ruining the day of everyone at the function by teaching them what bald eagles *really* sound like

stop telling me how much you bought your enormous house for in the 80s. also jfc i feel like i cannot leave the house without being gleefully misgendered by strangers who are confident they are being polite and friendly; since when are assumptions polite and friendly?!

waiting to board my flight home from a week in minneapolis, and i’m so, SO grateful to @lookitup.baby @tabbysable.bsky.social and @tyrannasaura.bsky.social for showing me such a nice time. i can’t wait to come back!

it is not owed to the dead to launder their reputations or gloss over their misdeeds. in fact, it is owed to the living to prevent these things from happening.

tangentially related, the anarchists were UPSET by my travel prep, and let me know it by filling my shoes with toys (adorable) and EATING MY LAPTOP (NOT adorable!)

airports are pocket dimensions and you cannot convince me otherwise

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

today is a good day to watch sneakers 🖤

boy howdy, i sure have deleted a lot of things over the last week or so instead of posting them!

Check out newly-launched indie pub @coyotemedia.org! As the former culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and a supporter of Coyote Media, this makes me super happy. Bring that alt weekly energy! Local news and advocacy journalism are more important than ever.

Universal childcare is on the ballot this November — but you don't need to wait to take action. Sign the @ny4childcare.bsky.social petition below calling for full-day care for NYC two-year-olds.

Airport update: I wasn’t paying attention when the TSA guy asked “Any beverages?” and I said “Thanks I’m good.”

i think my favorite part is, you can tell beast thought tyson was going to take it easy on him, and you can also tell tyson totally thought he *did* go easy on him.

Willian is one of several who allege they were “choked, thrown around, punched, slapped and otherwise struck after they were handcuffed and brought into a security room at the Home Depot,” by off-duty CPD officers working as security.

Can y’all just go read the Jewish Atheism Wikipedia entry and stop giving me a fucking headache with your “all religions are bad because they’re the exact same thing as Christianity and no I haven’t looked into that any further because my ego is too big to make me an intellectually curious person”

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

ronald reagan’s political career began with snitching on fellow actors he deemed to be communists, with the explicit aim of preventing them from ever working again

People are mobilizing in #California to demand the release of a woman who is has lived in the US for 30 years and was recently abducted at a routine check-in at an ICE office in San Francisco. www.financialexpress.com/world-news/u...

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

if the right gets their way we won't have textbooks going forward so

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share gofund.me/a5ee0064

Our latest! September Updates: On the ground, what's up from Chicago to Oakland - Fake fentanyl hype behind prison mail bans - Encampment fight heats up in Oakland - Attica, more than an anniversary in September - Open meeting coming up and how to pitch in! mailchi.mp/4c8049093980...

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family? It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

i’m noticing that a good number of people shocked by the response to this week’s events just don’t know what stochastic terrorism is, and helping people understand it has helped contextualize the palpable relief so many people are feeling.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff.

healthy ideological opponents are people who challenge each other on *how* we achieve collective liberation, not people who want to debate whether or not we *should*

It's completely fucking insane that Bluesky pretends that if you offload your political violence to a third party called "the state" it somehow stops being political violence. ANYONE ENDORSING THE STATE ENDORSES EXTREME POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND A REIGN OF TERRORISM. *By definition.*

“Ideological opponent” is an interesting way to describe someone who wants my friends dead

Always illuminating but never surprising how many white people think that being racist is simply having a “different opinion.”

ps: while moderation at this site is frantically quashing any mention of yesterday’s events that don’t meet the bar of explicit bootlicking, let’s not forget that they’ve also been going out of their way to suppress posts from victims of the ongoing genocide in gaza

please enjoy this blissed out baby

ope, got a nastygram from bluesky for… this:

@ellearmageddon.bsky.social Who said I was mad? Just marveling how shit your posts are.

i heard fbi is offering a reward for information leading to the capture of charlie kirk’s shooter. completely unrelated, y’all remember how the person who called in to report luigi mangione not only didn’t actually get reward money, but also lost their job? wild.

Got permission to post this; one of the trans women who was assaulted last week by a gang of anti-trans creeps has a gofundme up to help her with medical and survival costs while she recovers from a concussion. If you're able to help, please do. www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...

lmao, someone screenshotted my newsom burns (bc i have quotes disabled) and is whining about my “ad hominem” attacks this isn’t high school, i didn’t sign up for your debate league, and i refuse to apologize for dunking on a politician whose entire career i’ve had a front row seat to die mad 🤷🏼‍♀️

we wouldn’t need to “speak ill” of the dead if people would stop lying about their non-existent virtues

NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:

i think some decent people hold the idea that fascists need excuses to do evil, because it’s hard to wrap their heads around the cruelty otherwise. the truth is, fascists have never needed excuses. they’ll opportunistically *take* an excuse if it appears, but they’ll just fabricate one otherwise.

you are not obligated to mourn a man who dedicated his life to advocating violence against others, irrespective of his manner of death.

And remember, folks: not everything is for the internet or even the group chat. Text is forever! In times like these, some support is best given in person.

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

"they are going to use this against us." where you been, they are murdering black people in the streets for selling CDs, they are rounding up hispanic people for being at a home depot, they are sending people to foreign torture prisons for tweeting about Palestine. The terrain is SHIFTED

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares. www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

as @wyden.senate.gov said months ago follow the money