We are days away from the appearance of a framed Calvin-peeing-on-a-picture-of-Biden on some White House wall.

Me, next Wednesday for eleven days.

feels stupid to say at this point but how the fuck isn't anyone invoking the 25th amendment.

Become ungovernable

Declaring war on Venezuela wasn’t on MY bingo card, but then neither was any of this shitshow.

I know this is a bold stance in America, but I simply do not believe we should be declaring war on another country for “stealing our oil” when the oil is, in fact, under the ground of that other country

Timeline cleanse (wish me luck, @logicallyjc.bsky.social)!

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) on GOPers letting ACA tax credits expire: "We live in the richest country in the history of the world. We have a trillionaire.... And yet we're being told millions of people need to lose their health care because we can't afford it? That's obscene."

Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.

This entire weekend

Sounds about right.

We light an electric menorah every Hanukkah in solidarity with our Jewish friends. This year it’s in the dining room bay window that you can see from the street, since we have a seven-month-old puppy. Hanukkah Sameach to those who celebrate.

Snoqualmie Falls, about 35 miles east of Seattle. A normal day on the left, and now with the torrential rainfall we’ve been having.

Breaking: Indiana State Senate rejects 9-0 Republican gerrymandered congressional map, stands up to Trump’s pressure campaign of threats and intimidation. Huge victory for democracy & defeat for Trump in gerrymandering war he started

Wut

No one in, brown people out. Got it. Seriously, friends in other countries - I can’t think of a single reason that any of you would even consider trying to visit here anymore. God knows I want the fuck out.

Just use Comic Sans. It’s more fitting for this joke of an administration.

Looks like it'll be a fun week out here.

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."

I went to see how the lighted outdoor trees looked in the dark, and Amélie wanted to know what I was doing.

Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire. The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich. We should tax trillionaires out of existence.

This is so racist it needs a new category of racism to describe it but it's also stupid and pointless. You simply cannot purge the celebration of Black people and their accomplishments from this country in favor of celebrations of a dying pedophile. It's literally not a thing he's capable of doing.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives

I’m taking this to heart this year.

Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.

The last of the Thanksgiving turkey is becoming Turkey Tetrazzini (with spinach instead of mushrooms) and listening to George Winston and Vince Guaraldi while counting down the days until we head to the Washington coast for a late-December retreat overlooking the ocean with a fireplace and a dog.

Amélie was spayed twelve days ago. Tonight, the Cone of Shame came off. I’m so glad to be able to see her entire beautiful head again.

Before you ask, yes apparently this is real. He must be taking comedy lessons and substances from Elon.

Mike Johnson and Trump are holding a Tele-rally for Van Epps. They are doing everything that they can so that Aftyn Behn loses her run for Congress! THEY'RE SCARED My post alone isn't going to do anything, but you sharing this post, or creating your own — WILL! LET'S DO IT @aftynbehn.bsky.social

Transitioning into Christmas decor.

He is risen

My company has a half-day holiday the day before Thanksgiving - I ended up leaving at 11:30 after seven hours, but was still home by noon and have a four and a half day holiday. Two Thanksgiving dinners coming up - one at a neighbor’s, one at our house. Let the cooking begin.

This is lovely.

Passing off every BSA alumni and all their parents seems like really bad politics!

Truer words were never spoken.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

PSA (unrelated to *all this*) Take that turkey out the freezer babes.

This holiday season, on Lifetime, it’s A Christmas Crush.

Amélie is not happy that instead of a SPA day, she had a spay day yesterday. Everything went well and she is nowhere near as miserable as she looks here, but it’s going to be a long week or so.

A very large portion of our friends and neighbors think this is Presidential. He’s a fucking disgrace.

The metaphors, they write themselves.

You KNOW you needed this. I did.

Or daylights. Or sunsets. Or midnights or cups of coffee. 🎼

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.