It doesn't matter if *you* think he shouldn't be in the U.S. It doesn't matter if *you* think he committed a crime. The Supreme Court decided that he should be returned. This is what matters. Your *feelings* about this are irrelevant. The court decided. And is being ignored. This is fascism.

Thank you, @booker.senate.gov. Courage is contagious. 💙🫡

You just know that there are at least a few discussions in newsrooms today where they are sitting there gobsmacked at what Jeffery Goldberg had the stones to do, and they are saying, "wait, is this what we should be doing too??!?" Yes, motherfuckers, yes. Courage is contagious.

AMBIVALENT 2024 VOTERS: how bad could it be? Relax! Calm down! You're overreacting!! Do you hear how insane you sound? PETE HEGSETH: *accidentally texts war plans to a reporter*

My suggestion to JD Vance: if you find peaceful protests against you to be annoying and inconvenient, you are welcome to resign.

If you’re not standing with Ukraine, you’re standing with a dictator who believes that anything he wants in the world should be his if he starts it. Am I talking about Trump or Putin? Impossible to see any daylight between the two, tbh.

It's weird how when you tell anti-vaxxers to enjoy getting measles, they accuse you of saying something awful, as if their stance isn't an open door policy for infectious diseases. 🤷🏻‍♀️

All I wanted was to be able to open my phone and not mutter “what in the actual fuck” thirty times a day.

In case you still believe that Usha Vance is a victim here, she happily accepted a seat on the Kennedy Center board. In Handmaid’s Tale, the Wives enjoy their places of status right up until they lose a finger. Under his eye.

I don’t care what your reason was for voting for this man. When you or your loved ones get sick or face medical consequences, I will not shed one fucking tear. If that sounds callous, it’s only as callous as your vote was. The fallout from your ignorance are about to be irreparable.

In hindsight, it’s pretty clear that the Project 2025 people said: just get us in the White House and no one will stop us. It’s looking increasingly like they were right.

Every single day, the news is worse, and Americans are put in more and more danger. I realize it's selfish and I also realize that it probably can't happen, but I am ready for California to secede.

Canada and Mexico have done more to stand up to Trump than essentially any elected official in the United States. We are in their debt.

If you live in Indiana, it's a good time to call Sen Todd Young and thank him for having the fortitude to criticize Tulsi Gabbard and tell him you'll have his back if he votes against her confirmation to Trump's cabinet: 202-224-5623; 317-226-6700; 812-542-4820

Dismantling regulations that protect the country has consequences. If the Dems are even halfway decent at their jobs (tbd), they'll let anyone who is paying attention know that Trump took steps last week that made our airspaces less safe. He is a threat to all of us, regardless of political party.

The administration didn’t backtrack because of a single thing our representatives did. They backtracked because the public revolted. Get loud. Stay loud. The disobedience is the point.

This time last year, we were building line graphs of time zones and airspeeds to see if Taylor could make it back from Japan to Vegas for the Super Bowl. Simpler times, man.

Good luck to everyone but Harrison Butker.

Just a reminder that you don’t have to do the next 4 years like you did his last 4 years. Protect your peace, pick important battles, mute accounts that make you spiral. I can’t let my daily mental health hinge on his depravity again, and it’s ok to regroup and fight cleaner and better and smarter.

In a world of Carrie Underwoods, be a Kelly Clarkson.

Mexico and Canada have firefighters on the ground and planes in the air. I don’t think I need to offer further commentary other than this is why you need allies. No one can survive on their own.

One thing to understand CA: we love it here. Many of us are here by choice, having moved for its promise & its beauty & its lifestyle. The news may report that we're a failing state but it's the opposite: a huge GDP, an open-minded spirt & the determination of people who packed up and headed west. 💙

To understand how decimating this is to anyone who has ties to LA’s Westside (where I live), my daughter has a core friend group of about 8 girls. Among this group alone, 3 of them lost their homes completely. Everyone here has the same story.

LA has enough to worry about other than that toxic narcissistic fuck shitting on our state, our Gov, our residents and our way of life. A leader with any ounce of courage and decency would put aside his ego for Americans who didn't vote him and try to earn our respect. He will never be my president.

I know I posted this morning about gravitating toward positivity on BlueSky but things are very bad right now in LA. We know half a dozen people who lost their homes within the past two hours. Climate change doesn't care who you voted for. It's here. Wake up.

I took a step back from BlueSky bc I’m trying to protect my mental health this time around, and my feed was making me anxious ala Twitter of old. I’d love to be more active here though. If you have some fave accounts that bring you joy here, please share below so I can populate my feed with some ☀️!

Here’s what I’m not doing for the next four years: following every horrific or asinine thing that man says. BTDT. Now, I’ll fight for the real stuff that matters to me and protect my peace otherwise. Being in a constant state of outrage means you deplete your resources for when you really need it.

