a woman just walked past me wearing a perfect replica molly doll cardigan and kids, i’m jealous

i know that the murder of renee good is horrifying but i cannot CAN NOT abide language that implies the sin was that they killed a citizen not that they are sweeping the nation to commit ethnic cleansing i don’t care about fucking PAPERWORK

the girl doing my eye exam just told me i look good for my age 🫠

if i hear the phrase “kitchen table issues” one more time im going to fucking scream guess how many families sit down to dinner and talk about the bullying their LGBTQ kids experience every day it’s a lot everything is a kitchen table issue life in fascism is a kitchen table issue

our parents were broke and did not buy us books but our minds were still hungry to read. newspaper comics put things into accessible context.

It was gender.

Fargo S5 (2023) seems like a useful example (though the first 3 seasons also interrogate the idea of good cops in bad departments to varying degrees). Two sympathetic cops, one an Indian woman who ultimately quits the force and one a black man emasculated by an on-duty injury in the first episode.

In Minneapolis

This is why those of us who live here keep telling you he cannot be our president. For every fun “anti-Trump post” there’s something like this.

lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”

Your must-read for today. This is SO GOOD

It’s by Emily, so it’s good, of course. It’s also the most timely pop culture piece you’ll read this week.

Piggybacking on @msemilyedwards.bsky.social piece, here’s a 2021 piece I did for @crimereads.bsky.social about the TV series “Bosch” and TV policing after the murder of George Floyd Jr. crimereads.com/bosch-season...

Over twenty years ago, I was part of a small community rocked by a shocking, violent act. I keep seeing it repeated every day:

so, red light masks: magic or quackery

what’s the best way to demonstrate your profound contempt for international humanitarian law, the world order, and basic human decency, if you happen to be a whiskey-piss scented ghoul like Hegseth? that would be “doing war crimes just because you think they’re cool”

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Ellison completely erased the existence of Renee Good’s wife, who was on scene at the killing. He said that Renee’s children are without a mother, and made a point of saying that her youngest did not have a father (deceased.) Unacceptable, especially when MPR issued Becca Good’s statement days ago.

i hate to be all reductive and allude to the "first they came" poem but guys, they sicced ICE on LA relentlessly for weeks and too many acted like that was a given, an obvious thing that our county deserved. didn't say shit because you thought they'd never come to your state.

Truly one of my favorite bits of media meta-understanding was that MST3K knew its neuro-divergent audience so well they told you to not overthink the premise and that it was just a TV show in the opening theme song

For those still not drawing the connection between this behavior and domestic abuse: My abuser told me, more than once, that I was lucky he didn't keep guns, the subtext being that if he did have guns he would use them on me when I didn't do what he wanted.

this morning, a hummingbird came through the yard to feed from my rosemary shrubs. i just want you to know that it was low enough to the ground that, when it hovered, the draft from its wings moved the leaves that sat on my front walkway, a tiny tornado of nature and hunger and satisfaction.

For those who say the existence of a mega billionaire class is in and of itself a policy failure or at least net negative: I don’t disagree but also… take the money and run

i don’t know what i did but i fear i shall pay dearly for it

i know this is hubristic and all but since my great-grandmother was from Crete, i like to think that maybe 3,800 years ago someone in my family was throwing some banger pottery or maybe became a side character wondering why he was building a big-ass maze

i’m sorry but the people who think literally everything is a distraction from the epstein files are sincerely not grasping how normalized the abuse of teen girls actually is and it’s the same abuse that leads to ice agents shooting a woman in the face and calling her corpse a fucking bitch

Listen: Emerald Fennell is literally two months older than me so I am now excited to bits that what she seems to be making is a WUTHERING HEIGHTS inspired by Baz Luhrman’s ROMEO + JULIET

Celebrities talking to each other or interviewing other celebrities, while sitting in a furnished, designed, well-lit studio, filmed with multiple cameras, available to watch on video platforms... ...is a talk show, not a podcast.

for the past few days, every time i have needed a pick-me-up, i have envisioned a Trump supporter putting beef tallow sunscreen on at the beach and getting completely obliterated by seagulls

i’d give my left arm for art nouveau to come back

our heater died last night and while i understand i live in southern california and i am not going to die from exposure it’s still only 55* in my house and im cranky

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

This is what State media looks like. The WaPo, NYT, and LA Times are all arms of the state. We no longer have a free press.

i can’t be the only person who is still at my normal level of furious like i’m not especially angry this is my normal level of blood boiling outrage at violent white supremacist patriarchy that maims and takes and kills every day without a flinch

This account exists purely for entertainment and distraction from the hellscape of news, for both me and my followers. Last week's game was not a fan fav, so this week I'm going for a crowd-pleaser. On Saturday at 10am ET, stand by for FUN! As a reminder, here's last week's game. #filmsky #moviesky

You should probably join the Patreon of my friend David Avallone. Not only is he a raconteur essayist of rare skill, he’s also a font of knowledge about all sorts of different kinds of publishing.

god i love her

they'll kill you when you tell them you're not mad they'll kill you when you tell them you're furious might as well be furious

once again we are all tapping the sign

OK the fact that the writer works to New Pornographers might make me watch this show (my LJ username was Miss Teen Wordpower) (I know) (it was like... 2004)

men with guns have a unique sense of entitlement to women and ownership of their lives. violence toward, and hatred of, women is the predictor toward much of the gun violence and death in this country. everytownresearch.org/report/guns-...

that thread going around with CBP/ICE workers and their rap sheets- not that i don’t believe it’s probably correct but has anyone verified?

🩷🩷🩷 i love not giving people existential dread

you ever get such a nice rejection you feel good? writer life is hilarious

36 people have died at ICE's hands in the past year may of these deaths did not happen on camera, but it does not make them any less horrifying and unacceptable this is a list of their names, where they lived before being abducted, and a link to crowdfunding if i can find it

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

i had fitful sleep all night but i’m so glad every time i fell back asleep, ABBA’s “super trouper” played in my dreams 😑

I'm tired of talking about Black women's legacies and not their promise. 31.

Did you know that the first-ever nationally-published print magazine for lesbians was called THE LADDER, and had ties to an award-winning playwright? msemilyedwards.com/2023/05/25/t...

one of the voices in the video game i’m playing is done by a former co-worker of mine and whenever he says, like, “good job!” i’m like “thanks, [guy’s actual name]”