Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

half of it is slavery. the model it all comes from is white men know how to run things, and all mistakes come from the servant class being unable to realize the vision. it's colonialism, it's chattel slavery, it's deskilled labor, it's the auteur. property as exclusion, power as the right to exclude

One of my students wrote a story about a girl named Stacie and her family, and while I'm never sure which cultural references stand the test of time, know that we thoroughly discussed whether, canonically, Stacie's Mom in the story does in fact have it going on. (Yes )

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump to get full SNAP benefits out by tomorrow. The judge made clear Trump broke the law by *choosing* to force kids to go hungry for "political reasons." "Children are immediately at risk of going hungry. This should never happen in America."

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment"????

Update: the woman on the Tumwater (WA) school board who voted to protect trans kids is now ahead by *25 points*.

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

Let it unleash a thousand memes. I call this one: "Donald Trump stands idly by while the American economy passes out in a corner."

Hey ChatGPT: Please generate an image of a man thoroughly devoid of any and all human empathy.

China bought 22,130,000 tons of soy beans from the US last year. This year they bought zero because of the tariffs.

More context and details about Judge Ellis’s preliminary injunction.

This is my only story coming out in 2025 thanks to some publishing date weirdness elsewhere, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. l have a soft spot for fiction & film about stage magic, and it was fun to play in that playground.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Not true obviously, but you save more lives when you stop a vessel and arrest those aboard, alive, if they're actually trafficking drugs. Instead of drowned bodies, you get useful intel about their criminal structures, their support networks, their finances, and future vessels.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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Amen, Governor.

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

“This story reminds me why I read science fiction. The Rainseekers is unflinching and profound, shedding light (and rain) on the search for purpose and wonder.” — @sarahpinsker.bsky.social Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author. @tordotcom.bsky.social

Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities. At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions. @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Any day with new work from Sarah Pinsker is a good day.

New Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 67A features “The Millay Illusion” by Sarah Pinsker, as read by Erika Ensign; “Call Us Boy.” by Somto Ihezue, as read by Matt Peters; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Sarah Pinsker! buff.ly/YxaYPx0

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Amazing. He's saying the quiet part out loud without even realizing it. I know how absurd this is to say these days, but it's important to remember that officially, redistricting isn't supposed to unfairly favor one party over another.

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

Yesterday I took a walk without the dogs to solve a story problem that needed full attention and I walked past an antique store that I'd never seen before, on a corner I pass often. I walked in to welcome them to the neighborhood & the guy said "oh, we've been here 3 years."

Oh, you simple-minded, wheezing gargoyle . . . you were very much on the ballot. You are blamed for the shutdown. You are blamed from SNAP shutting down. You are blamed for a bad economy. And numerous people interviewed last night mentioned that seeing the East Wing destroyed motivated them to vote.

To say "productive" when the group he leads hasn't been to work in over a month, won't put in the work of negotiating or meeting their constituents, and has deliberately crumbled every constructive program into dust is mind boggling. And luckily he has less charisma than a blobfish & nobody buys it.

I should mention this again: Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/search?q=mar... has Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon merchandise where the proceeds go to charity. At this point as far as I know there is no other licensed official merchandise.

The freedom to read picked up a lot of wins last night! So did support for local libraries! Thank you to everyone who worked on these races. When we pull together we win!

In an upset, Democrats ousted two Republican members of Georgia’s utility board on Tuesday, according to preliminary results from secretary of state's office. The races for two of the five seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission are seen as a bellwether for the midterms.

Wow, huge results for Democrats in tough county executive elections in some of Pennsylvania's swingiest counties. They by the county executive offices in Erie County, Lehigh County, and Northampton County by roughly 20% each. This is a FLIP in Erie County.

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

TBH, Georgia Public Service Commission is NOT a big race. Races like these, in 2022, felt like grinding nails on a chalkboard to get people to come out for. But Georgia voters 🍑 showed up for a little race- outside of a regular voting year! - & flipped these 2 positions blue. 💙 VERY auspicious.

🚨BREAKING: Maine voters rejected a Republican-backed ballot initiative Tuesday that would have imposed new photo ID rules and severely limited mail-in voting — a decisive win for voting rights advocates who said the measure threatened to upend the state’s tradition of accessible elections.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

What we know so far, 8:30pm —Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —Also means Dems take VA trifecta. —Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov. —Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia. —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati. —Last GOPer in Orlando council gone. —PA: Dem justices up big so far.

Attn Pennsylvania voters: Reports are coming in of signs near polling places reading “No Kings, No Retention” with a crown-slash logo. These signs are fake and misleading, part of a disinformation push. In Pennsylvania, you should vote YES to retain the Supreme Court justices on the ballot.

CALIFORNIANS: have you voted YES ON 50 yet? if not, get that shit done. reminder that you can drop off your ballot at your polling place OR if you need to, drop it in the mail (as long as it’s postmarked today, it’ll count).

And @michaeldthomas.bsky.social interviews @sarahpinsker.bsky.social in the podcast. We learn the starting point of the story and the research pit that Sarah dove into. Loads of good information and research anecdotes. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unca...

Just listened to (and read) @sarahpinsker.bsky.social 's magical new story "The Millay Illusion" read by @hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 67. You are immersed in the past of traveling magic shows that fool the audience www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

PUB IN ONE WEEK! LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY by World Fantasy Award winner @theodoragoss.bsky.social buff.ly/ZeOVp7f introduction by @bluejo.bsky.social 2 #giveways @thestorygraph.com buff.ly/fAUS9Iw #goodreads buff.ly/055IqCm #Excerpt at @civilianreader.com buff.ly/ffpgD6B

🗳️🗳️🗳️VOTING DAY🗳️🗳️🗳️ CA Vote YES on ✅ Prop 50 PA Vote YES to Retain: ✅ Donohue ✅ Dougherty ✅ Wecht NJ Vote ✅ Mikie Sherrill NY Vote ✅ Zohran Mamdani VA Vote ✅ Abigail Spanberger thehill.com/homenews/cam...

When Trump was willing to let 15 million of the poorest people in the world die by vaporizing USAID there simply was no reason to doubt he’d do the same thing here.

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.