Goals.

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

I always share when I come across this quote again:

VOTE YES ON PROP 50, CALIFORNIA!

Today I submit (to literary journals)

This has been such an Illuminating part of our current moment: It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.

The assumption appears to be that ordinary voters will be cowed, obsequious, and unwilling to challenge autocracy, just like the billionaires, business leaders, media executives, and other leading institutions of civil society, which have decided that fighting back is “not worth the hassle.”

“It very much matters, who did the leaving, who did the murdering.” In honor of Halloween, a ghost story originally published in Conium Review. lorisambolbrody.wordpress.com/2023/09/01/s...

“You would never guess our power from the occasional King Cake cameo.” @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58

I voted today. If you're a Californian, I hope you'll vote yes on Prop 50 too!

Quick note. Just because 57% support Prop 50, doesn't mean it passed. Don't get complacent. Get your vote in.

These are great books!!!

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House” this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

Amazing sign being held by a small child

good morning

If you're into blocking US federal government accounts on Bluesky, here's a helpful list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Part of the utility for huge protests like No Kings is that they undermine the fundamental basis of Trump's power, which is elite consent. If universities, private companies, government officials, etc. think they could get caught up by a popular backlash they're less likely to comply w/ the regime.

Not a Christmas carp but a lovely Jewish story about gefilte fish and faith and wonder (and loss of faith) - in @xraylitmag.bsky.social by Zoe Rose.

Having dated a young republican many years ago for a short time I am not surprised

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California. California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

The filing was rejected.

“I look closely at him, assess whether he could be a murderer. There are no tells for a murderer, no secret signs.” Secrets of Mulholland Manor in @doricliterary.bsky.social doric-literary.com/2025/01/01/s...

Recs to submit an approx 3300 word story? Not surreal/speculative.

Benjamin Franklin’s 1761 invention, the glass harmonica, produced a sound so ethereal and otherworldly that some claimed it “excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood” leading to “slow self-annihilation”.

Let me stress these are next level bonkers for kdramas - like somehow I can accept an heiress in a paragliding accident being dropped into North Korea and meeting a hot north Korean army guy … but this…

I thought the historical drama/time travel/Iron Chef contest Kdrama was bonkers but the one I’m now watching - chef’s kiss.

This just in - you can feel envy AND ALSO not be a dick about it!

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

All we owe people who spew hate like Charlie Kirk did is: non-violent resistance. Period. We don't owe bigots respect; our time (listening to their ignorant, destructive words); a stage; memorials; least of all would we owe any of them obeisance. We just owe them non-violence. Disapproval = A-okay!

Pls consider the GOP SCOTUs justices’ feelings as they destroy this country.

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Recs to submit an approx 3300 word story? Not surreal/speculative.

Doing my last editing trick: recording my story so I can listen to it again and again while driving

I tried to order a $12 item on Etsy from Spain … and the shipping fee was almost $300. Thanks Trump!

Ty Cobb: "The simple theme is rewriting history. Trump wants to rewrite history so the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection... America needs to learn from the mistakes that we've had. And one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was reelecting President Trump"

Police states like Uzbekistan do this

Morning walk

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

I thought I could not be angrier but every day proves me wrong

Trump’s family has doubled its worth, with Trump experiencing “the most lucrative year of his life” thanks mostly to crypto. The American people are sick and tired of fighting to survive while billionaires get richer. Join us for the next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

I really do think we need to see the rape and abuse of women and children as not like a peculiar indulgence or hypocrisy of the right, but as a foundational practice from which their worldview proceeds. Rape is the metaphor from which they draw their other conclusions about domination and hierarchy.

Government funding runs out in a week, but Trump won't talk to Democrats despite needing their votes to avoid a shutdown. Tell your Democratic senators to HOLD THE LINE (not roll over like last time) against any funding deals that hand Trump a blank check: indivisible.org/camp...

First task: raid Rick’s Cafe Americain.

Is the rapture on Rosh Hashanah? The anniversary of the birth of the world?

Hmmm I think that they can do something about this other than whine in private

Self censorship in the name of corporate mergers is still censorship