“She scratched at the back of her head and suddenly her silver hair came floating down around her shoulders as if she’d pulled the pin from a hand grenade.” God damn, Karen Russell!

Peak Positively Rochester:

This is the actual problem and we need to demand more than cheaper eggs.

The Democratic leadership is utterly complicit at this point. They clearly have no intention of doing anything. I love our new mayor, but I do not understand why he’s trying to protect Jeffries. We aren’t even going to make it to the midterms at this rate.

There have been confirmed reports from local organizers in Portland ME that ICE is knocking on doors claiming to be from MaineCare and “offering help“

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

Can't stop thinking about Renee Good's wife, and the cruelty of her erasure by the media. To watch your partner get murdered in front of you, and have to pick up your son afterwards and try to live. But the WP puts up a picture of your wife with her ex-husband, and everyone calls your son an orphan.

A targeted traffic stop in a busy hospital parking lot, where ICE pulled out their guns and opened fire.

Cool. The Washington Post is giving the sentient shitscum who shot an unarmed mom on the face an origin story. Also gave us his full name...

Wow, didn’t see that coming. Also love highlighting “the first” to build anticipation for a wave.

My guess is the next few years will be a series irreparable losses, and it will be hard to predict which losses will hit hard. Which will reveal exactly the degree to which the world we've been living in, the things that brought us stability and comfort, no longer exist. This one hit me.

OMG OMG OMG. We are in such deep trouble.

To state the obvious, this would be the hugest gift to Putin. How could the world come back from this?

So glad I’m reading this on January 5th, the day of the cutting and stuffing. Nice knowing you all.

Post a famous bathroom scene.

A woman across the aisle is loudly postulating that our train is late due to “a Mamdani thing.”

I starting hosting New Year’s Day parties in 1996. I missed a few (break up, COVID), but most of those 30 years I spent New Year’s Eve finishing up my mac & cheese trays, stepping outside to listen to neighbors cheer in the distance, and looking forward to friends & food the whole next day.

God bless us, every one

Peace and Serenity to all ❤️

Peppermint Peeps au chocolat! Merry Xmas Eve ❄️🎄❤️

This is my rep, he runs the corrupt Queens Dem machine & stacks the judge nominations. He always ponies up to throw trans kids under the bus. I volunteer to campaign for any progressive caught up in the internet to primary him, please!

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Since becoming governor in 2021, Kathy Hochul has granted clemency on average to roughly just 20 people per year. Even under Trump's ICE-terror campaign, she still has not yet changed her approach—at least not yet. But 2026 is a re-election year: a precious opportunity to force a change in action.

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Consider dropping descriptions of assignments and specific readings from the official syllabus, and issuing those as separate handouts, or on the course site. List the date and general topic for each session, due dates, etc, but no actual content.

Luddite Worker Revolt 2026, who’s in?

To every comfortable narcissist who says "trans issues are not the hill to die on": if you are willing to debate the pros and cons of exterminating a class of people, you are a fucking monster. Denying humanity to a class of people to "game" an election is monstrous. Capitulation fails every time.

In the past day, 3 Dems helped pass MTG's bill criminalizing drs & PARENTS offering care for trans minors as FELONS. A 2nd bill under vote cuts Medicaid/care funding for trans care. Trump issued a rule cutting all fed funds to hospitals providing trans care to minors. And this RFK HHS statement.

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Become ungovernable

ROC airport hour 8.

Getting tipsy and reading a truly fantastic book about Nazi eugenics policies against the disabled. 4 hours to go! ROC airport hr 7.5.

ROC airport, nearing hour 7.

Upgraded to the 8oz glass of wine. ROC airport hr 6.75.

These texts came within 1 minute of each other (ROC airport hr 6.5)

The Bills are playing at “On the ROCs.” Crowd is shockingly subdued, which is surprising. Because they ahead? Also surprising. Only people not watching are myself and a priest in a priestly collar and very sporty hiking boots (ROC airport hr 6).

Woman sitting behind me at “On the ROCs” sports bar sounds exactly like Parker Posey in Best of Show. “It’s not POUNDS, it’s EUROS.” (ROC airport hour 6).

Hour six in the Rochester airport. I guess I’ll start live skeeting do I don’t have to suffer alone?

Hour five of delays, sitting in Concourse B of the Rochester, NY airport. Hankering for a pull-up bar, let me tell you.

I shouldn’t be surprised. But god damn.

Grew up doing this in school every year— in addition to racism, it was a great for gender policing.

My 16 year old has really taken to baking and cooking. I’m out of town right now and got a picture of him dry rubbing a pork shoulder—slow cooking over night to bring pulled pork to a Friendsgiving— and I don’t think I’ve ever been felt prouder. There was a mortar and pestle involved.

I thought the ShamWow line was a joke, alas.

PSA for anyone flying out of JFK Terminal 4: give yourself 90 min more than you usually would. Construction blocking the departure ramp, 30 min traffic backup, and no TSA Precheck in the whole terminal, hour long line. Maybe add an extra 40 min to have a glass of wine because you’ll need one.

This is fantastic on so many fronts- workers knowing and defending their rights, Bovino denied a chicken sandwich.