This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

My neighbors are mostly Mexican men. Right now they're setting up a tailgate across the street. They are all in various NFL jerseys and are throwing a football around in the cold (we've joked about how they're not used to WI weather) and laughing. In short, fuck Stephen Miller.

I feel SEEN

My MIL stood up to the Klan during protests in the segregationist South. My mother fought for decent ESL classes for migrant workers and volunteered to help them learn to read. Why wouldn’t they be out there now? Boomers didn’t all get brain-wormed.

If you were in St Paul today, thank you. We need more observers. There’s a thin line between protesting and observing. You don’t have to be on the front line! If you see staging activity, call a response hotline! Describe what you see. Resources and upcoming trainings here.

If you want to know how things are going, per the satellite tracker he wears the puppy has been meeting his step goals by 5 am most mornings.

Read the whole thing.

Alice Wong taught me more about my own internalized ableism and about being an ally than anyone else. I am so very sorry that she is gone, but so grateful her writing will live on.

This is, unfortunately, so Wisconsin. She's only put in jail for THIRD OFFENSE drunk driving because she didn't have anyone sober to take charge of her. Alcoholism is a disease and I'm not saying jail is the best place for someone with that disease, I'm saying we don't take alcoholism seriously.

The puppy training class I'm signed up for says I need to bring a "high-value treat" along for my pup. I'm not sure how they're going to react when I'm handing him small plastic bottlecaps and wads of dirty kleenex.

I want to watch a travel show with this kid and Zack Pinsent visiting art and historical museums and sites all over.

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

My A1c is now at normal non-diabetic levels with GLP-1s, something that I couldn’t get to happen before the drugs even after losing 40 lbs and not eating more than 30 carbs a day. Even if they did nothing else but help diabetics slow their disease progression, they’d be a medical miracle.

This person took this when they called the race

I really like this platform most of the time but if I didn’t know better when I opened up the app tonight, I would have thought the Dems lost everywhere. JFC people.

I’m encouraging my kids to make zines

my bf, a generational hater: “i’m gonna redeem a 3-day free trial to the nyt so i can watch them crash out when mamdani wins”

Wow, those are some uniforms on the Steelers.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

I read one news item about trains and now I am bombarded articles about different kinds of trains. Just because I’m autistic doesn’t mean I’m obsessed with locomotives! I like train MAPS and train SCHEDULES, not the cars. Sheesh!

Whew!

With all the awfulness in the world, I think it's important that people meet my new puppy. His name is Teddy. He is 5m old and 35lbs. His DNA shows about 30% each of Husky and Great Pyrenees, 20% German Shepherd, and 10% each of Golden Retriever and Anatolian Shepherd. He's also afraid of the wind.

Yes the word that normally comes to mind when I think of GWAR is “restrained”. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

At the Amish weed booth anyone need anything

Charlie Kirk was a fucking monster and I’m sorry that extra-judicial killing was apparently the only way to get him out of public discourse.

I got into UChicago to study econ there, but for complicated reasons, did not go. I am sorry I wasn’t allowed to go to my first choice school but in some sense, I dodged a bullet.

It’s one thing to know these facts about language, it’s another to put them all together after hearing a short clip of someone speaking.

BRB, new writing prompt just dropped

In Middleton, NY. This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs. This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.

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David Corenswet is the only acceptable Superman other than Christopher Reeve. I am taking no questions at this time.

I saw it with my ex who grew up in Clarkesdale. I’m really glad they included the Chinese community who have been there since Reconstruction. The woman below is Sally Chow. She was his school teacher and baked wonderful cakes. I love their thick southern accents.

Beer cannons

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said. “Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!" The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

I have been called any number of names by men on the internet for pointing these facts out. Just because royalty sometimes sold their children into marriage doesn’t mean everyone did!

I really am trying to get my work done. The dog is snoring.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

“Making incarcerated people pay for communication has a regressive effect on their well-being, on their improvement in prison, and after they are released,” says Wanda Betram, a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative. boltsmag.org/north-c...

Trying to review for my algebra midterm and I've got to tell you, neither my autism nor my ADHD feel like super powers right at this moment.

@carloshasanax.bsky.social I saw the bumper sticker pic and thought, “you know who would like this?” and then saw you were the one reposting it.

BREAKING: Here is the opinion: www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.

The American Bar Association is holding trainings for volunteer court observers. Participants can help the Commission on Immigration track trends and identify issues that will inform advocacy efforts in support of access to counsel and due process protections. Link to sign up in next skeet

My first academic article is live!! Published with Fashion Studies, “What is a ‘Worth’ Worth? Developing a Methodology of Historical to Modern Day Price Conversions for Dress” asks how we can better explain clothing prices in the past to people in the present. The approach explored is wage data.

reposting w/ alt text bc ❤️

this dude: oh no don’t do that I’d hate it if you did that please stop (hopeful)

Our current weather

Great, so not only are they now going to be at war with Iran, they're also going to be sued for trademark infringement by a male stripper.