I converted to Catholicism last week. Here‘s why Pope Leo was wrong to excommunicate the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X

The stars finally aligned! Wilco and I finally got the play those Mermaid Avenue songs together at Solid Sound last weekend. You can stream the whole set here www.nepm.org/podcast/the-...

I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers

two dumb bitches telling each other “welllllll not exactly”

good guy @alyankovic.bsky.social as always

Given that I am a dedicated longtime hater of everything and everyone involved in this, it was kind of fun to write. www.salon.com/2026/07/02/k...

INCREDIBLE SCENES ON FOX as there is LITERALLY NOT A SOUL at Trump's fair, which has now been open for 15 minutes

Okay but what’s in it for Substack aside from wanting to platform the widest variety of cranks possible, oh I see, that is the point, I figured it out while typing this

“learn to read darth” they said “you will see amazing things” they said

I would not put it past this man to die on Taylor and Travis’s wedding day

"four of my predecessors tried to be reasonable with you assholes but I am not as nice and your time has run out" the Chicago of it all is magnificent

Just watched 40 minutes’ worth of TikToks explaining other TikToks about the copyright drama between two women who made cake pops with Fruity Pebbles in them in case you’re wondering if I’ve stared into the void lately

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

These guys are giving credit to the Supreme Court, which only affirmed this by a 5-4 decision. They should be excoriating the justices who voted against this.

I hope today is a stark reminder why "I will follow the law" was an absolutely horrible way to respond to a question about trans rights.

and who can you trust with explosives if not the same organizers responsible for the Great American State Fair that’s currently on hold?

An eventful week at Scientific American. Owner Springer Nature rushed to sell SciAm 3 days before the staff overwhelmingly voted to form a union, and laid off a lot of people. Including me. I got to work with amazing writers during my time, people who made me better. Thank-you list in comment below:

I was 3 but I remember hearing about the enormous cake fiasco in Baltimore, because I had family who lived there and because a 35-ton cake crawling with rats really stuck in my imagination www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/arts...

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

One of my hot takes: if the AI economic transformation pans out, a robust humanities education will be a tremendous competitive advantage. The capabilities and risks of LLMs are dramatically different depending on the user's critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.

It’s gonna be interesting to see what other legacy brands faceplant because they’re run by the most credulous motherfuckers on Earth

mad how the defining cultural image of Steamboat Willie is Mickey whistling and driving the boat, and not the bit where he plays a pig's nipples as a musical instrument while it shrieks in pain

BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

Hell yeah 👏🏽

man, rest in peace to Om Malik, one of the most grounded, human, thoughtful people in Silicon Valley. some may know him for helping to break the Stephen Glass story; others may know him as pioneering blogger and microblogger; others may know him as investor. a remarkable man om.co/2026/06/24/1...

What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.

this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

Are you finding some rare specks of joy in World Cup social-media content? Not on the NYT’s watch you aren’t! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/d...

"No one would notice Watergate today" is maybe not wrong but illustrative of how a deeply fractured and vertical video/algo-driven media environment populated mostly by 'content' is proving to be demonstrably worse for functioning democracy than the three networks doing 30 minutes at 6:30pm.

Heard James Carville referred to as a “prominent strategist” and that’s like saying Gilligans Island is a prominent tv show, if you pretend time doesn’t exist lots of stuff is in the zeitgeist

"fuck everything, we're doing chemtrails" is the kind of take we need right now imo

It is OK to hate the people who voted for this.

I’ll assume he means women as government property to be distributed to Lonely Men until I listen to this, which I am never doing

Hospitals dropped trans patients around New York City in capitulation to Trump. Now pride leaders and GLM are fighting back, protesting their marching at Pride after harming members of the community. The latest from S. Baum, our writer. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Wayne, why did you abandon us

Mary’s correct and she should say so

Culturally, Bluesky is a 38 year old Brazilian furry living in Philadelphia that loves Star Trek and the New York Knicks

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Normally I 💜 publishing-industry drama, but this whole thing is so messy, and not in a fun, schadenfreude-y way. I absolutely believe that there’s deep trauma in Amy Griffin’s background. But she also has a lot to gain by silencing a victim who has none of her money, power, and privilege.

Kurt Vonnegut: In my book I drew an asshole as a cautionary tale Anthropic: At long last, we have created the Vonnegut Asshole

But for real, fuck geese.

I’m really going to date myself with this, but: For anyone still using an iPod, does yours ever glitch out and play one song over and over until you restart it? Also, is the song always Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat”?

People keep acting like the fascists care about "crime." THEY DO NOT. They care about domination & fear. They will fearmonger re: "crimes" committed by out groups while cheering on the "crimes" committed by "their people" Meanwhile liberals keep bleating on about hypocrisy when hierarchy matters.

This whole thread. The whole thing.

If the assertion is that the existence of feminism is breaking men’s brains and making them undatable, she’s got a point. If we’re once again blaming feminism for turning women off men, lol and lmao