a really great time to try to make sense of whatever covid isolation guidelines beyond vibes remain is when you’re sick with a virus that wears away at your available cognitive function

in 2008, Stephen Elliott told me to stop pitching because he only ever wrote full pieces on spec and just had “[his] friend Dave [Eggers] give it a look” before submitting, unsolicited, to editors

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Protesters rally outside of CBD hotel where they believe federal immigration agents are staying Activists rushed to plan the demonstration after a video circulated on social media showing Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino leaving what looks like the JW Marriott New Orleans hotel.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)

not even a pro, just a nosy and curious writer, but one of the wildest set of papers I got to work with for my new book were rescued from the back of metal file cabinet that CPUSA had banked on people forgetting about, xeroxed by one feminist historian, then later photographed after much conflict

maybe they hired that clown because they knew people would get caught up in arguing about how well the clown clowned us

yelling down the phone wading out into the ocean is about how the news industry is going tonight refractionsfilm.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/t...

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

This is a core film for nerdy women, it's about heroically looking up facts

these absolute losers decided their lives were over in 2020, and when they started winding back the clock they blew past 1866 and kept going

I read "heritage American" as a way to give White people claim to a title in a sort of monarchy of meritocracy. And I see the ambiguity as strategic--so lots of White people can claim, "my ancestors did something important™ for my country, so i deserve money/status/power more than others here."

Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

“At the tone, you can leave a message to request anything you might need. We’ll do our best to provide it.”

Being sick, I’ve probably posted more than I really ought to, being on whatever era of internet we are currently on, more than 30 years after I first built a website. I know from experience I can’t be a real person on the internet anymore. And yet—

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

welcome to everyone who understands “did feminism fail women” “debate” is a bad faith waste of time, see also the “is sex work exploitative or empowering” “debate”

not the worst sick situation (past me thought ahead to order xmas cookies and nice tea)

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is this place worse this week or am I just sick

why would you lecture a stranger who is lightly complaining about paxlovid how you’ve never had that problem because you never got covid

In our latest, we look back at 2025, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies. It’s Covid Year Six. www.patreon.com/posts/145947...

Plenty of people saw “it” coming in 2015; how many of them saw how the decades preceding led us to “it”?

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

In @newrepublic.com, I try to take a substantive look at the issue of local prosecutors bringing charges against federal immigration agents, partly via Zephyr Teachout, who started talking about it almost eight years ago. Also chatted with CO AG candidate David Seligman, who's taken up the mantle

"More and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic and spontaneous—and some of it is—it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure..."

Worth reading this very carefully—not to spread panic, but to understand how civil rights are being threatened in specific ways by the use of new “indicators,” and of course all coming from an agency now run by conspiracy theorists

sick person thoughts but go with me: maybe feminism “failed” like the united states has failed… consistently fails to live up to its stated values, contains the seed of its own failures

calling for the ban all travel from Europe because of a single murderous Voyager who crossed the Atlantic from Portugal is poetry

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

he's re-running birtherism on the powerless

It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect

second time around with paxlovid and the lingering “mouth full of old pennies” aftertaste isn’t so bad when chased with sour haribo bears

My latest, with @juliametraux.bsky.social, on the Trump admin's continued offensive against transgender Americans, their doctors, and the people who love them:

Dave? Dave Brooks? The intern-marrier?

What bothers me more than anything about this is that many of the same people who correctly go, "This guy's a crank!" when he's talking about Tylenol causing autism or anti-vax stuff will sit there nodding along like, "Hey, if HHS said this, it must be legit!" when it involves trans care.

Three D's defected to vote for this disgusting bill. If they hadn't, it wouldn't have moved forward. *Don't come into my mentions to "explain" to me that "this will fail in the Senate." Spend that time calling your reps, donating to causes, and doing literally anything for trans folks.

Another disaster. This one has actual harmful consequences for trans kids and their families.

“…Rep. Sarah McBride has been a big and often stubborn advocate for the big tent theory. And yesterday, just after she stood on the steps of the Capitol poured her heart out with a very powerful and personal speech about her own experience as a trans person, that big tent collapsed in on her.”

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

New analysis shows at least 3,800 children and infants have been booked into ICE detention since Trump took office. At least 1,300 were detained 20 days or more, the court limit for how long children with families can be held: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

None of these laws passed a single state legislature until five years ago, and now:

This is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill. Today she claimed, "For far too long, children have been sexually exploited under the malicious falsehood of so-called gender-affirming care."

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

oh i forgot to say it passed and my understanding is 3 democrats also voted for it. this is mtg's felony one.

NEW: Louisiana and lawyer Erin Hawley of ADF just asked a federal judge to IMMEDIATELY end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while their lawsuit against the FDA proceeds. They cite Fifth Circuit opinion and the Comstock Act of 1873 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Maybe Russ Vought et al know what they are doing will jeopardize human survival on this planet and they are fine with that

the way my mood lifted on hold at the third pharmacy today trying to fill a paxlovid Rx when this was the hold music