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Author of 'The Feminist’s Guide to Raising a Little Princess', novels, humor. Working on a new book and also a time travel machine https://www.devorahblachor.com/
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Please read this important post from the messaging app you’ve probably been reading about lately thanks to a bunch of high-level government pinheads who think that the MMR vaccine is composed of fetus debris and gay powder. @mcsweeneys.net @signal.org www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Our cover this week.

The most corrupt President in history - and he does it all out in the open www.bbc.com/news/article...

How would YOU like to spend your tax dollars? Please take our quiz in today's @mcsweeneys.net @wendiaarons.bsky.social www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wou...

This administration’s entire project is The Lost Cause Strikes Back

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people. Blazing your own path for the W 👏👏👏👏👏

Time to speak up

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.

God what is this steaming pile of bullshit www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Good morning. Rumeysa Ozturk is still in government custody this morning for writing an op-ed in a college newspaper.

If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

Impossible to satirize, but I tried! medium.com/@devorah/wha...

Early voting has started in Wisconsin, where Elon Musk is trying to buy another election. Winning on April 1 would secure the liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court through 2028. Help us get out the vote for workers’ rights champion Susan Crawford: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

They created a fictitious world in which George Soros was pulling all the strings for Democrats and decided that justified Elon Musk doing a hundred times more for real.

Did someone say Tesla Cybertruck Recall? @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gov...

Imagine believing that this sign causes division. Trump Republicans have either lost their minds or are deeply, deeply racist www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/e...

Extreme sarcasm is becoming the only way to deal with these surreal times… Let’s Save Western Civilization by Being Cruel Motherfuckers www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/let...

Cool that a guy worth $2 billion thinks a recession is worth it.

Always admire that @devorahblachor.bsky.social can so skillfully transform rage into humor.

You know, I've never once had a LGBTQ person force their "lifestyle" on me. But these miserable greedy billionaires, man, they are in my face every goddamn day.

"President Trump took time out of his busy day today - from tanking the stock markets, inflaming trade wars with our allies, threatening to annex more sovereign territories - to produce a car infomercial for his largest campaign donor and fellow Nazi enthusiast, Elon Musk."

If you've been arguing against human empathy, this one's for you! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/let...

Nothing says “we are focused on local families and communities” like canceling $1B in federal funding that allowed local kids in local school systems to eat good fresh food grown by LOCAL FUCKING FARMERS THESE PEOPLE ARE SO FULL OF SHIT

Yes. It’s so toxic that lying - in a fantastical and easily disprovable way - carries no moral opprobrium. When did this become ok? It’s one of the reasons we’re so exhausted.

also, listening to @andyrichter.co on here lucidly talk about comedy, including why American conservative comedy just usually fails at being funny in any way even to people who are conservative, is such a delight

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

Genuinely would prefer for these pieces not to be aging so well

A WWII bomb about to explode in the heart of Western Europe seems a little too on the nose. Can the writers try to be a little more subtle please?

Jon Stewart on Trump’s Heel Turn on Zelenskyy In Favor of Putin’s New World Order youtu.be/OeUZI5RnYGg

As an aside, I genuinely think the Russian pipeline to right wing media has led us to this moment. Any Trump watcher knows how influenced he is by what he watches on Fox/tv - he often parrots them within minutes of watching. Just astonishing how we got here

The only person in the world who has the power to hold Trump responsible rn is King Charles. He could rescind the invite. B/c of the way Trump sees the world + his longtime obsession with the royal family, it would humiliate him more than anything else could. I know it's not int he cards, but...

"Let's understand who our true enemy is. Is it a virile, often shirtless man on horseback who poisons political opponents and journalists and who’s causing the deaths of countless innocent people? Or is it a children’s book about a kid with two dads?"

Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

Magas pretend to care about the Epstein files, thinking Trump (pals w Jeffrey) is a savior. They ignore the real hero journalist who took Epstein down after his Republican sweetheart deal (via Trump appointee Acosta) allowed him to go free. We owe a debt of gratitude to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social