If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

spirit. spirit. spirit. spirit. Explore this gift article from The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/a...

"The Post, instead, is abandoning its current audience in search of one that may not exist." -- www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Okay, who here has seen "Burn"? Can't wait, and not just because I worship LILYA 4-EVER

"A nation won't rouse itself if it doesn't hear the alarm." Please read. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

Still looking for this; if anyone has a copy I'd love to chat

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes. Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.

There's no daylight between the Gestapo and ICE. None. Murdering kidnapping, raping, child molestation, trafficking, beating innocent people. If you have a Rep who isn't calling to abolish immediately then they work for the Gestapo. Anyone who tells you that you're overreacting is one of them too

@scottheim.bsky.social Hayden of Ethel Cain talking about favorite “winter music”

I often tell people online that these are my parents, and finally someone believed me! And then I found myself thinking, well, they sort of ARE my parents.

My short story “We Are Sorry For Your Suffering” - a sci-fi epistolary tale about the end of the world - is the December issue of @onestorymag.bsky.social! Read an excerpt and an interview with me (and/or order a copy!) here. It’s surprisingly hopeful! one-story.com/product/we-a...

I did NOT get today's NYT Connections right, and I've been apoplectic all day long

I've been busy--did I miss this?

Further proof that no one on earth is as snowflake-sensitive and reactionary as a right-winger. They Are Brazil’s Favorite Flip-Flops. Now, the Right Is Boycotting Them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/w...

Charles Burchfield, "The Glow of Christmas", 1952, Watercolor on paper, 20 1/2" x 26 1/4"

Congrats @rabihalameddine.bsky.social!! His books are phenomenal--so excited to read the new one. And check out his BlueSky if you haven't already; it's without question one of THE reasons to remain on this site.

If only more Americans were like Rick Steves... wapo.st/4sdQcUu

Honor to be mentioned here. Collider is great, but what's up with so much lack of proofreading lately online? collider.com/best-movies-...

This is the most coked up you can be without actually opening a restaurant during the presser

Photo by Michael Kizis, 2017

My motto in more ways / areas I care to mention! (Okay, I do care to mention: see my Pinterest page "Men with epic noses" for more examples)

Stefanik is truly one of the most pathetic to ever (attempt to) play the grifter politics game. This photo itself is so fittingly (and terrifyingly) "asshole frat boys high-fiving as they throw disgraced girl out of keg party" wapo.st/4s2feG5

I love this photo. It's pretty much an image of every north, south, east, and west around the part of the USA I grew up in (and that isn't a complaint). Posted by my bestest of best friends from high school, who likely saw a lot MORE of this yellow & green out her bedroom windows every day.

I wish these stupid people with their faux-persecution complexes would get their stories straight.

Joe Schwartz, Brooklyn Tricycle Gang, n.d. (1930s-1940s)

saw this today too and it might be the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on TV. repulsive, hideous, soulless people running a broken country.

Woodrell was incredible--one of the best American novelists, and his prose was so vibrant and painstakingly detailed and strange. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...

all very nice but this is THE definitive answer #talktalk #thecolourofspring #spiritofeden #laughingstock

This was FAR cleaner than I predicted. I need to start swearing a LOT fucking more.

woke at 11 & finally crawled from bed at 1:55

this @profanity.accountant shit looks like an amazing fucking BlueSky account

Lili Wood Pres de La Chapelle, 2022 Gouache on paper 20 x 26 cm

Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:

A movie that takes place where you're from... I could take the easy way out and post a shot of Dorothy Gale, but instead I'll do this one: Candace Hilligoss crawling up from Lawrence's Kansas River in CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962), and my friend Alex, somewhere around that same spot (2023).

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Creepy Jenny lives! plentywenlockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/creepy...

deaths are coming