I am promoting two fundraisers simultaneously (binc and humble bundle) and feeling a bit inadequate tbh. 🙀
You could help my self esteem rather a lot by supporting these worthy causes and letting me know! 🤪
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
Here's a fundraiser to help families impacted by ICE in North Minneapolis, if you're looking for a way to help from afar!
Pentz Homes Food drive Buy goods and drop off with us (dm for info) or Venmo @natepentz and put food drive in memo
Pentz Homes will be doing a rolling food drive to support our struggling local businesses and help the families who are afraid to leave their homes. You can help in two ways! Shop at local immigrant-owned stores and donate the goods, or send us your funds and we will do the shopping for you.
Thread of remote ways to support Minneapolis
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"
A list of ideas!
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.
I can't get a Real ID appointment in NJ because I have a passport. More Kafka.
Extremely good news: A print subscription for The Onion is very on sale today. You'll get your first copy by Christmas.
It's $75 for a year's worth of newspapers shipped to your real-life mailbox each month.
Get one for yourself, your friends, your family, or your enemies.
membership.theonion.com
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
Not honored enough to keep the politics staff employed?
No one is coming to save us but us.
If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
The frog did it. Ribbit.
The only reason to get rid of interlibrary loan is that you prefer ignorance and illiteracy.
Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!
If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
in the last year this is the onion headline i most often think about
fair point
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.
hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.
Solzhenitsyn wrote repeatedly about the use of mosquito torture in early Soviet concentration camp detention on the Solovetsky Islands. If you use the same nasty ingredients, you're going to bake the same cake.
‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week
‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week
that's some vintage antisemitism holy shit
