You only think you see me

I’m claiming this as a belated birthday present from the universe.

Well, this June is just kicking me in the teeth as far as favorite artists leaving us. Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...

This is the worst thing to happen on the first day of Pride in i dont know how long… Rest in Power, Martha, & thanks for all the lovely memories. www.out.com/obituaries/d...

08-05-1926 United States of America A. Philip Randolph founds the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. www.politico.com/story/2013/0...

Google's UK-based DeepMind employees aim to become the first frontier AI lab worldwide to unionise. They're citing "concerns about AI being used to empower authoritarianism, whether through military or surveillance applications". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I hope you’re offering to do the cooking AND the dishes.

Seeing a person in a NALC t-shirt delivering mail really makes my day.

BREAKING: The PA Supreme Court holds that mandatory life without parole sentences for all "felony murder" convictions -- a sentence more than 1,000 people in PA are serving -- violates the state constitution's "cruel" punishment ban. This is GROUNDBREAKING: www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

If more income inequality, more fantasies about beating the rich. Why don’t the rich understand this?

I was once a fun big sister, before the past decade beat me down.

Being old, I’ve been reflecting a lot in the past year about living here during the Bicentennial. Such a great piece by Jill Lepore. // Scandal, Protest, Goofiness, and Grandeur at the U.S.

We should try capping political donations in PA. Tell Mike Bloomberg & Yass & Bezos & Musk—from now on, the max donation to a candidate for governor is $1,000 or whatever. Letting Bloomberg give $2.5M to our governor is bananas, no matter who the governor is. share.inquirer.com/1LtrB5

ICE’s hiring practices are affirmative action for white supremacists. share.inquirer.com/zohrS6

I, for one, cannot wait for Pete Hegseth’s war crimes trial.

A white woman who is not a doctor & doesn’t believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General. Black people, don’t EVER let these people tell you that you are a “diversity hire” or don’t deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.

Oh, sure, we could fund health care, dental & vision for us all with that amount, who’s asking? Call me, I have thoughts about how to keep America safe! (from misery) wapo.st/40sgBRz

Rest in power, Rev. Jackson.

The British aristocracy literally created a culture where eligible young women from good families were auctioned off to the highest bidder on the Marriage Mart, AS LONG AS THEY WERE VIRGINS. So how is the monarchy shocked by the Epstein Files revelations?

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Everything the US has been doing to Black, Indigenous, immigrants, disabled, trans, and low income folks is now happening to white people. Everything the US has been doing to Palestinians via Israel is happening to white USians now. Have we had enough? Are we finally going to fight for everyone?

2026: my year in books www.katisipp.com/writing/2026...

bye 2025👋

As a holiday tradition, we should seek vengeance on our enemies. 😇

Song of the Day: “How I Used to Try” youtu.be/PulQdaC0CaQ?...

Dick Cheney died & I don’t have a clever tweet.

Everything that is fucked up about our country in this moment. “Need to make quick cash? Have you considered extracting data from the poors & selling it back to the state that is making them poorer?” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

At Ridge & Spring Garden

Just went to Costco today to flip mine from LFL to LFP. #ChingaTuMAGA

Sitting on my stoop sewing & listening to Bruce sing “Streets of Philadelphia” in homage to Pierre Robert. A big piece of my adolescence just passed.

Happy Birthday, @banditelli.org! You are one of the only people worth being on the internet for. Thank you for being you, & today I will eat without a fork in your honor! 🎂

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Trump losing the Peace Prize to a Venezuelan democracy activist? Chef’s kiss.

Jimmy on Jimmy.

Traveled to CT this week for a work event. Stayed near the beach!

The US minimum wage has been $7.25 for the entire time the ACA has existed. Fuck your work requirements for Medicaid.

Fave tiktoker of today is the guy who is following around soldiers on the Capital Mall, playing the Imperial March from Star Wars on a portable speaker…

Say hi to this absolute unit of a grasshopper that I saw in my community garden last night.

It’s fascinating the way you have turned your family group chat into content for the internet.

“In the near term, everything rests on what the top 10 percent decide to do or not to do. The rest of the income distribution IS NOT REALLY CONSEQUENTIAL from a macroeconomic perspective.” ~Mark Zandi (emphasis mine) Oh. Ok, we we’ll just keep fucking off then, shall we?

He’s angling to be cast on the next season of The Boys as a Homelander wannabe.

I hope you’re out there with a bucket of paint & a brush, now that it’s after 5.

Find myself thinking about these words by Kurt Vonnegut: ...the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

What’s a civil society org to do, when civil society breaks down?