Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette

pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

In honor of Sushi Finding Day, I would like to share another Sushi whose mom still needs some help caring for his ongoing medical struggles. The total raised is old and he has been having some new issues related to his condition & medication. Any bit helps!

gofund.me/ede1f4e63

I'll piggy back on this to say that it's not uncommon for animal shelters to offer pet food assistance in these situations as well. So if you either want to offer help or need it you may want to reach out to shelters in your area to ask about it.

"Black Cat Angst" by Greg Stones Art

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.

“Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver and better.”
Must read (and subscribe) from @vermontgmg.bsky.social:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

I'm in the current issue of Analog. I managed to negotiate to a contract I was willing to sign. Naively, I thought that established writers giving this feedback would eventually make a dent.

It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.

This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.

There are still spots available in this workshop! Vertigo peeps take note! No writing experience needed, but also since it's writing prompts it should be fine for people with loads of writing experience.

Fact check: Grocery prices are up, not ‘way down’ as Trump claimed | CNN Politics Newly released inflation figures show that President Donald Trump was wrong when he repeatedly claimed this month that grocery prices are “down” or “way down.”

Americans know the price they’re paying at the cash register. Instead of trying to convince Americans that costs are down, Trump needs to actually do what he said he would on Day 1. I’m ready to work with him to do it.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

close to two weeks later and Bubba and Roscoe still don't have a forever home 😿 do you know anyone who could give them a good home for their golden years?

Families need health care they can afford, not empty promises from politicians. I promised Wisconsinites that I would fight for their health care, and that’s what I’m doing.

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

How dare you be generous! Or kind-hearted! Or fond of anyone who doesn't live within driving distance!

GOOD JOB, MARCEL

Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...

The Trump administration took down a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the Department of Justice’s website nearly 300 days ago to comply with an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion.

oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...

It's not that I want to tell you "haha you stupid plebs there is no chance that Lois McMaster Bujold will ever like your work, no multiply award winning author will because they're so far above you." It's that if they ever do, they will be a bit shy and NEVER ASK FOR YOUR MONEY.

matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK

There is also someone out there impersonating me. If someone emails you out of nowhere, it's not me. It's never me. Let's be real. I can't even answer friends' emails right now b/c my CFS is so bad. I am NOT emailing strangers.

'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking' Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.

i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...

Portrait of a red male cat (a.k.a. an orange boy). He has yellow-orange eyes and freckles on his nose. The picture does not capture the fact that he is purring, but he is. He is Underfoot Cat.

Proof of cat

Against a background of pinned moths, the books cover for A THEORY OF HAUNTING.

Everyone has heard of Thirdhop Scarp: the house where a man murdered his entire family, found cupping the heart of his eldest daughter in his hands as tenderly as he would a wounded bird...

@pennyvixen.bsky.social 's A THEORY OF HAUNTING in eBook for only 0.99! https://geni.us/Solarissale

MAG-NI-FI-CENT

Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal

Dems should promise not only to prosecute the Trump family for enriching themselves at the expense of the country but also to use the tools of government to seize the wealth they’ve illegally accrued during his presidential terms.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

I don't know about you, but this is exactly the content I needed today.

People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.

an orange cat is on a blankie upside down with some of his teeth showing strangely

You always ask me “Jorts why are you so wet?” but I never ask why your phone is at 7%

The only #wildlife rehab center in #SanFrancisco is in desperate need of funds thanks to required facility upgrades, and it may have to shut down if it doesn’t get the money. Please consider supporting our urban wildlife by donating (and sharing this info!): yuwr.org/donate/