I want to be as abolitionist as possible when it comes to the carceral state but I also genuinely question whether it's any use reforming the sort of people who actively desire to separate children from their loving families, terrorizing them, not even educating them.

Holly Hunter pronounced "New Orleans" properly on a Star Trek show. Sins forgiven.

This Klingon is afraid of public speaking. This show is SILLY.

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

You don’t understand. Cryptocurrency is the future. All it will take is everyone agreeing to this and if that doesn’t happen? Okay hold on

Unabridged is an amazing store. If you get a tote while you're there, they'll give you a discount forever. Will Bezos do that?

New Google Doc People Gripe About just dropped

Bus Stop, 2026

i keep most of my money in a "stablecoin" that is "tethered" to the value of the dollar. it's called the dollar

White Bear Lake, MN 02/05/26

MY CRIMEBUCKS!

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

Still digging on new Ratboys (out tomorrow). Looking at credits and they've got Jenny Conlee from Decemberists playing hammond organ on a track ("At Peace in the Hundred Acre Wood")! Also noteworthy for this year/time is a pretty song called "Burn It Down." ratboys.bandcamp.com/album/singin...

Loser Hub. For prime losering.

All of this has happened before. Hold strong. Welcome the stranger.

Man, Zoot has REALLY aged.

I feel like Hans Moleman when I'm driving (a rare feat).

In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.

Just the nicest, sweetest people who will tell you in the most polite, ingratiating way the true and deep monstrousness that inhabits their very souls.

It's time for The Return of the King, as Vertigo Comics is back today. In honor of its arrival, I wrote about its return, the environment it's coming back to, and how it fits in all of that.

DHS lies constantly. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

A miracle she survived to be a testament on these goons.

This is the "too many, too soon" rubric that antivaxxers love because it sounds very authoritative to Malibu crystal moms and right wing chuds, but has no basis in fact or research.

Mon capitaine Jourdan Thibodeaux spittin' bars about our history with mass deportation and forced assimilation. #Cajun #réveillez #résistez youtu.be/AJJKttmFedc?...

For the record: I will not send another cent to Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller while the department they run is shredding the Constitution and murdering American citizens in the streets. A two-week extension is two weeks too long. I’m voting no.

For my Cajun cousins who know better: cajuncomrade.bigcartel.com

The way you know body cameras don't actually do anything is that the Nazis are like, "Cool, cool, cool. Body cameras for all our thugs, no problem." Bovino did the same thing in Chicago. Judge said body camera, and he was like, "got one right here judge. anything for you."

"The Good Ghost" this fall on CBS.

#NP joannanewsom.bandcamp.com/album/the-mi...

this is horny. im libbing out.

you can tell the AI revolution is going well because every CEO is begging you to use it in the same tone as the government asking good citizens to buy war bonds in the 40s

Okay CTA enthusiasts. My bus stop has a new second route. If no one else is at the stop, is there a good way to signal the OTHER bus if I'm waiting for the other route, not them, to save them the stop. Waving generally seems too broad.

Retail Therapy, ‘Fuck ICE’ Edition: A conversation with Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books by Zach Rabiroff www.tcj.com/retail-thera...

New Ratboys vinyl arrived early, so listening to new Ratboys. ratboys.bandcamp.com/album/singin...

Get it, Brantley!

this seems like a stronger 2028 message than Josh Shapiro's "I won't say mean things about ICE" slogan.

The weapon they seem the most afraid of. Don't look away. Keep your foot on the gas, when your open is on their back foot, that's best time to push harder. #fuckice #fucktrump

shame about the kennedy center closing. here i had already purchased season tickets for “scott baio’s world of shakespeare.”

Unfinished. #LiamRamos

Tech is underway for our #youngaudiences show The 8th Dwarf — a story of kindness and courage. G.E.T. out of the cold with the family & into the world of #SnowWhite and her 8th #dwarf, Binkley! Only 4 shows, starting next weekend. More info on our website, GhostlightEnsemble.com #theatre #Chicago

The pure cruelty of putting a five year old through all this for absolutely no benefit to anyone or anything

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Never in my life will I skip Ballad of El Goodo.

My movie Innerspace is coming soon to 4K from @arrowvideo.bsky.social! www.joblo.com/innerspace-4...

Watched Scarface (1932) last night. Know this wasn't the point at the time but these words sorta fit the times:

NEW FROM OUR PUBLISHER: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s "Abolish Trump's ICE" language is a “bad apples” argument dressed in a trenchcoat. Read more of this analysis in our RESHAPE newsletter ⬇️ thetriibe.com/reshape/lang...

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