I know there's a lot going on in the world but I feel like I'm literally going to die of not having a big goofy dog anymore. Since 1999 I've never gone longer than three weeks between big goofy dogs. I just have these shitty little dogs.

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

man, the collective grief from older trans people at the violent death of the world we briefly hoped was coming, a world in which trans children would be recognised, loved, and helped... yeah.

An entire article about the sudden rise of coffee alternatives and not a single mention of the fact that coffee bean prices have skyrocketed during the Trump administration? Bean prices are up 30% in six months.

Why are people still talking about that woman's freaking book. I feel like the ethical issues are a much bigger story than bad prose but we are into week two of breaking down overwrought sentences and we are no longer even talking about the people with actual power in this story.

I was at this mall two weeks ago (to use the bathroom) and it was eerily vacant.

I think that every hour on spend on Bluesky takes an entire year off my life. This place is too stressful. Too much reality and, what do you all it, "news."

A Supreme Court that overturns Humphrey's Executor and 90 years of precedent to enable Donald Trump's corrupt march toward oligarchy is simply not a sustainable or legitimate institution.

This predates Tiktok. See now- disgraced online personality who built a huge following by live tweeting their read of a nonfiction book whose author they barely mentioned. People who hadn't read the book assumed the tweets were the personality's own commentary and not the work of the actual author.

What the fuck does the owner of Plumpjack Wines, who dines at the French laundry during lockdown, who dated Trump Jr’s wife, who looks like an 80s movie villain, know about acting fucking culturally normal

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

My main takeaway after arguing before SCOTUS in 2006 (aside from being appalled by what a boys' club it was) was that none of those guys would last in a debate with the great Justice Joyce Kennard (retired California Supreme Court justice, queen of the sly softball, smarter than the lot of them).

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

Whew, now I don't have to pretend to care about soccer during the Ted Lasso off-season. (I was not actually planning to pretend to care.)

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

We’re entering a new era of childhood mortality & disability, & almost no one will care bc they’ll just get used to “the new normal” within a few years. They’ll ignore the harm. How do I know? Because that’s exactly how it went w/COVID, which is the 2nd largest threat to childhood health rn.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Because too many people let him get away with using the Cass Review to take away puberty blockers.

The only reason selective colleges and universities are anywhere *close* to parity is because of affirmative action for young men, defended not as a matter of remedial justice but as a matter of maintaining a particular campus atmosphere. Abolish that, you get 60-40 right away, 65-35 soon.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I'm going to sound like a broken record by the way I keep mentioning how 95% of Somalis in the Twin Cities metro area are US citizens, but very few mainstream outlets are pointing this out. This should be very basic stuff for any news organization.

You made your choice, now we get to make ours. And for me, I made a solemn promise to myself, in 2022 when you still thought the progressive consensus was unassailable, not to go quietly, not to make it easy on anyone. I've been steeled against this moment for years.

You have the choice to sacrifice trans people. Perhaps it will save you. But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect. You made your choice.

The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival... ...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

It is very unsettling seeing alleged allies calmly saying shit like, "Well, hospitals are in an impossible situation, they have to stop treating trans kids or lose their funding, they don't have a choice."

every single day I think about a world where that child could’ve said “I’m a girl”, a world where that child didn’t have to feel so strange and wrong and sad all the time. anyone celebrating yesterday’s girl guiding decision is celebrating childhood fear, anxiety, and depression

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

did anyone ever get anywhere on this

They say he was born on Mt. Paektu, the mythical place of origin of the Korean people, and at the moment of his birth, a new star appeared above the cabin where he was born. They also say the star gave him the power to block hurricanes, but not to resist dozing off during cabinet meetings.

life is long and i've seen a lot of things come and go but i will not stand for the rehabilitation of the ron howard grinch. motherfucker i was THERE in the theater. i was there

How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?

I think we need to recognize how extraordinary it is for a modern day president to be THIS explicitly racist. It really is.

I need every single one of those bathrooms including the one for coats.

This is the easiest boycott ever. I can not shop at Target forever.

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

This time last year, I was on the South Lawn of the White House helping to lay out the AIDS Memorial Quilt. This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics. That’s…not the problem.

this has been one of my favorite accounts on social media since it began. be sure you're following @ufw.bsky.social, and remember every day who actually keeps every one of us fed. it ain't wall street.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Gwendoline Christie should be the new Bond imo

We ordered our Thanksgiving dinner from a meal kit so all I've had to do is make two pies, a cranberry apple crisp, pumpkin bread, sweet potato casserole, and stuffing (from the kit) that took longer than the kind I usually make.

I think if I were being cuckolded by RFK Jr I would simply change my name and leave the country

Watching Freakier Friday and thinking this guy looks like a British Manny Jacinto. I was so happy for the world to think there were two of them! (It's just the regular Manny Jacinto. ACTING British.) (He's way too hot for Lindsay Lohan.)

Sorry mom but it's true. (I make pumpkin pie for my husband but I make key lime for myself. Being a grown adult means I don't have to pretend to like sweet potato pie anymore.)

Death Cab for Cutie is on the oldies station, please do not touch me or I will crumble to dust

Thought it would be fun to take a class at the local community college but now I have homework over Thanksgiving weekend! I have important nothing to do! (Both kids have homework over Thanksgiving weekend, too. Spouse should wait on us.)