Muslims and Jews would especially appreciate your attention to this matter.

Glad they got this picture of the Toilet Woman on the toilet, at least.

Today is Monday, Dec 29 Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

If you think distributing tampons is a lil niche issue, a silly idea, or otherwise unserious—you have no idea how the bodies of HALF OF HUMANITY function, for how long, or how costly menstruation is in a misogynistic capitalist society, & you are, let me be v clear, part of the problem.

Thank you, New York Times. I too agree that The Onion had the same level of cultural impact this year that Sabrina Carpenter did.

Tornado watches and warnings in late December. What a world, what a climate we've created.

And let the tornado warnings begin. Indiana and Illinois yall be safe tonight

I have the week between Christmas and New Year off thanks to my union (HUCTW), and I absolutely love mandatory no one doing a damn thing time. This should be quarterly.

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

Once again raising the question -- why is the president's son-in-law at this official event?

This is not idle speculation. The intercepts of the Witkoff/Kushner/Dmitriev conversations leaked by NATO intel services to various European and US publications show that this is _exactly_ what is going on. It's the most humiliating chapter in the whole history of US diplomacy.

One of the best parts about this is that, even in the midst of spewing its disdain for the city of Chicago, the San Francisco publication couldn't restrain itself from spewing its even *greater* disdain for the city of Peoria.

This is ethnic cleansing.

LeMonde said, not on our watch

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

If the above links don't work for your, here are archived (free) links: Haaretz—5/15/25 Qatargate investigative report archive.is/Mvu2q Haaretz—12/25/25 editorial re: Bibi & Qatargate archive.is/Dxu4C NY Times—Dec 10, 2023 Buying Quiet: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas archive.is/dFYSu

*Bibi actively supported Hamas for a decade prior to Oct 7 by letting Qatar send funds to them. "'Buying Quiet': Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state." 🎁🔗

The goal of Qatargate (first uncovered by Haaretz in 2023) was to polish Qatar's image & lasted into the war on Gaza, despite Qatar's financial* & political support of Hamas. Lead editorial in Haartez last Thurs: Just How Much Did Netanyahu Know About Qatargate? *(see next re: Bibi/Qatar/Hamas) 🎁🔗

If you see references to "Qatargate" in the news, and/or efforts to bring Netanyahu campaign advisor Srulik Einhorn to Israel - this is what that's about, & it ain't pretty. (gift link) www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

What I really hate about this is that it's a strain of Democratic Party know-it-all-ism which is going to assert itself with a lot of $$ and a lot of free media in '26 and '28, which is "We could win this whole thing if you freaks would either just act normal or hide." Do not trust those messengers.

I miss the days before covid, when in New York, in Times Square or a crowded subway, you would sometimes see people wearing masks and think, "Why are they wearing those? Oh, right--it's none of my fucking business." Let's get back to that.

I havent watched because there is like 500 years of media I need to consume before I can waste my time on this but, I was pretty much the only person in a mask at 3 flights and 4 airports, because even if Covid didn’t exist I’d rather not catch your kid’s flu on day 1 of my trip.

lmao at the trib hiding all the comments calling the editorial board racist

i’m gonna move out of chicago unless the mayor agrees to personally hand out hotdogs on the first day of every month

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

It's a good one.

I care enough about not giving into the podcast pivot-to-video that my new show ain’t gonna have a video component, & I’m working on a special monthly SoCal version for a terrestrial station here locally Audio journalism stands on its own, no one needs to see my mug on Youtube to get value from it

If you ever wonder why Mayor-Elect Mamdani won, take a few seconds to really look at how he really looks at a 7-year-old boy. People want to be seen & heard & respected by their electeds. Possibly the easiest way to judge if a candidate can do that is to watch them talk to little kids.

IYKYK

If you see references to "Qatargate" in the news, and/or efforts to bring Netanyahu campaign advisor Srulik Einhorn to Israel - this is what that's about, & it ain't pretty. (gift link) www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This is ethnic cleansing.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

I would love recs/thoughts from people who primarily listen to podcasts. I do want to make sure artists get paid (I support many through Patreon), I just want to make sure I switch to a platform that will still make it easy for me to listen to all my shows in one place (& find new ones).

We need Nuremberg trials for the Trump administration officials who illegally sent these men to a torture camp. No "forward, not backward" BS. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The fog part.

Everybody is looking forward to the next No Kings Day in the spring. The official date will be announced once we land this with the full No Kings coalition, but trust us that it’s coming. And we can’t wait, either. ❌👑

DEI button

Before you cancel Spotify: Here's how I switched to a non-fascist-supporting, much-better-for-artists, and (not for nothing) better-sound-quality streaming service (that also has literally everything I'd accrued on Spotify): bsky.app/profile/emil... THEN CANCEL SPOTIFY PLS.

The white supremacist patriarchy's need to believe that it is new and brave and newly brave is exhausting - fellas, you stand on the shoulders of Lilliputians who built a society entirely for you and you are neither new, nor brave, nor remotely special.

Kindness and sincerity have always been the punkest things going.

Once again, I am forced to acknowledge that I have my doubts.

Thunderfog.

Today is Sunday, Dec 28 Good lunch time ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell. And breathe.

May we rage when we must and rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it. Shabbat shalom ❤️

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal

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