this negotiation meeting to prevent the emerging world war 3 could have been an email

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

Lina Khan helped Joe Biden set this up, but he never pushed it hard to take credit for it. Now, with Khan working for Mamdani, he's doing it for NYC residents. And actually telling them he's doing it. Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them.

me when my baby brother told me in high school he was very into this band called Nirvana I was almost certainly not cool enough to have heard of which is how he first learned the story of his tween sisters wearing black armbands to class at their Catholic grade school the day Kurt Cobain died

never had a champagne in all my life, no matter how fancy, that I liked better than Martinelli's

history’s first pope truly equipped to appreciate a visit from the Harlem Globetrotters

the president: i am going to wag the dog the first lady: even in time of war, we must never forget sex crimes scandals

The thing is, when you show people articles about protests in campus papers that just makes them more angry at the students. It's lose lose, they hate it when students protest and they hate it when students don't.

the hired car situation in the Hill area today definitely suggests senators in meetings

this guy seems to go one notch further than Leo did in his Holy Week homilies, pretty much flat-out saying “it is a moral imperative for American Catholics to contact their legislators and demand an end to the war” feels like they want us to know they were not intimidated by the Avignon thing 😂

cis women transphobes are as embarassing as they are revolting because they will declare with their whole chest “I am less capable than a man and I demand you treat me accordingly by lowering your expectations!” girl shut the fuck up there’s no gender advantage in CHESS

Tillis is holding firm it seems.

"At least two potential 2028 Democratic nominees may have played a role in killing the resolution, with one DNC member telling Politico they received direct calls from the presidential hopefuls expressing concern about the resolution."

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

oh my god

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Hey, I realize you're all busy with other stuff right now but I wanted to just take a minute to make it very clear that I am not and have never been close friends with the Boston Strangler

hey guys I was thinking about calling a press conference about how I’m not close with any human traffickers just so you know that I’m not close with any human traffickers but not for any specific human trafficking related reason

This is a message from Abo Jameel’s wife who suffers from a collapsed heart valve. Her husband has bad shrapnel wounds and her son has a broken arm, all of which need medical attention. Please share and help if you can!

Happy 50th anniversary to “All the President’s Men” — a film that owes its existence to Redford, who bought the film rights, developed the script and cajoled a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein. I thought it was “a great character study,” he said later. But, for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”

you fucking guessed it! "Last year, Philz was purchased by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co., which also owns Popeyes Chicken and El Pollo Loco, for a reported $145 million, according to Mission Local, though the company did not provide details of the deal."

Claire you absolute rockstar. You absolute fucking beauty . The levels of context. The scene setting … YESSSSS

everybody name three condiments you would not go to space without mine are sriracha, the really dark caramelized red onion jam you can get everywhere in the UK but nowhere here, and Mrs. Renfro’s Habanero Hot Salsa

hope this post makes it to the history books.

soooo pleased my emotional support astronauts have sriracha and Nutella up there in heaven they deserve it

this is about my posts btw

“Sorry, I can’t right now; I’m quite busy.” [ reads every word, and clicks on every link, in a 60-plus post thread on the Pentagon, the Vatican, and the Avignon Papacy ] Thank you to the Archbishop of Bluesky, @clairewillett.bsky.social.

okay bio has been updated

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

[Tyrion Lannister voice] that’s what I do. I eat Cadbury Mini Eggs and I know things

we had this already it was called “the entirety of fantasy, SF, and horror” (also I will reiterate for the thousandth time that MORE DUDES SHOULD READ ROMANCE, you are missing out)

Claire, I just need to be sure that you saw this as well, because it's the perfect capper for the evening.

Take a moment to remember how weird it is our president communicates with us through a bottom-tier social media site called Truth Social. It’s like if he governed from the comment section of a porn site.

you really never know what the Claire thread of the day is gonna be until it happens

oh man, that really is technically true, isn’t it

The Actually Extremely Satisfying Ordeal of Being Known

Come to this thread for the tea on a MAGA Pentagon adult Catholic convert threatening the first American Pope with an Avignon papacy, stay for “there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago.” Amen.

"Avignon II: Electric Boogaloo" wins the Internet for me today.

Claire Knows Things, & this! THIS is one of the Things Claire Knows 🧵

Never have I experienced more joy than clicking on the most recent post in this thread and having to scroll up for five minutes. Like "Ahahaha they've unlocked Catholic Claire, I'm about to have the best time"

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

My ER visit is going to cost me $500 and I need to put down at least $100 toward it. If you can help, I would be so grateful. Venmo: QuiaraH Paypal.me/Quiara Anything helps. I’m so sorry.

It was not that long ago when conservatives had a chokehold on every branch of Wisconsin government, piles of Koch and Uline money, and seemed unstoppable. People worked FUCKING HARD to change that shit and now look at em. Change is always possible and never ever easy.

Not a single objective has been achieved. No regime change, no elimination of the missile launching capabilities, no commitment on the nuclear program. Iran now has a tollbooth at one of the world's busiest waterways. What an absolute fiasco.

If this holds, it's a strategic win for Iran. Humiliating defeat for the U.S. and Israel. Anyone who says otherwise is full of shit, and they know it. There is no both-siding this.

"It is not hope. It is the specific exhaustion of people who have been denied hope for so long that the mere postponement of catastrophe registers as reprieve. We celebrated nothing. We simply exhaled."

this is the most desperate for approval he's sounded imo