Diana Leilani

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Sinclair is caving and bringing back Kimmel.

Money, folks. Public pressure. They dont have the numbers. Remember this and increase the efforts.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Democrat XP Lee wins Minnesota House special election to replace assassinated leader Democrat Xp Lee has won a special election to fill the Minnesota House seat of a top Democratic leader who was assassinated. Rep.

BREAKING: Democrat Xp Lee wins the Minnesota House special election to fill the seat of Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated in June.

Happy Pythagoras day to all you nerds! (9/16/25)

3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

Are you that discontented DOGE staffer? It might be time. You can reach out to me on Signal at joshtpm.99 (I'm not like Mike Waltz; I know how to use it.) You can also get me at joshtpm at protonmail dot com. Are you a federal worker with information I need to hear? I want to hear from you too.

Make your own disappointing shit ass crunch wrap supreme at home, you do not need to enjoy life anyway, you chose creative writing

Don't buy shit, write your book

Next time Trump does a press conference, a reporter needs to ask him directly if he's committed to free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028. Let's cut to the chase here.

Very tough day yesterday, with the US siding with Russia against Ukraine. But at least all of those people who told us for three years that Ukraine was just a US proxy will now admit they were wrong (no?)

Today I canceled my monthly political donation and rerouted the same amount to became a friend of my library instead. It’s time to dig in and bolster our local communities.

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

This photo shows a pickle juice pint priced for two dollars and ninety nine cents sold at HEB.

Tall tales from Texas.

Josh, a friendly white man, is driving through Oklahoma and looking out the window at large wind generators.

In this family it’s a wind ranch.

A roadside picture of a highway in Minnesota with the Walker Sculpture Garden in the background. You can just make out the spoon and cherry.

Welcome to this side of the void friends! Headed to Texas with the fam for a holiday celebration with my in-laws this week. Parents are home with the small creatures. On the road now.

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

Photograph of a zine called “What’s Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.” Subtitle: “Feat. ADVANCED COVID safety tips!” word balloon: “Have you heard the bad news?” By Hazel Newlevant Back cover text: “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23. Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. Citations: Newlevant.com/COVIDzine ALWAYS FREE

What’s Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition

New zine!! This is my (well-informed layperson’s) understanding of what’s going on with COVID right now and how to lower your risk of getting it (again). Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

C’mon! Can’t hate on Will from Alias!

Closing scene from Shawshank where Andy Dufresne (Me) is working on a boat on a beach in Mexico. Red (Old Twitter Mutuals) approaches the boar grinning.

Black and white photo of a white woman standing outside on a lawn in front of a hedge, holding a fluffy tabby cat up by its elbows so that it is standing on its hind legs. She looks like she’s being quite gentle but the cat looks disgusted regardless.

According to the back of this photo, this is “Teddy, a big cat weighs 15 lbs and is 15 years old”. From my collection.

“Yes, I have plans for the weekend.”

My plans for the weekend:

WW2-style propaganda poster of a femme-coded peson hugging a package of KN95s. The text reads "It’s never too late to — to start masking again! You can restart COVID safe practices at any time! No matter when or why you stopped!"

What if next year is good? Wouldn't that be funny? Surprise me, motherfucker.

When you are travelling this week, please wear a mask! Aside from the many potential long term health impacts viruses can cause, it really sucks to be sick over the holidays. One of the best ways to protect yourself and others is by wearing a high quality mask!

Who else is excited for the news that Cyber Monday sales will be extended miraculously via email tomorrow!?!?

You’ll be missed but I completely understand.