Jen Rosenberg

Clown*shoes* LOL these look so ridiculous.🤡👞

It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.

One of the neighbors is learning a new song, which means I am learning a new tune without being able to make out the words.
#SharedWalls #CityLife

government small enough to fit inside every child's bedroom and pick out their clothes every school day

The DOJ is suggesting that gender-affirming care providers may be engaging in "conspiracy" because they're prescribing medications off-label. That poses danger for an important backstop in the event old restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone are restored:

hi, if you plan on flying anywhere the rest of this year, I would strongly recommend travel insurance because of possible cancellations and price increases due to oil prices and conflict in the Middle East

While you are healing -- you can fold yourself up into halves, quarters, or more. and still, you won't be small enough for the ones who feel entitled to your space. so fuck it. unfold.

UNFOLD

(Poet Parm K.C.)

No, payment for the vast majority of writers has always been low and even the most celebrated authors of the past century spent a good deal of time being broke as fuck. We have a unique set of circumstances these days driving down wages, but there was never a time when most writers did well.

I would love to be able to help people who are in a bind, but like thousands of other people, I lost multiple gigs because people thought that they could save money using Automated Infringement.
This timeline is crap.

Isn't it weird? When The Monster Squirrel Adventure came out, I had people come to the table, flip through the book, talk at me for 5-10 minutes and then tell me that they hate squirrels or that their kids were too old to read the book.

People seem awfully surprised that sometimes the author tries to make the morally 'bad' character likable and the morally 'good' character unlikeable, not to endorse the 'bad' but to say something about how being likable is not actually an indicator of morality.

Why now is the time to be loudly anti-war We don't need the clarity of hindsight to know war in Iran—or anywhere—will end in physical, moral and financial ruin.

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

Local opinion: Arizona Republicans want to make our children sick We have a vested interest in protecting our communities and everyone in them. “Medical freedom” is the antithesis of community.

The idea of “medical freedom” weighs one parent’s decision to refuse vaccines as more important than another’s decision to protect their own children from contagious, vaccine-preventable diseases”.

@jimalwine.bsky.social and I in a new OpEd about AZ trying to ban childhood vaccine requirements.

Remember to add the TTRPG one-shot add-on to your pledge!! It’s a brand new tabletop adventure set in the dream-shifting dungeon of the Sleeping Wizards ⚔️ 👇

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My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

I remember my aunt lifting me onto the kitchen counter to put a bandage on my knee when I was a toddler, but I forget what time my writing group meets every week.

now that there are no phone booths Clark Kent just strips naked in the street

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

The Ellisons’ new Paramount/Warner Bros mega-media monopoly would never pass muster if America still had antitrust enforcers.

So who can stop this? State attorneys general. Here's how. ⬇️

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-paramount-mega-media-monopoly/?source=group-ShortText

Once per year we make a huge winter feast, invite the ol' game group over, and we eat and game all day.
I think we all needed that break from the chaos.
It was amazing.
#TTRPG

OK, I actually *LOVE* the fact that the people in one of my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome support groups are discussing the importannce of squishmallows to aid in injury reduction while sleeping. I went to reply how much I love squishmallows as a sleep aid, and found that hundreds of EDS people do as well.

Later today, I will be making a gluten-free pumpkin pie. Maybe two.

Hey Chicago! If you live in or around Hyde Park area, don’t go to the new Barnes & Noble. Call & Response Books is AROUND THE BLOCK, Black owned by a husband and wife couple, and their selections are amazing. They host community events all the time and have a zine! Support them!

This will be a test re: whether the U.S. population knows who to be mad at.

Why Pokemon Is Pushing Back Against the White House The Trump Administration used references to the popular game to promote its immigration enforcement agenda on social media.

time.com/7382839/poke...

I play a mobile game where the alliance I'm in has players from everywhere, and we even have a discord.
Those of us from the US have barely been speaking in the group chats. I think we're all ashamed of what our government is doing.

I don't like the fact that most outlets refer to VAR technology as "an official" or "assistant to the referee" because it's a computerized system, not an individual.
Stop humanizing tech.

MAGA is the most toxic, hollow, phony, grifty, obnoxious, fraudulent, culty, soulless political movement in US history built on lies, hate, paranoia and greed. And as it unravels, so many rats will claim they were never really on the ship.

Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.