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Interesting how the first article link’s title named him the restaurant owner and referred to Thy Mitchell only as his wife.

The next article credits her as a restaurateur. That all should have been easily verifiable and uncontentious information.

porterdavis

mariacallous

the-library-alcove

I wonder if he's going to just give it to Putin (possibly in an envelope with a love letter?), or auction it off to the highest bidder?

abigailspinach

Auction item 'Zoom Bookclub for Haters (Live)' hosted online at 32auctions.

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JD Vance has a new book out about his loser-ass flavor of Catholicism. Pope Leo is trying to bait Vance's whole caucus into schisming. Archbishop of Bluesky Claire Willett has scorching hot takes on all of it. Obviously she loves herself too much to read what will almost certainly be infuriating garbage simply for the fun of complaining; fortunately for you, however she loves democracy more.

You are cordially invited to WORLD'S WORST BOOK CLUB, in which Claire will actually, for real, read the whole f***-ing book cover to cover and then scream about everything liturgically, doctrinally, spiritually, existentially, emotionally, sexually, philosophically, grammatically and literarily wrong with it.

WHEN: Sunday, October 4th from 12 pm - 2 pm PST (the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, just to be petty)WHERE: Zoom (you'll all get a link before the event)

This will get you a ticket to the LIVE version of the talk: you will be able to attend the Zoom event live, bask in Claire's take down as it happens, and ask questions of Claire during the live Q&A section.

#Romancing the Vote #it’s for a good cause #check out the auctions y'all #romance writers are creative craft gremlins #there are DnD games #dice!#whistles!#quilts!#editing packages #handbound books #cover designs #etc #Romancing the Vote 2026

kira-7

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

arctic-hands

[Video Description: An ad with piano music over it all, showing an elderly woman in her home, knitting, when two younger men walk by her window, which catches her attention. She stares out her window at them as they kiss each other while walking, the old lady staring in disbelief. Cut to the old woman approaching a residence with a broom in hand, staring up at the second floor window where a small rainbow Pride flag is hanging. The old woman stares up at it and mutters "Ridiculo", before getting up on a ladder with her broom to remove the flag. Focus on the flag fluttering to the ground as church bells chime. The scene then cuts to the couple from before, approaching their home with grocery bags in hand before one stops and stares at the second floor, stopping his partner who then drops the groceries as he too stares up. It's then revealed that the small pride flag had been replaced with a gigantic, hand-knit pride flag. It then cuts back to the old woman's home, where a tin of rainbow-colored yarn sits on her table. The hands of the old woman are holding and fondly touching an old black and white photo of two young smiling women, leaning against each other. Cut to the old woman's face as she stares out with a look of happy pride on her face. At the end of the video, the name "Idealista" appears on screen, followed by "buon pride" along with a rainbow. End VD.]

spaceofentropy

One correction:

The old lady is not in her home. She is at work. She's meant to be what in Italian is called "la portinaia", aka a cross between a doorwoman and cleaner of a residential building. She's in her small "office" space, at the entrance of the building, from where she can survey the coming and goings of the inhabitants. It's a job that has mostly disappeared, but is culturally very clear to us as having the connotation of "potentially gossipy, one-million-percent judgmental woman who sees everything that goes on in the apartment complex, knows everyone and their secrets, and has Strong Opinions™️".

In this case, thankfully, the Strong Opinion™️ is that those two men are ridiculous with their teeny tiny flag for ants.

#In this case #thankfully #the Strong Opinion™️ is that those two men are ridiculous with their teeny tiny flag for ants.

The right is incandescent with rage over the Supreme Court’s (closer than...

The cope ranges from the jokey to the unhinged. Let’s dive in.

Code Yellow: Gently airing our concerns over dinner

As hard as it is to believe, the master of social media meltdowns himself, President Donald J. Trump, only rated inclusion in the “cause for least concern” category.

“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” he Truth Socialed. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Setting aside the fact that you can’t change the Constitution through legislation (unless you’re listening to Brett Kavanaugh), channeling disappointment with a Court ruling into legislative action is downright democratic!

Ditto to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who said that he’s “very disappointed” but that “you could say that’s an originalist, textualist view.” (He also spouted some “birth tourism” stuff, but wait ‘til we get lower in this list, he is comparatively a scholar and a gentleman.)

Last is Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), who admittedly proposed a 10-year immigration moratorium, but at least did it in a tone that’s more racist uncle at Thanksgiving and less Stormfront message board.

“We gotta put a bedsheet ― a big bedsheet ― over the Statue of Liberty,” he said. “She’s gotta go to sleep for a while ’cause we’re not letting anybody in anymore.”

“Instead of having a torch, maybe it needs a stop sign,” he added, miming the torch arm.

Code Orange: He’s a great guy, but he has a Woman Problem

The problem with pitching a fun, lighthearted story about the right to sweep your beleaguered readers into the holiday weekend is that it isn’t really all that fun: these chuds can’t feel any emotion without lashing out at whatever woman is closest. Unfortunately, that means that our middle tier features misogyny (relatively) lite.

