November 6, 2025

No, please. Don't strain yourself. We'll do it. 🙄

This should get a Pulitzer. It's going to be an all-time classic.

🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

"The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both." Great piece. Please read and send this to your maga relatives who think they're still following Christianity.

That’s the way to do it put their feet to the fire

November 5, 2025

Genius

Virginia Republicans have learned the difference between having a one-mile flood barrier that's 20 feet high and a ten-mile flood barrier that's 2 feet high. But while you celebrate, don't forget that their reaction won't be "We need to change" but "This is why we gotta stop having real elections."

WSJ: yes, Dems had a good night, but the split between progressives and centrists remains a point of division. A moot point in local and state elections. Nationally, the bigger point is how galvanized young people- women in particular-were to vote for Dems. The times they are a changin’.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

November 4, 2025

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

On this day in 1605 a Catholic soldier named Guy Fawkes was arrested in an undercroft below the House of Lords. Many people know about the infamous gunpowder plot, but here's a blog post about the broader Catholic community at the time. manyheadedmonster.com/2014/11/03/g... #EarlyModern 🗃️

For some reason Donald is asking me for election rigging tips.

PA! YES! YES! YES!

November 3, 2025

Thank you, Canada, for the demo of how 1) teaching to the test for decades, and 2) the saturation of conservative media, and, yes I’ll say it, 3) the overwhelming stupidity of large swaths of Americans has lead to autocracy now being the threat it is.

Norway brings common sense to the table.

If you have a grade schooler, maybe throw a couple of extra snacks in their lunchbox this week to give to the teacher, who will know which kids need them.

November 2, 2025

I don’t know who he is. But I pardoned him. An Auto-pen crisis, perhaps?

Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second? I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit

It's another example of the president’s ongoing cognitive decline caught on video. Trump appeared to forget where he was going and left the Japanese Prime Minister behind as she watched him, clearly confused. trib.al/WPTM9IP

“No one gave the Blue Jays a chance against a team full of exceedingly rich, first-ballot Hall of Famers. The only ones who believed they had a fighter’s chance were the Jays themselves…

This formula should be generalized by all religious minorities who believe they will be ok in the company of the people who hate them. There is only one true faith in Trump’s circles. Any alliance with him will end in betrayal.

I am not able to attend marches, but I am able to make my voice heard in other ways. And you can, too. Get a library card. Read a book.

Letterpressy responses to AI hype/harm: @markalanmattes.bsky.social's new series (QT'd); got @starshapedpress.bsky.social's "made with human intelligence" postcard club print this past week (bsky.app/profile/star...) & @umdbooklab.bsky.social's "small language models made here" back in May #DHmakes

Virginia Book Arts is re-opening to the public! Join free events open to all next week: 1ST FRIDAY: Fri Nov 7 5-7pm OPEN HOUSE: Sat Nov 8 10-4pm Drop by 600 E. Water St (Cville near Downtown Mall) Pull a print on a press, 👀 past collab projects+member art, enjoy snacks & meet local book artists 📚🎨

As I read it, I was all smug about how my quaint college town would never give in to such Big Brother surveillance tech. Then I went to www.atlasofsurveillance.org and saw, oh shit, my town does indeed have a contract with Flock.

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

If I were young and had marketable skills in science, I’d leave too.

Prosecutors are facing discipline for telling a judge the truth in a sentencing memo. This post traces the case, its facts, the sentencing process, and helps us understand why this completes the cycle of corrupting the Justice Department Trump has set us on. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Gosh, I wonder if the not-quite-a-doc candidate for Surgeon General thinks SNAP benefits are useful for good nutrition.

The Globe & Mail, my fave newspaper in Canada, succinctly summarizes Life in These United States.

October 29, 2025

Trey Sherman, who worked on the now-canceled CBS Evening News Plus, also posted this TikTok clip explaining that every producer of color on the show was laid off -- and every white producer was relocated to another role in the company. www.tiktok.com/@treymous/vi...

Since January there have been two distinct masked, armed gangs terrorizing America’s streets: ICE & the Border Patrol. Last night, the Border Patrol’s most aggressive commander effectively seized control of ICE. ICE, it turns out, wasn’t aggressive *enough*. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/think-ice-...

There is a reason why the G&M is among my daily dose of newspapers.

Read a book called Dying of Whiteness to fully understand this statement.

October 26, 2025

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

The billionaire who gave the military money was Timothy Mellon and if you're an obsessive tracker of the eugenicist Tanton network that's invaded our government like I am you will have immediately recognized that name, that's Mellon as in Mellon Scaife www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sc...

Explaining the World Series to Americans (Who Want to Move to Canada)

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

Charlotte McConaghy has written a book of profound beauty and heartbreak. Read Wild Dark Shore. Now.

Too Good To Go (app) works with over 175,000 businesses for surplus food management. People can find restaurant food at half price or less and restaurants can reduce food waste. Win win! #foodassistance #reducewaste #giveback

It’s so wholesome. I love this