Sharon Arnold

Me: "Are you aware of the intersection of Taco Bell and Literature?"

Writer: "Yes, I met you in Seattle, you offered me drugs, and you were the first person I told I was pregnant."

This is the way.

That the removal of a corporate tax break which would have cost the state $550M survives in this final income tax proposal is great news for everyday people of our state. As more Washingtonians make use of popular programs, we must continue pressing the issue of taxing corporate and personal wealth.

I've been having this conversation with friends and family for at least a year. America and our relationship with the world is about to be fundamentally changed, and I don't think most (white) Americans are going to be ready to not be centered the way we were before.

Trump is adding anti-trans provisions to SAVE America Act Trump appears to be using culture-war issues, which are popular among Republican voters, to increase the pressure on Republican lawmakers to back the bill.

🚨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump is pressing Congress to add new provisions targeting transgender people to the SAVE America Act — a sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"No, officer, it wasn't a fistfight, it was a kinetic conflict."

Did this motherfucker really just say “as a futurist I’m not really good at imagining what the new jobs will be”? What the fuck is the point of being a futurist if you can’t imagine the future?

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

and stay with this a second because he's talking about the deaths of US people on US soil and not necessarily the deaths of soldiers. they would love another 9/11 to happen so they can clamp down even harder on the fascism. it's what happened last time. I'm not surprised, but I am still horrified.

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Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

adopting this into the lexicon right away

I wrote about raising daughters in the ICE age WHILE in treatment for triple negative breast cancer. Scroll down to read the short piece.

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Oh hey, it’s me! But more importantly it’s the Whitney Biennial.

oh god, *that's* who this guy is, the guy who wanted to fight Sean O'Brien, general president of the Teamsters?! he's now the head of DHS? we're fucking cooked. we went from the worst to the absolute worst.

when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually

I'll just rewatch Farscape instead

Everything else aside, is the older I get and the more we live in a dystopia the harder it is to ignore that Firefly is fundamentally a lost cause narrative.

I don't want to root for the confederates.

Torpedoing an unarmed ship, then leaving survivors to die, violates the Geneva Conventions, UNCLOS, the UN Charter, and the Rome Statute. All at once. The Trump regime claims no war exists, which makes this even more illegal. Calling it an 'operation' doesn't make it legal.

Language as Resistance: Camonghne Felix on the Liberatory Potential of Poetry A poetic education is premised on the assumption of creative agency, on the idea that each reader has the ability to imagine illusion, to see illusion, to articulate illusion. The training is in le…

“The poet is the first to understand that safety is an illusion that power constructs. We learn through metaphor.”

Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"

Let’s have an impeachment instead.
Of the entire administration.

telling us with their whole chest exactly why they've hit Venezuela and Iran

Eternal reminder that you can and should turn off the Internet and do something useful with your hands when there's not much you can do about a Horror in the immediate moment

I don’t want to share the video because it’s pretty graphic, but apparently we’re at the ‘Republican Senator breaks the arm of a Marine IN FULL DRESS because that marine was protesting the Republicans starting a war of choice with Iran’ stage of things.

honestly I've started learning how to weave and crochet lately for these reasons and it does wonders to reset my brain (although would be more useful lol)

Like... no, you're not "projecting" or "calling" races, Polymarket. You're showing people the current betting line and misrepresenting it as something more than that.

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

Good op-ed here. There's no reason to take this "deal" with big corporations anyway. They are trying to get a huge tax cut at the expense of our public schools, while quietly hoping (and maybe even encouraging) right-wing activists to put it on the ballot and kill the millionaire's tax anyway.