She is amazing.

Well they can't pull all this shit and then tell us not to drink

Who is this guy's writer? If he doesn't already work for The Onion, @bencollins.bsky.social should get on that.

We finally found time to take down the Cbristmas tree this evening. To set the mood, my husband made hot chocolate and found a Satan playlist.

Base of the pyramid will be red meat and animal fats. Next layer up is supplements.

Merriam-Webster being a little cute here

Happy new year!

Wtaf

wrong kind of Aryanism, whoops

the first rule of Dunning-Kruger club is you don't know you're in the Dunning-Kruger club

I would like to announce some good personal news

Wow. JD Vance’s younger brother is losing in an absolute landslide in the Cincinnati mayor election after JD endorsed him.

A plague of Asian ladybeetles. The air is full of them, and my hair is not immune, either.

Charles I would like a word

The front yard deer have zoomies.

Seems counterproductive for the GOP. Otoh, I guess that any anger among the troops about not being able to vote by definition won't show up as votes for someone else.

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Indiana University Media School adopts new slogan, "No news is fit to print."

The NYT has sent second a push notification about Harvard student grading, because this is definitely the news I need to know.

Canvas down Sunday night

Needs more cowbell.

The stuff of nightmares

This is the same guy.

Cat attacking the shoes by the door and serially trying to kill them was way funnier before we found the dead rabbit among them.

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. There's Something About Gary

Presumably he will teach ICE that masks are unnecessary when you can put on a pair of nerdy glasses and a bashful mien.

Hello, I am a female academic expert in a humanities field in a film. I am 28 and I wear glasses and attractively high heels. I translate old manuscripts written in very clear characters. My classes do not meet at any time that interferes with the action, regardless of how long that takes.

Michael Roth has distinguished himself by speaking out, forcefully & publicly, again & again, against the authoritarian assault on higher education. The cowardice & silence of nearly every elite R1 president, in contrast, is striking & shameful. And it hasn't worked & will continue not to work.

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

So much for being proud of Harvard. Now I am glad I didn't get around to buying the Veritas merch.

Ftw

Congratulations to The Alligator!

🧵1/4 The Ohio GOP Budget Bill is as bad as Trump’s. The new budget gives the wealthy a tax break—dropping the top income tax rate from 3.5% to 2.75% and shifting to a flat tax. This means millionaires now pay the same rate as low-income Ohioans. The result? A $1.1 billion hit to public revenue.

Iran might be a client of Russia, but the spike in oil prices is a godsend for Putin's budget.

For some reason I find myself this evening upset all over again that there is no facedesk emoji

Theory: Bobby Jr is killing vaccines to jack up ICE recruitment among the immunosuppressed.

This @mashagessen.bsky.social piece is superb. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

Sayed Naser served as a U.S. military interpreter in Afghanistan. Now he’s being deported. The Taliban assassinated his brother and kidnapped his father. All because he helped us. Why are the feds trying to deport him, even though his asylum case is still pending? Not justice, it’s a betrayal.

I'm telling you it is still a box

“How the people who brought you Dobbs figured out how to get the NYT to carry their water” would be a great story but obvi the Times isn’t going to burn its own sources

Oh ffs

The ban on gender affirming care for trans kids that the Court upheld as constitutional today in Skrmetti is so obviously *un*constitutional that John Roberts basically just writes 20something pages of buffoonery ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

Horses, barn doors

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? The *last* thing that trained writing teachers are interested in correcting is grammar.

The Musgrave

So Moreno wants the U.S. to lose the Olympics and Ramaswany thinks that ICE should be able to go to school unmolested. Got it. Ohio out rocking it again.

So this is going well.