The most Republican guy is the guy who owns the used car dealership, a tanning salon, and a boat in a place that has been economically decimated by deindustrialization See, for instance:

If another brand or something says "Woohoo!" to me in response to me purchasing something, I will Lose It.

“AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy.“ defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

Cuomo can say Kościuszko but not Mamdani?

These are the only careers presented to kids nowadays

Nazi tats everywhere for those with eyes to see 👁️

What if I decide to overthink things and start reading the title/author to every book like I'm in Reading Rainbow open.substack.com/pub/children...

it's a ROTARY first off

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.

So Maine is out there making their own Fettermen now?

Trying to read Russian newspapers from the 1920s and you just get illustrations like this

Important to note, I think, that when they talk about "young men becoming more religious" all those young men are exactly like this

Perhaps the answer lies in the commercial frame, in which universities are service providers, students are consumers/clients, and academics are the delivery mechanism. We need to reframe the concept into a gym membership. AI can’t make the mind or the body fitter for purpose.

The problem is not that AI can replace professors - it is that a significant portion of university management think it can.

Wait till these folks hear about books

Idk what my problem is but when I get a postcard from someone I don’t know telling me to vote, it makes me want to not to, just because they told me to. Like you don’t know me!! Don’t tell me what to do!

"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve

women will be like “date night with this handsome guy 💕” and it’s just ghost turnip

It’s hard to explain this but Sliwa is a bad leader and a terrible individual—in many ways a harbinger of the violent indecency that plagues America—and yet great at being a New Yorker.

"but picky eaters didn't exist in the past" this is from 1925 bro

imagining a work place where your day consists of pouring dry beans from a pitcher into cups of graded sizes

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

Like this is the top comment on the first search result for “Classical Gas”

Yes Miss Rumphius is great, but have you read "Ox-Cart Man"? childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com/p/the-perfec...

This is one of the key things. They are memeing themselves into this

we're understanding Joe Rogan Brain more and more every day

AVERAGE DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS I’ve signed a letter politely requesting that Russ Vought explain why he called for “the release of the demiurge” and issued an order to “initiate the final era” AVERAGE BUSH-ERA REPUBLICAN COLUMNIST The people must rise up and purge the Trumpian parasite

This is why I always chuckle whenever I hear some elected Dem talk about a bipartisan deal to re-open the government like dude you're the last person left on earth that hasn't heard about the business stylings of Donald Trump. The Art of the Deal is not paying for services rendered

I think they’re made to look like they’ve been drawn on white birch bark, which is neat

You basically need to view every video posted on social media with suspicion now

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Shoutout to this classic

This is how we got my now-husband’s famous Bachelor Lasagna

I love Cynthia Rylant open.substack.com/pub/children...

my fundamental problem with this time is: im as cynical as the next guy but i really do not want to live in a world where nothing matters and nothing is real. i like to stand on the earth sometimes and feel it solidly beneath me. call me old fashioned. when im sick i want a doctor not joe rogan

they "do their own research" on medical care. that is what they call what most people call "dicking around on the internet." do your own research on everything. it's diligence, not sloth. i am not doomscrolling, i am feeding my 160 IQ

now THIS is going to be EPIC

So anyone posting a "serve immediately" recipe for a baked good now needs to get it cleared with me first. Sorry, I need to make this the day before so I can bring it in to work. I'm not getting up at 4am to make whatever Snacking Cake you've decided must be Served Immediately, NYT

oh! well then!!!!

Sad to announce this is not a real vintage card, but rather an edited one. However, they did a good job, so

You could make this kind of racist, xenophobic argument if we had publicly funded hospitals, but we famously do not

I feel slightly assaulted every time I'm forced to see a photo of Giuliani

When you just really like cheese

Cardinal McElroy at Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

Literally the day after I post this, Dolly Parton's imagination library sends me a whole-ass picture book with just goofy collective nouns for animals 😑