September Reads: Pretty horror heavy this month. Not nearly as many DNF’s. Actually read some physical copies for once. 💙📚🩸📚

NPR's @ayesharascoe.bsky.social heads to the club — the Earlybirds Club — and dances until the break of 8 p.m.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Dear Pope, this guy needs to be kicked out of his position, and preferably excommunicated. He clearly has no understanding of what the figure of Jesus stood for.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Trump’s ongoing campaign against historical truth appears to have expanded. His administration has directed the removal of multiple signs and exhibits from national parks that reference the history of slavery.

I use to think I was a Louise, but I’m really a Linda.

A great deal of our problems result from not holding those who tried to destroy our democracy accountable for their actions.

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

I fell in love with Chicago the first time I went there in the summer of 1994. More in love than ever today

They really hate the progressives in NE getting their single electorate vote. What utter bullshit.

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

StoryGraph's AI now runs on 100% sustainable green energy

If you’re still pro-Trump, I don’t judge you for your choice of political party. I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity. I judge you for your support of racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, treason & fascism. So will others. So will history.

Laugh crying.

Texas is the biggest state in the country to have a bathroom ban on the books, and aside from local news and a few national nonprofits, the coverage of it is pretty small. There are over 160,000 trans adults in the state of Texas

Let’s fight back, California. Yes on 50!

Epstein survivor Chauntae Davies: "Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump."

My favorite scene from Waiting for Guffman: that single chicken wing is the funniest thing in the whole movie.

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

August Reads: Didn’t get much read this month (thanks depression), started quite a few for reading challenges and just couldn’t get into them. Highlights for the month: Beasts of Carnaval ⏳📚🪐📚 I Who Have Never Known Men 🖋️📚🪐📚 Mister Magic (reread)🩸📚 Misses for the month: The Bewitching 🩸📚⏳📚 💙📚

Trump is again threatening Chicago with a takeover on social media. We will again say those who trade liberty for the illusion of temporary safety deserve neither. We are not, and will not become, a military state. Remember freedom is something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you!

Unquestionably a war crime. I know we all have fatigue about this, but we have to keep saying it where we can until enough people get it.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

we don't have a left wing party, we don't have a center-left party, we don't have a centrist party. we have two parties that don't give a shit about tens of thousands dead in Gaza. mass starvation and devastation. dire state of affairs. I give through www.zakat.org if you want to try and help.

this is a super normie riff I know ok. but the idea occurred to me at a traffic light and I had to work it up, and I thought some people would enjoy it, so here

Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.

Recommend reading the entire thread.

🚫 DICTATORSHIP Yes, this is a move towards a military dictatorship. See this brave post by Captain Dylan Blaha, former Illinois National Guard, speaking to National Guard members about their duty. To anyone who reads this: please repost on all your social media. bsky.app/profile/pitt...

We hear you loud and clear, Madame Secretary.

Governor Pillen has volunteered McCook, Nebraska to host the "Cornhusker Clink," a callously named ICE detention facility. The plans, as of August 19, include utilizing an existing prison work camp in the area.

Fuck Pillen.

This is a quality kitty joke. Wait for it…

Fuck yeah, lets go California! Stand up and fight back!

First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.

A dozen or more transgender members of the U.S. Air Force who had sought early retirement to avoid being discharged for their gender identity have had those retirements canceled. Each has served between 15 and 18 years.

PBS Passport is like $5/mo. You can’t get another streaming service without ads at that price point!

Of course they fucking will. I need out of this godforsaken state do badly.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

July Reads: Rough start to the month, but ended strong. Four DNF’s in a row, I guess that’ll happen when you’re trying to fulfill challenge categories and decide to pick audiobooks for the narrator more than the author/story, but damnit I love Rebecca Lowman. Lit fic beat horror this month! 💙📚🖋️📚 🩸📚

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

I feel like horror authors/filmmakers get pigeonholed & not given the credit they (and the genre) deserve. @mikeflanaganfilm.com & @stephenking.bsky.social are so skilled at world-building, & they do it again with The Life of Chuck. Such a beautiful film. It haunts me, in the best possible way.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Look at that long boi!

I remember my now MAGA parents taking me to a rally for Perot outside our state capitol when I was a young kid. My most vivid memory from it was a protestor with a sign “Ross for boss? Hogwash!” The sentiment remains with Musks party.