Joyce Carol Oates to Musk

Veterans Day 2025 anntelnaes.substack.com/p/veterans-day

Solution: don’t give Bond an arc. But have an ark instead. Then you’re making Moonraker. Problem solved.

His cabinet was confirmed because the Senate fast tracked all of his nominations in near record time. It broke modern records for fastest cabinet confirmed. Chuck Schumer, Amy Klobuchar and Hakeem Jeffries literally planned Trump's inauguration.

no money for politicians

This and the airline industry lobbyists are what did it. Not Americans starving and paying twice as much for healthcare. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

This is so offensive I don’t even know where to start. “Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.” Nope. We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours. You work for us.

I for one love to not be able to watch football because the $3.5 trillion company can’t get along with the $201 billion company

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

People are mad at Democrats over on Threads. Do you understand? THREADS.

No Kings. No Trillionaires.

me: it would be great if good things happened occasionally Senator I voted for: you idiot. you fool

Not seen a single House D or potential 2028 D support this. They must be the D's who want a future.

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain? MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Moderate Democrats saw that voters were energized and might expect something from them, so they needed to put a stop to that ASAP

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

[through gritted teeth, visibly trembling] I must strive to maintain a sense of whimsy

It’s really impressive to stand out as an enemy amid an occupation of our nation’s cities by armed federal forces.

We're just out here trying to enjoy a nice Sunday basking in election victories and making our fun little Mamdani signs, but noooooo those spineless Senate Dem fuckheads are forcing us to leave voicemail.

Like, I know the cruelty is the point, but jeezy pete this is grim.

All of republican governance in our lifetime has now devolved to angry white men incoherently screeching—in the halls of power and online alike—that nothing is working and they demand democrats put it back together in the exact way that republicans want or else they’ll start killing more people

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

i started making fun of Jeremy Renner as a bit on the show years ago. didn't have any reason to think he was an awful person, just felt like he was up his own ass enough to be funny. anyway turns out he's an actual monster. i take back my apology over making fun of his weird snowplow accident.

billionaire puts automatic pedophile machine in a car, wants a trillion dollars

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Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

"What did James Watson discover?" "Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction slides."

Voters on Tuesday: We hate everything you're doing Trump administration: OK, got it. What if we starved you and ruined air travel for Thanksgiving

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

Let's go! The City of Cleveland - home to a public power utility - is one of the first in the nation i've heard of so far banning shutoffs during this federal shutdown crisis. Public power can lead the nation in showing what democratic institutions can do to make our lives better.

i never judge before all the facts are in but my working hypothesis is these people are morons

Jacob Frey still couldn't get more votes in 2025 than rent control did in 2021.

The designer who came up with this feature, the developer who implemented it, the QA that passed it, all should feel great shame. The product manager who prioritized it should feel double shame. I will reserve comment on the senior leadership who pushed for this garbage in the first place.

Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.

Thanks, DOGE.

RFK Jr. peeling out of the meeting like he can't remember whether he's the one who sold that guy the heroin.

Since the Oval Office needs labels now...

"Hijacking of Agor's Savage Avatar" This is my 3rd Southeast Asian medieval mech! Also, hello! I'm back for a bit, trying to post weekly until the end of the year, which is like 8 weeks? I can do this! (lol probably not)

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry