The weirdest thing about being from his hometown is that I literally never hear anyone talking about him. The football team’s success? The school board’s shenanigans? The beloved music teachers who died in a car accident? All yes. But him? Never. (You can choose your own adventure on the him.)

To me - and ymmv - the male loneliness epidemic discourse feels a bit like the group chat with my brothers-in-law where they state things that should be done regarding their elderly mom, but they don’t assign themselves the tasks and instead wait for me, the only daughter-in-law, to volunteer.

there is a floor to how unpopular you can be and still maintain control over a population, and while they’ve still got a way to go before they hit it, they have no plan to avoid hitting it

Yes, this is why the “they’re not groyper” fixation also misses the target because it is only a technicality. This *is* postmodern fascism at its heart. 20th century fascism was a result of industrial capitalism meeting nationalism while this the result of consumerism meeting racialized nihilism.

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

With grocery prices climbing, every garden harvest after average first frost date feels like winning the lotto. Dropped a batch off at the food shelf to share the wealth. 🌱

This is the thing that makes the early corporate reaction to Trump so completely incomprehensible. A huge number of businesses went "well I guess one guy's posts are more important than basic rule of law or our customers' values, seems fine". Lotta executives just deluding themselves.

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I carpentered in Birkenstocks today which is a very dumb thing to do and yet somehow still smarter than that press conference

The US version of Have I Got News for You is funny and biting and I honestly don’t know how CNN execs haven’t pissed their pants yet and pulled them off the air? Please watch it, I love Roy Wood Jr 🥲

I need you to 1) see this vintage Western Heritage suit I saw at an occasional boutique this weekend and then 2) think about who exactly would be able to tell you anything while wearing it (answer: nobody)

Again Bouie from the top rope

It is always a delight to watch Gene Kelly dancing for any reason

Shout out to the person at the mini-protest on a cross street (Prior? Cleveland?) over I-94 in St Paul this afternoon who had a spray painted bedsheet hanging on the fence of the overpass that just said “EPSTEIN”

There should be a law that if you make your living as an opinion-haver on the liberal side, you should be forced to live in a Red State. Your kids go to schools with no books and the 10 Commandments on the wall. You now gotta plan how to ratline your wife/self to a free state for reproductive care.

Despair is a commodity for which we have no use for in this moment

Don't be chickenshit.

I just… what the fuck is even happening

So, about 15 yrs ago an acquaintance clocked my political views & was shocked. Told me I couldn’t be left of center bc I “have morals”, that “we want to kill liberals like gophers”. Anyway, it’s wild that I have a better handle on the current situation from that interaction than most of the Senate.

I take some occasional stick for getting salty with Democrats' relative lack of alacrity. Surely it's better that they be reasonable and considered? Nope: First cheap shot wins. I hate the current information environment but we've got to use it because an alternative is not arriving anytime soon.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

Margo Price was on Kimmel last night, performing Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down from her latest effort Hard Headed Woman. As always, she delivers. 📺

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

I don’t know how they’ll ever learn their lesson if they don’t touch the stove, but at the same time, their prolonged stove touching leads to nothing good downstream

Two things can be true at the same time: 1. Farmers who voted Trump asked for it 2. We’re all going to be in pain if they get it

this is biggie and tupac for people whose rural hospital is about to close

incredible

Locked box with a scribbled note inside: 1. anita sarkisanisn 2. ex wife 3. karl (guy at gym) (eat shit karl) 4. trans (all) 5. hilary clinton 5. guy in apartment above (suspect jew?) 5. rest of jews 5. femininsm

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

the central pillar of my philosophy: build rec centers and build libraries and build schools and fund after school programs and sports teams and clubs and literally never stop building more of them

The evangelical moms of instagram have not gotten the memo that the call was coming from inside the house and I’m working very hard at not cyber bullying women who’ve preemptively nailed themselves onto the cross “Leftists are shooting us in the streets!” no they’re not Brynnleigh

Part of the problem starts before college. Most legislators across the country had their last formal exposure to Earth science education in the 8th grade. We need to fix that. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... See this piece from @kendrawrites.com (With some quotes from me)

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

Yes honey, I love this energy

It seems like we're experiencing a sort of rerun of the political violence of the 1960s—except this time we have the internet cooking everyone's brains. None of this leads anywhere good.

how does one continue getting up in the morning and going to a job, how do you teach kids right from wrong or dispense advice about how to navigate this world? magnificent, truly

hey parents of teenage girls maybe don’t read that epstein book first thing in the morning if you don’t want to carry homicidal energy all day

Read this thread and prepare yourself for your turn, wherever you are

all this Nazi posting on main is because they have a massive morale problem and they only have one reference for state propaganda

Ragweed, please die in a fire

every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards

Home grown pico season baby

I have a different view on the health stuff than the “he’s going to live forever” people because my mom was a gerontological nurse. There are some diagnoses you just can’t outrun, no matter your level of care, and I think it’s weird to assign that much power to him.

I hope that when RFK Jr dies someday, someone has been hired and trained to capture whatever crawls out of the body, so that it doesn't find a new host

Yesterday: - cried at desk upon remembering it was the anniversary of me miscarrying twins at 11 weeks - cried at desk multiple times because of the school shooting - cried at desk bc cabinet factory lost part of an order, dealer’s impotent, client sees me as villain Today’s goal: no crying at desk

I think a lot about the phrase "a well armed society is a polite society" because it's implicitly premised on this kind of "freedom as domination" that everyone will be polite to you otherwise you shoot them

This is sick freak shit to say and it's alright to point that out

--> "But the outcome may say even more about the broader political environment in Iowa. In three prior special elections in the Hawkeye State this year (including Zimmer's), Democrats have run far ahead of last year's presidential results"

Americans broadly hate all of this, and we all gotta remember that when it feels like things are spinning out of control