now is a good time to help feed people
bit.ly/distributefoodchicago

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Zoe is still a snuggle bug and purr master but she also a super playful lady who is looking for a new home where she can rule the roost. She’s located outside Vancouver BC.

Tinykittens.com/adopt

#adoptdontshop

I had the honor of visiting this wonderful boy today and he is looking for a new home for the holidays. iHop would be the purrfect present for someone’s home.

tinykittens.com/adopt

Amen amen

They can't pretend to care about embryos, fetuses, even future children.

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.

Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…

I'm grateful for this warm remembrance of the great disability activist and human gone too soon--though she expected it, we can object--by @thrasherxy.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/remembering-...

To Alice Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything

You were a hero to Asian Americans, drag queens and people with disabilities around the world. May you do what you wanna do as your chariot carries you over the rainbow.

by Maureen Dowd

Alice Wong was a luminary, and her light will shine on for many years to come. this is a beautiful tribute from @thesicktimes.org co-founder @mileswgriffis.bsky.social

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Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.

For some reason I bought 10 lbs of good quality pasta yesterday

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

We can't be held responsible 🎶🎶🎶

Oh wow, verrrrry interesting

Gah, Bloomberg. Wondered where he was hiding.

Glad I bopped over here today...did not know the latter tricky D had passed. Now if we could only reverse all those outings to "dark side" and scuttle the WOT.

With three expectant mamas at @tinykittens.bsky.social, Charco wants to remind everyone to wear their patience pants. Or you can use them as a pillow. Your choice.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - F*!#in' Up (Official Audio) YouTube video by neilyoungchannel

New anthem for a large and famous personage

Mindless grifter on the road

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXKR...

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

Trump Bid to Take Over Postal Service Could Threaten Mail Voting Read more here.

Please call, besiege insist your reps in congress scream bloody murder about this and raise public awareness -- to protect mail-in ballots from GOP control and manipulation as the Admin moves to take over the Post Office:

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

Second found title of the day:
Discarded Corncobs of Western Europe.

JUST SAY NO TO CHARLES KOCH and his fellow vampires sucking us dry.

Or a the greatest band name

Best metaphor ever?

Wiki has it that the British Isles Archipelago includes more than 1K smaller islands and *named substantial rocks.* Now I really want to write a story (essay?) called Named Substantial Rocks. Or ask Andrea Barrett to get on it.

Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article) The Trump administration appears to be flouting a judge’s order pausing the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D.

Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

That these goons are gleeful about destroying the economy, the rule of law, the constitution, our alliances and much of the country's power (for starters) would be mind-boggling, but such is the narcissism whereby nothing can be more important or more respected than they are.

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating