watching You’ve Got Mail and had totally forgotten the entire big chain v neighborhood bookstore premise and that they were both dating and living with other people.

He is on world stages leveraging for more personal wealth and for his oligarchs while this is happening in our cities. The stage is not a distraction. MN is not a distraction. It is all in a despot’s playbook.

Chilling that he did not have to mention him or the U.S. by name a single time. “Hegemon” has never been leveraged better.

i accidentally deleted my previous pre-coffee post… in short: the world is on fire. this man has been targeting us for a decade and everyone brushed aside our warnings and in response i get fundraising emails from the dem establishment ‘cause that is how they resist apparently. i am so tired.

i get that everyone has their journeys and stories to tell but i really don’t need more weight loss crap from Oprah right now. like read the f*ing room.

and the sock goes on

Cruz and Cornyn. This is who we have to contend with. Calling them does nothing (and I still do it). Cowards. All of them.

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child. A 16-year-old citizen DHS calls this "utmost professionalism" w/ @mckenziefunk.com

i watch the golden globes and awards ceremony kinda in the background most years to build my to watch list but those betting odds throughout felt really ick.

and sorry… i forgot to mention the rib-eye steaks at the top.

the grocery store weekly ad is gluten-free pastas, carb-free breads, bagged veggies, protein-fortified ice creams and dove chocolates. americans and new year resolutions and consumer holidays really have us all flipped upside down.

In English: The NLRB and Third Circuit ordered the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to provide certain health insurance benefits; the paper’s owner tried to get a SCOTUS shadow docket order stopping that; when that failed, they announced they were closing the paper.

They killed someone in broad daylight, in public, knowing it was being filmed. And still.

Happy King Cake Day

Let’s be clear: these recs are tied to what insurance providers are REQUIRED to cover. What they are doing is denying access to affordable vaccines and therefore targeting the poor. Rich folk can do whatever they want out of pocket.

“Now, Elliott appears poised to reap the rewards of owning Venezuela’s most valuable foreign oil asset.”

As someone who has spent their life on the cusp between Capricorn and Aquarius (Hey Jan 20ers) this feels so sadly spot on.

i do not care if articles of impeachment would be successful at this point. i want a f*ing record. file impeachment articles every damned time he break the law.

maduro was open to talks and in response we bombed the capital, kidnapped him and his wife, and now we’re about to set up an imperial outpost and start stealing all their oil. we are the bad guys. we have always been the bad guys.

thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"

If your drug-dealing pres be Honduran, We’ll give that criminal a pardon But if you’re the head of Venezuela Trump will send in troops to jail ya

so we are holding presidents accountable for crimes now?

MOFO kidnapped a country’s leader and destabilized the entire country so that he could seize oil companies there. WTF.

last year in books

So… i spend a lot of time in paper planners and I am making a switch back to a format that i loved before having kids.

Good article by Julia, but I would add, don’t just let us be, HELP. Wear a mask in places where high risk people have to be, so you aren’t *contributing* to their risk. This is ground zero of a you’re either helping or hurting situation.

I've only gotten to experience their games from a screen in Austin, but have to say that their energy is infectious and I hope I get to see them play again this year so this community can grow. #WNBA

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Absolutely disgusted by this shit story and headline. Ambulatory wheelchair use is so common. My son is ambulatory and a wheelchair user. Shit like this gets disabled people harassed or worse.

our dog wears handmade knits and it is just the cutest darned thing ever.

i think the most telling thing about last night’s address is that he felt like he had to do it all. it means that nobody else is up to or capable of going to bat for him anymore. he has been left to fend for himself…

This whole vanity fair bit has the photographer in me recoiling against the notion that environmental accuracy makes a photograph a “bad.” Even folks applauding the imagery are qualifying them as bad. And no. These are beautifully accurate depictions of time and place… brilliant and gorgeous.

We “are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.” Thanks for this, @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher Nygren.

this is how Trumpism dies: the selfish bargainers abandon him to his cult, and his cult on its own is not enough to sustain him

Hey all. Really struggling to find guidance on Covid Vax frequency suggestions? Help?!?

I have about as much faith in AI’s sustainability as I have in the deadlinked NFTs that I did not buy.

break from all of it with a bowl of beans and tortillas

GOP pawns putting an awful lot of faith in the power of a potential pardon from a man with failing health, failing mental acuity, and failing morals.

Normalize treating this like the psychopathic behavior that it is

love that the players are pushing this aggressively. no deal lands them smack dab *after* the start of Unrivaled and wow will it not play well for #WNBA (and men’s basketball owners) to do anything but cut them their fair share.

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

can confirm that wednesday before thanksgiving is best day for a restaurant supply store run.

"15 lower drug prices for Medicare to go into effect in 2027" aka... don't worry <pharma exec>, you'll keep making all the moolah while I am still in office {wink wink}.

currently trying to decide if restaurant supply store will be more/less crazy than the grocery store today.

i know that recipe says that it will “only” take 30 minutes to caramelize your onions, but you should just start now.

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we were denied a female POTUS because no one could reconcile that a woman can know how to properly cook collards AND also address with facility/competence the economy, national security, and our failing systems.

Where were the allies in the press corps when Trump pointed directly into a female reporter's face and called her "Piggy"?

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed