Autumn J

Menswear Menagerie: What I'm wearing this autumn

"Today we celebrate 250 years of the United State of America, a Celebration of Life at the funeral. Family & friends gather to honor and remember, to share the funny/sad stories, to create a meaningful tribute to the lost. There will be food, drink, and fireworks."

This article from me isn’t just about the “lol he’s vegan” thing. It’s about how Trump started this explicit manhood-as-qualification stuff a decade ago, and now it’s pervasive.

Trump Plan Would Phase Out Rural Ed Fund; District Leaders Say It’s ‘Vital’ www.the74million.org/article/trum...

Excited for my WHCD gown*. Gonna look incredible. *Sweatpants and oversized “Sunday Scaries” sweatshirt while I prep my Weekend Edition script for the next morning

lol bad iphone photos! but love that this is now my most famous photography

So here’s the thing If the markets expect TACO, and thus don’t react to, say, possible war crimes, he’s not inclined to TACO and is not dissuaded from doing said war crimes. (Not that the markets should be the guardrail. Lookin’ at you, Congressional Republicans.)

News is too fraught right now. Don’t screw around with April Fools garbage today.

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Should the US adopt Denmark's vaccine schedule for children? @jakescottmd.bsky.social argues no in a piece that points out the risks such a move would pose for American kids. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Even if newspapers and networks weren't hanging by a thread, nobody is going to print [THE TOTALLY UNFOUNDED AND LIKELY LIBELOUS/DEFAMATORY ACCUSATION - RZ] that Tylenol is poison.

have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left

The oyster-shucking, baseball-playing, hands-working-with men have arrived on the 2026 political scene, and I have thoughts. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/when-authe...

Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...

The pandemic has prepared us for this moment, yes, the pandemic had prepared us for this moment, not by teaching us how to take care of one another, but by giving us plenty of experience watching anxiously as things fall apart.

I would say he follows her around like a puppy dog but so far he has survived.

Friends, do not sit down if violence breaks out at a protest. Sitting down will put you in danger of being beaten and make you an easy target. Turn and walk back the way you came. I wouldn’t have even mentioned this, but “Occupy Democrats” has millions of followers 👇🏻

Forget by the weekend. How ‘bout by lunchtime?

(1) Time for a carousel of #myart from the last 7 days. Thanks to all who repost and interact with my work, it is greatly appreciated. As always, prints of my work are available, message if interested.🧵

First they deport you. Then they tariff you. Then they ask you to thank them. We will show them what real ICE agents are….

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. (Published Oct. 2024)

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

This is not leadership. It is abasement to norms that no longer exist.

I hate to admit it, but nowadays when anyone I like, love, or admire dies, the first thing I think is at least they don't have to live through Trump's second term.

Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities. They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media *should* be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

For Sale: The End, And The Means To Wait For It defector.com/for-sale-the...

It started in Silicon Valley as a fringe idea: an inefficient democracy needs to die - replaced by a "red Caesar" dictatorship that would fire federal employees and govern with the latest tech Thiel, Musk and Trump are making this dystopia a reality. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

I go back and forth from "WTF did he do now?" and "I'm done paying attention; just tell me when he's dead."

The 1st Amendment was enacted precisely to prevent this exact thing from happening www.kqed.org/news/1202597...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

How We're Fighting Back -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-MD These are not normal times. So I wanted to give you a quick update about what we are doing to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented assault.. www.democraticunderground.com/100219975550

Jim Acosta is on Substack now.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is "taking a serious look" at running for the Michigan senate seat left open by the surprise retirement of Sen. Gary Peters, Axios has learned.

My God, can anyone play this game? Bitching all the way into the fire about how "illegal" it is. Who cares? Say he's taking bread from babies' mouths!

Back with you at 10a eastern/7 pacific. Joining me to discuss the day's news: Rep. Rosa DeLauro Rep Mike Quigley @evanperez.bsky.social and Dr. William Schaffner ***plus... please tune in for some final thoughts at the end of today's show. See you soon.

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com told me to join Bluesky last night and it only took me 24 hours to figure it out.

Donald Trump is moving his inauguration indoors because the cold air in combination with his constant flatulence would make it look like he had a fog machine up his ass.

"It [the photo showing Donald wearing a blue tie] suggested that Mr. Trump was fully cognizant of what it meant to look as if he were a traditional part of the very, very exclusive club that is the presidency, even as he attempts to transform it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/s...

A wonderful annual tradition on my main digital home, the WELL.com.

From time to time in Los Angeles I meet people who were involved in the Nakatomi business. They always find this time of year difficult.

The owner of a car company is controlling the House of Representatives from a social media app.