Happy Semiquincentennial to every American who votes Blue and is subscribed to Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day.

Tragic reminder that if you wake up in a room with a bat, you need rabies shots, because they can spread rabies from an undetectable scratch or bite.

Happy Summer Solstice to all who celebrate and vote Blue!

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Yes. I'm not proud.

Same.

I'm watching scaffolding. I question my life choices.

Cuba had an earthquake about 20 minutes ago. Did anyone feel anything? I didn’t.

I love it when St. Petersburgers decorate their homes for Pride.

Anthony Head was so good in this. It was hard not to cry at work when I found out the sad news.

Happy Pride, everyone! Heated Rivalry changed my brain chemistry - in a good way. Happy to see it get recognized.

Nobody sees the 4:00 am works outs. Nobody sees the hours of meal prepping. Nobody sees the time spent in meditation bettering myself. Nobody sees any of this. Because I don’t do these things.

Happy First Day of Hurricane Season to all who dread it and hope for the best. Good luck to us!

The fact is that the most correct observation anyone can make about US politics over the previous decade is that voting for Hillary Clinton would have fixed literally everything you’re currently suffering from, and you only think this isn’t the case because of misogyny

In 2011, the year he was worth $18 billion, ProPublica reported that Bezos received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. He paid zero income taxes. Jeff Bezos should live in absolute terror of the public he has pillaged from.

All the partisan gerrymandering was always (in part) racial gerrymandering, because the parties' politics were always (in part—but large part) about race. So when you tell Southern legislatures "you can do partisan gerrymandering, but no racial gerrymandering," they know it means they can do both.

I'll never forgive those who voted for the current administration. At a bare minimum, they decided racism was okay and ran with that. Whatever reason they voted for him, there was no question they were also voting for racism. I'll never be okay with that.

The dental shame posters work for me on so many levels.

Happy May Day. They can’t kill us all.

Maine voters are so stupid. I can’t believe they aren’t Floridians.

This won’t age well. Maine voters are fixin’ to elect the Nazi tattoo guy. I can’t believe he’s not running in Florida. Dems here are so used to this depressing crap.

Especially college educated women.

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

Happy Earth Day to all who celebrate and vote Blue.

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote. A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago. Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

I really needed this win. Thank goodness. So happy.

What's going on in U.S. Concentration Camps is worse than anything we think we know. "Legal" rape and torture beyond our imagination is occurring now. Republicans Christians can NEVER claim moral superiority on anything ever again, but it feels like we are all complicit, somehow. It's awful.

Same. Chicago Pope all the way!

i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again. because seriously: get off substack. stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.

WHY ARE YOU STILL ON SUBSTACK. if you're a big creator particularly, you will legit make more money on beehiv. and you won't be asking your readers to pay revenue to a site that promotes literal sex traffickers and pushes Nazi content to your goddamn phone. i'm gonna lose my mind

don't make me tap the motherfucking sign

@johnfugelsang.bsky.social, who wrote a book on Christian hypocrisy, is proud to post on Substack with racists, rapists, & human traffickers. So does @hcrichardson.bsky.social, and so many more. For fucks sake, we can do so much better.

I am proud to say that Democracy Docket does not publish on Substack. www.democracydocket.com

To be fair this is a photograph of my actual doctor.

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

I hate hating someone this much. For fuck’s sakes. I’m tired of my life revolving around how much of this guy I can avoid in a day. It’s honestly why I’m not on social media much these days. I just fucking hate him.

For the record, I was a Swalwell supporter and had planned on voting for him in the primary. Me believing the women was not political. It's based on the corroboration of evidence confirmed by multiple news outlets, and the Manhattan DA finding enough evidence exists to open a criminal probe.

Right! We are better than them and we NEED to be better than them. Swalwell needs to resign. NO excuses!

Virginia farmers “don’t deserve“ getting EXACTLY WHAT THEY VOTED FOR???!!!! Right, miss me with that fucking bullshit.

Today’s Wordle answer is bullshit and I don’t recognize it as a real word.

"Why doesnt the US pull a South Korea?" "Because the much higher saturation of military hardware would make it way more of a massacre" "Oh, that makes sense- wait... so does that mean gun control... made rising against a tyrannical government EASIER?" ... "...Ok look, in this ONE SPECIFIC case-"

Every day feels like a horror movie with a false ending. It’s like “oh that murderer is cooked now” and within minutes the villain is back wreaking havoc again.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Somehow most of us survived the day & I’m tentatively grateful. But sleep tonight is too much to ask. Not happening.

I have 3 REPUBLICAN MOCs and I still called. Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for and all that.

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

Jesus, same.

i don't know what the hell to do. Everything i could do seems entirely pointless now. How can I write, read, promote my shit, right now? I wish I could do more. I wish I could do anything.

listen, I am trying to be reasonable here, but if you are an In The Know Political Person and you publish a memoir with damning information that you kept secret in order to get a big book advance, you should be skinned alive over several weeks

The longer Trump is in office the worse our odds of surviving as a *species*