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Calico and black cat sleeping amicably together

Sisters, sisters, never were there such devoted sisters #caturday

Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

Screenshot of a tweet by The Seattle Times on X.com stating that Indigenous actress Elaine Miles from “Northern Exposure” was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop, and agents told her that her Tribal ID was fake. Below is a close-up photo of Elaine Miles smiling.

Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Seal
Moose
Deer
Whale
Ocean sunfish

A bowl of mashed potatoes garnished with parsley flakes

Here are the mashed potatoes I made

What I’m making for Thanksgiving:
Mashed potatoes
Crudités and dip
Clear ice for cocktails

If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water.

Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.

It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!

This sent me down a YouTube rabbit hole. “Turkey trot dance” search yielded a few videos but none looked like this description.

You've just died.

The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

(Apparently it’ll be a killer sunset.)

Ooh! I have to read this!

Excellent thread... 🧵👇🏼📜

Pounce in the gutter of an eighteenth century Quarter Session docket book

Stains on the index tabs of an eighteenth century government record book, from the fingers of the clerks who consulted it.

Soot from an eighteenth century Indictment Roll from the Court of King's Bench

Wax Seals on a charter included in a seventeenth century Star Chamber court record.

I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.

Love that episode!

I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick.

It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"

Dems for decades have been saying supporting the troops means: 1) not putting them in harm's way unnecessarily, and 2) taking care of them when they return to civilian life, but "somehow" Republicans still are called the Real Troop Supporters.

These two things are true:
1) Shooting National Guard members is horrific and criminal.
2) So is putting National Guard members in harm’s way to score political points.

Delight of the day:
Hearing a toddler in the child seat on the back of a bicy singing “jingle bells” as their parent pedaled past me.
#timelineCleanse

We 👀 "search engines like DuckDuckGo adding options to filter out search results suspected of having synthetic content... There’s also a growing mvmt pushing back against new AI data centers... But no matter what form AI slop-refusal takes, it will need to be a group effort." - @tega.bsky.social

It struck me as particularly odd to mention it to a Catholic, though. As a friend of mine said “The little old guy in a dress who flies around and kisses the ground each time he gets off a plane is the anti Christ? Unexpected.“

I helped a group of clueless USians get on the correct train many years ago when I lived in Europe. They seemed nice… until they tried to convert me. I was brought up Roman Catholic, so part of the “sell“ was that the Pope is the Antichrist. 🤣

I once threw a ceramic object given to me by such a person off a bridge over a train track. It was delightful to watch it descend and then shatter, shards spreading out like a firework. This was more than 35 years ago and it still feels perfect.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics.

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

3 weeks ago Dems horsetraded the health care subsidy football away to Lucy in exchange for nothing.

2 weeks ago #GOP debated how much too high the age of consent is.

1 week ago Trump threatened Dem opposition with death.

Now admin actively persecuting Dems for stating the truth.

#RemoveTrump

I meant to grade papers today, I swear I did, but then I got distracted by a group of Harvard Divinity School students who spent 1834 buying pornography and then turning in the people who sold it to them. One of them, Frederick W. Holland, also ended up with a copy of Walker's Appeal around then 🗃️

I Love My Librarian Award Nominate a librarian you love for the 2026 I Love My Librarian Award - they could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime! Nominations close December 15, 2025!

Hey!

Do you know an awesome librarian?

Do you think they’re awesome enough for you to spend a minute nominating them?

I bet they are!

ilovelibraries.org/love-my-libr...

#library #librarians #libraries #classification #dewey

Russian asset Ron Johnson says there’s no money to give Americans $2K inflation checks. But there is money for a despot’s $250M ballroom and enough to give $40B to Argentina’s dictator.

I’ll always remember Ron paying Putin a visit in Moscow on July 4th weekend in 2018.