I thanked her sincerely and left a very good tip. Because I’m a lady. www.instagram.com/reel/DSm10ZN...

Meg!

"effectively unprecedented"

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

Meg’s on it, as always. I wish a variant of the phrase she used had occurred to me last year. Yes, if you’re on chemo, no one else is supposed to come in contact with your bodily emissions. Which meant condoms for both of us. On the plus side, I finally found condoms that fit.

I saw my teen get the ping that this newsletter hit her inbox and I watched her face go through some really complicated emotions when she read the title. And then she was like, "I read everything you write but I might give this a miss." lolol

✨Your pussy might poison people✨was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.🤔I wrote about cancer, context collapse and sex. Just a 4 min read! www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...

✨Your pussy might poison people✨was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.🤔I wrote about cancer, context collapse and sex. Just a 4 min read! www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...

"Magnificent Seven" is a helluva name for a group of ultrarich megalomaniacs engaged in a financial circle jerk that immiserates, pollutes, and boils the world to deliver ... cringe memes and spicy autocomplete that instructs kids how to off themselves

@pocketobservatory.org Somehow I think this will greatly amuse you ... xoxo

‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students

Elon Musk, the guy who did two Nazi salutes in public and has previously described himself as a “free speech absolutist,” thinks it should be a crime to “falsely” call someone a Nazi or a fascist.

I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off

To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit. All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.

We must love ourselves more than this!!

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

All three of my children's books are currently 40% from @haymarketbooks.org until January 2: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/116-ha...

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Praise Thor ⚡️

We don't have enough people doing what they can but I am so grateful to those who are. Thank you. Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.

we are going to win

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids

So Megyn Kelly thinks 15 year olds are not children and that men who prey on them are not pedophiles. And she decided to go on the record on her own show with this opinion. Got it.

Castle Rock v. Gonzales is, no joke, my Roman Empire. Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice. It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.

This Saturday at 12noon at Mountain View HS in Orem

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

“Frog,” said Toad, “if I wash my dishes right now, then I will not have to wash them tomorrow, will I?” “No,” said Frog. “You will not have to.” Toad washed and dried his dishes. He put them in the cupboard.

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

Sitting here editing a high schooler's piece on how the upheaval surrounding SNAP has impacted her community and she's describing how devastation from a flood in February already cut resources and now people are lining up for a church's food bags hours before they start giving them out.

I loved this piece Meg! I mean, I'm sorry you collapsed, but that your family both took such great care of you AND wanted to take Dramatic Photos was hilarious. xoxo

On Saturday, I lost consciousness at our kitchen table. I only remember bits of before and after. I sat down, asked for a saltine, bit it in half and then rested my head on the table. The cracker disintegrated in my mouth as I fell to a deep place. www.pocketobservatory.org/its-babys-fi...

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

I'm super stoked that Colorado voted to fund free meals for kids for schools. (I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater

JUST IN: California has adopted Prop 50, the Democratic plan to redistrict the state, according to CNN. They called it as soon as polls closed.

FEEDING BABIES WON!!!!!

also huge shoutout to @lindseyboylan.bsky.social who was absolutely everywhere leading the anti-cuomo charge

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

There are more of us than there are of them.

They playing Not Like Us at the Mamdani election headquarters

MAGA wants to end competitive elections because they know people hate what they’re doing.

We have evidence now going back to 2018 that when Trump isn't on the ballot, it's grim scenes for Republicans. And he'll never (lawfully) be on the ballot again.

This piece about my breast cancer diagnosis was published this morning right before I went in for a bilateral mastectomy. Sharing it now from my post-op bed. (Everything hurts. I’ve decided to treat the pain as proof of life.) www.pocketobservatory.org/i-have-breas...

Do you live in an apartment complex? How about printing out some fliers letting your neighbors know that on a particular day of the week, u will be cooking X extra meals and that anyone who needs one can stop by your place at X hour to pick one up no questions asked? Can even leave them at the door.