Is this good? It doesn't seem good. "Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."

Everyone who since Tuesday has been asking where all the Democratic voters were in 2024: tonight’s Senate cave is your answer.

Every single time you think they couldn’t be any more feckless…

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

Instead of Bernie Moreno creepily following us to the cars we use to get to work in the Capitol and writing down their VIN numbers, I'd suggest he use his time in more productive ways …

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

That’s not how any of this works. Billionaires don’t work 1,000,000x harder than working class people.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com #FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

If I ever do another chapbook, I know what the title will be.

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

Few things scare me more than someone telling me they’ll just “buy the book on Amazon” 🫠

Help Tyler sue these freaks

MAGA voters on SNAP deserve to eat.

Hit with higher insurance premiums? Trump is making them even higher. Forced into bankruptcy by medical debt? Trump doesn’t care. Worried that’ll impact your credit score? Trump wants it to.

This basically sums up my thoughts on the Platner controversy. I knew a million of these guys during the height of the Bush era. I think we write them off at our peril.

New BGSU/YouGov Poll of OH registered voters N=800 MOE +/-4.5 (sample weighted Trump+10) Trump favorability (41-51) -10 OH Senate - 49/48 Brown/Husted OH Governor- 50/47 Ramaswamy/Acton 49/47 Ramaswamy/Ryan Tons more on Epstein, Kirk, ICE www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sci...

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Me deciding to watch the world burn: “ChatGPT, please give me 100,069 possible titles for thrillers in which pugs play a key role.”

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

11 days into a government shutdown. This is where we are:

Would have made the first words in this post “In a New Netflix film,” but I’m built different

every dollar you spend for a subscription to a major publication like the times or wapo is better spent on propublica and local and independent media

"We separate people from their kids. Tackle as many of them as possible. Zip-tie their toddlers and grandparents. And stand around looking tough. We look so tough. Increasingly, we also really need to take dumps."

Hello, hello, hello, how low? Tuesday's #FlashFiction smells like (pre)teen spirit. Tune into "The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died" by @ashdoeswords.bsky.social!

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is the urtext of LifeTime movies.

Miller looks like a cancerous testicle cosplaying as Lex Luthor.

HOLY COW. What an issue:

It’s crazy that the theatrical cut of Iron Eagle (1986) ends with Louis Gossett Jr.’s character and the kid kissing like in Sixteen Candles.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Super excited to be back in Ghost Parachute. I love this story and am glad it find the right home!

Read "Be More Raccoon" written by @keithjpowell.com and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Whittled thin by another season of flu and fire, Jacob looked to the internet and embraced its advice: Be more raccoon." tinyurl.com/w4me8cay

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva hasn't been sworn in, so she has to roam Congress with an escort I saw her this morning going through security along visitors — something lawmakers don't need to do when walking into the Capitol More on her limbo status here: www.notus.org/congress/ade...

I’m losing hours to Hades 2.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

I've got a new #flashfiction up in one of my favorite journals. Hope you'll check it out!

Thank you @thedrevlow.bsky.social!

Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet. After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!

This is not behavior that a healthy democracy tolerates from its judiciary. slate.trib.al/DzLD93Y

Highly normal. Nothing to see here, folks.

the court is a solvable problem if they have the courage

New: Definition by Sarena Tien! Adeline Song is on the run. The US government has started to hunt down people like her. But when Adeline crosses paths with mechanic Finley Reyes, she must decide whether she will let other people continue to define her, or whether she will finally define herself.