First, the claim that Democrats got crushed in 2024 is not accurate; it was, in fact, a fairly close election historically. Second, it ignores the global anti-incumbency direction of all elections that year. Third, it attributes undo agency to one side—“How did we let these people back into power?”

I wanted to share some thoughts on this Ezra Klein discussion with Ta-Nehisi Coates. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Ezra Klein is making money from telling comforting lies to right wingers and he should be shunned and ignored.

For fans of diminutive waterfalls, Newington has a Waterfall Fest today.

I know there's a lot going on but this is a huge deal: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will stop providing abortions next week in an apparent bid to keep accepting Medicaid. The GOP budget law "defunds" PP affiliates that offer abortion care after October 1 We broke the story on @autonomynews.co

When I was 17, I fractured my hip (among other injuries) in a car accident. Besides giving me I kind of odd of walking (I've been told I bounce a bit) I don't much notice any consequences. The past two days though I've been super achy.

The good folks at SHELFDUST @shelfdust.bsky.social are nearing the wrapup for their epic series of Jimmy Olsen essays. This time Tim Stevens @ungajje.bsky.social looks at issue 11! www.patreon.com/posts/shelfd...

"I used to up and coming, avant-garde. Now I'm art history."

Recently did an interview with an artist who knew my first college advisor. Coming to the part of the interview where she talked about him and I find myself getting choked up.

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

I need you to read this thread to understand why so many historians are revolted by this regime's crimes against the past

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Both #Superman the Animated Series, and the character #Livewire made their television debut in September (1996 and 1997), so why not showcase her in UnGajjesArtGallery today? www.instagram.com/p/DPEn1JGEVa...

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Most people's individual politics are confusing and inconsistent. It hardly seems surprising that that would also be the case (and then some) for most "political" shooters.

Also: Very awkward for Rolling Stone to have coverage of a buzzed-about TV moment and be able to link to its own writeup, only to conspicuously omit @sepinwall.bsky.social ‘s name because they stupidly let him go immediately afterwards.

Check it out … hot off the press - the latest @moviejawn.com newsletter. Who’s coming to the release party tomorrow?

Out of fucking control and if I were an elected Dem or running for office I’d be in front of every camera I could find telling America your prescriptions just got twice as expensive, your health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket from ACA subsidy cancellation, and oh the gov shuts down Wed.

I'm on the job hunt. I've worked as a freelance writer, editor, essayist, and film theorist for nearly 15 years, with bylines at /Film, FANGORIA, Rue Morgue, CBC Comedy, etc. I ran Shudder's The Bite, served as FANGORIA magazine's Managing Editor, and was the evening news editor at /Film. Any leads?

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

While I didn't play college sports, it still feels rude that my College has never inducted me into their athletic Hall of Fame.

free your mind from Shareholder Disease! I cannot think of a less joyful use of brainpower than sitting in a theater wondering "How could this possibly be profitable for WB?"

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

When you want a box of cereal that's just swole as fuck.

It's the South Park effect. That show taught a generation that caring about anything in either direction is dumb and something to be attacked.

This makes it sound like Trump had no choice but to just stand there as he doesn't understand stairs. Also, on my god, the whining. I don't think my kids as toddlers even get this bent out of shape about some stairs.

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Disney/ABC put Kimmel back on air. Sinclair & Nexstar are blocking him. These are state-licensed stations funded by ads, not Disney. Pressure advertisers, file FCC complaints, and push back on corporate censorship. #FreeSpeech #NoKings #Kimmel

Ahead of the release of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, MJ's @silberwhatever.com ranks PTA's features. #OneBattleAfterAnother is in theaters Friday.

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

Over my lifetime, the pattern has held that the Republicans tear a bunch of stuff up when they get in the White House, then stuff starts falling apart. It's still falling when a Democrat gets into the White House, and starts making repairs, but then they blame HIM for the flaming mess they left him.

Also, the article’s own source (www2.census.gov/library/publ...) doesn’t support their conclusions - the poverty rate was lower in 2024 (Biden’s last year in office) was lower than the previous year and 2020, when he took office.

So the poverty rate was lower during a period of the pandemic when the economy was in fact not great. And it's because the government showed they actually could provide a generous safety net. The Manchin and the GOP killed it. Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses.

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

Anybody out there ever talk to David Lapham?

huge W

Democrat Adelita Grijalva won the special election Tuesday in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, further narrowing the already razor-thin Republican House majority.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I’m working on getting a Google Doc up with a list of Sinclair and Nexstar local affiliate stations that we can populate as we go with information about (especially local) advertisers on those stations. If you’ve dug up any of these advertisers, please share under #SinclairAdvertisers (example tf)

Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC

With the current #Daredevil run coming to a close with the issue on stands today, it felt like a good time to put up a new #ManWithoutFear in UnGajjesArtGallery on insta. And reiterating to #Marvel that I'm ready to step up and write the next volume. www.instagram.com/p/DO_2M7QCQ_...

Anyone in education familiar with Everspring? How reliable are they as a source of information?

ICE is doing things that all Americans are going to be called to answer for.

Using any of the AI tools out there for a search engine is WILD when they are so bad at it. "Do you have something that will destroy the planet and not help me actually achieve my goals? SIGN ME UP!"

This mandatory meeting sure is changing my mind about a thing I hate. Yessirree!

I spoke to a radio station around here yesterday about Jimmy Kimmel. The clip is whatever, but the real fun is the station, via typo (I assume) called me "Hollywood" Tim Stevens in the write up of the clip. muckrack.com/broadcast/sa...