I got married (again) on Sunday and let me tell you what, it was really nice to see a bunch of people crying because they were HAPPY for a change.

are vows traditionally done in Chicago or MLA? trying to format my footnotes here.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

*mournfully* This is a problem on the left (posters on the website 'blue sky') AND the right (the united states federal government)

I’m not sure what saying “things are about to get much worse” serves. It’s true but it’s also sort of always true when you’re in the midst of constant escalation. Things will keep getting much worse and I cling to the hope that maybe one day they will get much better.

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

so much is bad right now but the AI stuff in particular is making me insane. a desperate attempt to smother all human creative labor at an absurd cost to the planet by some of the most short-sighted, rapacious, and pathetic people who have ever lived

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

apropos of nothing, here’s Marceline appreciating some sushi.

I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.

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we had the cats separated for a few days while Leo healed from Goopy Eye Disease, and by the end they were so restless for each other that I felt like the world's cruelest prison warden.

Things are really bad and rather than just hurting our enemies, we're going to have to help our loved ones friends and strangers, starting with our most vulnerable— to uplift each other, and protect each other, if we're ever going to undo all this trauma and get free.

I know we're all desperate for anyone at all to fight back against trump, but Newsom's not a hero, here. He's not even a good person. He's a transphobe & actively, proudly destroying tent shelter encampments *With His Own Hands*. This is prime LetThemFight Dot Gif & we get to take down the winner.

imagine if this were the distraction from the Epstein files that finally worked on you

sorry if I’ve been in a weird mood the past seven years

it's hard to explain how much impact a big tough-looking guy acting calm and normal can have on a situation in general. my husband is the same way. this is what "the left" should be pursuing and encouraging, not searching for some sort of Leftist Andrew Tate

there's something about planning a wedding during a groundswell of fascism, and with a beloved parent in hospice, that gives you the kind of psychic damage Ari Aster dreams of.

The reason no one suspects Bruce Wayne is Batman is that everyone expects a billionaire to respond to crime by just tweeting "look at crime rates in cities with a high rate of peoples whose skulls have what scientists call the Crime Ridge. What do you notice?"

the MLB app has taken to showing me that the Pirates are warming up for a game and then never updating. very considerate. what I don't know simply cannot hurt me.

I finally finished my ACNH bug gallery, and nothing can take that high from me for at least ten minutes.

nothing quite like absorbing the worst headlines you've ever seen (FOR NOW) while sitting next to your dad's hospice bed, and then scrolling past a little meme. thank you, little memes. my emotional stability depends on you.

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Recognizing a Palestinian state is such a bare minimum move and it blows my mind that it's treated so controversially

John Brown came up in therapy today more often than one might expect.

Never had such a quick News shot, Punchline chaser before

It really, really alarms me that the thing that could finally bring Trump down is the gutter antisemitism of the anti-Epstein right

If the (wildly popular) governor of Kentucky can say this with his whole chest then what excuse does the (wildly unpopular) governor of California have?

we got a kitten a couple weeks ago, and my fondest hope has been that she and Leo would be friends. GUYS: DREAMS DO COME TRUE

seems normal

mayor zohran should budget 3 or 4 billion dollars a year to build eric the new york from SYNECHDOCHE, NEW YORK and let him be the mayor of it and anyone can pop in there and see what he's up to with an appointment

nights like tonight I miss NYC something fierce.

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

the question people like this never answer is “why?” why would jews be unsafe with a muslim mayor? why would a palestinian state endanger jews? why should jews be afraid of anti-genocide protesters? their answer is “muslims are violent people” but they know that’s too bigoted to say, even for them

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

Once more with feeling

Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

many things are terrible, but Jim and I got married at my dad's bedside on Sunday, and that much joy might just keep me afloat for a long time to come.

I spent the weekend in my hometown, and we had flash floods yesterday. an apartment building collapsed. it's made national news. seeing all the snarky little comments from people about how the people of West Virginia made a choice isn't the worst part - but my God, does it feel terrible.

I saw Kelsey Grammer at a bar in St. Augustine this March. he stood a few feet away to pay and then left. we all shrugged and finished our beers.

I haven’t seen my partner in six days and he’s about to come home and I am literally checking the driveway every two minutes like a puppy, and I just wanted to say that being with your best friend is >>>>>

sometimes I really miss teaching Sunday school.

I know a ton of people have made this point but imagine being the leader of one of the nation’s most prominent pro-Jewish organization and it this particular moment in U.S. history, you’re doing THIS, instead of spending night and day standing against the dictator wannabe rounding up families

one of the funniest things aggro bacon bros do is say shit like "we didn't evolve to eat salad" or w/e. lol @ these basic bitches and their sad lives. a salad is divine, a perfect thing in this world. peerless. it is your life which is not worth the salad and not the other way around