What about a cake made out of turpentine?

The Trump administration has announced it is targeting major LGBTQ+ healthcare centers, threatening to shut them down unless they stop providing trans youth care. It appears to violate, at least in spirit, a court order in Oregon stopping them from doing this. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"immunity debt" is a dumb idea! www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Swisher Sweets are fine, sure, but I’m more into Swisher Savories

New York should never let them sleep again

Yeah it is funny to see a bunch of people say there was a ceasefire on Oct 6th 2023 when a 21st century record number of Palestinians had already been killed by the army and the settlers in the oPt from January 1st 2023 to that day.

hopefully this will make things better for eating al fresco in NYC gothamist.com/news/nyc-cou...

i just want to cry. i have literally just spent the last 6 hours responding to email after email of people begging for rent money or for me to point them in the direction of help, which does not exist. please @governorwalz.mn.gov. we need an eviction moratorium. there is no other solution.

"it's in the past, it's in the bracken, did something happen?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaY5...

It’s a great day to wear a respirator in America

lizard mole spring mountain hair down etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFjA...

For my latest piece, I spent the weekend writing about sports' response to the killing of Alex Pretti, slave patrol resistance in 1850s Boston, anarchist calisthenics, and overcoming nihilism to ensure we abolish ICE. www.goldenstateofmind.com/general/1076...

This is a beautiful listen and loads of respect goes to Crips for eSIMs for Gaza podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different

The more time that I’m on this earth, the more it’s clear to me that what it’s all about is heckin doggos and doggin heckos

great new music out on Gold Bolus today from pianist Emily Manzo, playing new music by Mary Halvorson and Aaron Siegel (and Emily's playing it at Roulette on Tuesday) emilymanzo.bandcamp.com/album/time-i...

is "eat shit" the best trochee in the English language?

punk ass

To block modern gun laws, the justices only need to invoke concerns loosely tied to the 19th century To pass gun laws, legislators must rely on history, and be sure to set aside any history the Republican justices wish to forget * jazz hands * originalism! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/wolfo...

"Like so many people who have had Long COVID, [I’ve had] this sort of slow realization... unsure if something is temporary or permanent… It took me a long time to feel comfortable saying that [I am disabled]." Read @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social's Q&A with @daveruder.bsky.social bit.ly/4pO6Kjr

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

ICYMI: @daveruder.bsky.social talks about composing the "Long COVID album"! "I can still write everything..arrange everything..produce everything...sing everything...but I need to rely on other people to be able to articulate what I’m trying to do." thesicktimes.org/2026/01/12/c...

JUST ABOLISH ICE I don't want to scan the fascist goons' QR codes whilst they're kidnapping my friends, I want there to be no fascist goons kidnapping my friends

I am extremely grateful to @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social and @thesicktimes.org for talking to me about my latest album. The interview was just published, and the conversation definitely helped me better understand things myself! thesicktimes.org/2026/01/12/c...

Cause I got a peaceful, easy feeling But I'm gonna tear this mother down Cause I'm already standing On a clown

When the Anglican Church is more woke than most of your progressive friends

j'ai gingembre j'ai gingembre j'ai gingembre

The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

a switch that would be long overdue! blue surgical masks are no substitute for a proper respirator! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes. If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.

dream blunt rotation, but instead of blunts, it's a feral cat like an ocelot or serval

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

Recent piece published w/ @thesicktimes.org arguing that “Long COVID advocacy is inadequate without sex workers, who have a long legacy of catalyzing consent education and facilitating disease prevention,” using the experiences of Black trans disabled Sex Workers. thesicktimes.org/2026/01/06/l...

Barry White had some great ideas about things you can do with a harpsichord (or similar keyboard instruments)

“Covid is over” might be the biggest lie sold to us in a staggering decade of lies

In my mind there's a nice late 1920's/early 30's version of Lotte Lenya or Marlene D or similar singing "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" in English but I probably made that up, right?

Me when I go to pluck my ear hairs and it’s been 10 days

A career goal of mine is to use the pretense of being invited to perform somewhere prestigious to play Hang on Sloopy for a very long time

Sometimes I think my cat’s favorite Yvonne Rainer piece is We Shall Run

I have a hard time thinking of this as a “Trump operation” when the entire United States power structure—business, the courts, the legislature, the news media, the major political parties, the capitalists and the electorate—have made Trump president. Twice. (And failed to impeach. Twice.)

a few songs for today "No No No to Intervention!" and "US out of El Salvador!" among other thoughts from the Minutemen www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0z...

You love to see that Willie & his people are taking care of him (via the NYer) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

really nice piano album out later this month on Gold Bolus from the great Emily Manzo. It's got pieces by Mary Halvorson & Aaron Siegel. One track now streaming! emilymanzo.bandcamp.com/album/time-i...

Lynn made some illustrations for the things described in my song "elision addition" and then I made a little video with them, so please enjoy the OFFICIAL video for elision addition www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMlO...

what do we see happening with Wetzel's Pretzel's in 2026?

woke up with this in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57X...

Got funky and decided to cook some millet and some buckwheat together at the same time (I’m a cook the grains in the oven kind of person) and boy am I feeling powerful now

another great one from @sharpflower.bsky.social that contains a great primer for how airborne pathogens work and how to prevent their spread www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bey...

What about: Baking bread spo-dee-o-dee ??

the talcum and the fonz oh! the talcum and the fonz the talcum and the sorghum fonz the talcum and the fonz