Every day I think about how this period will be written about in my grandkids’ history textbooks.

It’s time. It’s flannel Friday season.

There are no words for how evil this is

My unpopular take is that gossip is Bad Actually. I know it feels noble or something to say “it helps oppressed groups share information” and dude I was THERE for MeToo and I get it but also “don’t be alone with the boss” ain’t gossip; it’s a warning.

Did tampons in bathrooms ruin the workplace Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace

Ok but also imagine the New York GD Times putting LITERALLY ANY OTHER IDENTITY GROUP in that headline. Did [racial group X] ruin the workplace? Did gays ruin the workplace? Wanna know how normal and fun and edgy sexism is? There’s your answer.

Bahahahahahaha 12 hours later someone went “uhhh…” Great job everyone.

I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.

TODDLER: [walks up, rubs hand up and down my leg] I had a BIG sneeze. - This is joy, friends.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

There will be roughly 20 people who move out of New York City bc of Mamdani, and there will be over 400 articles about them.

Listening to oral args today making me realize how much my phone/this world have absolutely torched my ability to concentrate.

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[bursts into the room] [extremely elder millennial voice] You know, Milwaukee is the only American city to have elected three socialist mayors. Also, “Milwaukee” is from “mili wau kay,” which is Algonquin for “the good land.”

Ok “mamdani and spanberger/sherrill took two wildly different paths to winning” is not the take, people. Really. Not everything is a left vs. center battle for the soul of the party. Come with me. 1/

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025. (Story from when the pilot launched.)

[lies down under desk]

wait what

Normalize deleting your bad takes.

You mean like Peter O'Toole, top advisor to King Ralph?

Dont understand why these K pop bands are the size of a football team listen kids back in my day our boy bands had 5 members tops and we were GRATEFUL by God

This isn’t a dig at Jennifer Lawrence, but the way she’s been talking about herself on her current press tour makes me sad. She basically expresses that having a personality as a young woman in the public eye made her too much, and she doesn’t want to repeat those same mistakes. It’s a little eerie.

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Ok seeing Seth Rogen and Rachel Zegler on this Coens series and realizing my Blank Check dreams may be too big.

This is the consistent message of most Democrats I've covered this year, but Obama (duh) is better at selling it. I dislike the "they can't just be anti-Trump" CW. He's president, of course they'll run against him. Much odder that Rs are still doing Biden and 2016 election probes.

This 6 7 thing is such bullshit. Back in my day when a number was a joke it meant something. Like 69. Or when you really wanted to be filthy, 94. Or when you wanted to be subversive and stick it to the man, 326. What, you don’t understand? WELL IM NOT SURPRISED SKIPPY.

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I’ve been thinking this for years and he just…tweeted it out.

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REQUEST: For my book, I’m looking to briefly interview 2-3 women aged 75+ about their lives, their loves and what advice they’d give to to their 50 year-old selves Send me your nice moms, cool aunts, groovy grandmas please ♥️

This is just to say I have crumbled the works That were on this sand And which you were probably saving For posterity Forgive me, Ozymandias They were temporary So fragile And so lame.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

NEW: President Trump says he has instructed the DOD to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China. It’s unclear what this means since Russia and China are not currently conducting nuclear tests and the DOD does not conduct testing for the US (it’s the DOE that does).

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Considering writing a memoir called “a very stupid year.” About what has been for me a very stupid year.

ok all these people supposedly getting podcasts over video: are you just never cleaning your homes or washing dishes or wandering your neighborhood lightly stoned? What are you DOING?

Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

Ok I’m outside and I’m touching the grass and guys it’s not working do I need to like do it harder or something

More “everyone is 12” evidence: I saw this study and thought “they studied boob size? Hot damn!”

Let's scrap Lean In. The career advice book I want to write for the women: You, Not Them. Working your ass off? Do it for you, not them. Standing up for yourself? GOOD. Do it for your dignity, not their approval. You can't guarantee you'll impress anyone else. Impress yourself.

Get ‘em @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

I am sobbing

Personal read as a native Iowan is that there’s so much work ethic/pain tolerance wrapped up in this. My dad used to say farmers would “rather work than breathe.” So with tariffs I can see farmers thinking you just gotta work through this pain. Times are tough but that happens, etc etc etc.

You know I’m something of a soybean farmer myself

Toddler + mom’s foot surgery + knee scooter = recipe for disaster

EVERY. THING. IS. ABOUT. GENDER.