Republicans don't want my vote to count, the shitholes.

I don't know, y'all, I would just never choose to play these fucking games with a guy who was so competent and squeaky clean and reasonable that the federal government paid many millions of dollars to train him specifically to go into space. Super bad idea to shamelessly slander astronauts.

Or you could stay, impeach him, and then leave.

Do people get smarter after menopause? I can't be this dumb for the rest of my life 😩

Sunset. 23 Nov 2025

This is really good:

Having spent my teens & 20’s with divorced parents, & having to have two whole meals on T-Giv & XMas, l have made sure my stepchildren know we’ll *never* be annoyed or upset if they’d rather be anywhere else on a holiday. We’ll simply love to see them any day, & any time of the year.

Again - it’s worth communicating locally to people who love their public universities (even if just for sports) the existential threat posed by republicans.

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Hard to miss the prescience of this show right now.

There’s nothing sadder to me on these treasure hunting trips than running into an incredible piece of print history—like this Intertype machine, that seemed pristine beneath its coat of dust—that will probably end up scrapped because pretty much no one can house or maintain it—we certainly can’t

Stevie Wonder releases “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” 60 yrs ago today. At 15, the child star was in danger of being a has-been. His voice was changing. Motown execs “would give assignments to the various producers,” said songwriter Sylvia Moy. “No one wanted Stevie.” The song saved his career.

This is really good:

I’m so furious about this I’m gonna go into the woods & scream for a month.

Four of my favourite works by René Magritte.

I just want trans people the world over to be able to live in peace, and I don't think that should be an unreasonable ask or expectation.

“I was shocked by the dehumanization of Palestinians in this country.” Mahmoud Khalil speaks to @simonerzim.bsky.social about witnessing the Columbia University, Biden, and Trump administrations dehumanize Palestinian existence here in the US. Watch it here: zeteo.com/p/the-moment...

Just casually roaming around our backyard. 19 November 2025, Ann Arbor

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A few weeks ago a very tired-looking lady behind us had 2 things of deli turkey, 1 can of chili, a pack of dinner rolls & 5 bottles of wine. I nodded at her as if to say, “Same, friend. Same.”

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

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Until America grapples with its own deep seated misogyny and racism we will never be ready for a woman president.

JFC, what a shitshow.

If you're the parent of a disabled kid, I just want to tell you I know it's hard and I know you feel like you're failing constantly, but you're doing it and you're doing the best you can and your kid absolutely loves you for it.

At our new place we have turkeys, deer, various critters, & cool bugs. While we love them, chipmunks keep getting into our garage. Husband @blucas24.bsky.social has humanely trapped some darling chipmunks & released them by the river. We now wonder daily if we’ll need to visit the “train station.”

Just turned on a “classic rock” station to clean and the first song was Smells Like Teen Spirit and my god… How did I get so old so quickly?

It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows” Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.

“There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”

Some lovely & peaceful dinosaurs for you from our backyard just now. 16 November 2025, Ann Arbor

I know I bring everything back to my own professional world, but there are just so many parallels here to the elite networks of classical music that protected people like James Levine.

Honest to God, I once said "This book will be on the exam, so you must read it" and a student handed me back a blank blue book that said only "You win"

Why did the nation that used Christianity to justify slavery, ethnic cleansing of indigenous populations, racial segregation, homophobia and preemptive war elect a dumb racist crook who's the opposite of everything Jesus taught? Is that the question?

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

A Wild Turkey takes to the air to head into the woods.

I am honestly a little shocked that I haven't heard more pundits and interview subjects pointing back to the Trump/Miss Teen USA stuff from 2016, in light of all the once-again-increased Epstein scrutiny. I mean, it's right there. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

i know that there is an overwhelming number of things that we have historically taken for granted and now have to pay attention to and care about all of a sudden, but i am begging you to pay attention to and care about this, too.

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

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that thing where talking to smart people makes you smarter — more of that please

why are these guys sending so many fucking emails

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I feel like writing a one act play about this. The drama of it is stunning.

Given the Lavrov news, reupping this post from August. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/04/d...

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Jamie Barton DESTROYS La Zia Principessa! This is a role I WISH I could sing. What a shame this is the only great mezzo role Puccini wrote. youtu.be/9j9cmtrWXCI?...

All Press Secretaries are kinda full of shit — that's their job — but I don't know that anyone has ever fully embodied that fullness as fully as Karoline "Full of Shit" Leavitt

New detox just dropped!