I am dealing w/ a health insurance issue that is destroying my soul. I have two insurances (day job + WGA). They both keep denying EVERY SINGLE CLAIM saying they're not the primary. The day job is temporary so I can't just cancel the other insurance or I won't have any when the job ends.

Once again the discourse reveals that some writers have no idea what feminism is. It’s aggravating. You still don’t know? In 2025?

Over at @therumpus.net, I am so happy to publish an essay by @hebagowayed.bsky.social about Zohran Mamdani and the radical idea that Muslims are human! therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

I am trying to not engage with people who argue in bad faith but it’s so hard.

What an excellent, inspiring speech from Mamdani. I haven’t felt chills like this… ever?

Fantastic. Prop 50 has been approved. Shane it has come to this but glad to see fire being fought with fire.

MSNBC’s lil election panel tonight is really kind of boring.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!

Where is Kornacki?

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

The random political gossip I find so juicy is this Vance Kirk stuff because it seems wholly plausible.

The multi page rules documents stylists are sending out is not sustainable. It’s like homework at this point. I just want to go somewhere and you do my hair and then I pay you whatever you charge.

Ready for some top tier jokes today.

The Republican governors threatening action against NY if Mandan wins are quite strange. I’ve never seen such desperation from people who have absolutely nothing to do with NY and have no jurisdiction.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

Whew. Cuomo getting a Trump endorsement is such a kiss of death

These stories crack me up. New Yorkers are not going anywhere. They just aren’t.

Want to make a photo montage of all the husbands at Saks. Smh.

There is so much spitting in baseball. The field must be so damp.

1 800 got junk is highway robbery! Just shockingly expensive.

This whole Nazi tattoo dude in the Senate nonsense is revealing of a lot of white folks. Oh your friends have Nazi tattoos too? Oh it doesn't bother you at all? Oh your whole crew you been rolling with has them & y'all are all perfectly democratic? Fascinating. Taking notes.

Just watched a man, reeks of privilege, stride past everyone in line at the boarding gate and confidently extend his boarding pass only to be turned back by the gate agent because boarding hadn’t started yet. It was glorious.

Tonight, for the Audacious Book Club, we will be talking with Angela Fluornoy, author of The Wilderness. It's free and you can register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My kryptonite is a video on TikTok of a sweet lil dog that the other dogs won’t play with at the dog park. It’s so sad.

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

V comforting to hear there are 24 planes ahead of you waiting for takeoff.

I saw Ava from Big Brother out and about tonight at a Broadway premiere. She dressed the same in real life as on the show.

Their fair share would be WHAT THE REST OF US PAY. Most people pay up to 37%. Billionaires pay around 1%. You’re just saying words that make it clear you love billionaires and the suffering of the working class.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

My student just talked about a prom photo from olden times. My curiosity was piqued. What year, praytell, is from the olden times? Friends, the year was 2005.

I am glad I was right about that guy all along.

Stephen Miller talking about beauty is objectively hilarious. A man without mirrors is a brave man indeed.

The Winkelvii donated to the Trump ballroom. Totally tracks.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

The KLM rep came to the gate, said our flight was cancelled for “technical reasons” and bounced. Super helpful.

Just learned about black Piet against my will. 👀

Jeffrey, I believe he has a Nazi tattoo which means at some point in his life he was enamored enough by Nazi ideas to permanently ink a Nazi symbol on his skin. I also believe voters deserve better. Not perfect. Better. There are thousands of eligible Mainers without Nazi tattoos.

Ahh yes. The impossible standard of “don’t be a nazi.”

US news comes across as completely batshit when you’re outside of the US. Pretending I don’t speak English because I cannot explain this degueulasse.

I am in the EU for work and one of my favorite things, across the continent, is the ice bucket when you ask for a mere glass of ice. Unparalleled.

In some ways, the regime half-assedly tearing off part of the White House without regard for construction protocols might have more of an impact on the offline folks than the past ten months.

Canvas has been down alllll day. Maybe monopolies ARE bad!

The lil french Netflix movie about the louvre heist is going to be excellent.

alt hed: President confirms he is full of shit.

Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.

Sitting near an elderly couple in the airport lounge and the husband made a corny joke (harmless, adorable) and the wife laughed and laughed and said, "Oh you scoundrel!" I am charmed.

Is pickleball like Temu tennis?