i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Your twist ending may be familiar and predictable to a person who has read literally thousands of works in your genre.

Doesn't mean that it's not a good ending, just that it's hard to surprise an experienced editor or reader.

Especially the former because we are trained to look for this stuff.

Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

People need to stop being surprised that women are likely to get both more radical and less patient with your bullshit as they age

You morons, you can't repeat the Gilded Age. That's not how history works--it only goes in one direction. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and make sure no nihilistic young Italians have built homemade weapons with which to assassinate robber barons.

okay, we're starting with this

Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!

Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)

Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up

actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech.
Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.

Richest man in the world and most powerful private US citizen uses bully pulpit to criticize people working to save refugee migrants at sea. This is a level of cruelty and evil that we cannot get used to. It is outrageous.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/w...

I'm very disappointed by all the people who don't understand what this means

A little louder now.

You don't know ANY undocumented people.

You are not able to direct authorities to ANY undocumented people.

You have no idea who they are looking for.

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Recipe: working in batches transfer the soup to a blender or food processor to purée
Me, owner of an immersion blender: the hell I will

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fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things:
1) "nah, I'm not doing that"
2) "nah, you're not doing that"

a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

The best social media accounts are folks super into something I have absolutely no interest in but through their sheer enthusiasm become very invested in knowing. You know how volcanos work? Awesome. You know about the 3 Kingdoms period of China? Great. You know how ants fuck? Tell me more my man

How I introduce myself on all the new platforms

GodDAMN