~ Z ~

8 hrs of sleep for everybody in the zohran for nyc font

"May we keep building power in relationships that last longer than election cycles." - Adaku Utah

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

Cuomo, once again being reminded, in a ruinous fashion, that no means no.

There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

There are more of us than there are of them.

the first muslim woman being elected to statewide office (in any state!) the day dick cheney died is beautiful

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

Turns out you can turn out people to vote if you give them someone worth voting for....

If you’re in line to just to feel something for once STAY IN LINE

Dick Cheney lived long enough to witness the horrors he had unleashed.

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

We are ALL suf-fering on the blue glaube bauble that is Ea-rth 🌎

The Witch Was Never the Villain. She Was the Beginning of Women’s Power. Women’s autonomy over their land, labor and lives has been treated as a threat. As we approach another Election Week, are women seen as witches?

Women’s autonomy over their land, labor and lives has long been treated as a threat.

As we approach another Election Week, women again stand at the threshold between what is and what could be.

#SNAP benefits will not be distributed immediately despite a judge's order.

Whatever you were doing to help feed your community -keep on doing it.

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

A photoshopped Spirit Halloween costume of Lou Wilson, where the costume reads "Knife witch. I'm a witch with a knife"

bestseller this year i hear

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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Three copies of George Orwell’s book “1984” in a wooden basket. A sign tucked into the basket says “one copy of 1984 per child”

Trick or treat time

screenshot of amazon corporate blog post announcing massive layoffs, titled, "Staying nimble and continuing to strengthen our organizations"

wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour AI content supercharges confusion and spreads misleading information, critics warn

Great video on AI slop from PBS Newshour.

youtu.be/DytgWAowxe8?...

A hand holding a bead embroidery with a tiny sword, flail, spikes and other various beads. The text reads "this email could have been a duel | fight me"

En garde 🤺

#embroidery

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)