WELL HELLO. In the coming weeks I get to chat with both @marthawells.com and @tkingfisher.com at their book launch events (one in Allentown, the other in Doylestown) and I'm pretty darn excited about it:

ok youre officially allowed to be happy about this and to regard the whole fracas a big L and self-own by the admin

He was one more jolt of adrenaline away from shooting indiscriminately into the crowd. He behaved like a terrified soldier of an occupying army facing a hostile crowd. That's because this attitude is modern American law-enforcement's training and culture. ICE is its apotheosis. Is this our future?

"It's not a list" means it's definitely a list.

Can confirm that “The Will” to summarily execute jewelry thieves is not there, and also that it’s a very good thing that it isn’t.

Fuck Hegseth. Fuck his decision. He’ll be remembered as a hateful, angry little man.

If lying to Congress is now a serious crime I hope that every single member of Trump's cabinet has a lawyer on retainer. Including the Attorney General and FBI Director. Also the conservative members of the Supreme Court.

I am an anti-fascist, just like every good American should be. We fought a war about this; some of us were taught about it in school. Trying to make "anti-fascist" somehow an ominous label is like trying to make the word "democratic" something to avo... ... ... 😯

NEW: LGBT+ rights leaders held an "emergency" briefing today on reports that Trump may "weaponise" the FBI against trans people. "We need every elected official to sound the alarm with us... to confront the lies that put trans Americans in danger," one said. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Remember that the Trump Administration demands you idolize these agents and not condemn them. But they’re Gestapo trash.

Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better. [reads any New York Times focus group] Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]

I would much prefer Kamala be calling out the current democratic leadership than using her platform to call out the past.

Turns out that it's confusing to my grandma to laugh & say "so true, bestie" when she bemoans that, in the tupperware draw, "you have loads of bottoms, but it's a trial to find tops".

AIGENT ORANGE “...he was a, um, 'social recluse' with one of those new aigents doing everything, automatically, even answering personal messages. There was no way for it to know that the guy had died. Bills got paid, mostly, and no one thought 'he' sounded any different.” 🧵

They don’t care. Right now there are two types of Republican - the kind that think they only have two years to completely remake America before the backlash, and the kind that dont intend for there ever to be another free election. Both don’t care about the optics - the second actually may like it

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

I am allergic to conspiracy theories, but here's my exception: I don't think any of this is exactly what it appears. I think there's collusion between all parties (excepting Kimmel) to satisfy Trump while temporarily turning down the temp.

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

you’re never more than 10 feet away from someone texting “lol” with a completely expressionless face

Our parents and teachers never told us what we were supposed to do if we pointed out that the emperor has no clothes on and we’re labeled “extremists” for stating the obvious.

I’ve got little problem with Kamala Harris and I think she did the best job she could playing the hand she was dealt, and in normal times losing candidates writing books doesn’t bother me, but her going on a media blitz *right at this moment* to air factional grievances is not sitting right with me.

Got Alexa+ today. She's younger. 🤨 Anyway, after I asked her if I could use conditionals when I give her commands, she was confused and thought I meant in conversation. When I explained, she said she could execute voice commands with conditions. Then when I actually (and immediately) tried it...

She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

Many Black clergy have linked the veneration of Kirk to a history of weaponizing faith to justify colonialism, enslavement and bigotry.

You can be mad at Jim Comey for what he did to HRC in 2016 and also decry any potential indictment as bullshit. You can do both.

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

“We are going to defeat the left and we are going to win” is no longer about politics. They control every branch of government. They have won. So “defeat the left” is now about eliminating us from the earth - and everything this regime does is toward that end.

imagine all the workers and contractors he could have screwed out of pay, it must tear at him

i got raptured but when the archangel gabriel unhooked me from the string of divine grace he frowned and said "ugh, tagged for research?" and he threw me back down to earth real aggressive-like

The right loves to tell everyone they will win a civil war because they have all the guns and then blame every high profile shooting on a lefty.

It’s 2024. In the unlikely event your semiliterate tween wants to crack a book, let alone one about gender identity or sexuality, pulling it from the local library is comically pointless as an access limitation. It’s just an impotent shriek of disapproval that these things are culturally accepted.

This is very good and reminds me of a point I always make when people say you can’t shame people out of being bigots. You can’t, but you can make them behave better by not creating a culture of permissiveness when they do

That was the plan, anyway. We seem to have lost the plot.

One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.

“Let’s see how much more I can bully ABC for money!” he said loudly and publicly #Trump #Krasnov #JimmyKimmel #CharlieKirk He did also say that Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon were next. John Oliver nailed it - he’s like #Putin when he was driven insane by puppets on TV. What bitches.

Some news.

I've been thinking about this for a while. Biden had a strategy that he could keep Trump from coming back if he delivered material benefits to the groups that put Trump in power. The CHIPS Act and BBB funneled money to Red States with no electoral effect. Biden's presidency failed as a result. 1/x

I think someone thinks someone might at this particular moment target the show as "antifa propaganda" in an attempt to send a message to Apple more generally. Not unlikely...but we can't allow ourselves to obey fascism in advance. Make them work for every inch. variety.com/2025/tv/colu...

BUT I think it was and is really stupid for Sinclair and Nexstar to make themselves visible and therefore far more easily targeted. Think of it as an organizing opportunity.

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph. www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

women being blamed for autism is very 2025 and also very 1692

“Many of the university employees asked not to be named because they were instructed not to speak to the media. Three out of four students who were in the classroom during the confrontation asked not to be named because of fear of retribution.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

I wrote this four days ago and despite the good news about Kimmel, I stand by it. Trump should be infuriated about this, given that he's been so publicly counting coup. If he's not immediately angry, I'll start suspecting there's something more going on. I do expect Disney to offer him something.

Michael Tolkin's 1991 film, “The Rapture”, is little known and a minor gem. Tolkin makes stunning and courageous choices. It's arguably amazing that the film got made.I cheered at the end, and probably not for the reason you think. Here's Roger Ebert's review: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

“Many of the university employees asked not to be named because they were instructed not to speak to the media. Three out of four students who were in the classroom during the confrontation asked not to be named because of fear of retribution.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

I'd find these arguments more persuasive if I had confidence the critics were not the same people who blamed Biden for not "doing something" about SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade. It also almost always sounds to my ears like a plaintive "why aren't my parents fixing thing?" that grates. Even so...

Watching a third of the country beclown and degrade themselves in cultish devotion to this stumbling turnip makes me want to puke.

It's genuinely exciting that Sinclair has decided to make themselves visible.