David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

(if some people don't stop saying "what have we become?" I am going to riot)

If you don't own this book, buy this book. Read it. Give one to your friends. It's perfect.

o no the artssss

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Stephen Miller looks like if a small skinny penis was also a vampire

hot new challenge just dropped: be a funeral home that doesn't fuck stuff up

“Your dad says I’m delicious.”

None of these apps are any good. I'm training a crow friend to scream out my thoughts as she flies through the city

my sister and I drank all the champagne in Seattle last night for our dead dad and obvs am dead myself as I type this.

my sissy and i are drinking champagne and surviving. Dad’s still dead

update: my dementia mom has written “Jim died” on her whiteboard “, i was surprised at the time it took to close his damned eyes, and nobody should fear death.Or dead folks. hang out with them for a bit.

we’d just walked in and the nurses didn’t even know he was dead! people are messy, grief is complicated, i’m so relieved at last.

my dad has just died, at last, and my mom and i are waiting in the lobby for my sister. Mom is pointing out fat people.

The descendants of the slaveholders are emboldened. Fascism is not new. Fascism on a "micro" scale was well-honed under the "Black codes" and "Jim Crow." The Nadir was fascism ascendant.

You, a conservative “intellectual”: yes, systemic racism exists but have you examined the racism inside you, Black man

(Jude Law looks g o o o d in Black Rabbit)

no vaccines? bring back laudanum, you cowards

Black people actually did call all of this, so did Indigenous people. White people just thought we were exaggerating because you were fine with the violence toward communities that you thought wouldn't include you. But the thru line from eugenics, bleach, and Ivermectin to here was incredibly clear

kill it with fire

SAG-AFTRA has released a statement on Tilly Norwood, the AI "performer," saying: “To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation."

LOOK AT GOD!!!!!!!!!!

I forgot about Krakatoa.

Anthony Boyle and the powerful wizard concealed in yr mustache, I just want to talk.

release the steely dan files

hear me out:

If I believed in the devil, I would wonder when Rose Byrne made her deal with it.

Good afternoon only to the professor in the faculty lounge who thinks their earbuds are connected to their laptop (they are not) and is blanketing the room with EXTREMELY LOUD porn

RFK jr: [crawling out of a hallowed out whale carcass] tylenol causes autism MAGA: we knew it RFK jr: and hand soap gives you butt cancer MAGA: we never used it anyway RFK jr: [whispers] the moon told me MAGA: yeah makes sense

Seattle, Olympia if you’ve seen Charlie, let his family know

Happy September 21st to all who celebrate.

If the last ten years have taught us anything: We're not better than that. I'm sure not. They hate us, are happy when we suffer. If your only answer is to extend them grace, you're a chump. They know you are, they’re counting on it. We must overwhelm them. They are outnumbered, and scared. LFG.

we're having a 12-foot-hole dug for a water line problem and it's like a festival for every man who lives in the neighborhood

If you're a white leftist who wants to be an organizer, the #1 way I know coalitions will fail is if you're snide to Black people online. Calling marginalized folks cowardly and stupid for trying to keep themselves safe while protesting? You don't have what it takes.

Big owl

Take care of your teeth. Don’t let a junk drawer accumulate.

This is a v good tale obvs I am nearly as brave & skilled as Tyler, Coast Guard rescue swimmer.

Disney was never gonna “learn” from Andor. They just wanted some old Star Wars fans’ dollars and new to Star Wars progressive people’s dollars. That’s all that happened. Dan Gilroy et. al. are good artists; Andor is good art. Disney, owner of ABC, is a bad conglomorate. Two things are true.

Do it do it do it do it We love a Bethany genius!

AND THEN I STRIP THE NETWORK FOR PARTS

Jean

tf

[Throws up another skull.]

We already knew that the deceased was a "let us have a calm and reasonable debate about whether women should vote, the gays be stoned, and whether non-white people are subhuman mongrels" guy; the reaction to his death reveals how many OTHER people also were and are, and saw themselves in him

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

it's like the DNC grew you in a lab

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

The past few days have been a really interesting chapter in my reawakening. Trying to brush away some of the most racist commentary of the past decade as “politics” or “differences of opinion” has really confirmed how poisoned the culture is. Nobody will ever cop to this particular type of pathology