Bobbi Fox

I cannot make myself listen to Trump spewing hatred about my neighbors, but just for the record, it's the constitutional right of Americans to complain, and I've never heard a Somali immigrant complain even 1/10th as much as your average old entitled white asshole like the president.

Ugh. If you are willingly and purposely taking money out of artists' pockets for the sake of "activism," you're not an activist. You're a fecking asshole. Created works != free unless the creator has released them as such. If they didn't, PAY THEM.

O.M.G.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.

Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

“Medicare for all. Stop funding genocide. Abolish ICE.”

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

Way too many folx are still proudly sharing their Substacks, so I am reminding folx that they remain a Nazi bar, and there are some decent newsletter alternatives like Ghost, Beehiiv, Buttondown, etc, so please finally exit the fucking Nazi bar that remains Substack as you can do much much better! 🙏🏽

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The thing about trying to frame LGBTQ discrimination as "religious freedom" is that we have never granted any religion the freedom to harm or control others. That is where freedom stops. You can *believe* all you want that a woman marrying her girlfriend is evil, but belief is for you, not others.

It's a looong way from the South...

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

Trump goes to court to starve kids should be a headline everywhere today

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

I was only 30 something when I helmed The Enterprise.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

We have one person who came in at 2 minutes to, and is still filling out his ballot...

begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD.

Actually and literally.

I saw what you did there, Shammai 😉

Also, those of us pantry workers won't have to take precious time date-checking your donations when we could be packing grocery bags

I've said it before and I'll say it again now:

Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

Mayoral, many contested council member and school committee seats. Plus the evergreen overnight parking ban override ballot question.

Brilliant.

Yeah I'm also wearing pants. Two sided ballot where I'm working.
An amazing number of voters did the early ballot thing so I don't expect a lot of walk-ins

Ok; now I'm *really* impressed!

The cruelty is the point

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

A tweet from John Fugelsang reads in all caps: "NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE" – US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.

i also want to note that "i don't want children to have to undergo genital inspections" is an extremely easy argument to make and the fact that elected liberals cannot manage it is because they are either incompetent or complicit and i do not give a shit which