This administration is essentially running a low-grade civil war against states Trump wants to punish for not voting him.

Damn it, Edmund.

Recommended read.

As one of my 2026 resolutions (that will bleed into 2027 assuming I stick with it), I set a goal to cook at least one and preferably two recipes from every cookbook on my shelf. Here's the shelf in question:

Not looking forward to the 2044 controversy about whether a Dem president handled the withdrawal from Venezuela right

“Donald Trump can’t run America, now he wants to go run Venezuela while the American people can’t afford health care, can’t afford groceries. This is not what the American people want. This is not Constitutional. This is not what is legal.” —Rep. Pramila Jayapal

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.

Just really fucking angry at how unnecessary this all is and the pathetic cowards who let it happen. Do your constitutionally mandated job and put him in jail before he does it to you first.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

holy fucking shit they’re actually doing it no AUMF, nothing, just full on attacking another country because they can and because they want to this ends badly and I hope it ends badly for everyone involved in ordering it

I wish we could make every member of Congress tell us in their own words, why this is happening.

a little more on one of my favored analogies youtu.be/Msz2daPeTyg

GUYS IM FROM 2026 AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. I HAVE TO WARN YOU. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME TO SAVE YOUR FUTURE. THE YEARS BEYOND WILL BE AWFUL IF YOU DON'T HEED MY WARNING you should draw more, write more, or make more games. If you don't, consider picking up a craft!

So I finally got around to building myself a new author website, and I included a blog, because I'm retro like that and wanted a good place to talk about what interests me, such as my favorite books read in 2025: www.susannafraserstone.com/blog/my-2025...

WE NEED SOME ORCAS We're holding out for some orcas till the end of the night They gotta be strong and they gotta be fast And they gotta be smooth black and white

You're damn right Norman Rockwell was antifa.

My friend @chuckwendig.bsky.social answered it here. It's ... better than what I would say. terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Starting my Christmas break with some PWHL hockey.

Wow, that whole cycle of controversy to correction took place while I was out buying stocking suffers and getting food and booze for our Longest Night party. Sure, I had to go to several stores and Seattle traffic was its usual self, but it was maybe three hours tops.

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

This is a perfect thread. No notes.

History rhymes HARD sometimes. What an ancient rebellion-- and a medieval midrash featuring ancient surveillance & a desperate bride named Hannah bat Mattisyahu, a heroine kindling revolt-- can teach us about not only igniting, but winning, against the moral evils in our midst today:

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating" This, this a point

I’m delighted to announce that my fantasy short story Her Terrible Swift Sword will be appearing in Flame Tree Fiction’s Valkyries anthology in April 2026! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Getting my 25% Swedish on this afternoon.

a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Reading update: I finished A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry and loved its fantasy take on the French and Haitian Revolutions SO MUCH (though at least in this volume the history wasn't that alternate--it's more like the same things happen, but with vampires/mages/etc.).

Took my kid’s pet 🐀 to the nonprofit Odd Pet Vet. Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?” Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍

Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25 President Trump approval Disapprove 60% (+6) Approve 36% (-5) news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

I love this story--it packs a huge punch in just 100 words.

This week's reading so far has been nonfiction: Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle, which is a nice overview of the moon's scientific, historical, and cultural importance to humanity.

Want to be kinda bummed about the state of the world but in a sci-fi way in 100 words? Well do I have the story for you.

This by the way is the reason I think the term "fiscal conservative" is bullshit. Because we know that literally every time we do UBI it's an economic multiplier, we know single payer healthcare is cheaper, fed folks are more productive. Spending that money IS the fiscally conservative approach.

Finished reading You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian and an utterly heartwarming m/m baseball romance set in NYC in 1960 was apparently just what I needed to read this week.

The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.

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Mamdani is a child of privilege therefore his socialism is cosplay designed to rile up downwardly mobile youngsters into stealing money from job creators. Wilson is poor and her socialism is just a way to get job creators to pay for her expenses.

“she flamed out and faded away” is such funny framing for a woman publishing an excerpt of her book in vanity fair, where she also works. I wish I could flame out and fade away so successfully

Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.

reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT

Just finished reading Sun of Blood and Ruin by Mariely Lares. It's a swashbuckling gender-bent anti-colonialist Zorro story set in an alternate 16th century Mexico, and I'd love to see it adapted for TV.

There — I fixed the analysis so it is actually accurate to what happened when 8 Senate Dems caved instead of keeping up the righteous fight to deliver lower health care costs for Americans.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.