at the risk of having several more men come into my replies to tell me I’m wrong and dumb and “Schumer is a better negotiator than you are”, which is what happened last time I posted about this, I’m going to say again that this seems quite bad for me, a person dependent on the ACA for healthcare

SLOP FOR THE SLOP GODS

⚒️ 🧪 A M6.8 earthquake struck offshore Japan today - another large earthquake from the subduction zone that produced two recent great earthquakes. The earthquake was preceded by a "cascade up": foreshocks progressively increasing in maximum magnitude. What do we know? What might happen next?

30 month Comté from Beillevaire Hard French 🐄🧀, probably closer to 40 months. Lots of small tyrosine crystals from aging. Rind is a bit leathery. Complex flavor: toasted hazelnuts, dark fruit (plum?), vegetable (celery?), more. Didn't have enough for a full assessment.

Tomme de Savoie from Hervé Mons Semi-firm French 🐄🧀. Smells of meadow and cellar. Pliable and smooth texture. Flavor of sweet hazelnut and a bit of citrus, with a salty finish.

Just for the record, ICE is still being paid.

First snowfall of the season, a rewatch of this one very soon.

www.theresaganz.com The thesis of my book Grand Illusion is that excesses of gold in architecture are a direct indication of despotism. As the White House festoons itself with golden doodads and proposes a gilded new ballroom, I think the thesis holds. Link in bio. 💛⚜️💛

I've been thinking about Warren Zevon. He's all over Sandman Slim. Here are 3 important songs. DISORDER IN THE HOUSE is about Stark’s entire wild and messy life. KEEP ME IN YOUR HEART is Stark’s song to Candy when he’s gone. For me, DESPERADOS UNDER THE EAVES is the best song ever written about LA.

Yes -- it is entirely possible that a critical mass of Senate Dems will defect for inadequate concessions, but don't *assume* it will happen based on anonymously sourced behind-the-paywall Axios stories

The new normal.

Why Del Toro's interpretation is cool with me. He didn't say this was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This is Del Toro's Frankenstein. I am not surprised that beats that resonate with women are not present, nor am I disappointed.

The part that is easily missed is Frankenstein's lack of nurturing to his "imperfect child." Being able to confer that womanhood is also MORE than reproduction AND that absent nurturing to a modern audience, kinda pivotal. Because women aren't your booboo kissers, either.

The Frankenstein reviews are falling into two camps. 1) adoration 2) disappointment it is not more true to Shelley's vision. I have thoughts. The first of which is that Frankenstein will not truly capture the essence of Shelley's feminism unless it's done by a woman. But there's an asterisk here.

In the milieux of religious orthodoxy, mystics are often frowned upon. Such was the case in the early fourteenth century when Eckhart von Hochheim, better known to us today as Meister Eckhart, fell afoul of religious shifts within the Catholic Church. Eckhart, of the Dominican order... 1/ 🗃️

This is a parody account. This is not a real quote. Stop sharing it. And if you say, "well, it's ok because it might as well be real," I will block you.

anyone who doesn’t clearly promise to oust schumer should be primaried

I’ll need to see 50 more cases like this to form an opinion on how the marriage of professional sports and legalized gambling is going. Hard to say from here.

Right up there with "degenerate art". That's Nazi talk.

"social contagion" That's a fucking block right there.

Gambling is a cancer on the sport. The next step is somebody getting killed because they didn't perform to a gambler's order.

As seen in Poor Things (2023)

Serious win-win territory for the GOP. They grabbed that bumper and they're going to let it drag them to death.

I used to think that maybe the ongoing federal shutdown was to enable more emergency powers for the administration and to keep the Epstein Files from being released. Now I'm pretty sure of it. All the other stuff is just gravy (and boilerplate Republicanism.)

It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown

The prediction was always that when boomers aged, they would force massive improvements to health care and elder services. Instead, the rich ones access private care, and the rest seem resigned to humiliating decline at the hands of rapacious capitalism.

Breonna Taylor

Maybe—just maybe—sports leagues getting in bed with gambling companies wasn’t such a hot idea…

Flight home now delayed by 2.5 hours. This is the third incremental change in our departure time. Thanksgiving will be a mess. Thanks Republicans!

Absolute queen shit

These pathetic little worms, man. They'd be pitiable if they weren't so fucking dangerous.

Absolutely correct! And correct me if I’m wrong but I remember people like Churchill at one point advocated summarily shooting all nazi officers above the rank of colonel, which makes the Nuremberg trials seem like a mass amnesty project

A number of Western Allies like Churchill wanted summary executions, Soviets initially wanted straight show trials with predetermined outcomes. Compromise became trials but with an actual defense allowed that could be educational but still according to the rule of law.

@jessicatarlov.bsky.social: “The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no proof they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had evidence, they’d face a court, not a drone.” Seven strikes. Thirty-two dead. Zero indictments.

Months after my dad died, I had lunch with an old friend. She said to me “So… You’re a human being now.” I was like, what do you mean? She said “You used to float through life like you were bulletproof and now you’re just as mortal as everybody else.” All I could say was, wait till it’s your turn.

I was more articulate on FB, with a longer wordcount. Full text in alt. text.

If that thing goes off under these circumstances, it’s very unlikely those men leave that parking lot alive and the sequence of events that would be set in motion as a result are the sort of thing you read about in history books, if we still had books or history or reading when it was all over.

Thomas Pynchon's appearance on the Simpsons

imagine posting something like this out loud on main and not deleting it when the ratio hits

"As much as I have treasured being a judge, I can now think of nothing more important than...doing everything in my power to combat today’s existential threat to democracy and the rule of law." Judge named by Reagan on why he just resigned and what he'll do now. 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I could just as easily have been arrested if I stayed standing another 30 seconds. This seems small, but it's an intimidation tactic. It's the Federal Govt putting a squeeze on our free speech. It's unacceptable. We must continue to speak up & be present. Silence is not an option. Let's go.❤️✊🏽 4/4

I turn and see police arresting someone who stood standing on the barrier to get the shot he wanted. No warning, just arrest. And it was IL State Police arresting him. Why is ISP doing ICE's dirty work for them?? Gov Pritzker needs to require ISP to do their jobs—not ICE's fascist jobs. 3/4

I and a few others stood on the cement barriers some 200M from the facility to take better pictures of the hundreds of protestors. Police told us to "get down before we get hurt" and added "we can't force you, just asking." I got my shot and stepped down. 30 seconds later I turn & see... 2/4

Today I protested ICE fascists at the Broadview, IL facility, as I have for several months. I've shared before every time the escalation of violence has been by the State against peaceful protestors. That happened again today. 1/4

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

They reunited in NY in 1924 when Leonard turned 21 & inherited $340k from his grandfather ($6.3m today). They kept their marriage a secret from Leonard’s family. Then Philip Rhinelander sent a secretary to inspect the marriage record in person. “The father’s sobs were heard plainly over the wire”

I also carry these in NYC and put them up in touristy areas :)

Hedy Lamarr on the cover of the June 1, 1942 issue of Life She was BOTD in 1914