a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Part 133 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd Swords of Aegean, the intersection of Anatolian and Mycenaean cultures. Blades are a distinct category of weapons that originated in the Aegean region, particularly during the late Bronze Age dating from 1600 to 1200 BC

This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.

The irony here is painful. Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name. But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased. Exactly how disabled people often are.

“We were just immigrants trying to get ahead and celebrating a friend’s birthday.” New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Experts interviewed by the Observer say there's still no concrete evidence the dramatic multi-agency raid on a rented AirBnB had anything to do with preventing gang activity.

My partner referred to the dog's lips as "moist jowlettes," so now, you all must be cursed with this as well.

Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

After Ghislaine Maxwell lied to Todd Blanche, someone waived her sex offender status and moved her to Club Fed with "OUT" custody - allowing her to work outside the prison walls. 3 months ago, I got her Bureau of Prisons points screen as proof. We still don't know who approved all this.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...

I simply cannot get out of the grocery store for under $100 anymore, regardless of how small my list is. 😭

Do people who are not oceanographers know that elephant seals have been helping us collect temperature and salinity data in inhospitable areas of the ocean for the last 20 years?

Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.

big ol article about me in GQ, if you go in for that sort of thing www.gq.com/story/john-d...

“Possible”? Doesn’t this violate three parts of the first amendment, which protects speech, religious exercise, and peaceful assembly?!?

Maybe if we don’t report macroeconomic data, people won’t notice that they’re paying more for stuff and people are losing jobs? 🤔

You don’t invite people to the Situation Room to try to bully them into removing their name from a discharge petition because you are innocent. Just saying.

Just saw the terrible news that US Bishops just banned gender affirming care at Catholic hospitals. A reminder, from the reproductive justice front - For a lot of people, Catholic hospitals are their only option. Even places where they aren't, they sometimes set standard of care.

/2 Being a Techbro (a term that is not actually gendered; some women are techbros) seems to require mistaking very old things as brand new and taking credit for discovering them. I guess they do the best they can within their limits.

What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.

Some Guild friends set up a fundraiser to help the illegally terminated employees while we fight back www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals. Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists

The US stands alone in the world.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy 🌿

Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

DHS lies constantly, and this has been confirmed in court. There is no evidence that any shots were fired at federal agents. The fact that the claim has no known basis in fact should be out front here.

They have betrayed us at every turn--when does this "fierce accountability" start? We want to see some. People are angry. This isn't about "feelings," it's about survival. "Feelings aren't wrong" is a fine thing to say if you are talking to your toddler, not your employer. Y'all work for us.

Monday evening, December 15, at 7:30, do join @kerryomalley.bsky.social, Annabeth Gish, and me for In the Night. In the Dark. A Shirley Jackson Evening. Thrills and chills guaranteed. Details linked below.

Answer: 75% of all American farm workers are Latin American migrants. Yes, the same folks that the party red states support want to deport. And no, they’re not doing it “to be nice.”

I for one love to not be able to watch football because the $3.5 trillion company can’t get along with the $201 billion company

Dolores O'Riordan did not leave this world in pain for Banana Republic to turn "Linger" into an uptempo singalong for BR-clad cheery drunks in an overly picturesque Irish pub.

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

Schumer took all the joy out of those wins… The betrayal is bigger than Fetterman. And the whole thinking we’re stupid 🖕

I am working on a story that involves some of the ways people really are standing up in this moment. There really is a groundswell and it's not coming from DC.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

It's hard on the sanity sometimes but I really recommend following every House Dem, on both official and campaign accounts. Some of them are masterful communicators, and as we are looking at getting rid of entrenched senators, there are some who are ready for a promotion in the next possible cycle.

if dems are going to do whatever their corporate donors want, then don't bother texting us for money anymore

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

Carcass time

Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

This, from Tim Kaine is HILARIOUS:

Regardless of fox’s actual rabies status. This is your reminder vaccinate for rabies. Always. Even if indoor only. The ONLY way to test for rabies is euthanize the animal and remove brain tissue. There is no live test for rabies and your state/local health department will not play

would be a shame if people called venues the way they did for Jeffries’ book tour