If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

NIH administrators who quit because, well, integrity: www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

So far my most long-term treat for the new year is unsubscribing from a ton of stuff

What a beautiful day. Photo from my collection, 1912.

It is tragic that President Trump, who I do not support, and Nicolas Maduro, who I do not support, didn't join forces with Vladimir Putin, who I do not support, to form the greatest alliance the world has ever known, which I would not support. by Glenn Greenwald

The Grimmerie is an asshole

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

I like big butts and I cannot lie, and this is my partner, who likes big butts and cannot tell the truth

I am seeing way too many posts saying “I will not vote for any Democrat ever again unless they promise to X.” I’m seeing this from people I know, people I follow, not just random accounts that are probably bots. But it’s getting louder every day, so it seems like a good time for a reminder. 1/

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now. Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers. Shameful.

I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. bsky.app/profile/us.t...

It’s so nice to have a little creature that climbs around on you and sits on you and purrs

Cats galloping around like a tiny herd of horses (dyad of horses?) is so cute because they are little and fluffy but still so loud

What it's like inside your head

Trying to not drop any balls in such a way that they smash. So trying to: --Nicely hand balls over --Make some balls smaller --Put some balls down gently

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

new Dessa song just dropped, powerful @dessadarling.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifXH...

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live. And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

If you politely mute when you aren't talking, it doesn't even matter if someone is scream meowing in the background of your zoom

But somehow Trump not just breaking a promise but intentionally misrepresenting his entire extremist, revolutionary agenda to absolutely devastate and reconfigure US government is treated as, more or less, Trump Just Being Trump.

This is not how other administrations have acted when there was a shutdown www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

MAGA’s government shutdown was totally avoidable, and I will keep fighting hard to get government back open. In the meantime, my team and I have put together a dedicated resource page to help your family navigate this rocky time.

The federal government is shutting down because the Trump admin chose chaos and taking a swing at the Affordable Care Act over responsible governing. Our message is clear: fund the government, fix the health care crisis and put working people first. aflcio.org/press/releas...

Every time I see a post complaining about the do nothing Democrats, I get cranky because my Dems are Doing Things, ALL THE TIME Right now GOP is blaming Dems in shutdown messages from HUD and elsewhere for the shutdown, and I'm STILL seeing complaints about how the Dems are "doing nothing."

Vought's email to agency leaders also explicitly blamed Dems for the shutdown. The Hatch Act now only exists for federal employees you are trying to fire.

Californians: do it

I really think a Slough House / Nights Black Agents game would be awesome @chatty.bsky.social

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

I missed this before. My friend (Pen, not her real name) needs her maiden name back. It's time consuming and expensive, filled with paper forms and formless darkness. There may be a duel (of wits, of drawing, who knows) involved. If you can help, please do!

I agree, Jen's a rock star. My favorite part is her being called a "dogcel" . Like, what is that and does that mean I'm a catcel. gwenfilosa.substack.com/p/my-friend-...

Dar Williams wrote a rocking song about my state and congressman @raskin.house.gov !! www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9dx...

START at UMD was tracking terrorism and had the data for this, oh wait, that project funding was pulled this year

The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports. But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.

So flags aren't half-mast for remembering 9/11 victims and first responders who later died today...?

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

If the media is going to exclusively focus on whether a killer is trans, you'd think that in a mass shooting where at least one of the victims targeted seems to be LGBTQIA+, they might notice that or express some concern about them being the victim of a hate crime. www.cpr.org/2025/09/11/e...

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

This is still true (h/t David Perry re: the history prof, but the rest is good too) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hon...

If only buying books came with the time to read them, and buying games came with the time to play them, the way buying donuts comes with the time to eat them.

And here I was expecting they'd rename NIH the Department of War. DoD was supposed to be Department of Peace, right?

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.