I'm listening to TOM LAKE, and it is like a warm bath, a calming balm for the soul.

The whole premise of Make America Great Again is that America is a "shit hole"…which MAGA voters endorsed and went to a neo-Nazi rally at MSG in support of. But now that the messaging is coming from someone other than their cult leader and the messaging also includes *them,* they’re big mad. Oop.

A recap of the week: 1) a congressman, nominated to be the AG, paid for sex and provided drugs to women, including a 17-yo 2) a husband was found guilty of drugging his wife, and 80 men lined up to r*pe her 3) a director sexually harassed a co-star, then convinced the public he was the good guy Ok!

From men who vote for predators while telling us they still love us to men who spend years pretending to be allies only to turn out to be lecherous to men who drug their wives, this is why women choose the bear. At least with the bear, what you see is what you get. We'll take those odds.

I’m spending the next two weeks of the quiet holiday time polishing a project that has been in development for 5 years and is finally going to casting when everyone is back in the office. Creatives, don’t quit on a thing if the door is still cracked open even just a sliver. 🥹

I just remembered that Kristi Noem is going to be in charge of Homeland Security. Omg.

Trump assuming that people won't link him to the shutdown and instead blame Biden is a rare massive PR mistake. Ppl have literally forgotten that Biden is president & if you polled Americans right now, most would say Trump is essentially president. He and Elon and the GOP will be blamed. Correctly.

Sometimes I remember how she was raising millions to his pennies and packing huge arenas to his half-full gymnasiums, & while I fully accept the election results, I will never not be perplexed about how all the normal metrics misled us. This isn't a conspiracy post, I just can't believe we are here.

Look, I hope it is the aliens. I genuinely want to meet them. If they have made it here, they’re so much smarter than we are, and we can use all the help we can get, let’s be real.

idk if you shit on a megastar doing charity *even if you think she is doing it for PR*, it's still charity, it's still a kindness, it still brings those kids and families happiness, so i think your opinion says much more about you than it does the megastar (this is a post about Taylor Alison Swift)

The new rule moving forward is that people who voted for Trump because their eggs were expensive don’t get to complain about their medical expenses when they lose the use of their legs due to polio.

I went to pick up meds for my daughter's migraines. Insurance has decided not to cover it this month for god knows why. $180 for 9 pills. The pharmacist says "one sec, let me try to apply coupons," *clickety clack,* then he says, "okay, now it's $16." Nothing about our healthcare system makes sense.

I got an email from Bookbub that my debut novel, The Department of Lost and Found, is on sale today for $1.99. I feel like I’ve grown so much as a writer over the past decades but a lot of people loved it at the time, so if you wanna give it a try, here you go!: www.bookbub.com/books/the-de...

Today marks the earliest sunset of the year in Los Angeles. Starting tomorrow, we begin the rebound toward long summer nights. 🥰

I'm fascinated by the fact that since he wasn't a professional as first speculated, there must have been dozens of people who recognized Luigi Mangione from high school and college, yet it appears that no one turned him in. Instead, it was a stranger.

If you're grieving the end of an Era and want to revel in a bit of nostalgia, here's the piece I wrote about *that kiss* in Buenos Aires and why it felt so revolutionary, not just for Taylor but for women all over. TLDR: women deserve partners who show up for them. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ta...

Grateful to Taylor Swift and the Eras tour for giving me 2 years of joy, from seeing it live w/my daughter to watching grainy live streams to meeting Swifties For Kamala to writing about *that kiss* with Travis in Argentina. In a world of bleakness, she gave us a lot of light. It’s been legendary. 🫶

So many dog rescues I follow are begging for help right now. My genuine best advice for making your life a little happier (that happens to be backed by medical data) is to adopt a pet. (Yes buying a pet will bring you happiness too but saving an animal is its own special kind of goodness.)

I completely forgot that before ACA, children could and would be kicked off their parents' health insurance at 18. As a parent of an 18 and 20yo, this seems...insane now? Why, honestly, does age even matter, with policy coverage? If the bill is being paid, what's the difference? We are so fucked up.

Sent in the line edits of my new book today. 🥹🥹🥹 My agent and editor pushed me so much on this one, and my advice to writers it to surround yourself with people who sometimes know better than you do. Never be the smartest one on a project. It makes your work so much stronger.

I don’t know if people are still doing starter packs or if there is one for authors, but two more author friends just joined BlueSky, so you definitely want to follow @julieclarkauthor.bsky.social and @emilygiffinauthor.bsky.social, whose books I adore and whose friendships I adore even more.

My 2024-2025 litmus test is very simple: if you defend an abuser -- for President, for his Cabinet, for congress, for my fucking dogwalker -- you are not someone I have space for in my life. This is, like, the very lowest bar, okay?

Honestly, Joe Biden has given enough to this country. That people still demand a pound of flesh -- in the form of his only surviving son facing the continued retribution of the Trump administration -- is insane.