Christmas crafts!

Had a friend from college stay with me for a week while she looked at houses in my area. It was a week of absolute childhood sleepover vibes and was a balm for my soul.

Guys it finally happened. Three times this week my husband has needed a specific cable for a project and all three times he was able to find it in the millennial cable hoard we’ve built up in a box over the past 20 years. I’ve never felt so vindicated.

It’s been a little while since I’ve done a #ThingThursday so here’s what I’ve been working on. I took a broken Polly Pocket and turned it into a Polly Yaga Hut! It was a really fun project. Special thanks to my husband for letting me use his miniature paints and for resin printing the legs for me.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme. It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

I am so tired of watching Democrats punch themselves in the dick and then frame it to us as some kind of win.

Oh my God you guys Pluribus is so good.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

I watched Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear warfare movie last night and I feel like all the troll the libs types should be forced to watch it and think about what it means that Trump and Pete Hegseth are in charge of this stuff

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

I thought the large leaping spider would get me the best screams from trick or treaters, (and tbf it was highly effective) but it was actually the cheapo battery powered cockroaches I had running around my driveway that really did it. Solid #Halloween crowd tonight.

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it. Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

I live 100ft away from a retired House rep in his 80s who I see at least monthly at our neighborhood social; he has said to me almost verbatim what Duncan said here. Older members are terrified of walking away from the 20-person 24/7 support network you can't even get in a high end nursing home.

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