Meredith Clark

May 1981 cover of TV Guide featuring the cast of Second City TV (Joe Flaherty, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Catherine O'Hara)

The definition of a murderer’s row

Founded in WI, currently based in Chicago, accidentally or not, The Onion is doing right by the NFC North.

At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row. Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.

I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.

Vos blocks vote on expanding postpartum Medicaid coverage The bill would extend Medicaid coverage for mothers to one year after giving birth, up from the current 60 days.

Want to know how little women's health matters in this country?

Just ask Wisconsin's Assembly Speaker, who blocked a vote on a bipartisan bill that would have extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to one year.

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Deeply grateful that the worst stray I’ve ever caught in someone else’s memoir was being called a “mousy blonde,” and that didn’t survive from the ARC to the final published version.

some people in the news business really didn't get an early enough exposure to semiotext(e)

‘We Will Never Speak Of This Again,’ Says Trump To Mohammed Bin Salman As They Dump Khashoggi’s Body Into New Jersey River

From The Archives: ‘We Will Never Speak Of This Again,’ Says Trump To Mohammed Bin Salman As They Dump Khashoggi’s Body Into New Jersey River https://theonion.com/we-will-never-speak-of-this-again-says-trump-to-moha-1830547181/

Kimberly Guilfoyle and her then-husband, Gavin Newsom, sprawl on Ann Getty's rug in San Francisco in 2004 for a photo with a story in Harper's Bazaar.

timeline cleanse

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

Happy happy day, Marlowe!

darmok and jalad comic books

NYT: And you take an oath, right? There's a series of binding ethics you swear to.
Doctor: We do.
NYT: What's the first part of it?
Doctor: "First, do no harm."
NYT: And what did you do?
Doctor: Harm.

Narrator: But what victims didn't know was how much love was involved.

You Can’t Spell Groyper Without G-O-P - Truthdig From Nick Fuentes to Zohran Mamdani, recent events suggest the future of a headless, increasingly neo-Nazi Republican Party is screwed.

If I may share a column from last week

weird how you never see this going in the opposite direction on bluesky, like there's not someone here posting "my cows are in a herd for collectivist reasons. i think they're becoming more ironic, one of them ran out to some grass and then stood there not eating it to own me"

Finally looked at my insurance costs: From $308/month to $720/month, so I guess I'm getting off easy?

What better way to celebrate my last months of being able to afford health insurance than begging for reimbursement for out of network urgent care visits?

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Currently fancasting Saw VI (the health insurance one) with only Democratic senators

THE FOLLOWING DEMOCRATIC SENATORS VOTE “YES” ON THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION IN EXCHANGE FOR NOTHING:

MAGGIE HASSAN (NH)

CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO (NV)

JEANNE SHAHEEN (NH)

JACKY ROSEN (NV)

DICK DURBIN (IL)

TIM KAINE (VA)

ANGUS KING (ME)

JOHN FETTERMAN (PA)

ITS OVER

YouTube video by ANTI- Records The Coup - "The Guillotine"

Just blast this on a speaker outside all their offices

Spent the day more depressed than I’ve been all damn year, but the mere rumor that my senator was on the list of possible cavers was enough to rage me out of the hole enough to call and leave her a message.

No.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️

Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry.
It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

The only sound I hear is The Coup’s song “The Guillotine” getting steadily louder

A trillion dollars

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.

I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."