What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.

Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the execution of a Nazi commander who sunk a civilian steamer and then killed the survivors

A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed. It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it. ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.

Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.

It's here! One of the best book lists of the year. The way I ordered this book so fast!

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Basically my internal monologue

DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position. washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/former-... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before #GivingTuesday, which mostly just benefits big nonprofits, perhaps throw a few bucks to my small but mighty project funding local sex education champions and candidates around the country? Imagine a world where every one of us gets the sex ed we deserve. Now fund that world into being.

spencersunshine.com #antifa #sexcadre #40waystofightfascists #spencersunshine #queer

Your annual reminder.

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

Well-placed in my timeline

your grocery bills are through the roof and all he cares about is his stupid ballroom that’s the crux of it

I’m sorry, political slogans/rhetoric/etc isn’t hard. Tell people who to blame. That’s it. “We will punish the guilty and make your life better” Fin.

im of the opinion that any narrative right now needs to have a villain and address the rank inequality and corruption going on. doesn't feel like utopian vision time

Anyone using this slogan, I will commit to kicking in the shins until they stop.

"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.

If you are looking for a small business to support this Saturday, Veselka is having a sale: 20% off orders of $100+, 30% off orders of $200+, free shipping. You can send delicious treats to people in your life who don’t need more stuff in their house, support a local business, and support Ukraine.

In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children. This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.

“Long before Hoover denounced King as a liar, the NYPD issued a surveillance report on the civil rights leader’s visit to Harlem in 1958, with other memos to follow in the early 1960s. Rank-and-file organizers supporting King received unwanted attention as well.“

Due to outdated privacy laws, the Trump administration can easily turn powerful surveillance tools against anyone and everyone, with scant safeguards. Now, ICE says that it plans to make this risk a reality for the swath of Americans who oppose the president’s agenda. bit.ly/3Kq348R

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

If you only read one piece memorializing Alice Wong, it should be this one.

I can't scream loudly enough that the people leading HHS right now are liars. RFK Jr. Marty Makary. Vinay Prasad. They are liars. And the lies they are telling are the lies eugenicists like themselves tell.

I cooked professionally for a decade, so I was an all-scratch guy for the longest time. I'd feel ashamed to do anything less. But holidays were a ball of stress, constantly trying to one-up myself, & they started to feel like drudgery rather than celebration. You don't have to do that to yourself.

The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

My tiny little business is having its Black Friday sale NOW 🙌 $37 OFF PRINTS canieatthisforaging.com/print-shop

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

Happy Chompsgiving!

The only place to get my art these days, plus many other cool artists!

Hi everybody, It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships. Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post. This is, somehow, feasible. So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.

Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments. I couldn’t possibly love this any more.

The ethnic cleansing program of the U.S. government exists outside of, and is not restrained by, any kind of law

EFF obtained datasets representing more than 12 million searches logged by more than 3,900 agencies between 2024 and 2025. The data shows that agencies logged hundreds of searches related to the 50501, Hands Off, and No Kings protests, among other protests in between. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

this week's post is about why all of us dream of throwing our phones into the abyss. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/you-loneli...

Every year, I roundup the best Black Friday menswear sales. This year, I've broken the list into two parts because there are so many deals. Today, there are sales on tailored tweed topcoats, the best hoodie, Blundstones, and Uniqlo's HEATTECH (cheap way to keep warm) dieworkwear.com/2025/11/28/s...

Each sentence is cooler than the last, fair play

This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever

This is really good (unsurprisingly, since it's written by Rebecca)

The only antidote - and I do mean the ONLY one - to Trump and Miller's xenophobia is a full-throated defense of immigration and a full-throated attack on the racism and xenophobia currently guiding immigration policy. You can't half-ass this one, you can't Very Reasonable Limits this one.

Again, as with all the other federal budget cuts that are incinerating 20-25% of the funding & the entire budget model of every R1 university in 🇺🇸, this is a five-alarm emergency that requires immediate, loud, collective condemnation by our university presidents. Total 🦗 as it’s all being gutted.

What's the best thing you bought this year for under $100?

Revolutionary idea. This is the sh*t. "Sabeti [Cambridge, MA, U.S.] and Happi [Lagos, Nigeria] considered an inspiring possibility: What if the active monitoring of viruses could happen on the ground in Africa by Africans?"

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)

Don't ask me how my current New Thing is going but here's my most recent and you can go to lifeisasacredtext.com to get my ongoing stuff