As someone with stents in my brain who relies on health care... Yeah. Like even healthy business owners needed that shit. We're getting in to an age where there's no small business, period. No more single proprietor, no more mom-and-pop, nothing.

My health care costs. Like, a lot. I need it to keep my vision; I need my vision to work. I've never since I've entered the work force held a job that included benefits. Not even as a tech writer. I was told to go to the marketplace, so I did. Now I'm disabled.... [1/3]

@baldwin.senate.gov voting no! Thank you for listening to our calls and letters! www.wisn.com/article/bald...

So far, WI is not on this list, and that's good to see.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

If I were a hopeful type, I would say that maybe all our pleas to not be fucking useless got to him this one, isolated time. But I'm a cynic, so I'm going to guess that he has juuuust the right number of votes for this shit, and he's covering his ass against a total mutiny.

This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Someone lmk when this happens please, thanks

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

HUGE THING: 100,000 people volunteered for Mamdani. 1000s volunteering for the FIRST TIME. And they just won BIG. So that's a massive army of progressives HUNGRY to keep on winning. That's worth more than all the billionaires' money. We're going to keep working. And we're going to keep winning.

11TH DEMOCRATIC FLIP OF THE NIGHT IN VIRGINIA! Democrat Nicole Cole has unseated 30+ year Republican incumbent Bobby Orrock in #HD66 (Trump+2)

BREAKING: MAMDANI HAS WON according to Decision Desk

In the 2 weeks after Mamdani won in June, 10k ppl signed up with @runforsomething.net to consider a run for local office - our biggest surge *ever*. Like it or not (& I do!!) he's shaping the future of the Democratic Party. If you want something different, get other people to run.

The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

I'm in WI, but these fingers are crossed! I want you to win, and then inspire like-minded people to run similar campaigns, because this is what we love to see.

I noticed kids doing this on social media, and for some reason, thought it was a fluke.

Democrats need to stop trying to negotiate with this.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

People Magazine has been doing good work. If I were a decision-maker at Teen People, I'd see this as an opportunity to hire great talent and pivot to making a gargantuan sum of money. Readers love nothing more than authenticity. Authentic voices travel. Lets embrace the cultural change.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

New awareness campaign

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Hot take: our borders aren't an actual issue. If we want to talk national safety, we need to hold accountable the people who leaked intelligence (Signal chats anyone) while fostering positive international diplomatic relationships. Safety starts with deescalation. Martial artist tip of the day.

Hey #WIPSnips!! I know a lot of people are participating in various November writing challenges. I thought it'd be fun to make a TrackBear for WIPSnips because I imagine some people already use it. No pressure, but if you want to join a Leaderboard with other WIPSnippians, use the 🔗⬇️

Metal Gear Solid 2 you play as a guy who's never off the phone to his girlfriend and then a bit later you play as a guy called Raiden who's never off the phone to his girlfriend

“Since the billboards have gone up, DeBarros said she’s hearing from National Guardsmen who are preparing to deny mobilization orders, as troops did in California and are preparing to do so in Chicago.” Very encouraging! 2 vet-led groups sponsoring. taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-gro...

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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us. And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

Menards is owned by a Nazi, and the Nazi contracts with other Nazis (O'Brien and Associates) to provide "security", which is actually just a bunch of reactive men drawing unnecessary aggro because they want to cosplay call of duty shoot a man.

Dan Brown is notorious for saying things in his work are very real and thoroughly researched, and then failing at the first hint of scrutiny. (Though this did legitimately make me laugh)

Vince Gilligan joins a growing chorus of screenwriters and filmmakers speaking out against the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools in Hollywood.

Everyone who was like "nuh uh, we can't criticize anything ever" owes me a coffee at my ko-fi (ko-fi.com/dnemesis) www.wkow.com/gov-gavin-ne...

I never wanna hear another Madisonian even jokingly call Chicago "FIBs" cuz... Like... Not exactly scaring off ICE, now are we?

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

This, and people's lack of scope. Not so much internet comments, but hearing IRL boomers talk about how glad they are they have a "strong" president. We're full into authoritarianism, and these people are like "yup, feeling secure with Big Daddy." I really thought we were closer to the same page.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

I legitimately think that he believes that man is just called Darth Vader. Like, not in a tongue-in-cheek referential way or a "lulz the democrats" way, but that it's his name. I'm so used to irony and "u winz da internetz", but this time...? I just don't see any understanding in that face.

Yes, please. More hearts on sleeves. Sincerity is cool as fuck.

“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro 🎥 Vanity Fair

hell yeaj

literally no need for this the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems. I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.

I unironically want this. I really think those types of shorts were useful, and there are a few that legitimately taught me something, even while being riffed.

I honestly thought I was the only one seeing this, because every time I say it, people are like, "well I don't knoooow" Like bud over half the film is just this shot with different blonde people in it. It's a dumb fucking film. (I always thought it was weird how Century 21 Calling echoed it in 62)

trying to explain the feeling in my brain as OpenAI and Grok both announce their GenAI tools are opening up to porn generation while anyone who so much as draws a boob is nuked with an orbital laser

new explanation for our current political climate just dropped

my preview for @closecallzine.bsky.social, had to honour of doing a comic collab with @kriegersan.bsky.social...! pre-orders close today if anyone wants some otasune yaoi...!

drawing them so i regain sanity #otasune

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons