The #GestapICE

New — I wrote about Zohran's victory, the challenge of celebrating wins in a broken world, and reconciling the competing realities of profound hope and festering fear:

STFU also applies to not talking to crappy journalists doing fishing.

I will never not remind people that the NY Times described cheese and tomatoes on a hamburger as a weird Californiaism and I filter all that paper’s takes through that lens.

Federal prosecutor, in his rebuttal, is in the tough position of hoping the jury forgets about the hundreds of MAGA folks pardoned by Donald Trump for vicious assaults on law enforcement on Jan. 6 and takes a sandwich case seriously.

I spent all day yesterday in the ER, and came home with a pending new crappy long term diagnosis. Cheer me up by donating to and/or sharing my GFM <3

SO PROUD OF US. Keep it up, spread the word, let’s embody the spirit of tea by taking care of each other! #seattle #solidaritea

Gods, I didn't notice he's put the plastic painted cheapass tchotchkes *outside*, too.

Y'all ever notice how nobody can ever actually point to any *specific thing* that Mamdani *actually said* that was antisemitic, and how people are just baldly asserting it anyway

AUGH

so where are the op-eds about republican overreach today? where’s the commentary about donald trumps war against american citizens or his terror campaign targeting brown people? where’s the pearl clutching over the conservative social media bubble reliant on nazi propagandists?

if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was "that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.

FUUUUUUUUCCCK. @altnasa.bsky.social? Anything the public can do?

This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

I think now might be a good time for people to read the Newsflesh books www.miragrant.com/series/newsf...

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

If I get any madder I’m gonna explode. I spent my life protecting these documents only to have this fucking two bit con man shit next to them and show them to uncleared civilians. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

New awareness campaign

Ahh, the libertarian right ideology. These are the same dunderheads who think that single payer healthcare means doctors are enslaved, and taxation is theft. They want all the benefits of civilization, and none of the responsibility.

Oh, hell yes.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

This is the #Gestapo.

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM *That’s* the headline. (Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

Jesus. I was just thinking yesterday, when People was putting Trump on blast, how Teen Vogue also was one of those magazines that wasn’t created to do hard-hitting politics but really rose to the moment back in Trump 1, unlike almost all other ones that should have. This is a real legit blow.

This is just *fucked up*. Shame on Time Magazine.

Okay I am digging out from underneath the costume avalanche and we’re starting out with a Book Dragon restock! I’ve restocked earrings and both sizes of statue ☺️ measuredandslow.studio/shop?categor...

All these math classes are doing is making me bitter, angry and feeling like I'm too stupid for college.

The Gestapo isn't just ICE, y'all

(UN)HAPPY FUCK TED FARO DAY!! (if you know, you know)

teens show up, one dressed as garth from wayne’s world (!). they’re very nice and choose good candy. teen: “happy halloween! oh, before i go, i have to give you this political propaganda.” other teen: “dude!! stop!! i keep telling you it’s not propaganda if it’s true!!!” (me: *a feeling of hope*)

Don't threaten me with a good time

Im on tirzepatide for my T2D. And yes, I have noticed a difference.

Happy Wszystkich Świętych, All Hallows Day, celebrated in Poland. One of my favourite celebrations, remembering these who have passed by decorating graves and lighting up znicze (a glass lantern)

If we can sell between 5,000 and 10,000 copies of OMENS OF CHAOS, we will debut comfortably on the New York Times Bestseller list, which is a very normal thing for a book to want (and will send a very clear message about what we want as a community). We won't, but a girl can dream.

She made an ofrenda for people who have died in ICE custody, which is a topic not covered enough by the news. 💔

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

Hey all. I know everything is awful right now, but I've started a go fund me to make things on the north end of the Seattle area a little less awful with a Cozy Crafter Space gofund.me/5ecfbc8a7

Happy 28th birthday to the best selling PC game of 1997! 🎂🍰🎉

Dear Etsy, A package reaching the regional USPS hub is not something "out for delivery", and being in the lands of the local mail carrier is not "delivered".

Samhain blessings to those who interact with me here. Over the next 3 days the veil between worlds thins as we enter winter and the period of darkness. The words coming through the veil are Stone Soup. You can either accept or reject that message but understand it first youtu.be/S3UsL0Tyteo?...

"People are getting free food and they might not deserve it!" who gives a shit man literally one of the unambiguously good things about the 21st century is we have lots of excess food production and we have the capacity to have hunger be significantly less important in decision making.

I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London

3 things happening at once: 1. They are learning the ACA coverage they enjoyed was always OBAMACARE. The very insurance they voted to end. 2. They are learning they, rural whites, are the demographic MOST RELIANT on government aid. 3. They are learning it’s the GOP’s fault for the shutdown.

Annual cost of SNAP: $113B Annual revenue lost through billionaire tax evasion: $163B GOP: The only solution to our debt crisis is cutting $113B in food benefits. Also here’s $4T more in tax cuts for billionaires