Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

This whole thing feels weirdly full circle with what I learned about Shakespeare where they'd announce what they were doing for the pleb seats

All of you need your internet connections cut remotely

O M G

How dare they presume to know what would dazzle a penguin.

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE. Our conversation:

ok honestly I haven't gotten a single mailer for Stratton, and I'm in a competitive suburban area 😬

holy shit

my only explanation is all the religious garb pissed it off

shoutout to Surya Bonaly 🔥

how is it literally impossible for my brain to remember Ravel's Bolero

On an earnings call yesterday, the maker of birth control implant Nexplanon told investors it’s confident that newly heightened FDA regulations on its device won’t cause any bottlenecks. But most providers I contacted for this story (and have heard from since) didn’t even know about the new rules.

I had this exact conversation with friends 😂

Reckoning reopened to submissions on February 1st! We pay @sfwa.org pro rates, we never charge fees, AND we're piloting a new/improved process for reviewing and publishing submissions, which shows every sign of making our response times MUCH faster. Please submit? Guidelines: reckoning.press/submit/

At midnight as Saturday begins, annual funding provided in the DHS bill will lapse, leading to a “DHS-only” shutdown. What that means in reality is complicated. Short 🧵 tl;dr is ICE/CBP continue w/ pay, FEMA largely continues bcuz it has tons of money still usable, TSA continues w/ pay for a bit

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

$3 ebooks! $12 gold-foiled hardcovers! 25 happy couples enjoying like anything! Help us bring Kumari Loves a Monster back into print

happy kakapo fuck season to all who celebrate (aka the kakapo)

Lil before-bed request to check out my fashion + space opera anthology!! Would be really grateful for folks to back it. We are 8 days away from wrrapping up and have $4k to go.

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Hashtag President Lessig

It’s a predictive text engine, lads. It’s vomiting up the statistical probabilities of a billion stolen blog posts and 10 million pieces of fiction. We’ve been writing about therapy, the nature of self, and introspection forever. Of course it sounds real. Humans are good at producing narratives.

Man, I wish they’d bring back cool trends like bell bottoms or swing dancing instead of COINTELPRO

🚨 The House is voting on the SAVE America Act **TODAY** House Republicans have amended a bipartisan Senate-passed Veteran's Affairs bill (S. 1383) and added the entire SAVE America Act (H.R. 7296) to it. They think you won't notice.

as always the New York Times frames this catastrophe in a way that downplays the fact this is an extremely unpopular decision being driven entirely by corporate corruption that will avoidably kill untold millions of people

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

and now I'm back into reggaeton

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

It is honestly delightful how often the Mahabharata just has a line about irrigation in the middle of everything else

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

Federal prosecutors in Chicago have accused 32 known defendants of non-immigration crimes tied to Midway Blitz. Fifteen of those defendants have already been cleared. Another member of that group was found not guilty at trial.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so:

Yeaaah I'm in Chicagoland and hearing now about fairly scattered abductions, idk how any reporter stays on the ground for that kind of thing either....

Watched Alpha, definitely think a rewatch is merited to catch all the foreshadowing. Imo a solid story about the AIDS crisis, belonging, families, with excellent cinematography

Literally everything is Gender

"The first few months, I couldn’t sleep,” she says. “I would close my eyes and still see the screen loading.” Images followed her into her dreams: of fatal accidents, of losing family members, of sexual violence she could not stop or escape. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

if i gave jesus a la croix would he make champagne

NEW: Until recently, two Minneapolis women have heading out each day on a simple mission: to find and mock Border Patrol field leader Greg Bovino. I talked to one of them and wrote about the strengths and limits of mocking these dripless malevolent losers: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

block @neilhimself if you haven't already. fuck abusers

Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.

What? That's not saturated fat. That's just cheese juice.

Jon Ronson's THEM is a solid study of this. conspiracy theorists are *never* completely wrong

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

stop repeating stuff you remember from 20 years ago as though it's true today challenge

A friend recently bought me these Tiny Tates Gluten Free cookies and they're pretty delicious. I googled them to see where I could buy more but instead this popped up. Gross. Evil. I'll find another sweet treat. ny.eater.com/2021/3/12/22...