Tallulah Parton

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy

And an end run around the 19th amendment

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Hello, I'm the librarian in this extremely haunted small town. Thank you for your interest in our accurséd history! Here's a collection of local folktales; we don't allow it to be checked out because if you read it aloud, you will die. No, I'm sorry, the PTA made us get rid of all the gay books.

Every day I wake up and my heart breaks and my blood boils.

And my spine straightens and my jaw clenches and my arms open and I try to figure out how to help and how to keep going.

I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now.

Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

If you are watching the opening ceremony on NBC, you won't hear the boos of JD Vance because NBC cut it. Corporations working to keep Americans in the dark about how unpopular their elected officials are. The White House reposted the censored clip.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Some people are so afraid of things getting worse they can't conceive of things getting better. And they tend to be pompous and annoying because they think not asking for better things makes them a realist. But really they're just helping things get worse by clinging to the janky existing system.

Sometimes I'll complain about something and a genius will reply with some version of "oh, you'd rather things were worse?"

No, stupid, I'd rather things were better. That's why I'm complaining.

On a similar note, as Mamdani continues to notch W after W you’re going to start seeing opinion pieces about how this could never work in any city other than New York, etc., etc. Do not engage! It’s just entrenched power bullshit and that’s all! Don’t let them make that a conversation!

You know it doesn't necessarily have to "get worse before it gets better." That's just some shit people told you often enough and long enought that you uncritically took it for true.

We could just work to be better.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Aside from the message, which I support, his control of his instrument is impressive

Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

EFTA01115560.pdf - DataSet 9 I refer you to John Scalzi: "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.") Certain Aggrieved Persons, this isn't about you

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I AM IN THE FUCKING EPSTEIN FILES

Specifically, my essay "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting" is referenced in a 2013 Rachel Sklar article about Muriel Siebert. Why is it in the Epstein files at all? You got me.

What a wild fucking discovery. I am literally agog.

Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.

"There is a special kind of rage that comes from realizing your car is gone while you are holding a box of dildos and trying to overthrow a federal agency before midnight. This is not covered in any mindfulness app."

He's seeding the idea of the government takeover of the media.

This is actually important: Trump (as far as anyone can tell) doesn't believe that *anything* is on the level. He doesn't as much oppose democracy and the rule of law as believe that they've always been a fairy tale that only foolish dupes fall for.

We are 45% funded-We are hoping to be ready by the end of the week.

Oof that last part.

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Clarification: before the shut down they got three months in a 3 year period. That's all. Thank Clinton for that one. But there were exceptions for homeless people. The regime is ending the exception for homeless people and there will no longer be any SNAP for ABAWDS, including homeless.

Aww. Ditto both counts.

Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.