Small Fry is driving us home from my parents and so far their play list has included Call Me by Blonde, Closer to Fine by the Indigo Girls and Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac and I am taking credit for their fantastic music taste.

If you are feeling helpless and hopeless in the face of the CECOT report, I’d like to suggest donating to HIAS. It’s a Jewish organization that actively protects displaced people and fights for refugee rights everywhere including against the Trump regime. 🧵

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

I entered 2025 deciding I was going to stop trying to convince people that my life had value and that my ex should be held accountable for his abuse and instead only surround myself with people who didn't need convincing and what a difference that made.

Can we go a week without me having to call my Dem senators to ask them not to appease the fascists because, honestly. It's the holidays, my kiddos are coming home from college this weekend, and Madam Flufflybutt and Danger Cat are about to be joined by a mess of kittens. Also they are Dems, ffs.

Go help trans people get housing, go help trans people get hormones, go help trans people get money and food and jobs and everything else we need to not just survive but to thrive Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This winter shrinkflation has been brutal.

This year has been so brutal that I am literally going to be surrounding myself in kittens to limp into 2026. Also, my application to be a foster parent for cats was approved and I am a sap for "but, how about you take the 4 kittens? It's so important to keep them together."

One of the most difficult things you will navigate if you develop a serious illness/disability (before you're retirement home aged) is every corner of society is telling you to "just go away". Everyone--government and even many folks you counted as friends--wants you to be someone else's problem.

We can honour Alice's legacy by continuing her work! 🍉 bit.ly/eSimsRUs

We really need to stop calling these right to die laws and start calling them what they are: laws that make death more accessible than food, housing, and healthcare for disabled people so maybe we can just kill them.

This. Also, I think of how email and texting have actually made this more of a thing. Instead of ignoring an unhinged message on an answering machine it's now dealing with someone who feels like they should have 24/7 access to you. I think about this a lot as a parent of adultish kids.

@mayorofchicago.bsky.social is helping ICE kidnap our neighbors and wants to give more money for policing which has never kept us safe.

The cat tree we got four years ago when Madam Fluffybutt came into our lives is falling apart. My mission for this week is to deep clean it, replace the scratch posts with new rope, and better secure the platforms. I am not handy at all and my hands don't work, so this will be fun!

They were giving away food. During the holidays.

I see that as the Year of the Undying King 2025 wraps to a close some random fucknut decided to spin out and find a new way to parent shame. Yea, let's blame parents, who have a whole host of bullshit on their plate, for our nations traffic problems.

I was offline for much of the weekend and holy fuck when does this year end?

it is completely reasonable to not be excited about right to die being legislated during a fascist regime that is constantly doing eugenics, actually

This. It is cheaper to kill me then to make sure that I, a disabled person, have accessible housing, healthcare, and healthy food. It is also easier than imaging a world where everyone has value just by being part of our community.

It’s so striking when people focus on how horrible they felt it was they were encouraged to stay home when they could in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and not how horrible it felt to see hundreds of thousands of people pass away from COVID-19 in the US and millions around the world.

The Harper's Letter test almost never misses...

I love how people cling desperately to this myth even though election results suggest the opposite. Harris was the most center-right candidate ever run by the party and she lost. Meanwhile, Mamdani, the mayor of the largest city in the country, ran on left policies around affordability and won.

I dunno, man. If I have to keep calling my representative and screaming at them to not vote for stuff like the Nailing Babies to Wolverines Act, and if I don't they'll vote to nail babies to wolverines, then it seems to me that person shouldn't be my representative.

But libraries are too expensive.

If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan. If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

The white people who own this cat would also read the Latin written in blood.

There is a multiverse where RFK morphs into Immortan Joe.

I don't know how voting for Democrats began associated with harm reduction but sweet fucks those are not the same thing at all.

We don't have disability rights. Disabled people don't even have marriage equality. You can't confuse community and work grounded in justice with the Democratic Party. The party is a jobs program that protects its own at all costs. They will not save you if it doesn't benefit them.

My rights were not secured by politicians, but by activists and communities who fought very hard for them. I think Dems do nothing for that community because I am old enough to remember the Obama years and it taking a court case to force a Dem president to support gay marriage.

Planned Parenthood has been problematic for years. Donate to independent clinics. Focus on work that will actually provide abortions to those who need them.

I received an email yesterday & heard that toys have begun arriving to the location. THANK YOU to those who have already donated to the toy & gift drive. There are still many options to choose from. Toy list: bit.ly/48pJUrK Teen gifts: amzn.to/4rDn7BG

I was expecting that listening to my kids music on road trips over the summer would introduce me to new artists. I learned that Tall Fry has gotten into Simon & Garfunkel and Short Fry is now into Fleetwood Mac. They do have great taste!

You’ll Be OK

One thing that often gets missed in the conversation about accommodations, is that a lot of us have disabilities that aren't static. Some days I can hike and some days I can't. Some days my brain runs almost as well as it used to. Some days the fog and fatigue set in. Just trust us, ffs.

Imagine being a goy and standing up and telling Jewish people they don’t know or understand their own fucking history. That Jews are ignorant and too uneducated to have correct opinions about the Jewish issue of our time that has broken families and communities. You absolute piece of trash.

We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...

Long Covid isn’t the first virus to cause long-term damage rhaf can lead to death. HIV is well known example of phenomenon. RfKJR is one of the people who denied his association between HIV and aids. Polio. MS is likely post viral. Long covid keeps growing. kids and teens get it too, even vaxed ones

When Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern send material asking for donations, do they include links to a Trump SuperPAC so donors don't have to bother with a middle man?

So fucking disappointed. NU bending a knee will not save it. Maybe it doesn't deserve to be saved.

Being chronically sick like this isn't some romanticized Hallmark movie plot. It's my life with debilitating chronic illnesses. DE-BIL-I-TAT-ING. Look the word up in a frigging dictionary.

Omg the opening scene 2 years later at the start of Season 3 of Invasion. "Do you want to go check out the End of Days sales this weekend?" I am dying. Just dying.

What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?

You mean the kids that Democrats demonized for protesting Gaza? The ones who everyone piled on when they attempted to build camps and experiment with different ways of providing for each other? Also, the kids are active - but an increasing amount of activity is going to survive these days.

To be this callous over people losing their jobs makes you the fucking problem.

NEW — Illinois residents can submit comments to state leaders by Nov. 24 to oppose mail scanning, which allows prison officials to scan physical mail and reproduce it into digital copies. Criminal justice advocates say the practice doesn’t make prisons safer. thetriibe.com/2025/11/crim...

Email [email protected]!

Who will share for us today ❤️‍🩹🫂

Hero stuff right here.