the lady that filled the bird feeder was two hours late and chester was starting to get pissed

If there's one thing I would like everyone over 25 to know, it's that way more of the government is run by the people who just decided to show up to meetings than you realize. Attend a couple city commission meetings yourself, and they lose a lot of the mystique.

Fire Chief Dick Durbin, showing up at the four-alarm inferno with a coupon good for one (1) discounted glass of water, redeemable in three weeks.

I CAN BE ANGRY WITH MORE THAN ONE THING AT A TIME, Dan

Hi. I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold. I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)

Health misinformation ain't new! Centuries of Black Death misinformation started with a poem www.popsci.com/health/black... "Centuries of Black Death misinformation started with a poem."

Great piece on the FDA and menopause hormone therapy in @motherjones.com it is the most medically accurate coverage I have read from the press! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

"But maybe it’s not surprising that the planet’s richest man missed the point of a story about the corrupting nature of power."

(cries in Humanities education)

SPECIFICALLY YOU, @kaine.senate.gov www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMWFtu3m/

Stop! Stop! We’re already pregnant

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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

What the hell?!?

100 percent success in embarrassing the US on the world stage.

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

Omg, one of the Dulles people movers crashed. Did someone place a curse on this town??

Sarah Weinman's upcoming book 'Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime' dives into a 1980 made-for-TV movie which tackled marital rape — before it was a crime nationwide. Exclusive excerpt ↓

My first gay wedding versus my second. I know which I’d prefer, Kim

hi, can you do me a favor? take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them thank you, this is for science here is my contribution

Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well "We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."

Voters truly hate Trump right now—for failing to lower prices, for terrorizing communities with his masked gestapo, and so much more. trib.al/i7pWtN8 His disapproval rating in a CNN poll this week hit a record 62%—one point higher than the same poll taken right after the January 6 insurrection.

What a great few weeks it’s been for people once pardoned by Trump. @nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

no money for politicians

Uncultured people get big mad when you call them uncultured, I have noticed

The Worlds Richest Man™️ getting triggered this hard by Joyce Carol Oates of all fucking people is so hilariously pathetic

Even the Dem centrists at Third Way are mad about the deal moderate Senate Dems cut with Republicans to end the shutdown: "We should not have surrendered until we received at least something tangible on lowering health care costs."

Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus

I’m so fucking tired of living in a Simpsons meme

Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Makers Mark is a $30 bourbon. It's not exactly demanding that a rare bottle of Pappy Van Winkle be on hand. Seems less like a class thing and more like a "I like Makers possibly too much" thing.

I’d take one Mamdani over a hundred Jeanne Shaheens.

Stefanik's NY governor announcement is straight from the Trump School of Belligerent Capital-Letter Nicknames. Even after last week's GOP drubbing, she's treating Trump as a winning role model. What can she be thinking? It's a mystery. Or maybe not. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/elise-stef...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

also, U.S. corporate journalism is trash and endlessly frames things through the lens of right wing grievance because most outlets are owned by right wing billionaires jockeying for tax cuts, merger approvals, and less corporate oversight

Absolutely correct

A lot of people have suffered, but at least it was for nothing.

Surprisingly Sen. Warner (D-VA) is a no, splitting with Kaine after the Cave Caucus dangled the RIF prohibition.

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

As a currently furloughed federal worker, I ask you to NOT accept this. We are willing to do what it takes, don't make our sacrifice meaningless.

“Guarantees a vote to extend…” why would you agree to this??? This is the most empty nonsense deal with absolute weasels. I am angry.

You are my senator. PLEASE do not compromise with these folks. It's like trusting Lucy will hold the football for Charlie Brown.