If Bill Clinton's implicated, I'll simply have to burn my Bill Clinton shrine with all my Bill Clinton baseball caps and my Bill Clinton Bibles and my Bill Clinton t-shirts and my Bill Clinton playing cards and my Bill Clinton gold-plated coins and my Bill Clinton flags and my Bill Clinton shoes.

“Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.”

“It just takes this species a while. We delay. We deny. We look away. But eventually, the truth gets loud enough. And like I always say, reality is a brick wall. It doesn’t bend, doesn’t negotiate. It shows up. If you’re sick, hold on. The tide is turning.” www.notesforfriends.com/p/long-covid...

no northern lights tonight, either, but the night is still beautiful

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

Grijalva, who won a special election to replace Rep. Raúl Grijalva, her late father, is the first Latina – and “first Chicana,” as she said — to represent the state of Arizona in Congress. Though she is the first, she said she won’t be the last. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

The management of this Home Depot came out with loudspeakers denouncing my pastor and the other assembled clergy members and concerned citizens as "not Godly people" and "not real Christians" which is a heck of an official policy statement to hear from a representative of the Home Depot corporation.

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad. Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

Today @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social was placed on administrative leave from her position at the NIDDK, NIH. We are extremely concerned and horrified at the actions of this adminstration and the NIH. Dr. Norton has been speaking out in her personal capacity about destruction occurring at the NIH. 🧵🧵🧵

extremely here for the Jacob-Elordi-hornily-licking-wallpaper stuff in the Wuthering Heights trailer

The New York Times **HAD EMAILS IN ITS POSSESSION** tying Donald Trump directly to Jeffrey Epstein's global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy –– in the middle of a 2016 election where a global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy was a HUGE topic –– and they didn't publish one word it for a decade.

Once you earn a goth girl’s trust, you may feed her Mike & Ikes straight from your hand

I hate to be a broken record, but this is exactly what happened with Gaza. Palestine was the trial run for institutional capitulation. Some faculty self-censored, some spoke out, some lost their jobs. Universities showed they were willing to crack down on speech, and they're primed to do it again.

Wow and this was EXACTLY what she said in response

Isaac Chotiner Larry Summers interview when

Every fall we put together a list of 40 emerging acts keeping us excited about music discovery. Stereogum Best New Artist alumni include Tame Impala (2010), Frank Ocean (2011), Charli XCX (2012), and many others we still follow closely. Check out the Class Of 2025: stereogum.com/2476155/the-...

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy (and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

Chicago! You can now pick up tickets to the world premiere of a new adaptation of The Left Hand of Darkness, presented with puppets:

For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology. I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer

"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong." Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now. I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding. www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

yeah it's a good thing Landon didn't publish any of this shit. the Times might have had to bump an article about trans people. bsky.app/profile/arid...

Sabrina is ON the spider beat 🧪🕷️ 1: Biggest web found! Cave with more than 100,000 spiders in some sort of co-op housing, 2 species, one of which normally eats the other. But not in the dark cave. 2. The wee spiders using prey to make giant fake spider puppets to scare off predators. So metal.

Disney has an iron policy: never pay royalties to artists if they can avoid it, legally or not. As witness the LucasFilm/Fox novelists' lawsuit of a couple of years ago: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/star-wars-author-royalties-disney-1234951422/

You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

Thinking about the only good leaked email (Channing Tatum from the Sony leak)

Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

I stopped by the North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC's podcast The Broadside to talk about the climate of Black farmers, the ongoing challenges they face with the USDA, and how despite those obstacles, many Black farmers are supporting the next generation. Take a listen: www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...

I think the folks who encounter Zac Segal and the BU College Republicans have a right to know what kind of people they are and respond accordingly.

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Hey neat, his name and face are very clear to put up on posters around Allston and Brighton

It's another layer of national degradation and moral decline to see the political media treat child rape like just another horserace issue.

19 Democrats voted to confirm Brooke Rollins

Restored and remastered properly for the first time, Sister Irene O'Connor’s prescient 1973 psych-pop milestone is an all timer - tape saturated Christian hymns backed by hypnotic synth vamps and a tinny drum machine New from Freedom To Spend, who else boomkat.com/products/fir...

Detransition is being used as political fodder by the Trump admin and its allies to support extreme anti-trans policies. In the process, the reality of detransition is lost. For our new series, I spoke with detransitioners who feel harmed by the Trump admin. Their stories are complex and important.

Plenty of things to give Bluesky a kicking about regarding moderation and 'open' labellers, but the private school labeller now having an 'Epstein Connection' label also shows it can be extremely lmao.

Stay for the alt text.

Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group www.404media.co/google-has-c...

The Walnut of Benevento (Sabbath of Witches), 1822-1826 by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti

The strike is not about whether or not you approve of Starbucks coffee. It's about the workers, who like all workers deserve equitable treatment and fair pay. That is the issue. Why bring up your personal feelings about the coffee? Nobody in this conversation cares. Start another thread about it.

Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai was a Japanese storytelling game popular during the Edo period. These gatherings were held on summer nights and to begin 100 candles or lamps were lit. Participants then took turns to tell 100 ghost stories (kaidan). After each story, a candle was... #MythologyMonday 1/3

The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know." Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."

If you want to know how much this is about protecting women and children and how much of it is about surveillance and removing bodily autonomy from people then remember this is the party who are totally down with friend of Jeffery Epstein Peter Mandelson.

Speaking as a government worker: The paper that our whole professional class reads doesn’t know that it is not normal to end whole agencies lawlessly, shred the Constitution based on laughable legal justification, and kill cancer and Alzheimer’s research??? Either we have failed or they have.

With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...