There's always a first: just got a call from a friend back in Brazil asking if we have escape plans if shit gets worse in the US.

This 401(k) for house down payments seems dumb to be at first glance for the following reasons:

Apple Music has decided to throw CSN's "Southern Cross" after about every 20 songs I listen to and I'll be damned if I don't listen to it every single time. #old #white-adjacent

I watched the first couple of minutes of TRAIN DREAMS and it felt like Malick for beginners and at the same time I felt like a huge prick for thinking that.

Surreal to see MLK Jr's niece evoking her uncle's memory and asking for kindness and racial harmony while the government she serves is abducting Latinos and Somalis and killing and beating the good Samaritans. Notably, marital fidelity has not been brought up in today's Secretary's Prayer.

Every day at work this group of four vultures circles around right by my window and really I hope it's not a metaphor.

People hate this asshat because he thinks politics and power are strictly about elections. He doesn't offer substantive proposals on what they will do with power. He's doubling down on his stupid schtick when we need the opposition to be loud and fierce NOW. Fuck Chuck Schumer.

The worker who called Trump a “pedophile protector” has been suspended. He says he has “definitely no regrets whatsoever,” adding: “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” wapo.st/4sG38CD

checking in on the president of the United States

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

There can be no amnesty when this is over.

Remember the Citizens United decision and how money is speech? Not for the poors, of course!

People contributed to a fundraiser for Renee Gold because her orphaned children will need financial assistance as they grow without parents. Others are contributing to a fundraiser for Jonathan Ross. He might never be charged. There's no need for financial support. They're rewarding him for murder.

Love this

I will make sure I pray for her on the Second DOL prayer group she's hosting on January 14.

I interviewed the great Kleber Mendonça Filho on THE SECRET AGENT. Always a pleasure talking to him. (Exclusive clip within). For Gold Derby. www.goldderby.com/film/2026/kl...

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Trump revealing prerelease BLS numbers really shows his commitment to violate the entire gamut of laws.

If Americans knew what the Treaty of Tordesillas was, they might understand that world leaders have once more partitioned the world. Russia gets Europe, the US gets the Americas, and China gets Africa (no need for USAID!). It sounds dumb and simplistic because our leaders are dumb and simplistic.

I'm just astonished that the ground has never been as fertile for an opposition leader and fucking NO ONE is standing up and leading against this. How is no Democrat on Congress organizing marches while demanding Trump's resignation ot removal? Shut this shit down. Again.

When the hell is this fever going to break? What's going to be the last straw? We have all seen the footage—that young woman was murdered and get child orphaned by the State... and we don't even know the name of the monster who did it? What other unspeakable horror will need to happen?

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

This is a video of ICE murdering a person. Fuck this government.

Ending this fabulous year with my back thrown out, currently stewing in a tub with Dr. Teal's lavender Epsom salt. Can someone please bring me a toaster?

Not the best password for a pediatric dental practice, folks!

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social I will not abide this erasure.

How I’m walking out of 2025

I am going to go out on a limb and guess that no other wives got this for their partners. Merry Christmas, you filthy animals!

Rectum??? Damn near killed 'em!!!

My kids are very excited about this Switch 2 that I very reluctantly bought. We'll see how they feel when I destroy them in Mario Kart over and over and over again.

I love how American racists think their forbears left a life of comfort in Europe to build this country out of some moral imperative instead of leaving misery and oppression exactly like the migrants that hate so much today.

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, it's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for this douchebag, apparently.

Can someone here in the labor movement give me some pointers to resources on how to improve a floundering local? Just learned via OLMS filings that our membership as of past June was at 467. In 2017 there were 1,283 of us. Elections are next year but we can't afford to wait.

Eduardo Galeano would have a field day with this shit.

I don't know who needs to hear this but: If you're a white-collar worker, especially one that gets a year-end bonus, you should give some cash, preferably in a card, to the custodian who comes in and takes your trash out day in and day out.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Says the guy who effectively steamrolled film projectors out of existence.

Today I learned about trophoblastic gestation disease in Brazil (via a friend's dissertation defense), my wife had an elementary school student leave for Honduras because of ICE, and I just found out a friend has died from the cancer that afflicted him for three years. Hug your loved ones.

While the numbers may in fact be exaggerated, there is a huge difference between the statistical models overestimating jobs and BLS economists intentional fudging the numbers. And recent analysis suggests the birth/death model is not the leading cause of divergence between CES and QCEW data.

Oh my fucking God

It's very important to note that they view accessibility for the disabled as a nuisance.

You will be visited by three spirits.

I booked a reservation for a workspace at the Frances Perkins Building so I could personally attend the Secretary's prayer gathering. They just announced that my seat reservation is cancelled because the room is "closed for repairs." LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Me: *busiest possible time at work, multiple deadlines for multiple concurrent projects, absolute need for undivided attention* Also me: *types "spaghettification" into YouTube search bar*

IT ME!