Annual reminder: The reason it's called Pumpkin Spice (Insert Product Name), is because it's the spices you put on pumpkin, not because it has pumpkin in it.

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com. I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team. Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

Dang. Politically motivated or not, 5 years for Sarkozy is a big deal. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

My heart is heavy that we live in a world where anyone is gunned down, lynched, bombed or otherwise violently removed from existence.

Weary from the state of the world, but I saw 2 girls on their way to middle school pick up a stray kitten by the side of the road, confer over what to do, and then turn and carry him back toward home and that helped me feel better.

Oh, come on. Surely, someone's gotta wanna use that old theater as a theater? www.timesnewspapers.com/webster-kirk...

His name was Trey Reed. Surely, a university campus would Have security cameras that would provide answers, no?

Please excuse my extreme excitement over Noah Wyle. He’s been my doctor for 30 years now, so I feel like this win is for me. #emmys

I’m happy for the people on Adolescence, but, man…that was an uncomfortable watch. #Emmys

As a matter of fact, I’ve died from drugs three times today. Every time I turn around, there I go again. It’s a total pain in the ass.

Somebody, Somewhere is a show about gay and gender nonconforming people living and forming friendships in a small town in Kansas and it is one of the sweetest things you can watch. Well-deserved Jeff Hiller. #Emmys

Random thought: if they did Freaks and Geeks today, it would take place in 2006.

Can this pretty please be the last year that we have to deal with this The Bear is a comedy nonsense? #Emmys

Just finished aka Charlie sheen and I feel like the fanbase over his tiger blood era low key predicted Trump would be president.

Thing is, I’m not impressed that so-and-so used to debate LGBTQ folks and BIPOC. One side has to open a vain and the other side just denigrated them. Not everything should be debated. Some things call for shut up and listen.

Honestly, it sounds like they have some solid life skills.

Believe it or not, when everything hurts and your chest is full of congestion, 90 pounds of Great Dane mix sitting on you is not helpful.

Thorough piece from @missouriindependent.com examining the impact of gerrymandering in one of the state’s neediest areas. missouriindependent.com/2025/09/10/o...

Some good news from New Mexico!

There's a lot to say on the Trump/Epstein birthday card, but the birthday card, I'm struck that the weird comments are typed out. This wasn't someone writing on the fly and maybe stating things an odd way. This is clearly planned out and coded. And it's not even coded very well.

If you are in Missouri, you have until 11:59 p.m. tonight (Thursday, September 4, to submit testimony opposing the proposed redistricting of our state. If you want to be involved in blocking this legislation, this is the most crucial action you can take. mailchi.mp/movpc/public...

A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.

St. Louis: do yourself a favor and go see STL Shakespeare Festival’s tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Fantastic production while being approachable for all audiences. stlshakes.org/production/m...

My god, Elizabeth Gilbert is an insufferable twat. “You’re dying, but how dare you make it about you. Here’s some fentanyl.”

Taylor Swift is engaged, and I don't fully understand why, but I bet some people are going to get mad about it.

21 years of living in Missouri, and I made a fatal error: sat on grass with nothing underneath me. Chiggers. Don’t do this. Ever.

Do Elliott Davis and other folks complaining about the Central West End grasp that St. Louis has other neighborhoods? Lafayette Square is hopping. The Grove, Benton Park, Tower Grove, Dogtown, The Hill all have lots going on.

Oh, be realistic. He would never kneel down. No way could he get himself back up.

If there’s a hell, I hope James Dobson spends eternity being hunted by the spirits of all the gay kids who have been bullied to death.

I’ve survived cancer so far due to one thing: research. I’ll be swimming one mile this Saturday at Innsbrook, Mo, to support research at Siteman Cancer Center thru Swim Across America. Toss a few $$ my way to help me keep swimming. www.swimacrossamerica.org/site/TR/Open...

RIP Christina Hayes. This is horrible to read, but I’m heartened that Kym Worthy seems to be taking crimes against trans women of color seriously. www.pressandguide.com/2025/08/18/t...

If you got alarmed about frankenbunnies with the rabbit papilloma thing this week, don’t worry. It’s basically harmless. Ugly, but harmless. www.kunc.org/news/2025-08...

Israel is committing genocide.

How does Dean Cain earn enough to owe this much in taxes?

You want some harmless excitement? Open up Peacock. Go to the replay of Day 7 finals of the World Aquatics Swimming Championships. The women’s 800 free final. Katie Ledecky and Summer McIntosh. Best race I’ve seen in years. Won’t spoil it. Just trust me.

1 repost = 1 minute on the recumbent bike WITH MY NEW AFO brace gofund.me/f9859db6

I hiked the trails at Devil's Den State Park many times while living in Northwest Arkansas. This horrific violence is senseless anywhere, but it especially hits home in such a beautiful place. www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/ju...

For the sake of Virginia Giuffre's memory and bravery, do not pardon Ghislaine Maxwell.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has never shown anything resembling human compassion so I’m going to assume she’s working some kind of angle here.

I’m really not getting why there is a lane zero at the World Aquatics swimming championships. Why do they not just make that lane 1 and bump the other lane numbers over accordingly?

Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim.

If during all this Jaws 50th anniversary brouhaha you get the chance to see it on a big screen, definitely do it. The sound quality alone makes it so much scarier.

So if you went to these elite schools and had left wing professors but you became a shitty right wing nazi, that means that … those professors didn’t dictate your views at all.

This is so sad…

Making my way through Anthony Edwards’ final ER episodes like …

Thank you, Rumeysa Ozturk for writing your experience in an ICE prison and thank you Vanity Fair for publishing it. This is pure cruelty. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

How is there transit in Rhode Island when you can cartwheel from one end of the state to the other?

Breonna Taylor deserves so much better.

This reminds me of when I wrote about a resident who had a recording of a county official calling her a crazy b!tch on her answering machine, and the guy blamed it on a telephone malfunction.