gonna start saying DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT after everything now

put on body talk in advance of the new robyn single coming out tomorrow and you really do forget how much of a top to bottom banger this record is even if you were in the club every weekend listening to it

There’s a flood of (well meaning!) influencers doing splashy shopping trips for pantries and I recall what an abortion provider said: orgs need money, but donors give only what they want to, not necessarily what’s needed. Hence the offers for a couch to crash on post-abortion and not $ for a hotel.

I am slightly annoyed by the AI country song discourse because it’s not #1 on *the* country chart, it’s #1 on *a* country chart that’s fairly easy to manipulate with streaming bots

I’m a teacher’s kid and honestly when I learned what three-cueing is 45 minutes ago I felt the deepest sorrow for humanity yet we are super duper cooked

absolutely furious that my parents didn’t buy a basketball team for my husband to run into the ground

did they also fire the guy who could’ve told them not to use two weirdly kerned fonts in the same form apology letter?

okay yes yes fire Nico but also sell the fucking team you crispy headed fascist

pushed it a little far with some leftovers and now i am going to die

I have never loved anything more than being woken up bright and early by a man walking around aimlessly with a leaf blower

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

in addition to ethering elon online I also fully believe that joyce carol oates would beat him in a fist fight

ok what do you actually think it would take to make everyone less annoying

wow guys all this bitching about wanting “affordable healthcare” and “food to eat” my god have you ever considered just not having a body???

The second that east coast dem leaders have to personally face airline delays they’re ready to throw peoples healthcare under the bus

People on SNAP also fucking pay for health insurance!!! Putting a nickel back in somebody’s pocket when the bill is going up by 5000 dollars does not help!

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

these democrats best not ask me for one red cent, I’m gonna need all of them to pay my fuckin health insurance should I ever become employed again

Also college football tradition appropriation is at an all time high but none of them walk all over me more than non-Texas SEC schools playing “Mo Bamba” before a game Embarrassing imo

these Mormons gotta have a contact drunk on in Lubbock right now GUNS UP

is anyone in any cool snail mail clubs? i am v intrigued by the idea

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.

I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I love my union. I'm devastated the company made this move. There are so few trans women in media at all — particularly ones who aren't confined to "Queer Media" — and I was incredibly proud of what my position at Bon Appétit meant within the industry.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

The absolute baby behavior of these executives is galling. If you’re big enough to take people’s livelihoods away, you’re big enough to take an ass chewing over it.

see also: media executives

Well this piece just won an IACP award!

Melania done got a Cricut

whewwwwww

*jumps on soapbox* Universal free school lunch is a win in literally all ways, it's more economical, better for students, and easier for schools to administer, every state should do this

In Fort Worth, Democrat trade unionist Taylor Rehmet is ahead in the race for Texas Senate District 9 over his two Republican opponents, former Southlake mayor John Huffman and the chief comms officer of Patriot Mobile, a Christian right wing cellphone company, Leigh Wambsganss

it's almost as if there isn't One Grand Political Strategy that works for every election, regardless of what the people who are paid fat checks to keep creating losing political strategies tell you

i'm so jealous that new yorkers will get to feel political joy tonight, what that must feel like

My favorite* part about this era of capitalism is how much time I get to spend fighting with companies to simply provide me with the product I paid them for

Because the money boys in charge think that they can continue to wring blood out of these old turnips once they've laid off all the people who made them actually valuable in the first place they are wrong, they have been proven wrong so many times, and yet they persist

someone please explain to me the point of looking for a job in media right now

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

It’s not Sunday night if carrie underwood isn’t hollering like a banshee on my tv

every OpenAI commercial is like “hey dumbass your brain is terrible, use this fake one that we stole from other people that also doesn’t quite work right”

instead of my resume, prospective employers should just let me show all the unhinged slacks i send to the people i work with on a daily basis this will clearly demonstrate my value

did you know that you can just purchase an entire bag of googly eyes for approximately one dollar this is too much power for one person to have

imagine thinking that capitalism needs you to carry its water lol

i absolutely love a four-minute shrink appointment "u still crazy? word ok, well which pharmacy do you use again?"

apple music has decided that i want to hear seven year itch by rosanne cash about every 12 songs and you know what? they are not wrong

what am i doing for halloween? i am staying in and contemplating the horrors of the universe because we have the haunted house at home, inside our minds

a haunted house but it's just the media industry

i am both awed and infuriated that it is restaurants, businesses that barely have two nickels to rub together, who are stepping in to provide for people who are about to lose their food benefits i am not surprised though, bc working class people always stand up for each other.

AI is an excuse for layoffs that companies already wanted to do, not a replacement for workers.