The thing about Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2026 is that with just two eyeholes and a pointy hood, you too can convert a bedsheet into a complete outfit.

The irony here is not that Griffin either ignored or forgot Notre Dame’s affiliation. It’s that in the Thunderdome of Purity that is evangelicalism, neither Mormons nor Catholics are seen as legitimate Christians.

When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:

Heavens forbid a girl have a little fun.

The thing about illegal orders is that the kind of people who issue them will not hesitate to throw you under the Consequences Bus for following them. Your back is nothing but target practice for their knives, and they mean it.

Just watched a sponsored ad reel for Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick, modeled by a person who was definitely not born yet when the background music (the synth and bass line of “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails) was first released.

In cold weather, cats become magnetic so as to stick themselves more tightly onto the cast iron heat vents.

The jolliest of Rogers.

Between Black Friday sales and folks prepping for the first big snowstorm of the season, Fleet Farm was basically Midwest Thunderdome this afternoon.

If you want to make a splash at a family dinner without mentioning politics, just say “MBTI is corporate astrology designed to weed out neurodivergent people without openly violating anti-discrimination laws” to an HR-adjacent relative, then watch their eyeballs start vibrating.

National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this. West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC. Victims of the shooter and the president.

Considering how badly Hegseth wants a fraction of an excuse to escalate federalized troop presence into outright martial law, this level of ready-fire-aim from an elected official is not just sloppy and irresponsible, it's outright dangerous.

Psst! Hey, kid! You wanna green bean casserole recipe that doesn’t use canned soup? Okay, here’s whatcha need, and what to do with it:

Definitely invite him, then let the uncles and cousins handle him while you put the fear of complicity in statutory offenses into her parents.

Quiet, piggy.

BodeGoat.

hillary cass is to gender-affirming care what andrew wakefield is to vaccinations.

A movie that takes place where you’re from:

A family acquaintance recently pointed out that I have gained weight in my 40s, while my mother did not. My response: “Well, my mother is also three undiagnosed disorders in a bathrobe, which she has self-medicated with staggering amounts of nicotine and caffeine for her entire adult life…

When you try to get into bed quietly so as not to wake your partner, but you live in an old house with squeaky floors and your bed frame is made of wrought iron:

Let me repeat:

Wag the Dog 2: South American Boogaloo

It’s not just that capping federal financial aid and limiting tuition reimbursement options will create massive staffing shortages in healthcare, education, and social services. 1/5

I shudder to think what Eldest Child had to do to get these.

The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it

“Gonna strike a deal, make him feel like a Congressman.” I think it’s running in the family.

Behold her roumdness.

Dear ICE agents in NC: Hey, so that noise in the woods that sounded like it was calling your name? You should totally go check on that. And if you’re still outside when it gets dark, make sure you whistle real loud so it knows exactly where you are. Good luck!

My neurodivergent kids are not the result of vaccines or taking Tylenol while pregnant. They are the result of two people who love each other very much but also have Strong Opinions™️ about textures and never turning on the Big Light.

I find it interesting (derogatory) that so many of the same cisgender men who won’t stand anywhere near each other at urinals will pass up an entire row of open treadmills to take the one right next to a woman at the gym.

Everything I have ever learned about the sex lives of journalists and politicians has been against my will.

Queerness being worse than sexual abuse is second only to anti-Black racism in Republican Party platform priorities. It’s just different aspects of white supremacy all the way down.

Before many more folks go rushing to bring Marjorie Taylor Greene into their “big tent” for doing the absolute bare, self-serving minimum to stand up to Trump, kindly remember that being accidentally correct twice a day doesn’t turn a broken clock into a reliable timepiece.

⁨If history books still exist in the future, this photo belongs in them.⁩

Imagine if people believed sexual assault survivors as readily as they do a homophobic rumor about a hypothetical blowjob.

I mean, probably the antique store too, if I'm honest. But since I'm retired now, my proper title is "Slut Emerita."

At the risk of being an utter killjoy, I remain convinced that no matter what he says or does, no matter what information gets released or revealed, the only Sparkling, Magical Deus Ex Machina Trick to removing the sex-pest-in-Chief is going to be his own mortality.

Said the Complainer-in-Chief, who refuses to take his own advice.

For the love of my blood pressure, dear fellow motorists, y’all’s turn signals need to come on BEFORE your brake lights. Especially when my teen is driving. We managed to avoid a collision but I did nearly stomp a hole in the passenger side floorboard in the process.

A glimmer of good news this morning.

It’s 3:25 in the morning. It is 6,000 internal degrees. We are simultaneously itchy, sweaty, chilled, tired, wide awake, thirsty, need to pee, can feel every seam in our clothes, and can’t find our pants. The cat is using our glasses as a hockey puck.

This is why you don’t make pinky-promise deals with fascists.

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument

Lucy is delighted at yet another opportunity to yank the football.

Any “deal” that ends with Dems just getting a pinky promise in return is a mistake. The American people are suffering because Republicans refuse to stop healthcare costs from skyrocketing. An agreement that doesn’t fix that reality falls massively short.

Inshallah, and the creek don’t rise.

So…digital phrenology calipers, basically.

Shot, meet chaser.

Some folks are really weird about married couples who actually like and respect each other. I’m sorry you don’t have that in your own life, but you need to stop making that into an invasive, parasocial situation instead of addresing your own issues. This post is (and is not) about Rama Duwaji.