Somebody else stepped in and confirmed it’s a cigar and a cocoa.

Hey so the majority of voting machines are now owned and operated by a former Trump campaign head. If you are to vote in the future only use paper ballots.

This is a very real, utterly thoughtless comment from a pastor in the wake of a tragedy:

"We are sad that our community is going through this, but it’s a tremendous opportunity for the church to minister to a lot of those people today."

apnews.com/article/tenn...

No.

Things I refuse to Google for 500, Alex.

It's **not at all hard** to imagine how this happens.

Recently I keep remembering that scene in Night Watch where Sam Vimes has to try to forestall a riot, and when he goes out to speak to the crowd he makes sure he has one thing in each hand - iirc, an open beer and a sandwich - to ensure it’s obvious he has no weapon.
Seems somehow relevant.

Today solidarity might look a lot like understanding what precisely posse comitatus is and why people might be talking about title ten.

This is a very good time to make sure we all know what is legal, what is extralegal, and what things which are being shattered are laws v norms.

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Two years after 10/7, we never hear media report in the year prior to 10/7—Hamas killed 240 Israelis, kidnapped 800 Israeli kids, held 8000 Israelis hostage, & built 12,000 homes on Israeli land. Why?

Because Hamas did none of those things—Israeli government did
www.qasimrashid.com/p/two-years-...

It's happening right in front of you.

Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act.

It's happening in plain sight.

I hope Kyren Lacy's mom sues everyone... cause all those folks involved need to lose their jobs and pay dearly for this shit.

And works very well if your side alone has done it for 40 years.

Democrats think this is a legit prize fight, with established, enforceable rules and an impartial ref. Rs have known for decades that it is WWE match & the ref is part of the show.

Ds are always surprised by the folding chair

Fuck these thugs.
Fuck Trump.
Fuck everyone who voted for him.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I cooked a new food. I haven’t done that in AGES

Everyone running a crucial government department in America is an absolute goose just honking furiously and running and pooping and pecking and stepping and flapping. Have a gander at this one.

It’s October! Which means it’s time for my favorite problematic animated movie. And after thinking about it this year, I have a question.

Is The Nightmare Before Christmas about gentrification?

Please note I don’t mean was it INTENDED to be about gentrification. It just seems like the shoe fits.

*sigh* the cats have figured out how to open the cat toy bin. Nothing is safe.

The reason you can’t debate MAGA is not because you will lose. It is because even if you win, soundly, with pristine arguments and perfectly cited facts, they will tell everyone they won, and because none of their friends understand that they lie constantly, they’ll be believed.

Stay unsubscribed.

Yeah, the loss taught them people are paying attention.

Now they need to learn that you can’t un-break people’s trust in a day and the price of re-earning it is way higher than the price of just not breaking it.

I don’t think they thought that far ahead. That was just the only common drug name they could remember when drafting.

REMINDER: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.

White men saw the largest job increase 一 365,001* 一 among groups

* = added Jimmy Kimmel who got his job back! 😒

Oh. I already do that. I may be the wrong religion.

Then again I and my religious trauma don’t really do “organized practice” anymore.

There are going to be a lot of Autism Parents who celebrate this. There are even going to be disabled people who cheerlead MAHA for this.

It's still catastrophic.

Man, I’ve reached middle age and all I’m in the middle of is somebody’s future history essay.