Gratitude is a weapon

Union Leaders Approached the Head of HR. Condé Nast Fired Them for 'Extreme Misconduct' A former Bon Appétit worker who was fired by Condé Nast talks about what happened in the hallway at 1 World Trade Center and how "the company is trying avoid the attention of the Trump administration....

How did a relatively standard union action spiral into four terminations and even more suspensions? Just ask the executives at Condé Nast.

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life

Maybe they're trying to reconcile the original text with their Richard Masur softcore fanfic?

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I was one of the four people who got canned.

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Alt text: Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article headline titled “The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition.” The subheadline reads, “More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists.” The article is categorized under “U.S.” and written by Pamela Paul, published on October 31, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. ET.

In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.

It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.

Teen Vogue was doing great journalism, and it's hard not to see today's slashes as part of capital's ongoing assault on knowledge.

Chloe Malle, Vogue’s head of editorial content, who was appointed to the role in September, will now oversee Teen Vogue. Editor-in-chief Versha Sharma will be leaving the company.

Teen Vogue was one of the surprising publications that looked to inform their audience of What Is Happening w/out the typical Beltway Media access/attachment to power.

No more.

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Bad Gays
Season 9
Tuesday, November 4

We discuss Trump's pardoning of George Santos, an upcoming queer leftist novella you'll probably love, freshly translated into English, and two Gaggony Guncles questions from gay guys in their forties. Cruise carefully, catamites! www.patreon.com/posts/142318...

But how will you emulate splash backs?

I mean, a lot of us have seen both Kill Bills several times.

I thought we agreed to delay thirsting until a full background check came back clean (RE Platner)?

Delayed check-in…Auntie @naylandblake.bsky.social, class is in session.

From the pan-and-scan VHS transfers? 😭

Screencap of the New York Times’ Spelling Bee mobile game for October 21, 2025. The legitimate word “endonym” has been entered, but the game replies with the “Not in word list” denial.

Sure, Jan

Resisting the urge for some midnight Kraft mac and cheese

A Roosevelt/New Deal poster from 1940

Overall screenshot of a profile of Tori Amos from The Rocket alt-weekly in Seattle, 1994

Tori Amos has an idea. But not an idea for a song-a new drink. Returning to Seattle for her second-visit this year, Amos is eager to find an audience for her latest experi-ment in beverage concoction. "You have all your Starbucks things," she says. "Wett, I have one that tastes like pumpkin ple: It's my own invention; it's my contribution to Halloween. A little witch warmer!" 1 Amos more ardent fans would probably say she hardly needs to resort to creating pumpkin lattes to bewitch a crowd. The emotive singer/songwriter's first solo album, .1992's Little Earth quakes might not have been a com

One more PSL post because I can't resist: Apparently Tori Amos was a pumpkin spice latte innovator in 1994! And specifically contrasted it to the drinks at Starbucks.

The culture war bandwagon hopping grows so frenzied that the back half of the episode turns into a slapstick farce hearkening back to "irreverent" 80s comedies like Coming to America. Yes, someone's Chief of Staff will be caught in blackface.

Is Diane Keaton's passing on National Coming Out Day an ill portent?

Saving proof of dog for Wet-nosed Wednesday? 🐶

Screenshot of @talleststone.bsky.social’s profile description. An Austrian flag emoji is circled do emphasis.

She doesn’t even go here

This month on EXTRA, we talk DC Trump gays. Will leopards eat the faces of these employees of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party? Then we take on a listener question about phobic friends. Join our subscriber community, support our work, and hear the full chat: www.patreon.com/posts/extra-...