Dear Santa, Please send the Democrats a better standard bearer in 2028 than Gavin Newsom, preferably someone who hasn’t already lost a presidential campaign. And please also send the party the guts to back this standard bearer. Also I would like a new pair of running shoes. Thanks, Will

No one deserves to be treated like this. No one. Who comes up with this evil stuff? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My cat attempted, twice, to sit on a lit candle today. So now instead of the smell of coffee and vanilla, my workspace smells like burnt hair.

The constant atrocities are exhausting.

He was going to get back to his xenophobic immigration bans eventually anyway. This latest tragedy is an excuse, not a reason. As a great grandchild of immigrants I stand with immigrants. As a great grandchild of a man who fled war, I stand with refugees.

Watching the NYC parade this morning has reaffirmed my belief that protest marches need brass instruments, woodwinds, drum lines, and flag lines.

www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d... This would be a welcomed change.

This is what I did last weekend: www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Good Riddance: www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

We don’t have a President. We have a petty tyrant.

This is disgusting: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

I spent Saturday in the San Rafael Valley, at the US/ Mexico border. It is, I understand, the last place Wild jaguars are able to come up from Mexico into the US. It is a beautiful valley, except that someone is constructing a monument to his fragile ego through the middle of it.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I'm represented in the U.S. House of Representatives again. Yay!

Okay, in addition to caving on their core demands, Democrats are horrible at messaging. I’m learning now that the Senate bill not only funds SNAP and WIC through September, but also increases the WIC budget from $603 million (with an m) to $8.2 billion (with a b). Maybe lead with that next time?

I'm trying out Bandcamp. I've got one song up. saguarosoland.bandcamp.com/track/create...

This is horrifying.

Heads up folks! ACLU has some guidance on folks who may be impacted by SCOTUS’ decision.

Great job, NYC! This is a hopeful moment.

I’ll be playing this event in the desert on 11/15! Come join us if you can! www.instagram.com/p/DPxC20IEr5...

Just a reminder that if you know me, you know a family impacted by the government shutdown. We’re operating at half our income right now.

I know next to nothing about NYC politics. But having Bloomberg pour a crapton of $$ into the NYC Mayor's race in support of Cuomo is probably the best thing that could happen to Mamdani the week before the election.

I'm thinking a lot about Jamaica and Cuba right now.

So all this time he’s been talking about destroying the “left wing”, has he meant “of the White House”?

thehill.com/homenews/hou... Mike Johnson said he would debate Hakeem Jeffries on “Ceasefire.” Now he says he won’t. “I’ll debate Hakeem Jeffries anywhere, anytime — as soon as we get the government open,” Johnson told Fox News’s”America Reports” anchor Sandra Smith. Sheer cowardice.

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! And if you’re celebrating that European explorer, I recommend you go to a library and read a book about him. Not a YouTube short from your favorite influencer. Read an actual book about his career. It’s the least you could do in celebration, right?

Just a reminder that we’re not in “somebody’s going to die” territory. We are in “people are dying” territory. The US is putting humans behind bars with no trials and letting them die.

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

I have no words.

Our president is a petty, petty man: www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...

Today I heard a man in a shop confidently telling the women who worked there that: 1) there are no atoms in the water; 2) nonprofits don’t have to pay property tax, therefore if you don’t use your home for profit, then you don’t need to pay property tax.

I love my children. I miss weekends before children.

This is apparently real: www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

So for 2025 I have been keeping up with practicing and playing guitar, and the trade off has been that my brain decided that catching up on listening to podcasts is overwhelming.

Now we are talking! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Please remember that if you fire a ton of federal workers they will have a lot more free time to plan protests and such.

RIP, Jane Goodall.

I hope someone is keeping track of all these Hatch Act violations so that when the balance of Congress changes there will be consequences. Assuming, you know, we ever have meaningful elections again. They still haven’t seated my congressional rep, last I looked.

Please remember that many federal employees are heading into their workplaces today… without pay… to make things ready for this shutdown. They’re all putting their lives’ work on pause because the GOP won’t support healthcare for poor people.

I’ve seen the video of the ICE officer tackling a woman & taking her to the ground for no reason that’s been circling. It’s awful, unjustified & unacceptable. It’s also how I’ve seen many, many civilians treated by law enforcement on body camera for many years. In fact, it’s often much worse.

My heart goes out to the victims of the church shooting in Grand Blanc today. I don’t know who this shooter was, but we as a society failed him and all the victims. Yes to gun reform, Yes to mental healthcare for all, Yes to changing our culture. No to whatever this was.

The Right: The Left needs to tone down its violent rhetoric! The Left: Let’s have some peaceful protests. The Right: String ‘em up! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When I ask people how they’re doing and they respond “I can’t complain,” I reply, “Really? Why not?” And it seems to confuse them.

This seems timely: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

It is technically Autumn but it is too hot for me to bake bread indoors. This is b#||$#!+! And no, I don’t have an outdoor oven yet either.

The Left: Let’s protect the most vulnerable among us from the strongest among us. The Right: Let’s defeat the Left. The Middle: I see good points on both sides.

What a metaphor: www.azcentral.com/picture-gall...