500, I will go ahead and by this ticket and pray to make up the difference. I so appreciate you all.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Republicans, Trump included, are zeroing in on transgender people and blaming us for the looming government shutdown. They are demanding that Democrats cave on transgender rights. Many of them are copying the same talking points in their messages.

"edgelord" is such a great coinage, because it sounds as if it's about to describe something really stupid and then it does

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

USE YOUR FUCKING TURN SIGNALS AND NOT 500FT BEFORE, NOR 1 FOOT BEFORE! FFS IT'S 100FT AND BEFORE YOU BRAKE OR 5 SECONDS BEFORE YOU SWITCH LANES AND MY GODS LEARN HOW TO FUCKING MERGE!!

Over 500 of y'all have followed @chrisrabb.com since he posted this video. Can we put him over 1000 followers tonight? Dude's the kind of Democrat we've all been saying we want. Give him a follow and support him in this primary, friends!

fucking awful. The kind of talent that alternative comics and only alternative comics could give a voice to. We're poorer for his loss.

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