Abby

The truth is, the government has been shutting down since January. Mass illegal firings, withholding funds, censorship, corruption. Making this fight about medicaid subsidies is fine. But no democrat should be voting to fund a dictatorship.

Call your dems and tell them to hold the line

5calls.org

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S. On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today? — % Good thing - - % Bad thing 100% 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 79 17 2001 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 The percentages who volunteer that the effects are "mixed" or who do not have an opinion are not shown. GALLUP®

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Wild. I just download the latest version to my personal comp and then log in with my password and I'm rolling. Major bummer. University funding do be like that though.

Doesn't your school give you access to MS 360 + the lastest word? I use Scrivener or Google Docs most of the time (Google Docs has major downsides, obvs, but I've never lost my work).

Why tf you using word? You know better than that!

My ex husband did that constantly when we were first married. I should've known.

I'm struggling to find work due to multiple disabilities including long covid, I'm broke, my fridge is empty, and I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills.

If you feel like making an old trans lesbian's life a little better, my Paypal/cashapp/venmo info is in my bio.

Scrolling through all of the lovely illustrations in the #kidlitartpostcard feed just made me super sleepy, for some reason. Maybe because it’s so soothing. Definitely recommend if you need a timeline cleanse.

And I hope THIS TIME for sure there won't be political bullshittery I'm not in control of on my show.

The enshittification of everything comes with a right-wing profit margin that is unbelievably high.

It's actual work, like hours of my day, to NOT participate in the right wing ad market.

I've joked a bunch of times about how much fucking money I'd make if I rebranded far right and started espousing hate.

It's so fucking lucrative to be a right wing shill you have no idea.

But I'm not. Anyway.

remember how much it sucked when a covid vaccine was like 9 to 36 months away and then felt like a fucking miracle when it arrived

If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x

Guns are the number 1 cause of death in children and we don’t talk about it. The only logical conclusion is that GOP hates children and families.
#FireRFK

Los Angeles, CA
Music Festival
9/1/25

This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best.

Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.

Holy crap, 1100 students is only 70% of the student body? At an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL? What in the WORLD?

This rings true to things I’ve witnessed and read. We cannot blame individuals for systematic failures but we should be able to acknowledge group based status behaviors as reinforcing those systemic failures.

You guys see where this is going? Right?

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 28, the number is 100%.

Happy Labor Day.

Listen, for seven years now I’ve been in a neverending cyclical multinational fight with people mad that I call the obsession with blondness everyday eugenics. It keeps the white nationalist repertoire alive for times such as these. Just constant rage wars about this for almost a decade.

“It must be a pretty fragile system if it can be brought down by a few bits of chalk.”

Pulse crosswalk protesters keep coloring with chalk, as troopers say they're breaking the law The rainbow battle for the crosswalk on Orange Avenue and Esther Street continued Friday with new signs placed on the road stating that "defacing" the crosswalk is prohibited.

Links:

www.wusf.org/politics-iss...

www.wesh.com/article/sign...

people.com/trump-admini...

We are literally becoming a police and military state under this administration, when chalk at a memorial is treated like a crime, it’s not about “safety.” It’s about this administration having complete control on the American people.

Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀

The Earth isn't dying, it's being killed. Those who are killing it have names and addresses.

2019
#Banksy

♥️ Music activates the part of the brain that dementia destroys last. It’s one of the few things that can make a person with dementia happy or calm, because the familiarity and emotions the music evokes overrides the constant fear and anxiety they experience. It feels like “home”.

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

When people talk about the productivity gains of AI, by eyes glaze over and I think about things like this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...