This is enraging. Here’s an (real) unpaywalled link this time! archive.ph/2025.11.27-1...

Trying to psych myself up for a day of chopping & wrestling with raw poultry with coffee.

Älskar detta. "Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk"

How about a behind-the-scenes view of the 6‘ x 8‘ Lego data center at Microsoft Ignite? don’t worry - I got you covered. BUT - they won’t let me touch it or take it home. #msignite

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

With basically all the ballots in the city of Seattle's mayoral election counted, Katie Wilson is now above 50 percent, with Mayor Bruce Harrell sliding to 49.6 percent. They're currently within the mandatory recount requirements, but machine recounts don't generally change things much.

if you voted in Seattle you gotta make sure your ballot counted now

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Fun bit of history: New York is called New York because when the English seized it from the Dutch, who called it New Amsterdaam, they named it after the Duke of York. Andy fucked up SO BAD Chuck may have to completely memory-hole the dukedom that is the city's namesake 😳

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

A middle finger to erasure. More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!

There are people who will read this post who will very soon lose their healthcare coverage due to the Big Ugly Bill. 475,000 middle income New Yorkers will lose their healthcare: 13,000 in NY-23 (Langworthy), 14,000 people in the NY-24 (Tenney), and 14,000 in NY-26 (Kennedy). 1/2

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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

A lot of edgelords who like to talk shit about soccer mom style protesting must not be seeing the same videos I am that clearly show the people being the most aggressive and vocal at ICE are of soccer mom age and demographic. Your ageism and misogyny are showing. Tuck your slip and hush.

There’s something incredibly pure about the cardboard signs with the cheesy puns and cringe sincerity Each sign crudely lettered by a living and very angry person with a large supply of colored markers I’m sure the aesthetic can be faked: but it’s a bit harder

Dave Matthews spotted at No Kings 2

I know AI is supposed to be the current hotness, but the team at General Mills that came up with Peanut Butter Chex cereal deserves all the rewards.

Bob from Chicago getting it done. Yay.

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company. craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Thank you, Carl. This is badly needed.

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, also known as WIC, will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, experts say. The food aid program helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Sometimes Mondays require that you just have the decadent Ellenos Greek yogurt with pumpkin pie filling and gingersnap crumbles for breakfast.

"Keep it one hundred / On the land, the sea, the sky" would be a banging new motto for the Coast Guard. Just saying. #TheFateOfOphelia

Taylor Swift is coming for me tonight. Eldest daughter “Every eldest daughter Was the first lamb to the slaughter So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire.”

Travis has been out there saying Opalite is his favorite, but Fate of Ophelia is quite the bop and he’s the dark lady of that sonnet.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Leslie Jones wonders how Jillian Michaels went from counting calories to counting slaves

All the Pundits spending all of their time on What Democrats Must Do should be spending all of their time asking the Lisa Murkowskis & Mitt Romneys why they aren’t following Bill Kristol’s lead & why they continue to ally with/enable the far right authoritarians & have done so since 2016.

Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

Disturbingly relevant. Think of the insurance lawyer who filed the charges against Comey or the ICE jackass dropping his gun on Wednesday www.youtube.com/watch?v=362J...

Sinclair restoring Kimmel to its networks, and this whole situation in general, needs to be a lesson that we imprint in our minds and add to our arsenal of fighting back against fascism. If we are forced to live under capitalism then we can wield capitalism as a weapon and win.

Guess my day long headache is not random. It’s just crap air quality in Seattle.

Oh joy.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Bob from Chicago continues to be awesome.

My mom’s new Catholic parish family has a “pierogi ministry.” I’m reading the description of volunteers needed and it’s clear this is pierogi making at scale. Walk-in freezers and multiple dough squads are involved.

RTO is to productivity & innovation what taking our shoes off at TSA checkpoints was to security. Mostly performative.

JOSH. FUCKING. ALLEN.

I feel like that was the opposite outcome of so many heartbreaking Bills games in my lifetime.

Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:

Also, this is basically a metaphor for everything that’s happening to my country right now.

The Joann Fabrics in Shoreline, WA is now literally a Spirit Halloween. So the place we used to be able to go to get fabric and materials to make awesome Halloween costumes from scratch is a pop-up with cheap mass-produced Halloween crap.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.