I thought I was being sooooo smart locking Sammy & Storm in a bedroom while I baked cookies, but I stepped away from the kitchen for <1m and came back to find Miss Odette's face buried in my cookie batter. She is 15yo with severe arthritis; I'm surprised she made it on the kitchen counter!

Important. There has not been a deescalation.

Four. Years.

Brad Lander has been one of a very few elected reps acting up to the task of what's needed over the last year. He got arrested protecting New Yorkers. Now he's in Minneapolis. Why aren't more Democrats doing patrols in Minneapolis? Or in their home towns?

Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.

The Publishing for Minnesota auction launches this week to support groups providing legal aid, emergency assistance, food, and community resources to those in urgent need. www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Increasing park and library funding was the #1 way New Yorkers voted to improve NYC in the latest New York Times poll. - www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/a... - cc @council.nyc.gov and @mayor.nyc.gov

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

But I can see you Your bronze helm shining in the sun And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong After the boys of Sumer have gone

Get mad, people. Push back.

My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find. Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌

AAAAARGH!!!!!

"At this flipping of the calendar, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite stories that gave us hope in 2025—stories of creative defiance, courageous solidarity, and radical testimony to a way of living that transcends this ol’ mess." sojo.net/articles/new...

I've been using Isa Chandra Moskowitz' recipe for years! (Not necessarily the mash, tho it is also tasty). www.theppk.com/2011/12/hott...

You can pre-order my dad’s 1948 book! It’s back in print and coming out next month: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2616-n...

In honor of Tatiana Schlossberg, the next thing on my reading list is her 2019 book, "Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have." Here's a book review by environmentalist Bill McKibben, shared with a gift 🎁 link. www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/b...

Attorneys General in 20 blue states are challenging the Trump administration's attempts to unilaterally end gender affirming care for youth through executive decree. That and two other court cases show that the fight for trans rights is just getting started.

The Black Zine Fair needs funds to happen. We pay workshop facilitators, it costs us thousands to rent tables and chairs, we feed exhibitors & volunteers & more. Please help us to raise the funds needed: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

repost if you’ve had your coffee now and you

For my last post of 2025, here's a look at a network of websites and social media accounts hawking #resistance- themed garments, frequently with slogans regarding U.S. National Parks. As it turns out, the websites in question are likely operated from China. www.conspirator0.com/p/how-not-to...

2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year bookriot.com/book-censors...

Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more. Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights. bookriot.com/trends-in-co...

Christmas Eve Eve

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

I'm taken aback by the realization that I can just have stuffing anytime I want? As a little treat??

New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk. For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn

NAE KINGS, NAE MASTERS! You want to keep your liberty? Guard it like a favorite stick. You let one fool call himself ‘Master of Treats,’ and next thing you know, he’s telling you when to sit and when to beg. Democracy’s a chew toy. If you don’t protect it, someone else will drool all over it.

Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5

Jesus said something like do good things and STFU. I'm sharing despite this in hopes others follow my example. I have a mechanics shop. Sat empty 6 days a week. I now have a trans support group using it 2 days a week. Why? I have a trans child. I know what the Nazis did. Someone asked.

newly in the market for best big batch meal prep options for dried beans. please my family is hungry

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

Stephen Miller to Vanity Fair photographer: “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... @shaneisland.bsky.social

Give this pup a home, NY.

There is a growing problem of big name natural-science journals publishing social science that is "problematic". This reflects a inability to accept the statistical standards and skills in social science are often much much higher than in many areas of the natural sciences. (I'm a chemist btw).

Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike. The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S. It wasn't carrying fentanyl. The survivors didn't "radio for backup." This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.

Conspiracy isn't science, and putting valuable resources into this wild goose chase instead of things like Safe Sleep, or cancer research, or VA hospitals screams waste, fraud, and abuse. You already know how we feel about this #ImpeachRFKJr standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

Look who’s the Chicagoan of the Year in Books: bit.ly/48I0eFL

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

Been lighting this one since I was a kid!

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Alerta: Urgent blood donation need for Brown University! If you live in the following states, please consider donating to save lives 🖤 💕💸

WhAt’S tHe PoInT oF aRtIClEs??? Filing the articles is step one. *YOU* endorsing them, so we can show Congress that America wants him gone, is step two! Head to: Standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr SIGN. SHARE. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. @standupforscience.bsky.social

plz repost Kelly's post below!

Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!

If you are looking for a way to help out, libraries are community centers, resource hubs, among other things; they do so much on many fronts. Getting involved with your local Library & helping it is one of the best things you can do. Great post on this topic: organizingmythoughts.org/you-cant-fig...

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