Saw the GDT Frankenstein. It was so good. My response is more basic than the film deserves: it’s really sad. The script and performances are really moving—but I’m just sad.

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They’re booting Black people off campus, but don’t worry, they’re being replaced with the suicide bots.

Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious. Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

This is devastating, and I say this as someone who has written for Teen Vogue. TV did a tremendous job helping Americans understand politics during the first Trump term.

Thursday Murder Club—you did it to me again! It’s all cozy, humorous murder mystery, and then like 3 or for sentences in the last few chapters make me weep. Well done, @richardosman1.bsky.social, I had to pause doing my dishes to cry from listening to “The Bullet That Missed.”

I made roasted pumpkin seeds and so much other food this weekend. It was all very quotidian. It’s abhorrent that this administration doesn’t think feeding yourself and your family is a basic human right, and considers it as a bargaining chip or something to be earned.

What's simplest way to signal you have never read Great Gatsby and have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER of its main plot points? I'd say: Posing a flapper outside 1920s car—which might even be yellow. As in first pic. Like having a "Chekhov party" with a gun on the dinner table. The cruelty. The ignorance.

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

I recently rewatched The Godfather, and I know this makes me basic as hell, water is wet, etc, etc, but that film is really so good.

Watching post season 9 wrap up of Love is Blind, and, of course, I have hot takes.

aren't we *here*, on *this* website, because we specifically DON'T want to be subjected to Apartheid Clyde's toxic nonsense?

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

White people aren't doing well... Every Black and brown person on the PLANET reading this and thinking my mom's childhood friend's second cousin is considered our Aunt... LOSERS...

Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Oh, the caucasity.

As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked. Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.

When Jacobin and the Pod Save bros are aligned on defending nazi tattoos, we’ve got a problem and it’s not going to be solved by you coming into my mentions and telling me I’m not seeing what I’m definitely seeing— which is white people left, right, and center coming together to defend Nazi tattoos

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Anyone can become disabled. Anyone can lose their job. Anyone can become homeless. Anyone can go hungry. These are not moral failings. They can happen in an instant. Most people are far closer to living in poverty than they realize. We must fight for one another & for the most vulnerable.

Look at how very surprised I am that Jacobin would take this position. Shocked, I tell you.

Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Teaching the later Du Bois this week. Including speeches by Du Bois and Robeson given #otd in 1950. “We, the anti-fascist forces of America – the working masses, the Negro people, the brave Jewish people, the foreign-born progressives… will continue to raise our voices for peace.” -Paul Robeson

Ok, BlueSky mods labeling this adult content is fully hilarious.

They tortured him to death.

‘It actually passed’: High school students create city ordinance to protect renters in Durham www.cbs17.com/news/local-n...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

A very incomplete list of things we wouldn't have done if we waited for the normies to care: - abolish slavery - child labor laws - votes for women - social security - fdic - welfare - medicare - medicaid - desegregation - women's sports

My father was a mail carrier and a veteran, and my mother was an executive assistant who also worked from home as a hairdresser. But I need to be more sensitive to the working-class heroes who are our only hope for understanding “real” people.

Summer 2026

40 odd million people use SNAP. 7 million WIC. food banks are already way down because of funding cuts. It’s going to be catastrophic

This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Kenny Loggins is antifa.

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Ok, so the place I bought the hazelnuts has stopped selling them, so I’ve now been looking into alternative sources, trying o decide between Oregon vs Turkey grown hazelnuts. This is ridiculous, but there are so many worse things I could be fixated on, so I’ll carry on.

While wildly impractical, I’m glad the spouse and I still find enough to talk about to stay up ridiculously late sometimes.

and that you DGAF about the people who will be affected.

By my count: Of the 15 Departments of the US Government, 13 launched new BlueSky accounts tonight (all but Justice and HUD), and all 13 have posted explicitly partisan political posts blaming Democrats and/or Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown.

It's gotten obvious that they're pushing AI to make the population easy to control because they have no basics skills to think for themselves, I'm just stating it this way.

Y’all, we already finished the first batch 😳 Made a double batch this time, reserving 1/4 of it for the first test of a pumpkin spice variation. Ground the hazelnuts for longer, and skipped the optional oil this time, as I don’t think it’s necessary.

Oof.