Francesca Colonnese

Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

Today’s the best American holiday.

Overly larger rodents predicting the weather is perfection. It just needs a traditional dessert choice to go with—snow cones, perhaps?

Hope, not optimism.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Every month, the most optimistic email I get is my credit union inviting me to a home buying webinar.

Even from way over on the US west coast, I’m looking forward to eating at this place again

A good resolution for 2026

I thought Asta solved all these mysteries?

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, took the midnight train going anywhere

Argus had it easy.

Happy Birthday to Jane Austen—you would have loved reading the latest tabs from The Cut, and its British equivalents.

Been wondering who to send the ad to... At minimum, would commission a Public Books essay of anyone using the class to finagle a meeting with the man himself

Is adjuncting a Springsteen class your chance at fomenting a general strike?

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the comments on reddit for this video were like “this squid isn’t that giant” and discussion about how a 40 foot squid is not that crazy or scary and I spent all morning upset about the lack of respect

Guess some of you learned solidarity while finding out about singularities from Kip… at least until someone plays a certain bit of Wagner.

What does is it mean that the Seattle tech 4 housing group picked Caltech colors rather than MIT or UW? The least engineering oriented of all the schools…

Pardoned turkeys are Gobble and Waddle this year. Our finest American tradition.

Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.

Listening to the Shoot Out the Lights album while reading Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Priti is always right.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Crosstitch guide image reads “this machine kills fascists” with clipart images of an onion, a sub and a bottle of mustard

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Come be dazzled by all the cool approaches to poetics! I promise to weird you out about the nature of time.

It feels like maybe if we embraced baseball we could also find our way to a parliamentary system somehow.

the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now

Photos in ProPublica.

A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address.

Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.

In the middle of all this the inflatable costume crowd has arrived and is throwing a rave? Mosh? At the end of the free speech zone closest to the ICE facility.

Working on job materials when I could be sitting in the sun reading Susan Stewart and thinking about birdsong and poetry

Labor Union Approval Relatively Steady at 68% in U.S. Public approval of labor unions remains historically strong at 68%, marking the fifth consecutive year with nearly 70% support.

life is better in a union!

celebrate and organize today

"68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions. This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s."

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This is too easy engagement bait.

However, I bet very few of you close the term by telling students, “If you take a class that’s weirder than this has been, please come tell me.”

Seattle: You are an ignorant worm for requesting a bag, even one made of recycled paper. Where are your 10 zillion organic cotton totes?

Texas: We only have the big plastic bags.