I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.

The 1st Cowboy Novel is thought to be Emma Ghent Curtis's The Administratrix (1889), about a schoolteacher who crossdresses as a cowboy in order to get revenge for her slain husband (a pro-suffrage cowboy). She pulls a Rooster Cogburn & dies in a hail of bullets like Pike Bishop:

I wish political journalists would acknowledge that there is a difference between scandal and evil.

re: Portnoy’s complaint a hit dog will holler

Uh this is enormous

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

This is a core element of conservative philosophy: If a single "undeserving" person is getting a government benefit, the answer is to take it away from millions.* *Offer does not apply to tax loopholes or any other benefit enjoyed by the wealthy

I’ve said this before, but a huge function of our carceral system is resource extraction from exploited communities, and that includes the fees, commissary, and essentials people send to their loved ones, not to mention the time, attention, energy, etc.

What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks. People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

like the proposition is, im going to buy a business that people in society rely on or at least like, and im going to destroy it to make money for myself. and everyone else will be worse off. why is this allowed

why do we allow private equity in our society? it's obviously bad for everyone in the world except the people doing it. it should be illegal like fraud

weird, Chuck used the word “fighting” when clearly he means “fundraising” “We will keep fundraising.” there, that’s better. now his statement makes sense

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I can't wait for y'all to see the unwhitewashed story behind one of America's favorite cultural icons. Don’t miss "High Horse: The Black Cowboy" streaming on Peacock on Nov 20. Read more and watch the full trailer at ContrabandCamp!

did an interview for this, and def wanna add to Michael’s recommend you give this a watch when it drops on Nov 20th, think it’s gonna be damn good it’s a true telling of an American history and culture through the lens of Black cowboys and cowgirls

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

He is the smartest man alive. I'm jealous of A$AP Rocky every day

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

succinct

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

everytime you read about these studies you just want to cry. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024...

why isn’t it the govt’s job to feed people? if health is our greatest wealth why not spend our tax money to feed people? It’s good for American ppl, good for American farmers, good for American businesses, good for many reasons and way better than gifting billions to Argentina (to sway an election)

I love this - I think this is why so many writers love baseball.

Yamamoto is a helluva baller, just wow

You gotta go listen to this. @zaron3.bsky.social knocks it out of the park, as usual.

Joe Isuzu was like a precursor avatar of our modern era of bullshit, except he was fun for Very Special Episodes, I interviewed David Leisure, AKA Joe Isuzu, abt his days as the lying pitchman car salesman and the strangeness that came with his outsized fame podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

think a lot of so-called “normie” white folks are abt to be in for a big surprise abt how many white folks are the recipients of SNAP and WIC and other govt subsidy programs hint: they’re the majority of recipients, regardless of what racist AI vids suggest

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

feels like the Confederacy played the long game and now a neo-Confederacy is waging a quiet second civil war

We cannot keep having the same conversation about hypocrisy. This no longer matters

this feels more and more likely with each passing day:

41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House. This political moment is profoundly disgusting.

75 years ago, my friend Ronald McNair was born. Denied books as a child at his segregated South Carolina library, he later became the second Black American in space. And today, that library bears his name. Happy Birthday, Ron. Your legacy continues to inspire us.

if anyone needs a new drag name, just came up with one by mistake. instead of prima donna, you could be Post Madonna would work well if you’re white and have face tatts

in 1955, in his book Essays in the Public Philosophy the journalist Walter Lippmann said, “if what is right and wrong depends on what each individual feels, then we are outside the bounds of civilization.” today, our president is pushing us into that place outside the bounds of civilization

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

Obama sharing a video of himself wearing a crown and flying a King Obama jet that dumped shit all over Americans would have been the only thing the news networks talked about for weeks. Meanwhile, Trump doing that very thing couldn't even warrant a discussion on the Sunday shows today.

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

the grievances of the Right are 'legitimate' and exist because the Left 'goes too far.' The grievances of the Left(s) are illegitimate because they are disfavored groups who should be grateful to get to live in this country.

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens? You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate? Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

this is just embarrassing for the so-called paper of record what a betrayal of the American people and of the paper’s duty to cover the news this is toadie behavior

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States. For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story. They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see. This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.

It's incredible how much the speaker of the house doesn't seem to know.

The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.