Jocelyn Rish

Since there's still thirty minutes left in National Dog Day, here is Kenzi's sweet face to cleanse the heaviness of the last few days. Kenzi is rooting for us to be kind and supportive to each other and to put everything into doing what we love.❤️

Dawg they’ve got the president of the United States campaigning in MISSISSIPPI

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Trump now being trolled by the whole trolling spectrum, from Obama to Norwegian toilets

Some authors say they need to use AI for their covers because they can’t afford an artist. To prove that’s not true, I offered authors FREE designs. I promised that they wouldn't be great, but they’d be better than AI. I used tools any author can access. The results were fast, cheap, and easy.

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

OBAMA: That just feels a little bit different… where people are so sick and tired of being sick and tired. After 2 years of chaos. and cruelty. and corruption. and incompetence—you get a chance to say enough's enough.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

If you haven't already, 1. Make a plan to vote, 2. Study your ballot this weekend, 3. Help your family and friends make plans too (e.g. can you take them to the polls/vote centers or drop off their ballots?) 4. Ask them to pass it forward.

All, be aware.

Not gonna lie, I got a bit verklempt at this fantastic review for my movie Grave Intentions on IG.🥹 It's not just the kind things Sandy says about the movie, but also the time it must have taken to edit everything with all the fun pop-ups. Huge thanks to Sandy Jack! www.instagram.com/p/De0KOxcMJZR/

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

I've been screaming for months for Democrats to do this. I can't tell you how happy this ad made me.

RFK Jr’s unethical experiment on African babies is officially canned, thanks to public backlash driven by Stand Up For Science 🎉 ✊️ 🧵 🧪

The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome

I figure many of the fundraising texts I get are outright scams (rather than the ridiculous scam-ish waste of the ones below), so I only donate directly on candidates websites. I hope that money is at least going somewhere useful.🙄

it's cool that you can send "STOP" to instantly block an automated political fundraising text message so they have to text you from a different number five minutes later

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Wild that the Trump family is very clearly in the pocket of multiple(!) foreign dictators and apparently nobody even cares. This used to be the stuff of taut thrillers, now it's just oh there's Jared doing bribe stuff again

Many called Jared Kushner corrupt Many noted he took bribes from Middle Eastern autocrats, especially Saudi Arabia, skewing US foreign policy And they were right But as this reveals, he's even more corrupt and took even more money from Middle Eastern autocrats that many, even strong critics, knew

Tom Skerritt had a natural warm charm on screen no matter what part he played. Rest well, Mr. Skerritt.

Somewhere away from "We'll just win elections and make the big platforms behave!" and "All that matters is winning so we should just use whatever platform gets us the most eyes!" there has to be a recognition that Meta/TikTok/YouTube/X are permanent thumbs on the scale until we crush them.

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans. He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!) wcti12.com/news/local/g...

NEW: Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker, wife of Governor JB Pritzker, announces she’s sending $500,000 to Amy Acton after Vivek Ramaswamy’s truly vile ad featuring Acton’s estranged mom.

god in heaven MAKE A NEW THING. anything! i don’t even care if it’s bad as long as it’s new!

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Democrats should just pay to put this in ads.

You know, we've actually had long periods in this country's history when we taxed the very wealthiest at high rates. This isn't some uncharted territory. You might want to look at what happened to the rest of the economy. Sounds like you'll be surprised!

It's a new week, Bluesky. Trust no poll. Trust no pundit. Vote early if you can. Vote in person if you can.