The plan for the evening is pumpkin carving and horror movies.

i think editors should occasionally entertain the idea that bannon is just full of shit www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...

Bonus #ThingThursday: I found this double sided cheapo clock/fake compass at Marshalls that I pulled apart to remove the mechanism so I could put bugs in it.

Mini Ouija board embroidery/beading project. #ThingThursday #Crafts #Art

It’s not lost on me that Cuomo, who has been repeatedly credibly accused of sexual harassment, is using AI-generated examples of gender violence to try and smear his opponent, who has never been accused of it

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

There already was an “I Hate America” rally. It was on January 6th, 2021. The President spoke at it.

Another spooky October project. #ThingThursday #Art #Beading #Embroidery

IRS employees asked to participate in White House-directed political targeting should remember that Jan. 6 foot soldiers were the easiest to prosecute. Do you want to gamble your future on this criminal presidency lasting forever? And yes, Democrats should make this threat of prosecution explicit.

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Spooky season embroidery and beading project that I gifted to my husband because he thought it was cool. 🐦‍⬛🪾🍁#art #beading #embroidery

Latest shadow box. #ThingThursday

To the Daily Beast staffer who put “79” into this headline, know this: We salute you.

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

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i dont want to go back to normal, i want a democratic president to use these newfound powers to completely dismantle the conservative media apparatus responsible for this mess

I’m having a level of anxiety I haven’t experienced since I was with my ex and I realized it’s because I haven’t experience this much gaslighting in the 15 years since. It is deeply disconcerting to be back in this headspace because of our government and media.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

so are democrats really just going to remain silent as republicans target half of the country for retribution over a crime they didnt commit? im being serious, when do democrats call out this bloodthirsty rampage for what it is

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Mainstream institutions, including some of the biggest news outlets, have rushed to sacrifice their journalists and the meaning of words like "debate" to placate the people behind clickbait YouTube videos with titles about woke libs and Karens spitfirenews.com/p/mainstream...

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

It is going to soon become necessary for everyone to post a fairly consistent set of critiques of Charlie Kirk, because they’re trying to come after everyone who does, and the only answer is to make them come after us all. We need to pick standardized language, and then get loud with it.

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The whole thing with Charlie Kirk really does confirm what I’ve long suspected about right wing assholes: They want it to be illegal not to like them. It’s the same reasoning as incels but for everyone’s attitudes towards them, not just women.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Kind of wild that the (unmoderated) debate on X is essentially whether they should outlaw the Democratic party, or whether they should outlaw the Democratic party AND kill a bunch of libs in response to Kirk's assassination, and folks are tsk, tsking Bluesky.

My apologies to the Jehovah’s Witnesses who were frightened away from our house. They already looked very concerned about our Halloween decor, but they persevered and knocked and were greeted with the sound of four dogs body slamming the front door because they fucking love visitors. Sorry.

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

It’s not “encouraging free speech and debate” when your “debate” career consists of you posting selectively edited footage of your “debates” that always frames you as the winner and harasses your opponents in the process and also matches whatever ideological framing gets you the most AdSense dollars

No there were just calls for a race war, the president threatening our lives, bomb threats called into black colleges and the president sending troops to storm black cities in response to Tyler, Charlie and white on white crime:

National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes

Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed. spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...

Mainstream Pundit Class: Charlie Kirk did politics the right way. Charlie Kirk fans: Target historically black universities with credible threats of violence causing them to shut down in retribution for his death at the hands of a white man.

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

Don’t ask people to be nice to MAGA farmers who are finally about to taste real accountability. Those people will continue voting republican no matter what and they think kindness is weakness. Forcing people to play nice with them takes time and energy that could be used more effectively elsewhere.

Why does State Farm in Wimberly, TX have both enough information about me and the inclination to call to wish me a happy birthday? Like I have never been a customer and do not live there. Why put that level of intrusive effort and energy into me?

Right now I am surrounded by a number of precariously placed containers of embroidery supplies and beads. Someone tell me how I am supposed to get any work done with a pitbull who insists on being in my lap or on top of me. She will kick things over to make herself fit. #dogsofbluesky #dogsky #art

All of the words and energy they’ve expended talking up the supposed criminals in DC and the sandwich guy is their big fish. Our tax dollars at work.

I’ve always wanted one of those antique convex glass frames with taxidermy bugs and dried flowers inside, so I made one this week. Not bad for my first attempt. #ThingThursday #Oddities

Men brain poisoned by the rationalist community: men are superior to women because we make decisions using data and evidence and not our emotions Lady economist: I have looked at the data and it says there's little benefit to dating men Men: no, not like that! www.thecut.com/article/cori...

"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her