Lots of right-wingers are just boiling over at Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who, in another decision released this week, had the gall to vote against a fairly piddling attempt to restrict vote by mail (after helping deliver Republicans the south for the foreseeable future by killing the Voting Rights Act) and who then committed a graver sin: upholding birthright citizenship. Chief Justice John Roberts joined her in both of those majorities — and also ruled against letting Trump fire a Federal Reserve governor, which Barrett dissented from — yet fascinatingly, mysteriously, bafflingly, his name is going unslandered.

“It turns out that Amy Coney Barrett is a DEI hire, little better than Kentanji Jackson,” wrote right-wing commentator Matt Walsh. “Terrible pick. When’s the last time we had a Republican president who didn’t put a liberal justice on the court?”

And, as a bonus, someone has made a really horrifying AI woke Barrett, which is making the rounds on MAGA Twitter.

Code Red: Bring in the nice men in white coats

And here’s about the point where this assignment got distinctly unpleasant and I regretted bringing it up in the first place. The vitriol against pregnant immigrants was universal and violent, by far the longest section of my list. We can’t even have a little bit of fun in Trump’s America.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), perennial weirdo, introduced the “Anchors Away Act.”

“Under my bill, under my legislation, we fix that and go back to what our founders intended,” he said in a shaky TikTok-style video. “So in short, what this bill does is if you are a pregnant woman, you can’t come into this country. You got to be a citizen, be here, you have to be a green card holder. So if you’re pregnant and you don’t have one of those statuses, no admittance allowed.”

“The State Department should IMMEDIATELY cease to give out visas to pregnant applicants,” tweeted Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO). “Sorry, Birth Tourism cannot continue.”

“The idea that you could have a cruise ship filled with foreigners and they just dock at a port for an hour, and someone has a baby, Jesse, the baby’s an American citizen!” an increasingly hysterical Stephen Miller said to Fox News’ Jesse Watters. “They can vote in every election for the rest of their lives! They could be living in a foreign country and be cashing welfare checks for American citizens!”

And trumping the rest is Federalist CEO Sean Davis, who retweeted such invective as “Our primary target for removal should no longer be ‘the worst criminals.’ It should be women. All of them. There’s not a moment too soon. If they’re actively giving birth, hurl them into Mexico.”

His original work is just as horrifying: He produced a list of remedies to the Supreme Court decision including “deny entry to all pregnant foreigners,” “deny entry to all female foreigners” and “require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry.”

Well. This was fun.

#u.s. politics #trump admin #talking points memo #birthright citizenship #when did they loose the plot over this #i feel like it ballooned out of nowhere #i mean #so much to keep track of

afurioushawk

Biden was the most pro-union president in fifty years, Harris cast the literal tie-breaking vote to save their pensions, and unions back-stabbed our party because they hate immigrants and trans people.

afurioushawk

ghostalservice

HELLO FRIENDS!!

It’s Romancing the Vote season, the increidble team that inspired our craft fairs!! This year, they’re fundraising for Vote Riders and The Southern Coalition for Social Justice, two organizations experienced in fighting to make sure every person's vote counts. Check out the whole auction here!!

I have two things in the auction to help raise money for their awesome causes:

1. A signed copy of Errant, the novella series that @feliciadavin and KR Collins and I wrote together! Featuring a tasty F/F romance, fun fantasy worldbuilding, a magic system that is DELICIOUS, and a stoic bi swordswoman/charming lesbian thief… and a map!

2. A progress pride mail sticker that i designed! holographic and cute as hell!!!

These folks have raised over a million dollars for voting rights over the last six years - hype and bid and buy and support their work!!

#romancing the vote #signal boost #the best

sprinkledsalt

Man, I agree and I don't care if it's cringe to say so. My mom has been saying that she remembers the bicentennial when she was a kid, and people were hyped up. She said sidewalks and poles were painted with the colors of the flag. Now? You only see mentions of the 250th anniversary in advertisements trying to cash in on it, really. But among people, nobody’s heart is in it. It could've been great. This person is right and this was part of what was so gutting about 2024; it was the best of American ideals vs the worst of American society...and the worst won. It's still hard to sit with.

It’s just fucking infuriating that we’ve had to deal with this pig ruining everything he touches for 10 years straight because, for various reasons, people refused to take the world’s biggest walking red flag seriously. I know nihilists will say "well this is Good, you see, cuz people shouldn't celebrate America ever cuz America Bad" but here in reality, we're allowed to be angry because it never had to be this way. It was always so avoidable. There are so many people I will never forgive.

femalegothic

give her citizenship and sign her to the USWNT

recurring-polynya

never lose hope. somewhere, a middle-aged, gender ambiguous person with an advanced degree in an esoteric field and a fiber arts hobby could be crashing out and pinning all their remaining mental health on getting obsessed with your otp. any day now, the most elegantly written 100k fanfic you have ever read is going to hit ao3. it could happen. it has happened.