the fact that Sandwich Guy is facing this 'wich trial at all is evidence of subpar justice. he is a hero being put through the judicial grinder. i hope the jury wraps up a not guilty verdict without delay or loafing around

folks in these states, your senators are getting a lot of pressure to cave in and reopen the govt without any kind of ACA deal please call and tell them to hold strong, bc ripping healthcare from millions (by doubling, tripling, or MORE the cost) is NOT OK

the jury wisely decided not to swallow it

OMG

At @dataforprogress.org we continue to do SNAP defense work. SNAP is *very* popular with the American electorate — 69% of Republican likely voters have a favorable view of the program.

that's right "guilt by association" doesn't work for STUFF stuff must be evaluated on its own merits regardless of who likes or hates it

some decrepit old fantasist tried to call me a little girl and tell me the republican party used to be good bc they got rid of nixon puh-leez they didn't get rid of him for his raging anti-semitism. they got rid of him bc he was a liability, since he got caught, and that used to matter

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

My author-client @bzotto.bsky.social is very close to funding his book on Sphere Computers, which will fill the historical gap with a ripping yarn about a brilliant but flawed genius in Utah who got the first boot-to-prompt personal computers in the market, sold over 1,000, and then disappeared.

it's all true. but she also tarnished her own legacy by becoming an obstructionist to younger, more liberal democrats who had great popular support… and some of her actions led to the 2nd trump admin. just goes to show that it's better to leave at the top.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

Ellis says she is "ordering complete relief to the plaintiffs."

ohhh well, this is laughable. it has never once stopped somebody being rude to me. tone policing as policy is DEEPLY SUSPECT

The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn

> It's just a tool Tools have affordances. A chair affords sitting on it. Buttons afford pushing. To put it crassly, guns afford pulling the trigger with the barrel pointed away from you.

Thanks to this morning's Bluesky discourse I'm suddenly thinking about this 1971 letter from artist Nancy Spero to critic Lucy Lippard www.si.edu/object/nancy...

these fucking RULE.

i just called kelly and surprise, a human picked up! she was very nice. i told her about the insane insurance renewal bills my friend are getting and that they need to make republicans come to the table, not give in. we can't just let millions of people lose healthcare.

This is a big deal, the opposite of Obama standing down his organizing base after 2008.

5. But now along comes an upstart from the land of the living, trying to pull the corpse into a standing position. Damn that Mamdani with his bright eyes and lively agenda, seizing the initiative from our cold, dead hands. Quick, pull him back into the grave!

i feel pretty positive it would

The reason the technology does well on tests but fails in the real world is that the tests are bad. This is why useless managers whose only skill is taking credit for others' work in interviews love AI so much: it's relatable!

Brand new data: Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!). These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates. Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

i just need everyone to know that this is what ross douthat looks like when his evil spirit is animating his otherwise unremarkable flesh

real lone and level sands stretching far away hours, who up

DON’T GET ON YOUR EZRA KLEIN NONSENSE DON’T LET EZRA KLEIN ANALYZE THIS

Be Not Afraid

guys you can’t trust the unusual whales account you can tell you can’t trust it bc it pretends to break news without links to source just like the fin whatever account i KNOW you know better than that

i know lots of you have adhd too so if you’re on vyvanse (incl generic) please click the link

Tucson also elected a democratic socialist to our city council last night. Glad she’s my councilor.

Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari

"you don't need to want to work in government… in fact it's better if you don't. because you aren't gonna." this is amazing run to lose

i ate a little bit of ice cream — not even super cold ice cream, right out of the maker — and now i am FREEZING and need to get under a heated blanket bodies: worse than programming

this is an all-time great bait post 30 rock is, if anything, the more neoliberal project, designed as it is to make you love villains, with a central message of "nothing better is possible." and i LOVE 30 rock.

huhhhhhhhhhh now this is some fascinating updated research. the idea that cults usually survive their prophecies failing, due to cognitive dissonance, seems to not pass the sniff test after all this is the 2nd article this author has written on this topic! preprint here: osf.io/preprints/so...

spending $79 on basic cleaning stuff (oxygen cleaner, hand soap, spray cleaner) bc i have to order all that shit shipped to me from little indie companies bc there is NOT ONE widely available commercial product other than dr bronner's that i'm not allergic to

chat is not feeding your armies bad? i feel like i read some book about this particular thing… it was pretty old…

i’m gonna win politically bc i have a foolproof plan: 1. take away jobs 2. take away savings 3. take away healthcare 4. take away food 5. take away flights for thanksgiving oh yeah and 6. take away your utterly blameless family, friends & neighbors

It was like the heavens themselves were like “you know what would be a good way to keep up the vibes from yesterday?” And then dropped this.

this is incredible bc those are the exact things they said about the left — joyless, scolding nags, nothing but moralizing and hypocritical lectures they just replaced the target, like madlibs

Just added to my Etsy shop: 🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars 🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers) 🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos 💐tiny posy mental health kits Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

It's been a v rough year for me with a full breakdown & trying to get back on my feet financially since then. If you come across this post it would help me *so much* if you could retweet my post above👆 about my Etsy shop-it will put the things I make in front of more eyes. Thankyou 🌿

ayfkm this isn't even "cheap wedding chapel near an ailling shoney's" level any more this is dashcon

i can't shop at starbucks even if i wanted to, but in case you do… big ally opportunity here

Reminder to pro-business Americans: Canada has something like twice as many self-employed people and small businesses per capita as you because even self-employed Canadians can get unemployment insurance and healthcare. It's great for our local economies.

if you start from the view that there's a policy compromise you can make that will calm people down, you can end up supporting some very authoritarian stuff very quickly uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban

He eats rice with his hands; he calls a genocide a genocide; he gleefully mocks Islamophobes by calling them "habibi" (a particularly pointed choice: he's not Arab.) And this is ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING to people who are used to seeing Indians as their well-tamed pets in the game of white supremacy.

President HomeGoods is fucking BRUTAL.