After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom. From @publicsource.org

What time do you get in?

i make Mac & cheese on Thanksgiving bc my husband loves it. I swear some of the comments on that thread must not know abt the creamy, multi cheese heaven of baked golden Mac & cheese & think what's being had is stuff in a box w a packet of goo or dust or whatever happened in that ghostly pic. nah.

oh, this is the thread I'm going to savor over this week. a skeet at a time. as a treat. 😂 #Thanksgiving

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again. #sciencematters

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

To everyone who has been forced to leave their natural habitat (aka under a blanket with a book and a cup of tea) this morning, well done. You deserve a sweet treat.

PSA (unrelated to *all this*) Take that turkey out the freezer babes.

a beautiful moment to take in on a Sunday morning.

Maternal mortality came down over history because of specific, measurable interventions. Human childbirth is difficult and hazardous for both mother and child. Early adaptations to this hazard were to have more children, which worked at a human population level, but didn't change individual risk.

Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all

I love this! and the subsequent pic shows that the cake also has thumb tabs. a confection worthy of @merriam-webster.com 📚

We're enduring this Cloudflare outage as best we can: in the fetal position, surrounded by decorative gourds.

I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.

You olds don't need to hear this, but to you youngbloods out there, I come to you from the future: when the news begins talking about ways to save money for the holidays, rather than getting you hyped to drown in debt buying shit, that means shit is WAY FUCKING WORSE than they are letting on.

If we were meant to fly we would have been born with wings. #DefyDogma

Bowie State University learned late Friday it received a $50 million unrestricted gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott — the largest single contribution in the university’s 160-year history. marylandmatters.org/2025/11/14/b...

A Sunday Night clash Toyota | #FlyEaglesFly

Breaking from us: As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate. Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station. -Credits: NASA

For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...

My high school classmate Jason is a trucker who has had an on the job injury and now needs financial help while he recovers. The kindness of friends and strangers is currently our national medical safety net. Would you please consider sending $5 or more his way? Thank you!

Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!

great article on NorCal's Imperial Valley newly minted: "Lithium Valley" where winter produce in the US originates. from Offrange:

The really sick parts of the Epstein emails - the misogyny, the plans to discredit his victims, the winks and nods, the men rushing to his or Andrew's defense, the tasteless jokes... ... this is what Zuckerberg calls "masculine energy"; these are Musk's "high T males"

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vast sin-concealing chaos

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” —Frederick Douglass, speaking to Senate Democrats

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Why, You grave but reckless senators

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

I’ve pinged around a bit today to plugged in sources in and off the Hill (both parties), and the initial read I’m getting (in some cases unexpectedly) is the movement is real Now, that a diff than a done deal or that it’s irreversible esp if there’s suddenly a surge of pressure, but I think it’s a…

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

I should run for office, T. Low-profile, maybe comptroller, somethin' like that. Lotta money in this shıt.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Here’s an easy way to find out how to donate to your local food bank this weekend. 🇺🇸 @feedingamerica.org give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate

Cup of tea, and time to ill. You know what that means, Bluesky: #Storytime.

So much of art history spools out audibly in my mind, but in Sister Wendy's voice.

it shouldn't take the international press to raise this story on the ongoing disgrace that is #ice

Trump's insane FY2026 budget proposed slashing Goddard's work force by 42%. Congress ignored that on a bipartisan basis. Russ Vought is blatantly, illegally moving forward with the plan anyway.

Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner. www.space.com/space-explor...

Shut the fuck up about Mamdani bein' a communionist or a socialite or whatever. I don't wanna hear it no more. He's the boss now.

‘Vacant’ means open or free. ‘Vacation’ means freedom from work. Ok, time for a break.

sara looking like she ate something bitter as she mentions mamdani winning election. when real estate guy says nyc is a strong market & expects that won't change, she pushes with asking if he's not worried abt "socialist policies, crime in the city, etc". girl, cope. please. @cnbc.com

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

While we wait for results, here is Max resting from the exertion of being so adorable.

Other politicians should take note: THIS is how you fight xenophobia. You don't try to change yourself to try and appease the xenophobes (nothing you do will do that anyway); you embrace it, and let them look like the backwards nutjobs that they are when they go even crazier.