It's not just that he was such a great writer or the modern day equivalent of Dickens and Swift. He was very funny and probably inspired more writers than any other modern writer in England. I laughed so hard on the London metro once, people asked what I was reading. Plus genuinely a nice guy.

Rosa Parks' refusal to stand up and give her seat up to a white passenger on the bus was not some random, one time act taken because she was tired. Her action was part of a preconceived NAACP Bus campaign for equality and Parks was a dedicated activist. "Small" actions matters.

This! Search engines started locking up a few years ago, and casual searchers still don't appear to be noticing. But if you've been using any of the power search tools the last few decades, the complete disappearance of the internet is obvious and alarming!

I believe it was @eringloriaryan.bsky.social who once said to me, maybe a decade ago, that the stock market is astrology for boys. This headline, published three hours ago before Iran said "you either get to bomb Lebanon or you get sub-$10 gas," has done nothing but confirm that. It's all vibes.

I'm not a doctor, but I don't think someone who needed to see **22 (!!!) healthcare specialists in one year** is fit to be president.

Do we see the problem here? Because our government helped that happen.

here's the report: ustranssurvey.org over half of us face medical mistreatment, around half report severe psychological distress, over 60% report that they are "struggling". and that's just some of the report. these are not the statistics of a privileged group. we are suffering. please hear us.

feeling a certain way after reading the trans survey report. since i first came out, i've heard from countless cis women about my male privilege. i've been called an MRA for pointing out my oppression. anyway, trans men/mascs deserve protection, community, and liberation too. we deserve a future.

95% is the new 2 weeks.

I’m 95% married. I only have to meet a nice girl and ask her.

I am so sick of the headlines on the thumbnails for YouTube videos about politics. Why do the left wing podcasters insist on writing headlines like "It's over for Trump!" Or "Trump blows his entire Administration!" Stop with the bullshit until it's actually over.

Tempura rice bowl made with vegetables grown by Grandma Tomo and handmade udon noodles by her grandson Shota. 🍜 🏠 Shota's Udon 📍: 945 Shinmachi, Hachiman-cho, #Gujo City, #Gifu Prefecture 🍽️: Tempura rice bowl and half-portion of udon noodles set - ¥1800

God... Learning so many stories of celebrities' lives decades after the fact makes me think about the fact of how I wanted so bad to be famous as a child. Seeing how it effected the physical and mental health of so many....I do not want tha, ever. It destroys people.

Also fuck Mike Johnson for saying politicians can't survive off $175k salaries but they expect citizens to live off $40k or $7.25 an hour. Fuck all the way off

Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

The 1% have stopped even pretending to care. Everything is totally fine for them and never won't be. The rest of us will be incrementally priced out of homes, necessities, healthcare and food and they do not care. We have solutions at our disposal. Now is the time to start implementing them.

Gemma Correll, contemporary British cartoonist who currently lives and works in the US #WomensArt

The future of the American Dream is going to be young men training to beat each other up for money in the ring like Gladiators, or trying to make a quick buck through sports gambling, or making it as an "influencer" on social media. Amazing for our kids, right?

Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.

I'm sick and goddamn tired of evil people claiming they're the only good ones because they have to have a book to tell them right from wrong, and since good people don't need such a book, they're evil. I'm sick and tired of hate filled thugs being upheld as beacons of virtue and decency. I'm tired.

Every time you get a new chronic illness, you should be assigned a buddy who's already (unfortunately) well experienced in it... because most of our doctors aren't very helpful.

I live in the greatest country in the world. I pay $450 a month for health insurance so I can pay $250 to go to a doctor who prescribes me a medication that I can't afford because it isn't covered by insurance.

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Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

me: i like video games men on dating apps: “i would absolutely destroy you in any video game ever. can’t wait to beat you into oblivion” ??????????! something is severely wrong w these ppl

The Senate fell one vote short of formally shutting down the war with Iran, with John Fetterman casting the decisive vote.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

In history class, I never understood how “advanced” civilizations could collapse. It just didn’t seem plausible. Anyway, I’ve seen enough. I get it now.

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

How can he possibly stay safe without a ballroom?

Good morning ☕️

The election of Donald Trump is going to go down as one of the most disastrous, calamitous own goals by a nation in the history of humanity. We’re really speedrunning through the consequences at this point.

thinking about the time a venture capitalist unfollowed me on twitter and said "no one should think this much about clothes." then they followed me again and emailed me to ask if i wanted to create an app together. i said no, so they unfollowed me a second time.

Zohran Mamdani is showing all of us that where there is a will, there is a way. Hochul agreeing to a tax on $5m plus second homes in NYC is evidence of just how quickly the right people can move other leaders to do the right thing. TAX THE RICH. Make it so everywhere.

One lesson to take from this abysmal moment is that no victory is permanent and politics never ends. The right knew it, and the left can no longer ignore it. But that also means that the horrors now being unleashed on the country can be undone. By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s PN:

The aim of the war is no longer regime change. The aim of the war is now to convince people this wasn't a mistake in the first place.

I hate how steam doesn't punish this behaviour positive review, based on the fact it's beatable in the refund period so you can get your money back you liked the game, but actively decided to exploit the system just to get your £15 back from an indie dev you actual piece of trash.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

This will sound very nerdy, but when I was a kid, I revered the Supreme Court. If they could rule unanimously against segregation in 1954—when the two other branches of government would *never* have been brave enough—I thought they're the lone voice of good. That is all trashed now. They're garbage.

The whole speech was a long form version of: Dude. Dude. Really, dude. Wtf are you doing, dude?

I know it’s almost a meme that Americans don’t understand subtleties, but listening to the British king roasting the US Congress and them just clapping… 😬

Big cheers for check and balances from people who refuse to use their power for checks and balances. These people are clowns.

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

The DOJ violates the Epstein Files Transparency Act on the daily. So I'm suing Todd Blanche. As a journalist, I cannot report accurately on the Epstein Files if I cannot even read them. I am represented by @brendanballou.bsky.social & we seek to hold the DOJ accountable for its noncompliance.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

Its so funny how they just move on from a supposed assassination attempt to... the Washington Commanders name. Not even a full 24 hrs later.