Mara Pellittieri
@marapellittieri.bsky.social
Editor, garden obsessive, and queer about town. Editorial at American Insight, formerly Urban Institute, TalkPoverty, and Center for American Progress.
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We obtained documents that provide details about the Trump administration’s use of Guantánamo Bay to detain immigrants. The shift reports show bleak conditions and that ICE was unprepared to handle detainees.
americanoversight.org/what-records...
americanoversight.org/what-records...
What Records Tell Us About How ICE Is Using Guantánamo - American Oversight
Documents we obtained show ICE was not prepared and that detainees — many of whom were not considered a public safety risk — protested bleak conditions.
americanoversight.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We obtained documents that provide details about the Trump administration’s use of Guantánamo Bay to detain immigrants. The shift reports show bleak conditions and that ICE was unprepared to handle detainees.
americanoversight.org/what-records...
americanoversight.org/what-records...
I loved s.e.’s writing on death before I knew them, and I was lucky enough to be able to lean on them this year when people (and yes, cats) started dropping dead around me.
Do not miss this.
Do not miss this.
So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
bookshop.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I loved s.e.’s writing on death before I knew them, and I was lucky enough to be able to lean on them this year when people (and yes, cats) started dropping dead around me.
Do not miss this.
Do not miss this.
Reposted by Mara Pellittieri
So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
bookshop.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
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you can win without billionaires supporting you
you can win without party leadership endorsing you
you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch
we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to
you can win without party leadership endorsing you
you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch
we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
you can win without billionaires supporting you
you can win without party leadership endorsing you
you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch
we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to
you can win without party leadership endorsing you
you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch
we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to
If you are tempted to put out nonperishables on Halloween, send your money to a food bank and call your reps instead.
There is money to fund SNAP during the shutdown. The government is quite literally just deciding not to use it.
There is money to fund SNAP during the shutdown. The government is quite literally just deciding not to use it.
October 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If you are tempted to put out nonperishables on Halloween, send your money to a food bank and call your reps instead.
There is money to fund SNAP during the shutdown. The government is quite literally just deciding not to use it.
There is money to fund SNAP during the shutdown. The government is quite literally just deciding not to use it.
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Take the money you would've spent on that thing of beans and ramen and donate it to your local food pantry. They know what their clients need, and can stretch that dollar better than the average consumer.
If you thought about doing this, make a free library for nonperishable foods. Giving kids 1 can of beans a year was never going to address hunger, just take away the fun of Halloween. Find something meaningful, fuck the stunts.
I don't know what's worse, the fact that I'm surprised by this headline or the fact that I probably shouldn't be:
October 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Take the money you would've spent on that thing of beans and ramen and donate it to your local food pantry. They know what their clients need, and can stretch that dollar better than the average consumer.
Well, it’s 9:47pm, the only natural thing my six year old could do is ask a series of questions about tectonic plates.
October 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Well, it’s 9:47pm, the only natural thing my six year old could do is ask a series of questions about tectonic plates.
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all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat
June 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat
So the administration wants to replace boxes of pantry staples with fresh food.
It sounds nice, but it falls apart if you think about ANY part of this scheme.
www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...
It sounds nice, but it falls apart if you think about ANY part of this scheme.
www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...
7,000 local seniors rely on food boxes. Trump wants to cut the program
For decades, the aid has come in boxes provided by food banks to the poorest of seniors. The White House wants to change that in favor of a new, direct-to-consumer model that state and local officials...
www.pressdemocrat.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So the administration wants to replace boxes of pantry staples with fresh food.
It sounds nice, but it falls apart if you think about ANY part of this scheme.
www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...
It sounds nice, but it falls apart if you think about ANY part of this scheme.
www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...
Kiddo is twirling while I play Lucy Dacus, and I keep thinking about how one of the arguments we used for marriage equality in the mid-aughts was that queer couples mostly raise straight kids.
Not if this music has anything to say about it.
Not if this music has anything to say about it.
April 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Kiddo is twirling while I play Lucy Dacus, and I keep thinking about how one of the arguments we used for marriage equality in the mid-aughts was that queer couples mostly raise straight kids.
Not if this music has anything to say about it.
Not if this music has anything to say about it.
Pope Pizzaballa is the LEAST the Catholic Church could do for us, all things considered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbat...
Pierbattista Pizzaballa - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Pope Pizzaballa is the LEAST the Catholic Church could do for us, all things considered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbat...
My grandpa keeps asking if Trump “got to me” yet, and honestly it’s the most understood I’ve felt in a long time.
April 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
My grandpa keeps asking if Trump “got to me” yet, and honestly it’s the most understood I’ve felt in a long time.
It is time:
Fuck you, Strom Thurmond.
Fuck you, Strom Thurmond.
