My greatest shame is that I sometimes ignore my incredibly sweet cat to watch other cats online

She became a citizen this fall, and her first vote was to oust a Republican sheriff who had just contracted with ICE. And the sheriff lost. Powerful example of how it feels to make a difference:

Ask more questions. What appropriation paid for this?

The "discourse about discourse" style of journalism is also an outgrowth of social media. Rather than discussing the topic, it's the endless coverage of who is being too mean on the Internet. It also helps media people disguise their real opinions behind objections to tone and style.

Here is the @spotlightdelaware.bsky.social report on this same vote. They helpfully note that while DE GOP reps pointed to Coinbase's recent "departure" from the state as evidence of harm "Coinbase has no operations in Delaware and therefore is unaffected by the tax cuts being negated."

tax the rich, they will whine and bitch and moan and they will pay their damn taxes because where else are they going to go, fucking Florida? it’s not Massachusetts and it’s certainly not New York City

All too often a ticket into various elite spheres is a willingness to keep yr mouth shut & use power only for yrself & cronies. "Elites" my ass. I've seen people with no money throw their lives, careers, bodies in the path of danger too many times to have any respect for cowardly behavior at the top

One reason I have nearly no patience with elites is that they have the scope, power & protection to act & they almost never do. Whether it's an assistant or wrier in Hollywood or a high schooler or carpenter standing beside me at Broadview ICE, I've seen regular people show so much courage. SO MUCH.

There are a lot of people who keep toxic, abusive, predatory systems going who insist to themselves & others that they are one of the good ones, when if they & others with power tried to stop the most monstrous, they could have. People rewrite history & what's happening in front of them all the time

This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen

I mean, that's very much "bar set lower than hell" territory, but the thing that journalists and other kinds of truth tellers can do is *interrupt the narrative* that not just ogres but enablers weave about themselves. They are putting a non-complicity narrative out there & we don't have to buy it!

if I am elected president I will enforce a mandatory executive austerity program and full independent audit before a company can cut more than 50 jobs in a quarter.

This is bad. Some thoughts from a TAMU faculty member. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Imagine our surprise if anyone from the New York times today had said "this is awful and we're starting an investigation into our own reporting and the possibility of a cover-up" But everyone knows that all they do is circle the wagons no matter how bad the scandal

Drunk border patrol agent was in a womens restroom with a loaded gun + one in the chamber then wandering the parking lot of a restaurant with his gun out then resisted police and threw the fucking thing *loaded* The police tried to deny giving any of this info but this indie newsroom prevailed!

Panda *is* a pancake.

There it is Strike Fund - Starbucks Workers United share.google/pmINaeARKhjK...

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad. Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry. The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand

the way basic human decency hits these days is crazy

Eugenics. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

LA: - black mayor - majority non-white DC: - black mayor - majority non-white Chicago: - black mayor - majority non-white Charlotte: - black mayor - majority non-white

This was always where the right's "viewpoint diversity" schtick was going. A U.S. Senator said that the professor must be removed from teaching the graduate-level course because "one student in the classroom was uncomfortable." Love that viewpoint diversity. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

This is what ya get when the pundit class is mostly a bunch of journalists writing about politics, ethics, law, war, science, etc rather than experts in those subjects

give a dog a pancake

Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

CHECK Y'ALL EBT!!! I'M SO SERIOUS! I'm in NYC and I got no notifications that I'd get compensated but I did so GO CHECK Y'ALL!!!

Michigan Republicans asking Trump to take over the 2026 election Michigan. (I know that this, in theory, references in 'monitoring'. But we're not obligated to accept bullshit cover stories.)

Just asking again: Is the Democratic Party going to take a loud public stance on whether we should go to war with Venezuela or no?

Get up, get down, San Diego is a union town! #NoContractNoCoffee

My "Donald Trump is very healthy" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Is the AI bubble the only thing preventing this from being an official recession?

Imagining myself swinging a $1000 iPhone in a $230 sock with increasing speed above my head until with a blood-curdling shriek I launch it into a giant screen displaying Severance

A really important point. You can't "solve"misinformation without understanding the ways beliefs function as identity markers more than attempts to represent reality accurately gone awry.

Jeff Bezos has four kids none of which you've ever heard about and only one of which can you find mentioned by name. how...is that that the rich can extend themselves a level of privacy that nobody else has, often because their companies have stripped it from us?

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

The government's intelligence gathering apparatus is literally "I saw this snuff film on X" now and I have no idea why people haven't realized this or still post there regularly like you're not feeding a government surveillance firehose.

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car he was married at the time

According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally. Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

ok maybe the craziest thing about these epstein emails is how many of them are still emailing like this after october 2016 and the wikileaks dnc emails

Lmao

"IT'S ONLY NEWSWORTHY BECAUSE WE GOT CAUGHT"

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

All of this to say: people are coming down extemely hard on the question of how the NYT as a whole has handled the Epstein question has less (though not nothing!) to do with Epstein and more to do with a general loss of trust in the paper in general

I wish him all the best in his recovery, which should be done at home and without the stress of serving in the Senate

More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.

pedophilia is the president's worst issue