i don't think they should be able to call themselves "pod save america" anymore. like it's been going for nine years now and the country's just gotten worse. just call it "I Know Barack Obama"

Friends, I have to buy a car. My plan right now is to buy a used SUV from 2023ish, possibly with cash. If you have advice, I could use it, please and thank you.

there is a group in America actively being unpersonned right now, and the Altantic has chosen to attack them. embarrassing.

I'm sorry to remind everyone of the existence of hte worst magazine in America, but Kansas is literally taking away trans' people's driver's licenses, and the Atlantic has decided to publish a thumbsucker about whether effeminate boys are feeling pressured to transition

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

I truly think I would realize that Clark Kent is Superman immediately, based on my ability to recognize an actor who had one (1) scene in season two of Mad Men in any other piece of film or television media in which they appear

ALL HER FAULT: pretty good on a second screen while playing Supermarket Simulator, which I don't feel bad about because it's clearly the way it was intended to be watched

If someone isn’t trying to be rude upon their first online interaction with another person, terms of endearment should be avoided. “Honey” is condescending at best from an online stranger

Hotchkiss lmao. Platner is basically running the George W Bush faux authenticity playbook

i love that ryan grim is like "THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NO LONGER BEHOLDEN TO CONSULTANTS!!!!!!!" while platforming the most consultant-brained candidate you've ever seen

Taking the bus a lot lately, and I love reading on my phone because it’s convenient and I get more reading done, but I don’t like it because everyone thinks I’m just on my phone. They don’t know that I am A Reader.

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

I love that not only is Microsoft Outlook search completely useless - if you actually manage to find the email you're looking for, it will take days and days for it to actually load!!

It's a tough competition, but I think the biggest Platner red flag for me is his total lack of humility. He seems aggrieved that people would question his Nazi tattoo at all; a sincere apology is completely out of the picture.

All else aside, this law is very clumsily written and Kansas has the Supreme Court of a much more liberal state, so I’m optimistic here

Two transgender men from Lawrence are suing the state over a new law that invalidates driver’s licenses and restricts bathroom use based on sex assigned at birth, citing numerous constitutional rights and fear of violence. Via @kansasreflector.com: lawrenceks.news/4rCuf0v

one of the things that sucks about how car-centric America is that you think you don't need a second car, and you get around fine with one car for ten years, and then that car dies and you are kinda fucked

something in my brain allows me to completely ignore crushing problems until one of them completely buffers and actually becomes a problem and then i am mentally crushed by all of the problems at once

can we post again yet? because i need to post thru it

the NYT and The Atlantic are about as responsible for this as anyone, shamefully

Why am I in a position in my life where I need money and the best way to get it is to write another book?

Am I challenging myself, or just putting too much pressure on myself?

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

please help trans kansans and their families, if you’re able. everything helps.

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

i don't have a photo but I'll never forget the Plaza 6 Cinema in the fall of 1999, advertising EYES WIDE MUPPETS

absolutely. and are they going to get credentialed access?

RIP Robert Carradine, star of “Totally Minnie” —a very small group of Xennial Disney Adults

Realized that we are likely to see dystopian job listings like “Head Reporter for DraftKings” in the near future

not unlikely that this is related to spending eight years of my life studying the axe

“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it

One rule I try to keep for myself: don’t enable my phone to turn on or otherwise alter anything in the real world. I never ever want to control my thermostat with an app

I’ve been watching too much Sopranos lately and I keep thinking weird shit like “I’m a cunt hair away from burnout again”

Just tried to type the name of Bea Arthur, the legendary television star. Autocomplete wrote “Bear Arthur”. Trying to correct it and spellcheck is suggesting “Bra Arth”. Great system we have here

No interest in Dune whatsoever, but I love to hear my friends explain the plot of Dune

ai productivity gains are bullshit because anytime i'm writing an email now those little purple underlines with bad suggestions distract me and keep me from completing my task, which is not something i'm good at unlike writing

I love that you can feel some nerdy fans’s exhaustion leavened by devotion in this Wikipedia paragraph

one thing i've learned about getting older: you have to moisturize your feet every single day

the decline of the big budget comedy has robbed us of at least five kaitlin olson vehicles. and i don't know if they necessarily would have all been good, but i bet she would be amazing in all of them

How is there not a classic Who's On First routine for Gen X, except about the 1982 film The Thing?

Taking a road trip to Chicago for my fortieth next month, and the main thing I’m excited about is going to Michelin starred restaurants for the first time. Just as Bibendum intended

not the prompt, but the librarian at my elementary school was named Mrs. Reeder, which is adorable

The tree remembers, the ax forgets. Unless it's the Lorax, then he speaks for the trees

can i pay more to remove them

It’s definitely next week tho

ICE spotted in Lawrence at the Iowa st. Burger King around 9:10 this morning. Reports I've heard so far (from my dad, who does immigration resettlement work locally) is 3-5 cars, 3 arrests made this morning. Please share if you're able and be careful out there.

People keep saying that we'll never elect a woman president, but IDK y'all, Kansas keeps electing women as governors because we basically want a mommy to come pick up after selfish Republican assholes so I think there's a lane open

sometimes you're scrolling and you see a guy you could have sworn was just made up for rhetorical purposes. but no, here he is - posting youtube film reviews to 174 views, spending all his time in the replies of people who liked movies he didn't like, even the sad moustache and square glasses