Hey kids. Anyone else searching strangers’ faces for signs of grief and sleepless nights? I managed to limit the social media for a real long while. I’ve tried to focus what energy I could on my child and touching grass, but friends—this is brutal and I need y’all. 😘

It won’t do anything to fight back fascism, but it will bring me joy tonight. Wilco in St Pete. 🥳 *Requisite car selfie.

Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Everyone’s gonna be wide awake at his funeral. If only because they’ll play Kool & The Gang’s “Celebration” at full volume.

To be reminded that @bradleywhitford.bsky.social was the jerk in Adventures in Babysitting 🤯 💗😂 Amazing.

There are times, perhaps, where you’re not using your name or stating your intentions. Hell, I lived that for years. This ain’t that. Not even close. Not here. Show your face. Say your name. State your purpose and authority. If you can’t, you shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing.

Bridgecon would be wall to wall fluffy orange boy cats, toe-curling desserts, an insectarium, and spin-the-bottle. Also, a kickass DJ spinning everything from yacht rock to Digital Underground to early 00’s indie rock to 60’s soul.

I've been thinking about this today, after listening to Allen West speak last night. Everything he said was consistent with the research on Right-Wing Authoritarianism. He wants to bring back the "good old days" when authority figures were respected & "woke" ideas got your ass kicked.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

The biggest reason that EVERY argument about how it was "legal" to deport him is wrong is he wasn't deported. He was renditioned. He was sent to prison in El Salvador. Immigration courts do not have the power to imprison people.

So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)

Sometimes I hope there’s an afterlife JUST SO my Trumper parents have to watch the consequences of their actions unfold. How’s the cryogenics stuff going? Can I store a head for the sole purpose of saying “Look what you fucking did”? Does that make me a bad person? 🤪

Trump personally killed a bipartisan border and immigration deal that Democrats and Republicans negotiated in the Senate last year. That should be mentioned every single time we talk about immigration in this country.

A cranky man made me cry at work today. Also…y’know…world on fire… I need art. What is something that has moved you lately…in a beautiful way? Music, poetry, film, an image, dance, whatever. Please share. Thank you.

Banana slugs ARE hermaphrodites. Maybe White House isn't disputing this fact, they think it's "dirty" or "non-newsworthy". That's almost worse. The strange wonders of nature delight our curiosity. As for being offended by slug sex—well, that says something about the listener and it's not pretty.

For anyone like me who finds a glut of content on the physiological/medical aspects of perimenopause, plenty of stand up comics dedicated to the subject, and too few representations of the seismic psychological events—this is amazing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

This!!! @harttandsoul.bsky.social @morgfair.bsky.social

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

Here's the script, folks. It's now or never. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Local office numbers: www.congress.gov/members/find... RTs appreciated.

Yes. #Resist www.fiftyfifty.one 💙💙💙🙏💙🌥️⛅🍀💕

We’re living in an apocalypse as imagined by a jock rapist who’s only seen the first 30 minutes of EL TOPO.

I just booked flights to Ireland. First time getting to visit. I cannot wait. ☘️

wtf, you guys. How is it possible that a President who sends protected persons to foreign gulags with zero in the way of due process, installs himself as the head of the Kennedy Center, threatens institutions of higher learning to dictate their teaching, hiring, admissions…

"In 2020, Kent helped boost the organizing message of a new right-wing paramilitary outfit that called itself the 1st Amendment Praetorian." Tulsi Gabbard's pick, everyone. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NGL. Sometimes I think “maybe if we’re really lucky the planet will shrug off our entire species.” Our country is really a fucking problem, though.

If you’re not yet familiar with the parts of the SAVE Act, read.

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

Oh Friends. 😌 I had the most magical night last night. Dinner with my two adult bros and our mom. Just us. For probably the first time in…20 years? And then a family favorite: Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass at Lincoln Center. “Rise” found a deep nerve I bawled like a baby. It was perfect.

Trump targets 'improper ideology' at Smithsonian museums in new executive order - NBC News The breadth…their attention to details…it’s surreal. Fascism looks so much like fascism after all. 🥺

Ever hit a wall, after trying to do all the things you know you need to do…to be a grownup, pull your own weight, make things better…and you just want to be rescued from your own life? Carried? Treated like a princess? Yeah. That’s my feeling this afternoon. Tomorrow morning I’ll snap out of it.

@pmskinner.bsky.social I just gotta shout out my original favorite sm account. Patrick, I’m seeing signs of how your ethos has shaped my thoughts and actions. Thank you for all you do, and for sharing it. You change the world.

What’s left to say besides “chag Purim sameach” and SLAVA UKRAINI! 🇺🇦🌻

With the boy’s school’s Purim celebration at school on Thursday, this year’s costume was a no-brainer. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, embodying courage and bravery. I’ll share a pic when he’s all dressed up. 💙💛🌻

My view is that the American South never fully took to liberal democracy. And I think we have to reckon with that to face the moment we’re now in. I wrote about it for @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

Hear this.

Also, please let me share a good thing from today. I sent an email to the #2 person where I work today, thanking her for hiring her and telling her how much I love my job. Friends, her reply was so wonderful I sent it to my mom with instructions to put it on her fridge.

In the spirit of old school Twit nonsense, I wanna start a Friday night thread about meaningless bullshit. So… Non-earth shattering confessions. Mine is “I never learned to type. I just hunt and peck like a virtuoso and have to look at my hands.” Let’s hear yours.

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Friends! Look what magic happened! 🥰 My last video was 11/4/17. I haven’t seen one in the front yard in soooo long. When I pulled in from yoga tonight, look who I found! 😁💘🕸️🕷️

Summer of 99. Got to be an intern at Late Nite. With Conan’s assistant just returning from maternity leave, I got the privilege of serving as Conan’s assistant for half of each day. What a summer. So many crazy stories. Tonight is fun. 😌

My heart is very heavy as I write this. I come from a long line of military service. I lost 2 uncles in WWII - one on Iwo Jima, and one shot down over Germany. My father lost a leg. My mother was a nurse. When I turned 18, I volunteered for the US Air Force, and went to Vietnam. Bear with me. 1/x

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

This is old and amateur—fall 2018, I think. I fell so hard for this Tropical Orb Weaver (Eriophora ravilla). She’d build her web every night in our front yard and consume it again by dawn. When she was gone, I was crushed. I felt I owed some of my fave invert accounts some content. 🕸️😘

Went out with grownups tonight. Interestingly, the one friend I have who has always avoided the subject of politics was FIRED UP about what happened with Zelenskyy in the WH. I wonder how many more there are, not that will matter now. Anyway, selfie just because…

JD Vance is skiing at a Vermont resort this weekend. The resort’s snow reporter took the opportunity to make some good trouble, sending out a message of resistance against an administration “threatening our democracy, our livelihoods, our land”. [kottke.org]