the only flicker of comfort to be found here, not that it stacks up at all next to the untold harm he does, is that he’s always been the one who cares most about Legacy™️. it bugs him so much that we hate him, that he knows history will remember The Roberts Court as simultaneously unserious and evil

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yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

It’s Skin Cancer Awareness Month… and some of y’all still think being Black means you don’t need sunscreen. We get skin cancer less often, yes. But we’re more likely to be diagnosed later.

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

if you ever feel constrained by the dictum not to speak of ill of the dead, this is a great moment to share your memories of what an abomination Rudy Giuliani is — as in this reminder of his consumate awfulness long before he made himself an absolute grotesque for Trump

Went strawberry picking with the kids after breakfast and then made whole wheat crepes with strawberries, homemade nutella/peanut butter. Top tier Saturday, 10/10 would recommend, but the only part I documented was my hens eating the tops.

Rewatching Best in Show, which is always hilarious. One of my parents worked for a dog organization for a time, and dog show folks really are like this—the way people match their breeds is spot on. Also, there really were 90s yuppies like the weimaraner people, with the fixation on specific brands.

I love this history so much. Nichelle Nichols was a queen. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gExbnV/

When I tell you that baking and confectionery arts are a way for control freaks to divert that energy away from people…

The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.

This all day everyday. I grow exhausted sometimes taking with well-meaning folks who refuse to acknowledge that, yeah, their Uncle Bob and Aunt Sue are voting for white supremacy. The infantilization of conservative voters—“they’re just not well-informed”—is tiresome as hell.

100%. Until the Supreme Court is reformed and the corrupt members removed, nothing else matters because the Supreme Court and its corrupt members will just stand in the way of everything else. Any Democrat who can't get behind that simple fact should leave politics now.

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

We have to name and accept that many across the US political spectrum are most comfortable with politicians who aren't Black. Some on our side have declared they don't think representation matters. That's why they aren't blinking today. Their silence is always telling. And it is seen and noted.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

You should read the whole article, but, because I’m petty, I wanted to figure out who the fool was who had the sheer audacity, the caucasity, to tell the brilliant Kimberlé Crenshaw that she didn’t understand intersectionality when she literally coined it. That fool is Denis McDonough. Jackass.

Listening to Jazmine Guillory’s By the Book after listening to R. F. Kuang’s Yellowface is wild. Very much alternate universes about writing and publishing. I would suggest anyone who is curious about romance novels check out Guillory. Her books are consistently well-written and engaging.

People who aren't educated can be politically astute & make smart political decisions. Black folks have been very politically astute even when they were barred from reading & writing. Saying Americans can't help but to choose to elect a bigot because they read at a 5th grade level isn't valid.

You can say that Booker is complicit without implying that he is a 🦝. But every day, I keep seeing that implied. If you're not Black, that's not your lane. You can say that Harris is complicit without lying about her credentials or her experience. Black people actually listen to what you say.

The way folks desperately need the real-world villains to be somehow cognitively compromised because otherwise it means they themselves could be a real-world villain. Just sanist ableism things.

Put Heartstopper back on to do chores before bed. These kids go through some tough things, but they’re so good to each other ❤️

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

The list of 2025's most challenged books was release this morning as part of ALA's State of America's Libraries Report. Of the 4,235 unique titles that were challenged or banned in 2025, these were the top 11 most frequently targeted for censorship: https://bit.ly/3TE4cHi #NationalLibraryWeek

Just started listening to R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface. Immediately dislike the narrator, and am totally sucked in.

I love my people. And my people in this case are passionately nerdy over some aspect of art culture etc and bonus points if they’re Black. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gaFL9A/

What in the antebellum is he thinking? Any excuse to control the movement and lives of Black people.

Conservatives built an entire ecosystem to uplift anti-social strivers of dubious quality while insisting Black people had stolen all their opportunities.

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

there was the commissioning and then canceling of that Pride collection by queer and trans artists, then there was the DEI rollback, now it’s AI-driven false arrests. Target is setting land-speed records for torching customer goodwill, given how high their popularity and how far they had to fall

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Paddington Bear 4 Escape from New York would go hard as a movie for real

Joke’s on you, Call the Midwife: crying staring at a tiny screen while I do my dishes was my plan tonight.

This applies to any explanation you have for racism. Union density was high as hell during Jim Crow. Single-earner households were the cultural norm. Crime was low, got high, then got low again, still racist. Black people went to Ivies, got kicked out, still racist.

I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process. Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.

Laughing so hard spouse in other room checked on me to see if I was ok. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gYFrh4/

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Plus parenting. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gNeqAx/

I love that Call the Midwife has been going so long that we’ve watched Timothy go from a child to a student doctor.

Dinner.

For real, Shrinking is such a good show. I initially thought it was just that I generally like everything Jason Segel does—I do—but it’s not that. Great performances all around and writing.

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

What’s wild is people will get snitty if you point out there hasn’t been nearly enough pushback on this.

We were so close to becoming a genuinely better nation until a bunch of white folks decide they needed revenge for having to suffer a Black president.

Just had amazing coffee from here. I did the flight, and was stunned with all the flavors that came through, especially with the nitro brew. Highly recommend to anyone in the area or looking to order coffee online. roadmapcoffeeworks.com

Watching The Forsytes. I keep waiting for Moyer to say “Sookeh is mayne!” There’s also poor Demelza, who can never get break, apparently.

Absolutely TF not.