Mara Pellittieri

Well, it’s 9:47pm, the only natural thing my six year old could do is ask a series of questions about tectonic plates.

all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat

Kids these days just don’t want to WORK anymore.

There is nothing wrong with prepared foods. They’re convenient, accessible sources of food.

But we’ve systematically blocked access to them.

No prepared foods for SNAP, and now no peanut butter for seniors?

Even if the boxes got to the people who need them, we have no reason to think people could use them.

1. The boxes don’t have the pantry staples that turn fresh produce into a meal.

2. A lot of people receiving them can’t cook for themselves. They’re disabled, don’t have full kitchens, etc.

There’s no infrastructure for this. At all.

1. They fired thousands of staff so there aren’t any people to handle the logistics.

2. They want to cut out food banks, the only people who could handle some of the distribution.

So, these boxes are just going to rot at the farms that made them.

7,000 local seniors rely on food boxes. Trump wants to cut the program For decades, the aid has come in boxes provided by food banks to the poorest of seniors. The White House wants to change that in favor of a new, direct-to-consumer model that state and local officials...

So the administration wants to replace boxes of pantry staples with fresh food.

It sounds nice, but it falls apart if you think about ANY part of this scheme.

www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...

Kiddo is twirling while I play Lucy Dacus, and I keep thinking about how one of the arguments we used for marriage equality in the mid-aughts was that queer couples mostly raise straight kids.

Not if this music has anything to say about it.

Pierbattista Pizzaballa - Wikipedia

Pope Pizzaballa is the LEAST the Catholic Church could do for us, all things considered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbat...

My grandpa keeps asking if Trump “got to me” yet, and honestly it’s the most understood I’ve felt in a long time.

It is time:

Fuck you, Strom Thurmond.

No matter how things go today, it’d be nice if we all agreed to open the windows around sundown tonight to scream “fuck you, Strom Thurmond” into the abyss.

Say what you will, but it has been a long time since I felt like a politician was fighting for me.

Given the state of things, I will be discontinuing all work and instead spending my days imagining a world where Anne Shirley and Jo March met each other and learned that queer people exist.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

But what about her emails? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Truth social post from Donald J Trump that says: To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural products to be sold INSIDE of the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!

This is not how our food system works. This is not how anything works.

We’ve spent decades building mega farms that export tons of product, and we import most of what we eat.

Farmers can’t just “plant something else” — they don’t have the seed, equipment, or funding this late in the season.

Sneaking suspicion that “personal liberties” aren’t going to include things like the freedom to protest or to access health care.

if you’re not trans & don’t know about the cass review, when this report comes out, it will look very much like the cass review. the NYT will treat it as legitimate.

i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.

The complicating factor is that there isn’t any rulemaking right now. There’s a regulatory freeze, so nothing is entering rulemaking.

No one knows exactly what this means yet, but it looks like Trump-appointed agency heads are just implementing EOs while things get challenged in court.

Objectively funny to watch the admin try to legislate gender only to REALLY struggle with biology.

Anyhow they whiffed hard enough that we’re all trans now, congrats.

Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.

Even on a deeply weird day, this stands out as a tough loss. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

Here's how to cover things that are illegal:

(i) this is illegal
(ii) they say it's legal
(iii) It's not

Truth sandwich, extra mustard

Facebook ad for a green purse with a pink strap. Text says “Feeling lonely and isolated in your community? Join our community today using the code “mechafriend” and get a discount of up to 10% on your first order.”

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a company be THIS blatant about replacing relationships with purchases?

This was true in DC until a few years ago. You’re not going to love hearing this, but we definitely walked by it once to go stand in a very long line at Trader Joe’s.

In a town that’s pretty fixated on “30 under 30” and “40 under 40” lists, it feels worth noting that most of the things that cemented Carter’s legacy didn’t start until his 60s.

This work looks beautifullllllll. I’m team “do it.”

Ok but say more about carabiner discourse (specifically whether it’s related to the fact that straight femmes are wearing luxury jewelry versions).

Probably! You’ll see it a lot, so why not be thrilled by it, you know?

Plus I tend to think of it as a net positive for other artists’ ability to charge a sustainable amount.

Who are you looking at?

People truly are losing grip on the difference between fear mongering and mutual aid. Helping folks who are at risk get important papers together? Good! Shouting every NYT news alert from the street corner? Not good!

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