If the only organization providing shelter, food or clothes to the homeless in your town is one you disagree with like the Salvation Army, it is still a moral obligation to support that shelter/clothes bank/food bank because the closure of that resource will risk the lives of the people they serve.

insomnia does at least inform. here's a gift article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's Thanksgiving leftovers weekend which means it's time to remember Ross Gellar's one extremely valid crash out.

My work is always hella busy this time of year so my family gives me a pass and I get to spend the day chilling out. Food: Dolmades, Hummus Music: Charles Wesley Godwin Reading: NYtimes Best Book list Book finished: The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason Book up next: Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

Updating our website - happened upon this - and marvelling at Ducks, Newburyport and Lucy's capacious talents all over again. What a gift. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Ken Burn's The American Revlolution...kicks off with Rick Atkinson (makes sense, nice to see him) but then bam bam! Maya Jasanoff!! lets Go!

It's America's Gettysbirthday today. "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work ...-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

We can call it ”one big beautiful health plan” if that gets him on board.

I grew up in a community where adults I knew and trusted ended up being pedophiles. And at least one ended up being falsely accused. The thing about violent rhetoric is when you normalize it, you also normalize it against people when you don't actually yet know whether the accusations are true.

as a fan whos basketball team has imploded (Pacers) and there is no one to blame but fate I really feel this

This podcast starts in the 1800s. I did not know I needed this in my life...but I do, I do! I love podcasts so much.

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

At this point, it’s utterly bonkers that any Democrat would trust any Republican to negotiate in good faith.

The Killing Me Softly song but its Death by Lightning and Benioff and Weiss has read each one of my dork letters out loud. (Hi, I'm the problem its me)

interesting article and a not new but new to me podcast all in one.

I learn to like things because of other people's enthusaiasms. I got back into watching Sports in the last couple of years (basketball and baseball) and it is the crowd that got me to keep going to the next level of understanding which makes me like it more. Same with books, movies, dance, art. etc

Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true

So it seems Trump etc are now saying the UAE is just fighting "Religious extremists" by supporting the RSF and the massacres.. you know the Pufendorf "if they don't have a violent leader the masses will just be more violent to each other"

I can't decide if this would be good, or if it just entrenches the RSF to genocide Darfur unmolested

Death and destruction have torn apart Sudan, largely fueled by the murderous RSF — who are armed by the UAE. Today, I had planned to seek Senate passage of my bill to block U.S. arms sales to the UAE so long as they supply the RSF.... (1/2)

Social media footage and satellite imagery show killings as Rapid Support Forces took over Al Fashir (El Fasher). Bellingcat geolocated one incident on the city’s outskirts and showed it to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lamb as presenter, every breakfast telling the faithfuls they’re fucking useless now put down that fucking croissant and fuck off #CelebrityTraitors

I'm writing a courtroom thriller about the trial of the sandwich vigilante. The title is 12 Hungry Men.

October Books!

I'm about finished with C.L.R James' Beyond a Boundary and who knew that a mid 20th century often Trotskiest Historian from Trinidad would make me care about a 19th English Cricketer ( a game ive never seen) so much im crying in A Noodle & Co but such is life.

It is the keeping of the tattoo instead of covering up that is wild to me. It is one thing to go on shore leave as a 21 year old and get a tattoo and another to be a man in his 40s with all the facist and anti-facist talk going on and still say no..I wan't to keep the "are we the baddies?" tattoo.

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI. MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I am DYING to know how long the Mariners stadium gameday operations people have had “do a salmon race but this time humpy wins” up their sleeve as a break glass in case of emergency fire-up-the-crowd play

You know who loves that "you want to take a skate on the ice inside my veins" line? The ice skater fan edit creators, that's who.

Kesley Mitchell. Star. Star. Star.

The Pope is the Holy Father because a major skill is driving the vehicle carefully to the destination while tuning out that the kids are fighting like dogs in the back and demanding you sort it out when you have no intention of getting into that squabble unless you absolutely unavoidably have to.

For those of us who have been aware of anti-vaxxers for a long time, these horrifying names keep popping up… Like David Geier, not a physician but advocate of chemical castration as “treatment” for autism. Now Mark Blaxill (not a doctor either), of Age of Autism infamy… Really disturbing.

REPORTER: What would you say to those who question whether Sandy should be here next year to coach you guys again? STEWIE: What Da Fuck #WNBA

It doesn’t matter how righteous or popular your cause is if you can’t do messaging right to the general population

And refugee resettlement and a host of other social goods now actively targeted for destruction by Elon, Stephen Miller and self-described 'Christian Nationalists.' Selling out immigrants and trans folk isn't the move. Networking at a Methodist chicken BBQ is the move. bsky.app/profile/leth...

6-7, 6-7, 6-7 skibidi 6-7, 6-7, 6-7 skibidi Ohio, a big back Ohio! An alpha sigma rizzler Go back to Ohio. Slay!

New "do-re-mi" for Gen Alpha just dropped

Michaels Baltutis shows how people live and interact with Hinduism, breaks it up into dual chapters each taking on an different aspect. talks about changes over time. mentioned Deepa Mehta's movie. gave it a watch..also Great! the book helped me appreciate the story so much more.

jokes dealing with the darkness we live in make sense, not caring about Kirk makes sense, pushing forward other groups and people who we should care about makes sense..but pretending that political assassination ever leads to anything good is idiotic, childish, and terrible.

I think we should put forward a bill for the Charlie Kirk Memorial Assault Weapons Ban.

anyone who calls folks concerned about the impact of A.I "lazy luddites" really hasn't read up on who the "Luddites" were....lazy was the absolute last thing you would ever call them. They were not against technology just against allowing the use of technology to steal their humanity.

Exactly. Exactly. We know there is no compromise to be had on immigration *BECAUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE TRIED TO BROKER ONE FOR 30 YEARS*. Three f’ing decades! As long as Jerusalem Demsas, who offered another “let’s hear the right out” proposal this week, has been alive!

I agree of course but as a Teamster not only had my union not "stepped up to the moment" they are in lock step with Trump and Hawley and the rest of the jokers.

August Books.

Yesterday's unbelievably massive Hill Family Biking Back to School Ride at 5x speed. Official count: 512

Did I buy this book in part because the cover looks so awesome (maaaaybe) but I just finished it and liked it a lot. The early years of his life and how plantation slavery worked in Haiti was especially interesting. Plus the round up of how Dessalines has been portrayed was helpful