You’re absolutely right, and thank you for saying it.

I’m incredibly fortunate to be working from home, especially in an industry as notoriously unstable as the one I work in. I know others, including most of the people I love, have to either go out and work or sit at home and hope their jobs come back someday.

I know a bit about this. 

Stephen Miller is stuck in high school - Santa Monica High School, to be exact. He’s never quite understood that he didn’t have many friends because he was a conservative in a liberal school. In reality, he didn’t have many friends because he was a raging ass, and there’s ample video evidence to prove it.

In the…

Not wearing a mask has become part of so many people’s identities, a physical symbol that they’re part of a a strain of Republicans who follow Trump’s lead even though it goes against everything we now know about covid. Essentially, it’s a cult, and they aren’t ready to get out as long as Trump gives them something to…

Ablation high-five! (That’s a thing, right? Well, it is now.) It’s the best thing I’ve ever done for myself.

Election night, 2008. I’d been volunteering on the Obama campaign for several months at that point. As we got closer to the election, I spent more and more time at the local HQ, tabulating phone banking results. The place was a giddy mob scene on election night, with last-minute phone banking giving way to tracking…

And gornisht helfin, nogoodnik schlubs.

I don’t use it either. Every time a celebrity gets pictures stolen, it’s from iCloud. Granted, no one’s going to go looking for my pictures, and they aren’t that interesting anyway - but they’re mine, and I don’t like the thought that anyone could waltz onto the server and grab them.

I think there’s also been a slight shift in how results are presented. In 2016, higher-profile outlets were talking about national polling as if a national popular vote would determine the outcome. 

Wait, you mean that getting people to pay to watch mobisodes went over about as well in 2020 as it did in 2007?

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. He’ll be 84 for the next election. Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Grassley were both re-elected when well into their 80s.

At 78, McConnell barely cracks the top 10 of oldest senators. He’ll be 84 for the next election, and he’s going to keep running so long as he has detectable vial signs.

Mitch McConnell keeps campaigning like he’s not from a state that elected a Democratic governor just last year.

I want him to pull through this enough to face true justice for his actions. I want him to have to face every one of the millions who want to explain what his deliberate actions did to them and demand his response.

Whatever the reported results are, at least 40% of Americans won’t believe or accept them. That’s a recipe for a shitshow.

Trump’s obviously just using his social media bully pulpit to dog-whistle white supremacist rhetoric into the public sphere

I used to live with a cat like that. My roommate and I called the cat our third roommate, because that’s basically what she was. She wasn’t much for doing chores, but she was good company to just hang out with. I imagine she thought roughly the same about us.

I have a ridiculous amount of books. There’s my own, plus my grandparents’ collection, plus the ones my parents told me to take when they moved. A couple of moves ago, I took a look at the stacks of boxes, went out, and bought a dolly.

You’re welcome! I’ve had this weird fascination with Stephen Miller ever since I found out he’s from Santa Monica. I figured there had to be a reason he ended up being the inverse of everyone he grew up around, and his being stuck in high school is the only thing that makes sense to me.