Janet Vultee Pietsch

Stay! You’re amazing.

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Snickers bar and a metal whistle

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Oregon's Merkley holds US Senate floor overnight in Trump protest • Oregon Capital Chronicle U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley began speaking on the Senate floor just before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday against what he called President Donald Trump’s authoritarian actions.

Sen. Jeff Merkley is still speaking on the Senate floor, continuing a marathon speech he began last night. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/22/r...

In a real sense, which of these it is doesn't matter because the human rights of trans folks outweigh the feelings of transphobes either way, but it is still something I think about.

Can’t call up ten at the moment but three powerful ones: tofu+broccoli+chili crisp is a favorite meal; husband of 35+ years continues to be more and more fun; 2/3 queer kids is something to celebrate and 3/3 kids are endlessly surprising and delightful.

People are being very obvious about using the phrase "feeling unsafe" in place of "being super racist" lately

Happy happy! 😊

District Attorney of Philadelphia:

Silly @texasdemocrats.bsky.social — y’all should know you’re only allowed to skip town to block votes when you’re covering up for powerful pedophile rings, not when you’re trying to save democracy.

He did that, yes.

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Scotland

Wowzer that answer.

Every second of every minute should be rough for Lawler. He lies as he breathes and only acts to please dear leader.

Of course he did. 🤬

Relaxed cat snoozing in a sunbeam, happy that his people are at least trying to do their best in these crappy times.

Look at my lovely cat! Then grab your phone and call your representative NOW. Tell them why they need to vote no on the sickening bill the Senate just returned to them. 5Calls offers a script to customize. (Mine = Mike Lawler 202-225-6506, staffers as nice as he is mendacious.)

Tell Your Senators: Vote NO on Trump's big, evil bill Contact Congress today!

There’s still time for you to tell your Senators to #VoteNo on Trump’s big evil bill that steals Medicaid from so many:
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Yes there are millions of people who buy in to white Christian nationalism and some have shown how to turn it into very profitable businesses, but at its core is ignorance, racism, fear, insecurity, and perversion of the teachings of Jesus.

For me it’s that “Therefore.”
Well and the fact that they’ve clearly realized how nearly identical our cvs are, which is obv why we’re getting the same pitch.

Couldn’t be clearer

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

10.9 million people would lose health insurance under Trump’s megabill, CBO projects - STAT

These are deeply, profoundly, tragically abnormal times riven by cruel, hateful, reckless and ignorant people bent on dismantling our government, strengthening Putin, stoking fear, breaking our spirit, enriching themselves and ruling over the ashes of public liberty. We won’t let them succeed.

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He won’t stand up for the Constitution and he won’t stand up for, or even listen to, his constituents. He’s a hypocritical, mendacious lackey to the president.

Thank you @emilyjaynef.bsky.social ! MAGA Mike is the worst

Lawler is a mendacious hypocrite who has no respect for his constituents and thinks he works for the current president instead of them.

Lawler is the worst.