Look, we've seen that Mamdani is really skilled at retail politics. He has just shown how skilled he is at five-dimensional-chess national politics. Getting Trump to eat out of his hand. (Until whatever comes into Trump's mind tomorrow.)

Yeah like I’m not assuming this was explicitly on his mind but imo there are so so many reasons on so many different fronts why it was strategically smart to go in there loaded for bear re: charisma instead of being as antagonistic as I’m sure he actually feels

Back when the Deep Magic was written, including REM’s Nightswimming or more than 3 Peter Gabriel OR Indigo Girls songs was code for “I love you.” The tape could be placed in the crush’s locker or “accidentally” left behind in their car, to be experienced in absentia so as not to ruin it.

I keep thinking the *process* of researching is as important as what you discover. It forces you to consider what impacts and relates to what you are looking for and the context of what you find impacts its meaning. Knowledge is not a box of cereal that you can just grab a handful of. #KM

PULLET TRAIN

This is Cole. He is a deaf service dog at Dr. William Mennies Elementary School. He just turned 9, and all of his students learned sign language to sing him happy birthday at a massive party. 14/10 for all (IG: colethedeafdog)

Now THIS???? is a white man! this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!

two types of people in the world: ghost deniers, and anyone who's ever owned a printer

I once closed a bug report and listed the resolution as “gremlins”

when the reporter described the crowd composition at the church training, I cried.

What’s that one movie where the guy is minding his own business and this group of thugs start hassling him but the don’t know he is secretly a great fighter and he beats them up and then says something snarky?

I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.

my problem is that I want all the terrible people and companies to suffer without the rest of us suffering but I’m not sure that’s how anything works

the surfacing of subtext in “Dad (laudatory, gender-neutral)” is absolute perfection

i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is: 1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can 2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise 3) other people should also get loud 4) not violent though

This relative advantage means that, even if they are relying on government programs like welfare or Medicaid, Trump supporters can see themselves as the "deserving" poor while disparaging others who are worse off than they are for being "lazy" and making "bad choices." 1/

nothing has ever felt more “For the Girls, the Gays and the Theys” than this casting, I have been dying to watch this for so long

Yes, the world may feel like a dumpster fire some days, but you can keep this cute mini version close to hand and click it to relieve your stress. It will just sound like you're busily at work, typing away! thebrokencircle.etsy...

if Dems have any sense they'll just put this guys headshot next to every price rise chart, never seen a smugger more insufferable guy, this is an instant Public Enemy Number 1 face

Peak "joining company to fix one specific bug" moment

always worth clicking thru and scrolling up on a derek guy post

SOMEONE: Fuck you! BOVINO: That’s not very nice. THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?

marmot can be cleaned with a paint roller

just out there shopping, taking advantage of what everybody’s calling the Epstein Rollback

age of miracles

He named the bill after him

read this thread. Start at the top. Don't skip. 😂

Oh so now everyone suddenly LIKES reading emails?!?!

her name is spelled pew from now on that's just how it goes

WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️

Sports betting is a scourge. It is the one thing that turns me into a complete prude. Eventually, someone is going to get seriously hurt, shot or killed because some better lost money on a game.

"Begging the question" used to mean "raising the question" or "inspiring the question" will, at least in our lifetimes, never fail to rouse the ire of a hefty portion of the populace. So unless you have a kink for being howled it, don't bother. 3/2

I find that "talking in circles" also does the trick remarkably well. Noting that I don't endorse the newerfangled use of "begging the question" to mean "inspiring the question." The best thing to do with "begging the question" is to, once and for all, drive a stake through its heart. 2/2

h/T to @baddestmamajama.bsky.social who did this and really made me laugh: Olivia Nuzzi bio Mad Libs GO

Several factors can flow into this: age, gender, class, personal familiarity — but ultimately it’s about power. Do you need to worry about making a good impression on this person or not

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Friendly unprompted reminder that new “luxury apartments” are, in many places, more affordable than even older “modest” detached single family homes nearby, even monthly post- down payment, (but also down payments make the gap even bigger) ggwash.org/view/93183/w...

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

At what point does the New York Times get charged as organizationally conspiring to abet human trafficking of minors.

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and, not for nothing, there is a further acute moral injury in becoming so used to it all, and so used to it not mattering, that you begin to think of terrible crimes with real victims along the lines of "maybe this will be what hurts him politically"

I want to also uplift the men who were boys who were sexually abused in a society in which there's zero willingness to acknowledge that yes of course boys & men can be raped, that in fact jokes about such rape, that gives boys no tools, not even the measly tools given girls, to confront that fact.

A new finished object!

Other folks have said it, but let me just note that: (1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year (2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?

ohhhh! i had no idea about this form of chinese oral tradition a delight (see replies for more info)

Nights like tonight, where the feed is overflowing with gorgeous photos of Aurora Borealis and awestruck remarks by people posting from Calgary to Toronto to Boston to Seattle to Los Angeles to Norman to Chicago to Allen to Minneapolis to Cheyenne to Reno— this is what makes social media special 🫶🏽

it's 2025 and Bluesky likes three things: JCO bodying Elon Musk, primarying Democrats, and the Northern Lights

Baltimore might actually be a national leader on the “making characters out of infrastructure” front. Like, how many trash wheels do New York and LA have? Zero.

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior