I can't stress enough how important it is to experience art with people who will allow you to feel emotions without mockery.

@pghcitypaper.com 🫡

EUGENE VICTOR DEBS 1855-1926 While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

That night we went to a New Year's Eve party at church and my mom spent most of the evening trying to explain to people that everything would be fine because other countries had already celebrated the New Year without incident, which of course led to her explaining time zones to other grown adults.

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

I'm going to take a monstrously long break from social media in 2026, starting January 1st and ending maybe never 🤪🙃🫠🫣😏 I want to build my attention span back up ✌️

So, librarians, do you have a contingency plan for when these goons enter your facility? You might not be able to block access to a public building, but how are you alerting your patrons? Do you have a plan to get them out safely? Because you should.

Phantom of the Paradise *might* be De Palma's weirdest, but it's definitely his most fun! Absolutely fantastic movie.

Going to the container store for the first time ever omg

I wrote this column about the aggressive pushback our reporters have received for doing their jobs. Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.

“None of this is true,” a White House official said in response to a request for comment. “Just another desperate attempt by the failing Rolling Stone.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is what building resilience looks like - it's creating networks and pathways as well as creating art and it's also what I'm up to at the library

Just watched Frankenstein. Yeah, I’d fuck him (victor and his creation)

It really does enhance the viewing experience to know that George Clooney exited JACK FROST after Henson had already locked the snowman face

The Netflix and Amazon broadcasts are a great reminder that live sports is a deeply, deeply difficult type of TV that requires huge crews of profoundly skilled and experienced people who have worked together for a long time to look natural

We love getting very drunk in a hotel bar in Scranton and then watching This Is Spinal Tap on TV and continuing to be drunk and also getting snowed in and being in Scranton 🥂 Our waitress was the best. Merry Christmas.

"Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period. Their overall employment is up...Educational attainment is up. There may be 1-2% of white men who dipped out of top 10% of personal earnings, though white men continue to be vastly over-represented there."

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

ICE whistles work.

AI consumed as much water as the water bottle industry this year. It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study. www.theverge.com/news/845831/...

The idea that enhancing surveillance in academic buildings will protect students from mass shootings is absolutely fucking preposterous. What it will increase is the criminalization of our students. Reject it!!! GUN CONTROL IS THE ANSWER TO GUN VIOLENCE. BEAT THE GUNS INTO PLOWSHARES.

This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)

Gift Link: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/c...

I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

John Dickerson writing at The Atlantic nails it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

for the 40th year in a row TIME has named michael mcdonald person of the year

So after we got over that whole McCarthyism crap in the 50s, we got the freedom of the 60s and the weirdness of the 70s and I just really hope I'm around to see straight men in makeup and crop tops and heels in 2040, dancing to Space Disco with long hair and mustaches once we're through ALL THIS.

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

No matter how many times I watch or read Little Women, it destroys me. I learn something new about myself and my emotional limits every single time. This time the lessons of courage and determination are really hitting me hard.

Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!

*kicks down the door like Big Bird in that one gif* VISIT YOUR LIBRARY WE'VE GOT DVDS WE'VE GOT CDS WE'VE GOT BOOKS ON CD WE'VE GOT THAT TONIES THING FOR YOUR KID YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK

You keep Shaggy 2 Dope’s holy words out of your filthy mouth

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Call your Senators no matter how they voted but especially if they are one of the 8 turncoats And stay on the line to tell the turncoat staff that they should stop working for someone who would sell out the people

We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced... 👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...

Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.

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

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hearing from more people after this went out. "We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."

YES!!

I've already called and emailed twice. Call your Dem senators and tell them to take action to preserve the ACA premium subsidies now! Our power to protect it is now, not later! If you have Republican Senators, call them just to taunt them and tell them no one likes them.

NEW: The First Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Trump admin's efforts to stop the release of full funding for November's SNAP benefits payments as ordered by a lower court judge. The Supreme Court's administrative stay will now expire 48 hours after the 1st Circuit's ruling.

I'm going to try to call Fetterman's offices as much as humanly possible today. It probably won't do anything, but it will make me feel better. That man is a disgrace.

Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)

BREAKING: Senate takes first step to end government shutdown after some moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies, angering many in their caucus who say Americans want them to continue the fight.