I’ve been thinking about it all day and I’ve decided that the golden snake with golden eyes that can snap at cars and spit fire should be the symbol of New York under Mamdani

The Monkees knew. They always knew.

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

i’m hearing democrat leadership are preparing their strongest response yet: looking at the ground and mumbling “come on guys stop being a bunch of turkeys”

every 3rd congressional Democrat is Like This

“the world no longer inherently likes and trusts Americans now” congratulations on waking up from being asleep since 1955, I have a long list of bad news and some cool pictures of the moon for you

In light of Democrats calling for more "training" for ICE, this passage from my book Copaganda seems relevant:

Reminder: Troops are still deployed in NYC subways, under the Biden administration's direction, as ordered by Kathy Hochul, both Dems. The National Guard is in NYC subways supposedly to "fight crime," even though NYC crime is at close to historic lows🤡 1000 troops have been there since March 2024

As a priest watching the news, trying to come up with halfway decent spiritual response to evil and injustice, sometimes the right and holiest word available is just FUCK.

I love this piece by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social—and not just for the obvious reasons: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reagan's project was successful: now, many Americans have no idea what a "public good" is. Their only framework for social interaction--outside friends & family--is set by the concepts of private property & consumer choice. That explains a lot about voting patterns & the dying sense of civic duty.

Gavin Newsom is the latest Democrat to try and suck off Ronald Reagan’s dickless skeleton, but he wasn’t the first and won’t be the last. It’s never a bad time to remind ourselves that Reagan was a complete disaster of a president, so today on IMMORTAL SCIENCE, let’s remember…the Reagan Legacy!

I will never understand how so many people argue “the government can’t effectively provide healthcare” when it’s one of the few things we know, for a fact, it can do, because it already does this. It’s like claiming the government can’t deliver mail. Buddy sit down you’re not gonna believe this

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

It’s gonna be tough to top this spread.

Billboard in Loughborough Junction.

I don't think there's been a definitive unpacking of how the U.S. has been subject to forty-plus years of Reaganism propaganda. I think most Americans do not realize we are still living under Reaganism. It's like the water we swim in - most people can't see it.

A lot of people are pretty freaked out by the current political state of affairs and carrying on because they don't know what else to do, except out one foot in front of the other. And I think a lot of Very Online folks mistake that for "normie" indifference

Um? Wasn't it John Hurt who played the Doctor? (I'm sorry, I'm trying to delete this.)

You can get your donation automatically refunded if you give "accidentally donated the wrong amount" as the reason your requesting a refund.

I didn't know how much I needed to see the cover of Abbey Road recreated by Sumo wrestlers until I saw it.

Synagogue leaders accept Harvard Law prof's assertion he just didn't know he lived next to a temple or that it was the start of Yom Kippur when he decided to go hunt varmints with a pellet gun on Beacon St. in Brookline. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

It's impossible to make a "slippery slope" argument against this administration because they spend all day greasing up the slopes themselves.

The Onion is really killing it lately. The headline is flat out hilarious, and while the piece is a bit long it really captures that deadpan sense of heightened absurdity Americans associate with the best British humor.

Fascinating youtube.com/shorts/1d1RJ...

We take it for granted today, but a single bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion chips contains more currency than a peasant in the 1400s would get in his whole lifetime.

JEOPARDY, APRIL 13th, 2049 KEN JENNINGS: This common euphemism for bribery has its roots in the Mayor Eric Adams administration of the mid 2020's. CONTESTANT: What is "Slipping the Chips?" JENNINGS: Still in jail, last I checked. The board is yours.

Remember that time Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) and Kris Kristofferson invented a The Clash song in 1976?Produced by Mick Ronson of course. (I am just as confused/surprised as you are)

Taking a minute to remember the time Marvel changed a Jack Kirby Captain America comic because Cap told a freed slave he supported the marchers at Selma

People talking shit about Rashida Tlaib are giving me plenty of chances to expand my blocklist

What's going on with my "ladies" and, in some cases, "germs?"

And just a like a newborn, I start every day crying and screaming and covered in fluid!

I wrote about how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign used the oldest & most powerful form of political propaganda. And no, it's not vertical videos newrepublic.com/article/1973...

2050 is closer than 2000 is, my 12 year old told me twice this weekend so now you have to hear it, too.

NYT leadership might position themselves as "moderate" and they might even identify as such, but their class position aligns them with Trump, Silicon Valley, and the owning class generally. They're crypto-fascists in motivation and in action. There isn't any need to assume that they're delusional.

As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as ‘antisemitism.’ Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.

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Lmao

I love this Bowie performance of "Boys Keep Swinging", from Thames Kenny Everett. Not just because of the song (great though it is) - it's the bit that happens afterwards with Angry of Mayfair, which is frankly, fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1Y...

Describing The Lost Saucer as "what if Doctor Who was remade as an American sitcom for Saturday morning children's television" would not be entirely accurate, nor would it be entirely inaccurate. Seen here: Jim Nabors, Ruth Buzzi, and their two human companions in the console room of their TARDIS.

Josh always did know how to write a lede. 🔥 @tyrangiel.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

They're only "against antisemitism" when that can be used to justify genocide.

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

April 8, 1990 New York Times advertisement. #twinpeaks