Colleen "Nightmare Woman" Ennen

A flavor that tastes the way the heated air of a cedar-lined, wood-burning sauna smells… plus vanilla?

I'm OK with Democrats going on Fox News to counter misinformation and debate the conservative hosts or moderators. Going on Fox News to slam another Democrat should get you stripped of your committee assignments and DCCC funding.

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

People who know how to figure these things: is it more environmentally conscious to get a new electric car OR to just hang on to your old, gas-run car?

“Vote Blue No Matter Who*”

(*unless the “Blue” in question is even a little left of center, then, no, we must kill our own)

Humans are deeply weird, like, why do I have a whole cupboard of lovely coffee mugs but only ever use one old and chipped Christmas mug?

Seriously, the handful of times a year I am compelled for whatever reason to use another mug, I am psychologically unsettled for the whole day.

Bad (and fucking pathetic) stuff happens when you get to rich/famous/powerful for anyone to ever challenge an idea of yours, or prompt you to take a breath and think critically for a moment before posting, or suggest you make some edits to your work.

By the way, if anyone wants to hire me to do this I would be (a.) very good at it, and (b.) not that expensive.

Probably the single most valuable thing a rich person could spend their money on would be paying someone to follow them around and tell them when they are being a little bitch.

Near limitless ROI. Best investment they’d ever make in their lives in terms of grief and mess and losses avoided.

Suspect showed few signs of political extremism before lawmaker shootings Friends and associates say Vance Boelter, who was apprehended late Sunday and charged with murdering a state lawmaker and her husband, was mild-mannered and did not appear to be fixated on politics.

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

What pundits think a broken information environment means: dumb yokels in Ohio spend all day on TikTok and believe in Jewish space lasers

What a broken information environment actually means: dumb pundits in NYC and DC spend all day on X and believe Harris ran on trans sports & late term abortions

30 seconds of searching reveals that the only donation made by the current CBO Director — a George W. Bush political appointee appointed to run the CBO by bipartisan congressional leadership — was to a Republican.

The Madness of King Gorge

Oh yeah, I’m one of those people who is like “oh my god LAVENDER ICE CREAM?!” YAY!!” so I’m pretty sure I also just enjoy the taste of soap and, like, potpourri.

A lot of people still think you sound insane when you say things like “Gamergate and 4-Chan culture is why America is now being run by the dumbest fascists imaginable”. We’ll get there one day!

Just a heads up for all the people still living in the delusion that the election in 2028 is going to be free and fair… trump and the Republicans are setting up a system that will put them in power until they are removed from power by force. No amount of disbelief on your part stops that reality.

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

Gawd, it’s like suddenly you need “evidence” to imprison people. What a hassle.

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.

holy shit www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution is less than a month away. Rhetorically and symbolically, this moment is set up so cleanly it's difficult to believe.

All of these can be true:
1. A small contingent of Gaza protestors have antisemitic views.

2. The protests overall are driven by opposition to mass murder, not antisemitism.

3. Conservatives are using "campus antisemitism" as a cudgel to imprison protestors & delegitimize universities

The richest man in the world and de-facto co-president is giving Nazi salutes, why are we still hearing about poorly worded signs at campus protests

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

“The people being subjected to an annihilation campaign need to get better at optics” I know this is just like a chess game to you or whatever but to anyone normal with eyeballs you look like a complete fucking ghoul

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

"The NeverEnding Story" by Marcel Proust

north carolina republicans about to make “democrats cannot legally win elections that might deprive of us of power” a principle of state constitutional law