Who will map the Retreat from Chicago as Minard mapped Napoleon's retreat from wintry Moscow?

Remplacer l’académie française par la umbrella academy

The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

A cat and her northern lights.

We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.

Wow, I am surprised by this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

A solemn 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to you all “We are holding our own.” -Captain Ernest M. McSorely in the final radio message

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

So yeah, Schumer is fucking awful. But there’s enough Democrats supporting this debacle that it’s obviously more than a one-guy problem. The party that consistently presents itself as the only bulwark against fascism keeps surrendering to fascism.

Yeah, fuck this. Lucy and her football win again.

Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50

Some might commemorate the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm going to celebrate the anniversary of the T.D. Mischke wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald interview. youtu.be/hv4yMUKBOX8?... still maybe the best and weirdest radio thing ever.

Tonight’s viewing is Pleasantville. It seems appropriate for the current moment and my husband had never seen it.

Who is she? I can’t remember the last time I was completely clean shaven.

We have the perfect opportunity to do it again.

Looking at @kvetch.gay’s pics from his vacation makes me yearn for the plains and the Midwest.

The world has turned and left me here.

All of the taco trucks will be halal.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Say what you want about Schumer because he's done some truly stupid shit before, but they only presented this offer because they *knew* the GOP would say no and give us all the finger, which just brings heat on themselves because they're morons who can't govern their way out of a wet paper bag

The cruelty is the point of everything they do.

Fiscal responsibility, too, is woke

Officially cozy sweater season.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

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Same, and this is the baseline that every dem needs to run on.

I need a copy, the right wing media is once again tempting me with a good time.

Me when I spot a bag of cool ranch Doritos.

Toot or boot, should I go as Kenny G next year for Halloween? I would have a soprano sax (that I can competently play) and some smooth backing tracks as part of the costume.

Are peanuts okay during no nut november? Technically they’re legumes so I think they're okay.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Girl… let me put on some Obama era indie pop, throw my hair in a messy bun, and lib out about it

What I aspire to.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Omg DeMaria finally lost! Good job Everett. I do hope the new mayor is at least as good on housing and transit though.

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

Across New Jersey, bomb threats at multiple polling locations have prompted closures and relocations today

This leaf sprouted a whole new plant.

Breaking news: Former vice president Dick Cheney, who became chief architect of a post-9/11 war on terrorism that involved bypassing restrictions against torture and domestic espionage, died Monday night. He was 84.

Voter #1 at my polling location 🙂‍↔️🫡

Regime department gets ready to declare Blue states illegal - and screw many state and non-profit workers www.universalhub.com/2025/regime-...

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

Trump is right. We all remember the Communists and their decisive failures at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Public grocery stores and a pause in rent increases for a modest section of homes absolutely did nothing for the serfs.

I’m coining the phrase “the centrist two-step.” Step 1 is declaring that the left needs to focus on kitchen table issues instead of social issues to win back voters and step 2 is insisting that all left-wing approaches to kitchen table issues are impossible to deliver on.