On this Yom Kippur
I was raised Catholic, but I’m more None of the Above now. However, once at work, someone asked who sat at an empty desk near us, and I piped up, “Elijah!” My then-colleague Linda laughed hard at that one, and said I was an honorary Jew. So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
May you all have an easy and meaningful fast.
I volunteered today at SAVE Animal Shelter, and “socialized” with a whole bunch of adorable puppers.
When I got home tonight, Johnny sniffed me up and down like he was my dad and I just came back from following the Grateful Dead for a week.
Trump seems to think the best way to spend the RNC’s money going into the most contentious midterms in history is checks notes the first ever “midterm convention?”
The same week as the opening night of the NFL and the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Who’s going to watch this?
Oh really
In another text exchange, Fetterman was dismissive of officials with Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) who wanted to discuss their concerns about Medicaid cuts, the Journal reported. Fetterman asks why he has to “keep” meeting with CHOP.
A staff member responds: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.”
Fetterman writes: “Well I’m not.
“I’m convinced they just want free trips to DC.”
You mean the CHOP where friends of mine had their extremely premature first child and actually got to bring him home?
You mean the CHOP where another friend of mine’s oldest child went through months of physical therapy, and that oldest child is starting their sophomore year of college this week, pain free?
That CHOP?
Fuck allllllll the way off.
Gloria Steinem, a potent voice of US feminism and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92
Oh goddamn these last couple weeks.
I was about to say, who’s going to be the leaders now? It’s not like we don’t need less drive for feminism even in 2026.
And as I look around looking for the adults in the room, I hate to tell ya.
I think it’s supposed to be us.
This is a new one on me: took my Chevy Bolt EUV in for service, and told the guy there’s been a funny rattling noise when I turned the AC on.
Apparently a mouse got into the cabin and chewed the filter?!
Definitely the first time I’ve ever had a car serviced for that.
I take his point, and also this is the cutest friggin thing I’ve ever seen.