This man will not get off my book. There is an atmospheric river, no internet and a lot of head pain. Don’t get between me and my book!

The disappearances in Los Angeles continue. Boyle Heights is a neighborhood in East L.A., not far from the part I grew up in. It is a majority Mexican/Central American heritage community. boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...

CHECK Y'ALL EBT!!! I'M SO SERIOUS! I'm in NYC and I got no notifications that I'd get compensated but I did so GO CHECK Y'ALL!!!

Oakland, CA bakery Forma

Per @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social, DOD presented Trump with plans for strikes in Venezuela yesterday, including on the ground. Astonishing to see the U.S. on the brink of another regime-change invasion with essentially none of the pre-2003 effort to rationalize it domestically and internationally.

That part‼️

If the American regime gets their way...

Industry lobbyists have an easier time getting in COP30

Lying bitch. Lying bitch.

The terms brings up images of white-coated doctors at hifalutin outfits like the CDC. They’re, yes, part of the public-health system—but only part. The system is is a massive, interlocking set of laws, standards, institutions, and technologies that undergirds much of our daily lives. 4/11

Lying in bed with day 2 of barometric pressure migraine. Someone at my acupuncturist’s office said the solar flares could be making them worse and I said I CANNOT I DONT WANT THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Being brought low by a tiny change in barometric pressure is embarrassing enough

since Substack's support of and profiting from white supremacist is back on my TL, here is a great breakdown of the alternatives. we migrated out Antifascist Music Alliance page to @buttondown.com last year and it was pretty easy to do. buttondown.com/AntifascistMA #DitchSubstack

This is a core element of conservative philosophy: If a single "undeserving" person is getting a government benefit, the answer is to take it away from millions.* *Offer does not apply to tax loopholes or any other benefit enjoyed by the wealthy

Uh… things were nightmarishly abnormal before the shutdown. Is that the “normal” you mean? The normal too many media outlets have been helping to normalize?

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."

Fun fact: a picket line crosser can fit in ONE pelicans mouth. If you have 2 picket line crossers, you need a 2nd pelican. 🪶 #NoContractNoCoffee

The Supreme Court won't halt Tremane Wood's execution. Only KBJ notes her dissent. Prosecutors struck most Black jurors then lied at trial, concealing secret deals with witnesses. Wood's lawyer was on cocaine and barely met with him. His brother admitted to the killing but only got life in prison.

This is disability visibility. Mamdani listened. He didn’t pander or talk over the disabled journalist. He acknowledged his concerns and gave real responses about how he plans to fix them. 1 in 4 Americans has a disability, it’s a huge number of voters. Don’t ignore us!

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

People who openly defend pedophiles are not necessarily pedophiles, but they have announced themselves as a safe space for pedophiles to dwell. Keep your babies away from any and all of that.

Stay for the alt text.

This is brutal, and Amazon is making *$86 BILLION* this year — with $20 billion of that in profit. This may well be the first domino that reveals what so many already know, which is that everyone but the wealthy are already in a recession. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

If we were allowed to talk about "white supremacy" in the US, then it would be pretty obvious why what happened in Chicago is acceptable to large numbers of people while Ruby Ridge & Waco (and my imagined scenario) are evidence of gubmint tyranny. The state can't do that to people who look like me!

If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

working at the nyt

Been mostly off social media since Saturday. So, we’re Pedonation huh?

This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

I canceled that shit already

oopsy

The pedonopticon, where everyone can see everyone else’s shit, but the first to fall takes everyone else down with him.

In case folks are distracted by the crazy pedo news cycle, which is crazy but not surprising, it is important to pay attention to this. Because folks: The planet is burning www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If it wouldn’t boil the oceans it would be funny to see how Chat-GBT would interpret all this

My new favorite post:

I‘ve been thinking of this quote all day!

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

In case you needed yet another reason to boycott that ass

"The approach has been to double down. We hear corporations saying ‘Let’s tone this down. Let’s tone that down.’ That is not at all how I am looking at it. Documentary film is not a luxury. It is an essential part of a healthy arts and story narrative ecosystem." AMEN

What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Older Texans among those facing the largest price hikes for Affordable Care Act insurance www.texastribune.org/2025/11/12/t... #ProudBlue Texans facing massive ACA price hikes have Sen Cornyn and Cruz to thank. Republicans even held the vote open for Cornyn to make sure Texans lose ACA coverage

Assholes

The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous and shouldn't be turned over to federal immigration authorities story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

Whoops www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

I was on a cool panel at Berkeley Comic Con last Saturday about Memoir and the Graphic novel. There are Comics professors, which I think is amazing, but they were all shocked that Hugo and I learned how to do this on our own. It made me realize that I really am an auto-didact.