how could anyone have known that the hotchkiss kid turned blackwater merc pretending to be working class was something other than what he appeared

"I know I speak for myself"

It’s such a pathetic sign of the weakness of their whole project that they won’t even fight their own battles. You guys wanted to run the show! Do the fucking news! People in newsrooms disagree all the time you have to fight to show your ideas are better! But no, they just demand obedience. Lazy.

I also refer to the act of giving me something I paid for “helping society at large” because that’s what it is

nothing worse than reaching for a can of la croix and it's already empty

the funny thing about masculinity is that it doesn’t exist and yet anxiety about it makes the world go round

The way we are taught about segregation can give the impression that it was a distinct legal regime that existed and then was ended, but actual segregation was dynamic and always in progress in one direction or the other. Hegseth is and has been attempting to resegregate the armed forces.

a fun thing about psychoanalyzing a political phenomenon is that if anyone disagrees with you, you can just chalk it up to their resistances

is it possible that platner’s appeal is driven in large part by his audience’s libidinal investment in seeing a cheeky (derogatory) boy get away with things

lol this is like when the cake shop makes a cake of a thumb drive

When they advertise extra protein in a food item, what have they added?

yes finding results that include instances of a couple different references is the kind of useful thing Google was once capable of doing

the reason we don’t have discourse about a crisis of femininity is that any attempt to construct one would collapse under the absurdity of its outmoded gender essentialism, suggesting that masculinity is not so much in crisis as the uncritical belief that masculinity even exists is itself the crisis

is it that time of year again

just realized I’ve never actually known whether a youth pastor is a pastor who speaks specifically to the youth or just a notably youthful pastor

There’s a grotty little mini-park on the banks of the gowanus where Georgie and I like to go sometimes and today there’s a lone Canada goose here, and I’m really not sure if this is a “nature is healing” moment or a “that goose is dying” moment

lol forgot he cited Mercola - antivax supplement quack extraordinaire - as an expert in his Apple Watches give you cancer column

days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

bit on the nose, eh?

a genuine lol thanks bari

This is a really ballsy speech by student reporter Santiago Campos, winner of the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship ($10,000) and worth watching in full.

do they just not want to be a university anymore?

A better DC Mayor would host a counterprogramming Statehood Fair

calling this a “state fair” bothers me in a number of ways, ranging from mildly pedantic to extremely pedantic

reporting live from Delaney Hall in NJ, where protesters are out in droves (along with the media) in support of hunger striking detainees, in a movement spreading to other detention centers in Texas, California and NM

zohran mamdani arsenal thobe

so I guess anthropic is the antichrist huh

when I was doing ketamine therapy for depression I had one session where I was dreaming/hallucinating about Judith Butler rallying an army of Shiba Inus to go to war in Brooklyn and whenever I see the phrase “butlerian jihad” I assume that’s what it means

Anybody have thoughts on George Bonanno’s work?

kind of weird to be hotly anticipating a papal encyclical dropping and yet here we are

twenty hours in and getting to the part where I find out why Christians decided that the second commandment kinda just doesn’t apply to them, which is fun

you could power a data center with the stubborn resolve of a 25-pound dog who doesn’t want to go out in the rain

dunno why this continues to delights me so

there’s a dude who keeps making terrible takes and I can’t stop laughing at him cause he has three names and they’re all different and yet all exactly the same

Got nailed by a super soaker while I was walking Georgie through the park. Looked up to see two young boys looking at me while holding enormous water guns, one of them aggressively pointing at the other one.

“the presumption of vindictiveness” is a good watchword for the doj in this era

If going outside and breathing too much makes me cough like crazy… is that allergies?

If you are a writer/other creative worker who is surviving the current decimation of creative industries by taking on gigs where you train AI to replace humans — please just remember that it is your right and perhaps even your responsibility to do your job badly.

doing prosecutor crimes with the court reporter present lol

For Frum and his ilk, Palestinians cannot be raped, they can only rape, while Israelis cannot rape, they can only be raped. This is how you have mass rape on October 7 without any victims, and no rape in Israel torture centers despite numerous victims. His real investment is in dehumanization.

why are they so weird and defensive amanpour didn’t impugn the reporting she’s just reacting with the level of surprise that a reasonable person with knowledge of the parties would experience at reading such a story

could one call declaring three countries with no connection to an awful terrorist attack an “axis of evil” in order to launch a war of aggression a “blood libel”? or is that just sparkling us foreign policy?

I have a new favorite singer and it’s Maya Rudolph’s mom: a surprising thing that happened tonight

just got back to back podcast ads for a urologist and Peyronie’s disease which I guess is the universe/algorithm telling me I’ve gone too dad

icymi I went to the Jeffrey Epstein pop-up museum and found it kind of appalling

it’s crazy to be listening to a well-produced podcast from a major studio and and have an ad cut in halfway through a host’s sentence why doesn’t anyone care about making things adequate anymore let alone good

signs of life from one (1) us senator

The Epstein Files got the Museum of Ice Cream treatment.