It made the papers.

Story time! @blairbraverman.bsky.social @oliviawhen.com

So... when we fight we win? This is a mood booster.

Srsly @whitehouse.senate.gov I just want to die of something other than not enough insurance. The expectations I have for my representatives is in the absolute basement. And yet evidently I will need to start digging a sublevel in order to lower the bar.

Gail understands being hungry and on your own - she would pay for SNAP and donate to every airport food drive to support TSA employees who are working without pay.

oh sorry too busy worrying about losing insurance and not earning enough money to pay for ACA coverage to listen to mealy mouthed lectures from people who fo not, in fact, get it i don't think you have the slightest idea how catastrophic things will be for voters who just want reps to do SOMETHING

I felt terrible about wanting my reps to hold the line because ACA was that SNAP recipients were in dire straits. I'm glad MN had/has a plan for helping take care of the most vulnerable. Of course, Americans who depend on the ACA are now extra vulnerable. One hurdle at a time, I guess.

Good. This is good.

It's not too late to tune in. www.mnhs.org/splitrock/ac...

Montréal, Glasgow, Chicago

Join the Minnesota Historical Sighting 4pm CST: www.mnhs.org/splitrock/ac....

It's that time of year again. When we all pause and take a moment to appreciate that even The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has a couple of lines in it that fall comically flat.

Without the ACA I would have been in BIG TROUBLR for several years. Allowing affordable health care to die in America for people who really, really need it is terrible.

Sundays, man.

John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.

The local offices for all my reps had working voicemail, BTW. If the DC office box for your senator is full, try their local office nearest you.

I just used the @5calls.org app to call my reps and encourage them not to cave and hand the GOP a blank check in exchange for ending the govt. shut down. They give you a script and phone numbers for local offices. It's easy to do and worthwhile!

every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

When Saint Paul Public Library came up with the laser eyed loon library card we all thought "huh that will be hard to top." Then Hennepin County saw their loon and raised them...

Some sketchbook paintings from a recent trip to NY! 🍂🍁

When Saint Paul Public Library came up with the laser eyed loon library card we all thought "huh that will be hard to top." Then Hennepin County saw their loon and raised them...

I just did this and you should too

Ugh.

I feel like @ouinne.bsky.social might appreciate this, especially starting around minute 2.20. youtube.com/shorts/qIkpz...

Hey @sasshole.bsky.social Suze says we can hug the pregnancy pillow.

Dads who go to libraries then skating practice with your elementary schoolers but don't yell at coaches, have you considered running for school board?

Being an American is so weird. You have 50+ neighbors whose family fights you can see over your own fence. OTOH NKP. OTOH you have to care, not in a hot gossip way, but in a their mess might become my mess way (abortion travel prosecutions anyone?). Plus in a "do I need to call a crisis team?" way.

The best thing about Mamdani's campaign was how he gave the vibe that he'd have been happy to stick to his very focused message on affordability. Until the snotty rascism came out. Then they made it look like the opposition just handed them the material to just SKEWER that nonsense.

He didn't get into Columbia, but he did go to Bowdoin, alma mater of one Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and really Bowdoin knows how to pick 'em. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_...

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Owlbert!

Every time this guy seems to hit rock bottom, he gets out the jackhammer and puts another sub-basement in.

HMC has so many problems. But it also has a history of rigorous intellectual practice. Someone will eventually check the citations and ask you about them.

IOW, own goal for Conde Nast, I guess. @teenvogue.com

Teen Vogue being collapsed into Main Vogue, laying off its BIPOC and trans staff, and claiming it's going to focus on what's important "to young people" is OMINOUS. And WOW do I have no interest in checking out regular Vogue for anything fluffy or fun, which was pretty much what it was for.

@teenvogue.com I am so, so, so disappointed to read this news. It's shameful. It really is.

Isn't that the same as saying he lost the primary? Either way, kind of insulted at the idea that I'm not capable of or interested in seeking out accurate reporting. Or of reading with a critical eye and open mind. Nothing in the news is cosy now. I don't need cosy. That's not the issue here.

Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75 Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/a...

Once again here to point out in 1997 my self described Catholic School Girl mom had a direct report freak out at her about a trans employee using the bathroom. Mom told the employee to, and I quote, "grow up." TERF panic takes manufacture. I've known this since I was 20 and didn't know the term.

How do you do, fellow cats?

This one is trickier than you would think.

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Does it count as lying if I'm called Tanti (iteration of Auntie/Tante) by my bestie's kids (or any other friend's kids as a result)? Or do I get a pass because I'm a mid nice white lady? (Rhetorical. We all know no one would care that I'm Auntie K8C even though none of by siblings have kids.)

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

I am excited to announce that I'll be talking about Roman Scotland and my book The Road to Mons Graupius in Glasgow as part of the Aye Write festival. I'll be at the Mitchell Library on Sunday 9th November at 12.45pm - tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-... #RomanSiteSaturday

I love it when the LLM output references itself in the third person as the author and the student doesn't notice or read or anything and just leaves it in. That's my very most favorite. Best part of the day.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 🦚 In 2023, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies joined forces with In geveb to pro­vide a series of grants to schol­ars and artists to work with Yid­dish mate­ri­als in the archive’s col­lec­tion. ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...

my pumkin he is everything