Me and Joan Didion have so much in common: She had a Coke for breakfast, I have Coke Zero for breakfast. We both grew up in Sacramento. Neither of us could bake a birthday cake; I find her hot chocolate soufflés to be a totally normal response to that. If only I had an ounce of her writing talent.

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

I just watched YEARNING FOR SODOM and even as Kurt Raab was dying he had some real gems. Discussing a relationship with a woman:

fuck everyone involved in this decision. scum.

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Saw this on the subway the other day. In case you had any confusion about what makes something goth, it’s simply a spider web.

Really can’t believe I forgot to remind everyone. Welp, a few days left for everyone to honor this.

Couldn’t sleep, maybe 3 hours. But had a great dream (I almost never remember them)! Pro BMX dudes doing great tricks but one had also interned with a baker and was showing off his pastries, was extremely proud of the laminating of his croissants.

Inspo

🚨 Do not hand your unlocked phone to law enforcement 🚨 Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience” #privacy #digitalID

Turns out the real threat to women and children were the Republicans in charge. They scapegoated trans people to deflect from their own sex crimes against women and children.

I reached out to Gillibrand and Schumer back in October. Received a very tepid response from Gillibrand’s office and none from Schumer’s. Moving forward I will ONLY vote for truly left leaning/progressive politicians. I’m done with the lesser of two evils approach/centrist democrats. AOC is RIGHT.

"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."

Election viewing party shirt.

It’s interesting the things we take from our families. Memories. Lessons. Even in complicated families I hope others can point to at least 1 positive thing. For me, being the baby/last of 5 (& an 18 year difference btwn me & the 1st), it’s the music. From my parents to my siblings, so many genres.

My office captured several stills from today’s @dhsgov.govmirrors.com video supporting Gregory Bovino. The imagery is deeply troubling; it evokes another era when masked government agents rounded up so-called “undesirables" (I’m sure that’s just a coincidence).

Highly relatable. I try to live my life without regrets but I do wonder how differently life could have been for me if I’d done it earlier.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

The annual Mother of Pearl obsession has arrived. Just tried to recall this lyric the other day: “Career girl cover exposed and another slips right into view.” I was never more nervous than meeting the personification of sex, Bryan Ferry, but kept my clothes on. (Weirdest GIF I could find.)

Joy receptacle Joy, IL

One thing I really hate are people on Letterboxd who give nearly everything a very high rating or a very low rating. I want to scream at them, “NOT EVERYTHING IS 4.5 OR 5 STARS!” I can’t take them seriously. Recently discovered a real POS who rates almost everything 1.5 stars which is also insane.

If you think the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, vote for Andrew Cuomo. If you know the problem in this city is that your rent is too high, vote for me.

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years. Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism." Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error. Subscribe to support our journalism.

wikimedia commons category "abandoned shopping carts"

"why do you keep calling us Nazis?" Because you're Nazis. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

V much looking forward to this! The queer nineties, what fun I had as a baby queer back then. Things weren’t great politically but I certainly felt much safer & more optimistic. Plus, my queercore/indie mixes to win over crushes or new friends were fucking great. Mix tape making is a lost art.

The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year. It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.

Always surprised when people don’t know how vile the Salvation Army is politically. NEVER give them money.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS In case you were wondering what new ways the GOP are planning on cheating, an ultra right-wing GOP election official, Scott Leiendecker, has bought Dominion Voting Systems- a year before the mid-term elections.

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

It is not lost on me that I’m extremely fortunate to have a mother (turning 85 this weekend & who was a republican up until voting for Obama) who loves me & acknowledges that I’m the same person - just happier, more confident, and comfortable - post transition. Sad that this is rather exceptional.

The university compact being offered to universities requires colleges to eliminate the recognition of trans people and ban them from bathrooms, locker rooms, and gender segregated dorms. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Feeling generous, giving away this great/awful band name: Naked Nirvana Baby.

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss. US Dems could learn a lot from their failure. Great piece from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

@righteousamerica.bsky.social the photo I promised you, taken in the nick of time as the Corvette is gone now!

FUCK ICE

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

one of my most popular designs

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

1. UCLA is in negotiations with Trump. Now we know the demands. Trump wants a statement that UCLA does not recognize trans student identities, a ban on youth care at UCLA clinics, bathroom bans, and more. Students are fighting back. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

I’ve reported this on LinkedIn twice now. First as hate speech and now as bullying/trolling. If you’re on there and seeing this why not do the same?

Read the thread. Me and my spouse spent a lot of time discussing what our hard lines are for leaving. Today I learned that this is mine. I am not a gun owner and have no interest in being one but if you read the thread you will see why this is a major concern.

How does John Bonham not have a single songwriting credit on IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR? As a drummer I say that unless someone else in the band is writing the drum parts the drummer gets a credit. Every band I was in split songwriting credits evenly which made sense cos we all wrote our own parts!

In this exact moment if I could travel to any time/place in history I would absolutely pick the Supremes recording session for Reflections. I’d need to be running back and forth from the engineering booth to the studio to get all of the magic. (Now fighting the urge to rabbit hole into the history.)

Back in the thick of the diary archives for my diss and just cracked up at an entry from 1985: “For HISTORIANS: I leave big gaps on some pages…” When your subject has just been waiting for you all these years….