Today my toddler put a pillow on the floor, rested her and her toy horse's head on it, and covered them up with a blanket. She said, "Mommy, look at my cozy."

May you all build yourselves some cozy this weekend.

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

*whispers in corn field*
If you write it, we will read

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Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Whether he's lighting up the night sky with fake stars, polluting Memphis & the atmosphere, or torching our modest programs to improve global health & feed the starving, Musk does not pay a nickel for the impacts of his fever dreams: everyone else does.

This is not how a healthy society functions.

Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”…

“Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care.

#DidThisToday

I'm at a high school football game. A guy sitting behind me yelled, "HE JUST ATE HIM OUT" and there was not a single other romance reader around to exchange looks with.

I call her VeLucyraptor because she can open doors and gets into everything

She hasn't since she was a puppy! She ate some of our replacement-meal pizza off the counter, too!

By the end of this administration, it's gonna be like $100 for a single chicken wing that comes pre-infected with e coli

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.

Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.

Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.

Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.

So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

This is Lucy after she ate our dinner off the counter. Lefty Lucy, Lucy Chew, Lucy Goosey, Goose, Mongoose, Chaos goblin

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Every few months Dark Owl Publishing does something bad and every few months I come here and remind people that shitty indie presses run by racists always do bad things.

I'd focus on the positive "a lot" and worry about the unsaid rest of it if you get notes. But that's easier said than done. I don't think it's mostly negative, I think it's mostly positive.