One more flu A update: everyone in our household who took Tamiflu recovered super fast, like majorly better w/in 24-36 hours. One person did not take and still feels like crap 5 days later. If you test +, consider getting a scrip—but need to start w/in 48 or so hours of symptoms or it doesn’t help.

It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

@danahoule.bsky.social have a wonderful Christmas with your family! Hoping 2026 is a better year.

"It’s just fencing and concrete, but that’s a lot better than the manger we found him in.”

Zing!

Old and well-worn, but sturdy and lasting. They were around for more than eighty years, welcoming the footsteps of both German and Polish people. These small bridges between past and present always make my heart beat a lil’ bit faster. Come walk with me on the tiles of the ”Recovered Territories”.

Can’t tell if this makes me more hungry, or more thirsty.

Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell? That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.

The trio of octogenarian nuns gained global fame after fleeing their care home and breaking into their former convent. Now their superior has asked the Vatican to intercede in the dispute. n.pr/4peEUgS

Has this been posted yet

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

maturing is realizing Laurie just wanted to be one of the girls in Little Women

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Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine. Cartoon by Michael de Adder

“Forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

A cartoon by Amy Hwang, from 2013. #NewYorkerCartoons

I wrote about what I see as the real lesson of Mamdani's victory: not that Democrats needs to move left (or right, for that matter), but that they should try to build real-world relationships with normal voters. publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...

The Chicago area is less safe since a bunch of Border Patrol wahoos from Laredo & Calexico have been driving around spreading mayhem A bunch of Border Patrol wahoos from Laredo & Calexico driving around spreading mayhem in 12-18 inches of snow tomorrow will be exponentially worse.

Across Eastern Europe, they have what are known as "lustration" laws that do exactly this for people who were in the Stasi and its various equivalents. It's a model we should be examining.

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

They will fight to the last empty stomach.

I have long argued that the single best thing you could do to improve the functioning of the US government is double the salaries of everyone working on Capitol Hill. Serving Congress shouldn’t involve poverty wages in DC. You could attract a much wider set of perspectives netting a better result.

Just note that in 2024, voter turnout was 64.1% ... so fully ONE THIRD of registered US voters can't be bothered to vote .... even with early voting, mail-in voting, and same day voting.... compare that to say Germany who has 82% turnout on a single/ same-day vote. So stop complaining & just vote!!

Every day, as a Jew, I am going to call the ADL's tip line to report Mamdani anti-Semitism with at least three seismically moronic insights. I will begin with an accusation that the new mayor prefers strawberry and blueberry bagels to savory, and sometimes schmears butter. Fuck Jonathan Greenblatt.

@danahoule.bsky.social YES!!!

Oh — the situation has escalated. Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in. "Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist 2025 clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/04/w...

America is being run by mean girls and shitposters and trolls and the Comic Book Guys. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Please note the entire answer. It is not too late. But it will be.

“Hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.” Nick Cave

It’s really autumn so made Swedish meatballs in a cream sauce for dinner. @danahoule.bsky.social

This stupefyingly voluminous f––ing a––hole.

A great piece that hasn’t aged a day since 1941. Play the game the next time you’re in a room full of people. I’ve played it. I think for some people it’s almost a reflex. “Which one of you would call the Gestapo on me, and which would watch, relieved, as I was taken from my home in the night?”

Thread.

"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." — Ulysses S. Grant

A personal anecdote offered in response to Trump’s declaration that kids should not be given Tylenol. www.pbump.net/o/taking-tyl...

Aspirin can be lethal to babies and young children. There’s a reason they’re giving them Tylenol. I worry that the more Trump says “don’t give your babies Tylenol!” The more we’re going to see babies succumbing to Reye’s Syndrome & other aspirin related complications.

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Dutch photographer Manon Paardenkooper From My Garden: Poppies

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

Absolutely. But in 1975 neither of the nation's political parties was a cult, and its president wasn't a sociopath.

I would have paid the million.

So not surprising that the people who fetishize assault rifles kill more Americans than those who don't.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

“We cannot know what was in … Kirk’s heart because we are not telepathic. But we can make reasonable inferences based on the things he said and did publicly because we are also not colossally stupid.” Right, but inferences violate the norm against covering politics as if one were born yesterday.