No matter how things go today, it’d be nice if we all agreed to open the windows around sundown tonight to scream “fuck you, Strom Thurmond” into the abyss.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It is time:
Fuck you, Strom Thurmond.
Fuck you, Strom Thurmond.
Say what you will, but it has been a long time since I felt like a politician was fighting for me.
April 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Say what you will, but it has been a long time since I felt like a politician was fighting for me.
Given the state of things, I will be discontinuing all work and instead spending my days imagining a world where Anne Shirley and Jo March met each other and learned that queer people exist.
March 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Given the state of things, I will be discontinuing all work and instead spending my days imagining a world where Anne Shirley and Jo March met each other and learned that queer people exist.
But what about her emails? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
But what about her emails? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
This is not how our food system works. This is not how anything works.
We’ve spent decades building mega farms that export tons of product, and we import most of what we eat.
Farmers can’t just “plant something else” — they don’t have the seed, equipment, or funding this late in the season.
We’ve spent decades building mega farms that export tons of product, and we import most of what we eat.
Farmers can’t just “plant something else” — they don’t have the seed, equipment, or funding this late in the season.
March 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is not how our food system works. This is not how anything works.
We’ve spent decades building mega farms that export tons of product, and we import most of what we eat.
Farmers can’t just “plant something else” — they don’t have the seed, equipment, or funding this late in the season.
We’ve spent decades building mega farms that export tons of product, and we import most of what we eat.
Farmers can’t just “plant something else” — they don’t have the seed, equipment, or funding this late in the season.
Sneaking suspicion that “personal liberties” aren’t going to include things like the freedom to protest or to access health care.
Jeff Bezos, in continuing his trend of turning WaPo into his personal plaything, has announced that its opinion section will now exclusively focus on promoting "personal liberties and free markets." 🙃
February 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Sneaking suspicion that “personal liberties” aren’t going to include things like the freedom to protest or to access health care.
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if you’re not trans & don’t know about the cass review, when this report comes out, it will look very much like the cass review. the NYT will treat it as legitimate.
i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.
i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.
January 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
if you’re not trans & don’t know about the cass review, when this report comes out, it will look very much like the cass review. the NYT will treat it as legitimate.
i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.
i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.
Objectively funny to watch the admin try to legislate gender only to REALLY struggle with biology.
Anyhow they whiffed hard enough that we’re all trans now, congrats.
Anyhow they whiffed hard enough that we’re all trans now, congrats.
I think what’s going on here that these people are trying to find some true binary relating to biological sex. Genital morphology won’t do it. Sex chromosomes don’t do it. So they’ve retreated to gamete size. I think the use of large and small cell is also a hedge in this direction, not prudishness.
January 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Objectively funny to watch the admin try to legislate gender only to REALLY struggle with biology.
Anyhow they whiffed hard enough that we’re all trans now, congrats.
Anyhow they whiffed hard enough that we’re all trans now, congrats.
Even on a deeply weird day, this stands out as a tough loss. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
19thnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Even on a deeply weird day, this stands out as a tough loss. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
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Here's how to cover things that are illegal:
(i) this is illegal
(ii) they say it's legal
(iii) It's not
Truth sandwich, extra mustard
(i) this is illegal
(ii) they say it's legal
(iii) It's not
Truth sandwich, extra mustard
Breaking news: The U.S. government will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to immigrants who lack legal status, one of 10 immigration-related executive orders President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an incoming administration official told reporters.
Trump executive order will attempt to end birthright citizenship
The incoming president plans to take at least 10 actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Here's how to cover things that are illegal:
(i) this is illegal
(ii) they say it's legal
(iii) It's not
Truth sandwich, extra mustard
(i) this is illegal
(ii) they say it's legal
(iii) It's not
Truth sandwich, extra mustard
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a company be THIS blatant about replacing relationships with purchases?
December 30, 2024 at 10:34 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a company be THIS blatant about replacing relationships with purchases?
In a town that’s pretty fixated on “30 under 30” and “40 under 40” lists, it feels worth noting that most of the things that cemented Carter’s legacy didn’t start until his 60s.
December 29, 2024 at 10:36 PM
In a town that’s pretty fixated on “30 under 30” and “40 under 40” lists, it feels worth noting that most of the things that cemented Carter’s legacy didn’t start until his 60s.
Wait wait wait. The Onion didn’t just buy Infowars.
They worked with the families who lost kids at Sandy Hook to buy Infowars.
apnews.com/article/onio...
They worked with the families who lost kids at Sandy Hook to buy Infowars.
apnews.com/article/onio...
Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families' backing
A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has ordered a hearing into how the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars, after Jones and his lawyers ra...
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November 15, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Wait wait wait. The Onion didn’t just buy Infowars.
They worked with the families who lost kids at Sandy Hook to buy Infowars.
apnews.com/article/onio...
They worked with the families who lost kids at Sandy Hook to buy Infowars.
apnews.com/article/onio...