if you haven't seen Zero Day yet and you're thinking about it because you usually like political thrillers, you should know that this one feels like it was hallucinated by the Lincoln Project

the worst is when you get that cross with the one wonky wheel so it just goes all over the place and don't get me started on people who leave their crosses in a parking space and don't take them back to the cross corral

Today we saw someone being wheeled into an ambulance from the Velvet Taco at the Domain ... with their leftovers bagged up on the stretcher going with them

No thoughts, only blep

no thoughts only vibes

friends, please tell me of your favorite spooky scary season video games!!! I have Xbox and a very old Playstation

Same

no thoughts only vibes

Austin folks: here’s a great resource on contacting our local ABC affiliate advertisers to holler at them about the ongoing capitulation to fascism forwrd-atx.beehiiv.com/p/standards-...

You can also contact your local Sinclair station (it owns CBS here). The Fox station may be a lost cause.

Austin folks: here’s a great resource on contacting our local ABC affiliate advertisers to holler at them about the ongoing capitulation to fascism forwrd-atx.beehiiv.com/p/standards-...

Our dog is sick (reflux probably, possibly something more serious, tbd) so my husband created a data visualization to track her symptoms 🤓😂🥹 may everyone who seeks one find such a man

Killer read on Bolsanaro's conviction from my colleague @nicolefroio.bsky.social!

We guarantee no AI, no pandering to algorithms, and saying whatever we want about the Trump administration here at @theflytrapmedia.com and you can be a member for as little as $6.66/month!

At The Flytrap, we talk shit about MAGA all the time. It's our GUARANTEE that we will never cancel ourselves for covering the political realities of the extreme-right fascism we are living through right now. Apparently that's a unique selling point. Subscribe here: the-flytrap.ghost.io

A fun history lesson: A&M asked Jefferson Davis to be the first president of the university but he turned them down. They found a different Confederate to do it.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

If anything, the complaints of the 'free speech!' crowd only make us more powerful.

As first reported by @jackjenkins.me here is the wild video of Prestonwood Baptist Pastor Jack Graham playing an AI generated Charlie Kirk speech in which a fake Kirk says he knew he might be killed for "speaking up in this cultural moment, and I'd do it all over again."

the list of conditions that qualify you is fairly extensive, but may I suggest a simpler route: lying seriously, I just checked the “I’m eligible” box online when scheduling and the pharmacist didn’t ask me shit, they just gave me the shot

Mark A. Welsh III resigned as president of the Texas A&M University flagship on Thursday in a stunning fallout that comes a week after a viral “whistleblower” video circulated that raised questions about a professor’s teaching on gender identity issues.

With full alt text

As a regular reader, I highly recommend the Flytrap.

If I had done the same shit Olivia Nuzzi did my name would never be allowed in the VICINITY of a legacy pub ever again.

if you're in the market to support some woke antifa media, may i recommend @theflytrapmedia.com, worker-owned feminist coop that just this week published an incredible photo essay on anti-fascist, rural feminist radio in Argentina

For Septima. For Recy. For Rosa. For Linda. For Ella. For Diane. For Daisy. For Constance. For Dorothy. For Claudette. For Irene. For Ruby. For Myrlie. For Coretta. For Betty. For Pauli. For Martha P. For Anna. For Leah. For Mamie. For Joan. For Amelia. NO GIVING IN coming soon. ✊🏾

not okay w WH trying to intimidate me or others behind the scenes which this seems to be about. Why else does WH need to know which law professors spoke to the press before a story is published? The WH was asked a question about the law (as were we), not asked about personal or factual issues. 2/2

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

I was so hyped to edit this, really recommend the read!!

The Roy family knows that parks and cruises is where the rubber meets the road

if you're in the market to support some woke antifa media, may i recommend @theflytrapmedia.com, worker-owned feminist coop that just this week published an incredible photo essay on anti-fascist, rural feminist radio in Argentina

One of these days I’m going to talk about the divide between people who talk about politics and the people who watch daytime television and the need to bridge the two beyond “The View”

< screaming as loud as i possibly the fuck can into the unyielding void > I DON'T EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER WANT TO TIE MY PASSWORD MANAGER OR ANYTHING THE FUCK ELSE TO A MOTHERFUCKING AI BROWSER YOU ABSOLUTE CONGSHUNTS

Good morning! It's Flytrap Tuesday and we have an amazing photoessay on rural feminists in Argentina--and their struggles with the current right-wing, libertarian government: the-flytrap.ghost.io/rural-femini...

This morning, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that the Israeli government is committing genocide — affirming what Palestinians and experts have been saying for nearly two years.

q for other Ghost newsletterers: how in the world do we give people gift links to individual stories, is this an obvious thing that i am missing in the back end somehow

yo this pin is finally restocked!

i have this massive ADHD doom box in my office and Stella simply will not be dissuade from trying to sleep/stand on it despite the fact that there is nowhere, i mean absolutely nowhere, with enough flat space to accommodate even her tiniest of catbutts

Dandy is looking especially fierce up on her tower tonight.

EXCUSE ME

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

oh so the quiet part was LOUD loud

Tragically fitting that the ultimate legacy of allowing fascists who hate our educational institutions to host unlimited speaking engagements on campuses for decades is the end of all speech at universities that fascists don’t personally agree with. Your student bodies warned you the whole time.

I thought I was pretty good on COVID info but I didn't get a 100% on this and found the correctives to where I was wrong or didn't understand the question thoroughly super useful

There's a line on Chance the Rapper's new album that goes: "Dear Black church, this is the real world Don't you forget about them four little girls Killed in the church while they played in the nursery Four Sundays ago was their anniversary." The song is called "Letters" 🧵

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

any "how dare you" narrative from the right is much more likely to be substantively about any given person's individual feelings about how they might be perceived in their absence/death (see: boomers who complain about their estranged kids/family) than about the person they're nominally defending

WASHINGTON (AP) — Appeals court rejects Trump bid to unseat Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook days ahead of a vote on interest rates.

I really loved this piece in today's @flaminghydra.com, first time in a long time I read an essay that resonated and also wasn't ~ for ~ me. I had never heard of Emma Chamberlain before but this captures the moment of Gen Z coming into their professional lives/power

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1) Laying in bed with the windows open listening to the rain 2) Playing a silly D&D game with friends 3) texting my friends a good morning text and getting their reply 4) donating to lefties 5) chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven