Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

in DC this week/weekend for a conference so expect some hashtag takes difference between DC and NYC professional class commuters is the difference between a liquid and a gas people here will flow through stations and onto trains along a path of least resistance even if it takes longer

recently started using a vertical monitor and this should 100% be the default monitor position it makes every productive task much easier and most distracting tasks less fun

we watched Booksmart for a @chatzpod.bsky.social bonus episode yesterday and i've not stopped thinking about adapting The Hero's Journey for the teen party-jumping comedy it fascinates me how even though these movies need to END at a party they also need to FEEL like a party with parties on the way

this is a PSA for all the guys on Instagram doing "X song from Wicked if Lin Manuel-Miranda wrote it" - that is a very particular impression and writing style that you need to nail 110% otherwise you are much more cringe than being Lin-Manuel Miranda is cringe because he is very skillful

The Cowardly Lion deserved better

Black Friday weekend in 2025 is a BOGO deal on the Skibidi Toilet Funko Pop

PLEASE make a Now You See Me 4 this movie was so dumb and bad and good

my movie pitch is you make Now You See Me, Now You Don't but you don't make the first two movies so just make the audience feel like they're constantly missing something

love that it's not enough for the villain in Now You See Me, Now You Don't to have an accent (Belgian), to be a diamond profiteer, to be very mean, she also happens to personally hate magic and think it's lame

the previews at the movies today have convinced me that we may be making too many movies

let's get the numbers on how many Pop-Tarts make it to the microwave at all cause i know i pop those babies right out of the foil

my latest bit has been to say "an excellent choice, sir" like a sommelier in response to very mundane choices and people like it, feel free to take that

what would you do if there was a big sandwich just like, right there

never thought "shooby dooby" would be the most intelligible part of "Pennies from Heaven" but here we are

there was a crack team of numismatists in the 70s who tried to shut down the penny to raise the value of their pennies one of them is dying from copper exposure but watching TV while his old partner, the current head of the mint, lifts aloft the very last penny "he did it. the bastard did it..."

if pennies cost three cents to make just call 'em thrennies baby don't worry about it

i know people had mixed responses to Mario Kart World but playing game at full kitsch, full ska and driving off every cliff in sight i think i might have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God

inflation under this administration has been unconscionable, wishes are now 500% of their previous cost!

the death of the penny will have the most damaging effect on the idioms market how are we going to buy thoughts or offer opinions in bite sized quantities?

In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now

my fashion style is speculative fiction establishing shot-core

the reason you don't need dysphoria to be trans is because dysphoria can be impossible to realize without first accepting your own transness

seen some places try to frame Mamdani/Cuomo as Cuomo won "native New Yorkers" (people born in NYC) and Mamdani won people who've lived here 10 years or less the thing is, Mamdani also won people not born here but who have lived here for more than 10 years

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

just finished the main series of Steven Universe and sometimes it's great to experience a queer story where the protagonist says "fix your hearts or die" and the antagonists say "okay babes you got it, hearts fixed"

obviously there's the relative population context here but Mamdani won more votes than Eugene Debs in any of his presidential runs, and i think that says something powerful about both of them and about where we are now and what's possible if we hold fast to these convictions as the times get tricky

@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody." "We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Just to pre-empt the pundits, I absolutely believe you could run a Mamdani in middle America and win

non-zero chance that we're on the cusp of an era of American city-states led by hot socialists. just some real Carthage shit

can't tell you how proud i am of my city and how excited i am to see just the worst takes possible tomorrow morning

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

the thing i think folks are missing in the discourse about the possible hybrid mana change to Commander is centering that discussion on what it means for Commander hybrid mana is a great design tool for Limited that designers are discouraged from using because of its restrictiveness in Commander

if Dante Alighieri were alive today he would be the sickest Dungeon Master

Pro-regime media is funded by your wordle addiction. If you or someone you know is struggling with a NYT subscription please show them video games

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

watching Steven Universe for the first time with my partner and feeling a deep kinship for Pearl sort of a "believe me sister i was anxious about that too but there's some social cue we're missing right now so put a pin in that"

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

They've lost the 9yos

cancelling disney plus isn’t enough i need to sneak into the park and spank the pirates

For the umpteenth time: If you respond to a post about trans people saying that transness is an example of white privilege - and I am getting this A LOT now FROM FELLOW WHITE PEOPLE - you're getting blocked.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

When everyone was clamoring for more civics education over the last couple years, some of us warned that that meant a very different thing to people on the far-right. This is the white nationalist version, a Trojan horse for religion in the schools and for censorship of a full history.

the fascist hammer coming down on people's speech rights should instruct those who had any doubts to not take conservative agrievement seriously whining about feeling "silenced" by cancel culture has never been about egalitarian values and has always been about crafting the pretext for retribution