Even creepier given that this was written by a 63-year-old dude

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

This is the key thing to notice about whataboutism: it is not actually a moral argument at all. It's not saying, "the thing you accuse us of is actually good," or "we didn't do it." It just says, "everyone does this bad thing, so you're not allowed to hold us responsible." It's permission.

Priorities.

“There’s artificial intelligence, and there’s actual intelligence.”

I took one cat to “the Bad Place” and now the other one is trying to stay out of site, worried he’s next. Ebony just slinked across the room — barely off the ground — trying to avoid capture and my obviously impending betrayal. Once again, I am history’s greatest monster.

I don’t know how most people afford vet care for pets anymore. The regular blood work my vet wants for my senior cat (18 y.o., diabetic) is $327. Every 3 months. Plus blood pressure. Plus exam. And that’s with us running our own 12 hr blood sugar curve at home! I’m gonna spend $500 today.🤦🏻‍♀️

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Secret police who refuse to identify themselves march into communities and kidnap people with no due process The President told the military they are going to war against Americans No Dem votes to fund the government until it stops The messaging is simple and every Dem should echo it

This is brilliant 😂👏👏👏

Judge Young: "[T]his Court finds by clear and convincing evidence that [] Kristi Noem and [] Marco Rubio ... deliberately and with purposeful aforethought" took actions "intentionally to chill the rights to freedom of speech and peacefully to assemble of the non-citizen plaintiff[s]."

😍🥹🔥🔥

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

Ok, so ending the beard exemption helps Hegseth purge black men broadly, and any Sikh/ Muslim men seeking a religious exemption. The PT requirement allows purging most senior leadership. I mean…who cares if a Gen. has strategic/ command capabilities if they can do 50 pull-ups?!

“He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.” - U.S. Declaration of Independence

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

I don’t know how I’d missed this clip, but my life is better having seen it (…on a loop)

Tonight, I joined in (late) to @repdelbene.bsky.social ‘s tele town hall. It was…rough. People were polite. A few had tough Qs (loved that someone called her out for marching at Pride, than voting to honor Kirk). But I now get why the Dem response has been so… utterly crap: 1/4

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

Blended family joys: Both teens were away this weekend. Both have have now returned from their other homes sick — with 2 completely different bugs. I hereby unequivocally apologize to wherever Powers That Be I have offended. I will try to be better, I swear.

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” -Elie Wiesel, an actual Nobel Peace Prize winner

That provision would effectively ban trans health care for people of all ages everywhere in the country. If Dems can't stand up to that, then they deserve to lose forever.

Teen 2 called from school saying he needed to be picked up “I’m falling asleep in class and my throat is sore” When I arrive at school I’m informed (like “oh btw…”) there’s a big Covid outbreak at his HS. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Masking, separating, lots of fluids, and @rahaeli.bsky.social ‘s protocol for everyone!

JUST IN: Oregon sues to stop Trump’s deployment of the military, saying its pretextual and that ICE protests have been small and relatively contained since June. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just saw “The Play that Goes Wrong” at Seattle Rep. It was so much fun. Cackling with a room full of people is exactly what I needed. (This production is in partnership with Portland Center Stage, so see it here, or in war-ravaged Portland next.)

This. Where are their voices?

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

This should not be controversial take No decent person should vote to fund a government that is actively disappearing people to foreign concentration camps. Stop trying to be 1939 Germany

The thing is the press isn't yet approaching the Republicans in congress as if Trump is their problem to do something about yet, so they get away with pretending all of this is normal.

Wouldbe Warlord declares restive province of Portland to be in rebellion. Authorizes culling of citizens to root out dangerous ideology of “fascism is bad.”

😳🤯 TIL: (I knew it applied to US officials/ service members, but not other governments!)

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

“Your dad likes to sit on the aisle.” Some of the most beautiful words my husband has spoken. Seriously. M was getting tickets to a play for us and my parents, and — without prompting — he limited his search to 4 tickets with one on an aisle. 1/4

Oops. Looks like Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer lied to a judge. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Thinking today about the white woman I represented who was charged with something she didn't do. The cop testilied, and she freaked out saying that it was impossible for a cop to not tell the truth because that was illegal. When I told her that it happened all the time,

Let us all strive to live our lives in a way that the menswear guy doesn’t come for us.

Fucking Mariners! (laudatory…no seriously!) 🔱

60!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

I had to learn a song about “The San Juan Pig War” for Washington State’s centennial. Hot take: any war lacking a Porcine Fatality/ Border Dispute Banger is inherently inferior to this “war”

3 HRs in the first inning?!? What am I watching????

I appreciate that my Mariners aren’t trying to make thins game as nerve wracking as last night. 🔱🔱 back to back!

The Trump administration fired nearly 20 immigration judges this month alone – on top of the 80+ that have been fired this year. The move will likely make the backlog of immigration cases even worse. Trump’s agenda was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.

The Big Dumper just F-bombed on teevee. 🔱🔱🔱🥰⚾️

Amazing! 🤩

@mariners.com clinch a playoff spot!!!!!!!!! 🥸🧙‍♀️🎉🎉🎉

Good News, Seattle: it appears the Etsy Witch was NOT, in fact, raptured today! (Though, of course, many blessings upon her) #Mariners

Let me go ahead and send my thoughts and prayers to all that plan to take their medical advice from someone who I am old enough to remember also told people to inject themselves with bleach. Why is ignorance being elevated while intelligence is being denigrated?