There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

They don't have top level talent to choose from. White supremacy breeds mediocrity.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Don't ask how you would open the Strait of Hormuz. Ask yourself how open to the Strait of Hormuz are you?

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

Rereading books 1 & 2 in preparation for book 3 TOMORROW!!!

The WaPo still occasionally gets it right.

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

This one is a secret code for detecting Anglicans/Episcopalians of a particular generation.

I have dear friends at FinCEN. The thought of their efforts to protect the U.S. financial system being weaponized like this makes me sick—as does the thought of someone less ethical than Hurley being put in charge. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

all of the post-heated rivalry press about why women like yaoi is driving me crazy. imagine if there were a blitz of articles in the year 2026 like "why do men like lesbian porn?" who can say. world's biggest mystery

epstein and the epstein class were so fucking desperate for validation they funded a cranberry bog of academics to explain why they were the master race, but yeah sure. it's women who only care about being admired

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

I grew up in New England rooting for the Patriots (I still feel the pain of Super Bowl XX). Moving away didn’t stop my fandom; that happened when they started winning all the damn time and got smug and boring. Tonight’s loss may have been cleansing enough for me to become a fan again.

im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me

If the Republican US attorney for the District of Columbia doesn't recognize the Heller decision then no state is under any obligation to do so either

It was literally preferable in some school districts to imply the Roanoke settlers all starved to death, were murdered, or sucked up by UFO tractor beams than to acknowledge a local tribe went "Dang, dude. You need a hand? Come sit by the fire. BTW I think my sister likes u."

🚨As if DC didn’t already have enough to deal with, today we learned the Senate and House will vote next wk on SJ Res. 102 and HJ Res. 142 to disapprove a bill to decouple provisions of DC’s tax code from the feds. This would blow a $820 MILLION hole through the financial plan!

the thing that jumps out across multiple agencies is how they think the *mechanics* of *writing regulations* is the difficult task to be solved and that the content of the regulation is easy. it's almost as wrong as you can possibly be

There are a lot of men out there who do not see any of the logistics happening around them and they're like "wait, where the fuck did these hand warmers come from?" Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.

Think about how although Pretti was a gunowner, when he saw someone being attacked his first response wasn't to use the gun but to help them up and ask them if they're ok. It wasn't even on his mind that a gun would be useful. Compare that to the paranoia of rightwing gun culture.

There’s not a single person in this country that they couldn’t easily come up with a post facto justification for murdering

My church announced yesterday that there would be no Sunday services due to the predicted storm. It’s a decision they made for the safety of staff and congregation, and I don’t fault them for it… But at this moment I’m in desperate need to be with the community that shares my values and sorrow.

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

The central question of the last decade+ in America is if the police can kill you if they feel afraid, and it was my understanding that you sign up for the job knowing there’s going to be danger and you’re paid to be better than “I shot him because I was scared”

in case you don’t speak Anglican, this means “if you work for ICE you are going to hell” which is both based and theologically sound

My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”

I don’t know what I did to Prose, but it’s hard to maintain friendships in adulthood

Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

I think abusing your position at a think tank to fix the outcome of a gambling contract on a real life war by altering a map is immoral, but tbh probably less immoral than genuinely gambling on what's going to happen in a real life war is?

a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen

My sole employer to have followed federal wage and hour regulations was a huge law firm that represented corporations who had engaged in nefarious behaviors. The nonprofits didn’t even understand that they weren’t supposed to ask the intern to stay til 9 pm.

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

I named my fists Bert and Ernie because one’s a little bigger than the other. Wait. That’s my boobs, not my fists. My bad.

It's so funny when someone writes a song to try to get someone to have sex with them. That's what a bird would do!

Red Canyon, 11/29/2025, 10:25:20 AM

Much of our current timeline would be dinged for being unrealistic

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

I mean obviously we all already knew, but still. Between that and Vance etc ir's almost like someone at the Kremlin just decided they needed to publicly burn a bunch of assets for budgetary reasons.

My mother had a very hard time buying gifts for her sons-in-law and used this technique for my older sister’s husband—every gift for 2 decades somehow involved a depiction of a wolf. When my husband and I married, he denied liking any animal, even a little bit, to escape the pattern.

It’s going to be cool when Trump hops on Air Force 1 to go golf for the weekend while everyone else is checking to see if their flight was one of the canceled ones.

Some people might ask, who reads poetry really? Well, judges do!

Amelia Bedelia was an outlier adn should not have been counted

33. All the great stories are about loneliness. Because that's the most relatable thing. 34. Only a very small number of friendships are evergreen. But deciduous friendships can still be beautiful, important, and unforgettable. A chestnut tree isn't a broken pine tree; it's just a different thing.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.