Joyce Carol Oates to Musk

We gotta think long game and survive this shit.

🧑‍🌾 “The projected loss in 2025 on corn, cotton, soy, & wheat is $430,000,000 in Tennessee alone.” TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers. (cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)

Is anyone else getting weird pop ups on here saying you must age verify before you can access your direct messages? Bc one of you dear people has sent me one I am trying to read and this is happening. It asks for last 4 of social or other personal stuff to verify.

What to do w a very large amount of rosemary? I plan to give some away so what else?

Saved the coxcombs from the freeze. Too pretty and fuzzy to resist. There are others kept for seed!

Excited to watch this for the first time since it came out. I remember it being funny, but now it enjoys a reputation for being “one of the funniest movies it is impossible to see” (not streaming anyplace). Big cast too.

The black square page (marking a character's death) in "Tristram Shandy" (1759)

If it was not for public spaces like libraries mom-of-an-infant me would not have finished grad school, considering my 800 square feet apartment was full of baby things and the baby…who had healthy lungs and good vocal range.

My son and I are off to help stock food pantries/blessing boxes in town. Last night I explained why it’s needed. His response at 12 yo… “WHAT?! That’s not very nice!”

CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.

Seems like a great time for Amtrak to start planning more routes. Or other train services.

Why yes this c19 person did buy the Timothy Flint quote T-shirt at this craft fair.

I ate a hot dog for breakfast

Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues. Eugenics is a Nazi shibboleth: https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity

We asked my MIL if she’d like us to bring Odis to the assisted living place for a visit and she replied “No. Too much hair.”

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

Me element

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come: www.lawdork.com

gotta teach this case in trial advoacy

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill is intriguing bc it’s a novel that will make you hate it for a large part of the read until you start realizing some things about the main character. It’s hard to bring a hostile reader around

Live laugh loot Vance like no one is watching If you can’t handle me at my worst you don’t deserve to have a nurse

One thing I will say is that I respect Pelosi’s decision to not pursue reelection and wish that more people of advanced age and advanced power would make room for others by doing the same.

House cancels votes next week, including vote on Epstein files.

A good cover youtu.be/wBSYj4E7-IU?...

I just want every streaming service to provide little trailers like Netflix for each show and also…for the shows to be better than what’s on Netflix.

If it's turkey and Brie they must go free.

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Home sick what is a good show to stream? I like mysteries, true crime that is not violence porn but history based, thrillers, and funny things.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

Just watched my son BOOK IT two blocks to catch his bus and succeed, like he’s Spider-Man. He caught it, which is impressive. It was a bit harrowing but also boy am I proud of what he can do.

Yessssssssss

Oh dear

Time for my periodic statement that if you think “those red states” deserve to be cut loose from the U.S. you are every bit as much a jerkface as the people in power trying to divide everyone now so they can get theirs amidst the rubble.

The governor had to put out a notice there is no election in my state today and people are laughing once again like KY is dumb. They are missing the fact that people here care enough they want to change things…today.

We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it

All those people who piled on that woman whose dissertation was about the politics of smell a couple years back just got owned.

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If sandwich guy wins, somebody should make a statue of him throwing a sandwich at one of the confederate statues.

The joy of one uninterrupted hour with a good book, new legal pad, and a smooth-writing pen. The pleasure of writing notes by hand is something I still relish.

As promised, a longer read:

This is amazing news. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sorry I cannot attend any meetings tomorrow just found out Donna Godchaux passed away.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

chat am I cooked www.vogue.com/article/teen...

honest reporting costs less than a propaganda machine, but you can't control what it says