Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃

if it ain't broke don't fix it if it ain't baroque you don't need to learn to read basso continuo

You been hit by a smooth hymnal

Cook County deputies, Illinois State Police, and Broadview police just arrested at least 8 to 10 people, including several faith leaders. State police in riot gear now arriving.

at this point my default position on anyone who is anti-trans and LOUD about it is to be suspicious about their motivations where children are concerned.

they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!

into every generation a chosen one is born

I say yet again, direct pipeline: Elevatorgate > Gamegate > Me Too > our current fascist capitalist hell All the same terrible men, all the same terrible arguments

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

IT GOT BETTER 📍Central MN

I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events

It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing. We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.

When you see someone share their premium increase this week, bite your tongue about universal healthcare. Americans KNOW this is a shitty deal forced on them. They still need their meds and doctors. You don't pull over at a car accident and say "well *my* car is fine".

Ahh, the distinctive smell of burning off the dust from your gas wall heater when the weather turns cold.

Why did I vote for you if you’re just going to turn off your fucking voicemail when you get scared of your constituents

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

Post you from a different era This is from the era when I had long hair and, somehow, the time and money to travel internationally. (I took this photo in London.)

If you see this post and need to hear some chatter, you should follow me on twitch because I am an excellent yapper. I can yap for you, with you, or at you. I’m a real professional, I can show you my resume of 29 years of yapping. Just sayin, I also enjoy frogs and pokemon if that sweetens the deal

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

​“I get emails from the New York State Democrats, and you look at the list of meetings, and all it is is fundraisers. There are no meetings. And who holds meetings? The Democratic Socialists of America holds meetings. The Working Families Party holds meetings. ”

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

I do wonder what it was like to be a woman working at the NYT and wake up to the “Did Women Ruin the Workplace” headline.

Like many fuckass establishment dems, she should have retired years ago and she bears an enormous responsibility for the current clown show, but better late than never i fuckin guess

THIS IS SO GOOD

My veterinarian has a segregated waiting room (cats on one side, dogs on the other side) and honestly it's a great design

i'm still appalled people were making fun of her for this instead of being thoroughly charmed by what it says about the insanely cool and lengthy career wallace shawn has had

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

filmmaker mira nair created mississippi masala and the next mayor of new york, bravo🫡

I keep thinking about Zohran on some podcast being like “these billionaires are spending more money to defeat me than I would tax them” lmfao

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this

oh my god

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

I recently made basic black beans and I was shocked by how much tastier they were than canned beans even though there's almost nothing in this recipe except beans. www.seriouseats.com/the-lazy-coo...

I just went to renew my Covered CA and... my premium has barely gone up at all. I'm still seeing the APTC being applied to my premium payment. Should I be suspicious? Isn't the APTC going away?

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!