God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

Useful thread. Elections are rarely About One Thing, and even more rarely About One Thing About One Candidate.

Feels like I should salute Marilyn on her centenary, as should we all. So here are my thoughts on my favorite of her movies:

Trumpism can’t produce great art because Trumpism is corny bullshit for cringe toadies.

How is this the coolest two people have ever been?

I agree with this 100%, too.

"Yes, and" is honestly wonderful advice in all sorts of situations.

"The weird one is the one that's spelled weird" is how I remember it. Or did, before I started copyediting romance novels. These days, I don't need the mnemonic anymore.

A social media habit I find extremely useful: If you're replying to agree with someone, particularly a stranger, start by saying that. Literally posting "I agree!" before the rest of what you have to say makes what you're up to so much clearer.

I loathe cucumbers and therefore I am loath to eat them.

Very close! I'm loath to do it when it might embarrass someone, but happy to do it this time because I loathe the error.

Just a quick reminder that loathe is the verb, and loath is the adjective. If you hate something, you loathe it. But if you don't want to do something, you're loath to do it.

If you are not allowed access to the full range of human emotion and opportunity, if you cannot cry tears of grief without disapproval, if you cannot show tenderness without social correction, if you cannot decide you want to be a kindergarten teacher without being called a pedo, you are in chains

they want you to think the goal is producing an AI Meryl Streep, when really it's about being able to fill out scenes without paying background artists, or "cast" commercials with exactly the right diversity metrics for their target audience.

Good thread.

I voted for Bloomberg the first time he ran for Mayor of New York because Mark Green ran a racist campaign in the primary and I wanted to send the message that you can't win a general election in NYC as a Dem while embracing racist tactics to get there. But that was a tough lever to pull.

This is a good way of framing it. There are very very few vocations in which a talented amateur can just enter the field at a high level without spending a long time and a hell of a lot of effort in preparation first. And politics isn't one of them.

Yeah. Running for office successfully requires specific skills and specific resources. Plenty of nonconventional candidates have them, or can acquire them, but if you don’t and you can’t, you’re not actually running to win.

I think there are at least two powerful themes that conservative writers handle really well - the grief that comes with change and the struggle to preserve the good against the tide of humans’ worse natures. Modern conservatism is all-in on humans’ worse natures and thinks grief is for losers

No one can ever give me shit about bringing home weird cool stuff that I don’t know what to do with ever again.

like this rock was blasted off the surface by an impact in the Hadean, and sat untouched for ~four billion years in the same place on the moon. and then an astronaut landed there and happened to think it was weird looking so he brought it back to Earth. and then like 50 years passed b4 they Realized

i spend a lot of time thinking about Big Bertha, a rock picked up by the Apollo 14 astronauts on the moon in 1971 and then discovered in 2019 to be the only piece of Earth’s original crust we’ve ever gotten our hands on

One of the things I love about being a permanent adjunct at a community college. I just … do my job, and they trust me to do my job.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed, the poor stay poor, the rich get rich Dust no longer blows…

Angus thank you so much!!! We are closer to hitting our goal of 60 cables for the kids thanks to you!! 💞🫡

Sondheim like you've never seen him before!

I think that if you're going to run for Senate, you should know what the filibuster is and how it works.

Lindsey is a friend, and she could do with a hand in assisting kids in their rocking out endeavors!

All genres have their conventions without which the whole enterprise would cease to make sense. The core genre convention of straight news is that what important players say is worth paying attention to. When that breaks down, news descends into self-parody.

The last season of The Boys came up with a lot of nice little pop culture references, but I found that the Big Emotional Moments mostly fell flat. That said, though, I will admit that the way that Butcher seized his unexpected shot at redemption landed for me.

Not every deployment of the can/may distinction is a good deployment of the can/may distinction.

I will repost every iteration of this I see every time I see it as if it were “Umbrella” itself.

Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.

If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,

This post is the very definition of “stuck the landing.”

Literally no mode of transport, save maybe walking, could handle this scale of redirect without years of preparation

I, for one, am tired of all these people claiming to have pointed out the “oldest trick in the book.” Not possible!

Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding.

Airport logistics are so complicated it’s a genuine goddamn miracle that any planes even take off at all.

Indeed. Airlines cannot move 1000s of connecting flights to Ohama, Indianapolis, etc. (much less crew bases, massive deadheading eating up productive time, etc). And big 'red state' airports like ATL are MAXED OUT already.

As I said when Mullin floated this idea shortly before Faulkner…

Incuriosity and confidence are deadly usually on a small scale like 'oh what's that berry' but they're turning our govt into the dumbest person in a horror movie

Nobody in a policy role in the second Trump admin understands the most basic things about how the structures of society work.

Aaaaah!

Yeah. Once I got on I concluded that there must be some weird arcane reason it hadn’t just been integrated with the subway system decades ago. It’s even the same price, just about!

Legally it’s a commuter railroad for a weird combo of reasons, but yeah, it’s a rapid transit system like the NYC subway.

Another way of thinking of it is the average human hair is about 100um

wild. And the bed-making comps are 🔥🔥🔥 www.youtube.com/shorts/4z6-D...