Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Read the history of the Southern Baptist Convention's cover-up of its massive sex abuse scandal for the playbook for Johnson.

"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods & against our own people..I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this"

PRAYER VIGIL for the Disappeared Thursday, Nov. 13 6 pm Evergreen Presbyterian Church 1567 Overton Park

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

the worst part is that for the people at the top "good at math"/sciencey is essentially a vibe one socially codes their way into by being minimally competent at informally discussing things actual math/science people do, unless (e.g.) Elon Musk has proven a theorem I didn't hear about.

Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”

Yes, @support.bsky.team please reinstate Sarah, she's a respected author and anthropologist and her voice is needed here

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

If you think the people throwing Great Gatsby-esque parties for themselves, while millions were denied their food assistance, are all of a sudden going to grow a conscience and save affordable healthcare, you clearly have not been paying attention.

From 2023: "There are abusers and there are enablers. There is an overt authoritarian death cult and a soft-focus death cult. The two parties are not the same -- and that's the point. They work in tandem to create this nightmare." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/behold-a-p...

Where in the world is Jill Steindiego

I hate this King Lear reboot

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Dark and essential reading

In the last 24 hours, I've been taken from thinking “Mary Shelley probably thought Byron was a libidinous douchebag” all the way to “Oh, they were totally fucking after Percy died.” And I'm good with that. Head canon duly adjusted.

One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go

This just into the newsroom WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

The 1970s were not that long ago, but back then, conservatives actually grappled with questions about how to help to poor people and the solution they came up with was "just give them money until they're no longer poor."

Think of the quote in the photo below as you listen to this young man.

Good on Sandwich Guy.

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

It’s amazing what happens when you fire a huge chunk of Virginia’s population.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

In the future it will be very popular to forget some of the words and actions of powerful liberals and associated institutions during this time and accurately remembering them will be pathologized. You'll feel like you're losing your mind but thats just having a memory and some form of conscience.

A lot of the people you see arguing against food assistance are actually on food assistance. They work at Walmart or a convenience store and think they are deserving, but others are not. This is projection and the way that the 1% keep poor people pitted against poor people so they don’t look up.

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

Practically every day we encounter someone who still has no idea ICE shot and killed someone in Chicago already. This happened before many people tuned in (and many have already tuned out again).

A little conspiracy theory for us, as a treat

Now they'll be disappearing the homeless. Who's after that? The elderly? The disabled? Peaceful protesters? utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/10/30/u...

The Metro Station near LAX has the absolutely kindest and warm transit workers in the world. I'm kind of stunned

I have written up some thoughts about Trump's nuclear testing comments and they are FREE AND PUBLIC to all. No Nuclear Testing, Not Today (Probably) you can enable my work (and me and the cats being able to eat): paypal.me/nuclearanthro patreon.com/nuclearanthro

"The new NRF report acknowledges that retailers do not 'have a unified industry database collecting retail crime data,' and many retailers lack 'the resources or capabilities to collect and track retail theft.' Yet the NRF still issued a report claiming shoplifting has increased 93% in four years."

You can just call them the nazis.

I was at an afternoon wedding today. This was their first dance song. They both sang every word to each other, looking into each others eyes the entire time. I swear, it was one of the most beautiful, passionate things I’ve ever seen in my life! I wish them only a lifetime of love and happiness 💞

RADICAL— Rights. Access. Dignity. Inclusion. Care. Love.

Creepiest Halloween story? Getting my haircut today, a man talked loudly about not "allowing" his 16-year old daughter to have birth control. And that she should only be abstinent. The two women barbers and I spoke up, I'm proud to say against his patriarchal bullshit. Doesn't change anything

Don't care what people use SNAP on and never will, fuck you if you care

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

The print version of @theonion.com is worth every dime.

Killing people on the open seas without a declaration of war is mass murder.

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?