I swear Dolly Parton can suck the life out of me like the Hocus Pocus witches if she needs to stay alive.

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

Me too! And it was delighful. Also will never not take the chance to repost this photo because chasting with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social a top 5 moment for me.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

I told y'all I'm not leaving the country for a reason and maybe more people understand why today

I was on CBC’s The National yesterday speaking about Charlie Kirk’s influence and legacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXsp...

Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.

As someone who had Bell’s palsy and has a close relative with hemiplegia from an aneurysm, this droop looks very familiar.

The political assassination of the Speaker of the Minnesota House was a terrible harbinger for our democracy. The profound silence from Republicans afterwards was worse. The political assassination of Charlie Kirk is a terrible harbinger for our democracy. Again, the response is antidemocratic.

Looking forward to the Sunday shows where every single reporter asks if Democrats' rhetoric is too divisive without mentioning anything Republicans say even once or the murder of a Democratic state senator and her family by a radical right wing killer everyone collectively forgot about.

I mean Jesus Christ, as far as I know, RFK, the fucking head of the CDC, didn’t say anything at all condemning the CDC shooting lol. And if he finally did, it was well after the point when it would’ve meant a fucking thjng.

Melissa Hortman was accused of being a racist by white men.

Now seems like a good time to remind y’all that @jamellebouie.net did a whole episode of @yourewrongabout.bsky.social about Reconstruction: yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com/1112270/epis...

I used to really love two dots but my god between the popups and “extras” it’s pretty much unplayable.

This tracks with something else I’ve been told by friends: two diff US citizens, complete with social sec card and birth certificate, denied passport renewals for no apparent reason. And they kept the unexpired passports.

Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press. “While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

As a former DC resident, I am afraid this is 100% accurate

Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

No. We are not doing this anymore. It is 2025. Usha Vance stays with her husband because she agrees with him. There is no evidence that she loathes him at all. Yale-educated women can be fascist too.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell isn't giving up on her war against the city's school system. Her administration says it is continuing to collect millions in processing fees from the system in violation of an April city ordinance. www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Always thinking about that @hayesbrown.bsky.social tweet.

This has been me since day one. DAY ONE.

Hermann Goering was just an opiate addict but his incompetence graphs pretty directly onto ol' Pete Hegseth

Heinrich Himmler thought he was a reincarnated Prince from the year 1000

i will die on the hill that the original Nazis were just as silly as our modern versions. Hitler based his plans for the invasion of Russia partly on cowboy novels written by a con-man.

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.

I am trying to color my way to some semblance of calm and IT IS NOT WORKING

Just to be clear, you’re saying *these* trans people matter

On this day, 60 years ago, LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act into law. For the last 20 years, Chief Justice John Roberts has chipped away at the law, and will most likely write the 6-3 opinion in next term's re-hearing of Louisiana v. Callais. www.senate.gov/artandhistor...

Between the Tesla Diner, the Cybertruck, and The Boring Company, the list of "ideas" that conclusively prove Elon Musk is definitely not a genius is getting mighty long

Same. Subsisting off liquid iv, pouches, and milkshakes.

I need a Maintenance Phase - @ifbookspod.bsky.social crossover bonus ep about Eric Adams’ “cookbook.” Please, I am BEGGING you @yrfatfriend.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

I….

I love getting page proofs. Our abridged 50th anniversary edition of the Church Committee Report will be out January 2026. It's the first time *ever* this landmark investigation into abuses committed by the American Intelligence apparatus has been published by a major press for the general public.

I fear far too many of you do not get this reference.

never forget the time someone accused me of having higher expectations for other people than i have for myself. tell that to all my anti-anxiety meds 🙃

The destruction of public radio is truly an existential threat to books and book culture. I can't say it enough.

something you may not know about me is that i am a hurricane katrina survivor. this year is the 20th anniversary of the hurricane and i am honored to be co-curating a film program at MoMA that takes a look at new orleans before, during, & after the storm. learn more: www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

The contempt they have for the lives of Black people on full display here.

WAKE UP EVERYONE!!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!

"A hallmark of a home is that it is a place where you feel safe; if you don’t feel safe, it’s not home. For some, leaving the lives they built here is the only option. But I don’t want to leave. I have enough privilege to stay, and I want to use it to help."

reading parable of the talents because today is already depressing and …

Every day Mamdani releases a video with someone powerful in NYC politics endorsing him, and every day the New York Times writes a story like "in Campaign Game Changer, Cuomo endorsed by Ghost of Senator John C. Calhoun (D-SC)"

The reason Batman doesn’t cover his whole face is so the police know he’s white. Think about it.

Margaret and Douglas

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”