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Shana tova u'metuka to everyone! I hope this coming year is better than the last one.

we’re gonna get some prominent person’s leaked AI fuck chats and I would like to opt out of that discourse now

Fantastic read

whoa, earthquake aftershock!

Kamala Harris: "We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That's what we're dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry and not speaking up ... at some point they've gotta stand up."

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

I got to say, Seattle makes some huge donuts #photography

I wrote a thing. A is for autocracy Absolute power for our new king B is for bible-thumping Which covers all egregious sins C is for censorship To hide the things that we don’t like D is for dictatorship A new name for the new Fourth Reich

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

IT IS TIME.

This is the key point. There is no legally definable organization. But that won’t matter when they’re black bagging random protesters and renditioning them to Gitmo. They’re gonna use PATRIOT ACT tactics to deny rights and pack on elevated charges on simple 1A actions.

The word is out! I'll be Guest of Honor at Arisia this January! This is baby's first Guesting. I don't think I've ever been a 'guest' at any event. But now I shall guest... WITH HONOR.

A bleppy belly rub for Bleptember! #DailyDoggo

To be clear, when I say Trump is preventing it, I don’t mean to say he’s literally stopping antisemitism. I mean that pretending to care about antisemitism has been useful for him & the right. So they spread coded antisemitism instead. But we are getting closer to mainstream *overt* antisemitism.

Shaun King backing up Tucker Carlson that Jews killed Jesus. It is important to state this bluntly (I should actually write a piece about it): Antisemitism is close to getting mainstream. One thing preventing it on the right is Trump's support of Israel, but Carlson and others are pushing it.

wording of this is very interesting! we pulled him because we thought he said a bad thing BUT we've had conversations with him about it BUT we're going to imply that we scolded him BUT we're not really going to say why we changed our mind

Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson. If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

🚨 BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS allows Trump to dismiss the last Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, signaling a potential overturn of a 90-year-old ruling protecting independent agencies from executive control.

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show will return to ABC's airwaves on Tuesday, the Walt Disney Company says.

A bleppy belly rub for Bleptember! #DailyDoggo

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy (40/59) and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs. By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

For a @motherjones.com piece, I'm looking to chat with 3-4 retirees about how they've been volunteering for causes that push back against what the Trump administration is doing. Please email [email protected]

i found the cure for autism it's called minding your fucking business

The reality is, this SCOTUS is going to let Trump do whatever he wants. The Republican capture of this institution is full and complete. And any Dem that tells you this can be fixed in any way other than packing the court and term limits is playing in your face.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

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This is how it's done, folks

A HOUSE BETWEEN SEA AND SKY has over 1000 reviews on Amazon! 🤯 And it's not officially out until October 1st! Remember: it's a free pick this month for Prime subscribers, or $1.99 for other customers. Next week, it's out in paperback & audio & sold everywhere. Preorder at your local indie!

Bay Area earthquake! First time one woke me up in the almost 20 years I've been living in the area.

France and other countries prepared to recognize a Palestinian state as the UN's centerpiece diplomatic week gets underway on Monday, following a rash of Western governments in symbolicly endorsing statehood and sparking Israel's wrath ➡️ u.afp.com/SWZC

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

“Charlie Chaplin was willing to mock Hitler. Colbert and Kimmel were willing to mock an American president with his own authoritarian designs. What will the rest of us be willing to do in order to stand up to fascism?” Al Franken writes. Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

These guys are longing for the good ol days when you could simply lobotomize and institutionalize your aunt, when you could punish your wife for your child being autistic, etc. That's as much part of their nostalgia as leaded gasoline

It's worth remembering that when RFK and all these other boomer freaks were kids in their formative years, the dominant theory of autism was that "cold" mothers caused it and that you could cure it via lobotomy and forced sterilization.

Best answer to Tylenol and autism: Autism was categorized as a syndrome in 1943; Tylenol was first on the market in 1955.

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

Okay let's do something trans, autistic and FUN, because I need it... and you might need it too 😮 Give me a page number and I give you a quote from my upcoming book SONG OF SPORES! My e-ARC has pages from 3 to 202. (Preorders here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So... )

periodically I see the president doing things like “post crimes for his attorney general to do that were maybe supposed to be an unencrypted DM on his own personal social network” and I remember that he got elected in large part because of information security practices and I black out in rage

Another blep for Bleptember #DailyDoggo

Another blep for Bleptember #DailyDoggo

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My story “A Fallen Angel Rings the Doorbell” is out today in The Sunday Morning Transport. It’s about letting yourself be messy, and letting yourself be loved. Here’s a free 60-day subscription if you need it: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/smt2024

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”