One time at work circa 2019 a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song came on and I was like "Yeah Yeah Yeahs is mom rock now y'all" and two of my coworkers (both moms btw) were like "Hey, I like Yeah Yeah Yeahs!!"

all the coolest bands were the ones who had a lot of moms and future moms listening to and liking them. when it's all guys or mostly guys is when it's more likely to be dogshit

Black people do more prison time than this for weed

completely absurd that this is not always treated as a serious crime, there’s no functional difference between it and someone taking money out of the cash register at work except that one is committed by the boss class

He has no one in his inner circle looking out for him, no one to protect him from those who only want to exploit him.

"Dr. Nick Riviera, remember me?" "Well, if it isn't my old friend Mr. McCraig, with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg."

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Getting the Vin Diesel surgery from Pitch Black so I can watch Netflix

this is a state sponsored children's torture camp

These people are such irredeemable freaks.

Me whenever someone wants to talk about fertility rates at any time in any context

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

This is not a "controversy" or a "dispute" about casting. It's a racist position being echoed and amplified by other racists. Journalists need to learn to use the word "racist" much more freely; right now, too many publications treat it as unprovable unless self-reported.

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

Imagine Tony Dokoupil insisting, with barely disguised exasperation, “There must be some mistake. I‘m *Tony Dokoupil*” as a Chinese bureaucrat registers no change in expression.

I love how she says "20 million dollars" as if it's an enormous number. That's like 50 cents a person in California if it's a flat tax. The combined payrolls of all professional sports teams in California is over $3 billion- put a 0.7% tax on that and it's completely funded. This is donkey brained.

good thing tomorrow is whiskey friday

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

The weird thing about American politics is that America just hates black people. That’s more important than oil, more important than guns, more important than healthcare, more important than Jesus

The honest version of this post would note that these are white Republicans trying to eliminate the district of the state's only Black US rep. You cannot tell this story properly without headlining the racism.

incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

caught a 45th anniversary screening of An American Werewolf in London. john landis should be in jail but man did he stick the landing in that one

Barkley has said some dumb shit in his day but he seems to genuinely be trying to be on the side of the oppressed these days and I’ll love him forever for his “hey trans people. Tell em Charles Barkley says he loves you and fuck em” or whatever

its crazy how literally everything is worse than it was two years ago

i am begging you not to quote dunk the lame ass WaPo opinion podcast into doing numbers. let it die in darkness

Anybody else notice the guys who say it's "inevitable" Goodwife Putnam hang as a witch "so get used to it" are the same bros who only a few months ago were saying Sarah Browne the scullery maid hath spake bedeviling words in a tomcat's ear to make him walk on two legs in mockery of Christian man?

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

It's a coup against the people of the United States and always has been. Their ultimate goal is to enslave us

The PC/Mac guys doing Ozempic commercials is depressing in a way I don't think scientists have fully described yet

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

Republican partisans on the Supreme Court have gone from putting their thumb on the scale, as in the days of Bush v. Gore or even Citizens United, to setting their whole ass on it.

my sincere thanks to the people of Hungary

One might say that people are no longer Hungary for right-wing slop.

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

happy mothers day everyone youtu.be/X0DeIqJm4vM

It’s cool how the most powerful person in the country is a decomposing 79-year-old

💗 An essential Mother's Day watch: Martin Scorsese's ITALIANAMERICAN (1974) 💗 Now playing on the Criterion Channel!

A favorite cover in my collection Young Romance #15 (1949) Classic "Back-Door Love" innuendo cover #favoritecovers #comics #comicbooks