Interesting that they used a fat body to represent the billionaires when most (all?) of them are thin.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Loved this conversation with @saraiwalker.bsky.social on Burnt Toast—reflecting on 10 years of Dietland, body image, and writing. virginiasolesmith.substack.com/p/ive-though...

Thank you!

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

Bill Maher: “In my private dinner with Hannibal Lecter, he was charming and self-aware. I don’t think he’d ever eat anybody.”

"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."

Boycott!!

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

@cnn.com is truly vile and cowardly for pushing out the biggest Trump critic at the network. This is a stain on CNN and I hope everyone stops watching it for good.

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

if there is one absolute all encompassing principle uniting the decrees and actions of Trump’s first days across the board, it is savagery

You’re forgetting that Ryan Murphy exists…

Bashar al-Assad to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

The stupidity of the billionaires just never stops..... Obviously all of them were smart at something, and a lot of them then came to believe they were smart at everything and blundered into areas where their ignorance, prejudice, stupidity, and vanity become a superbloom.

pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....

Wondering "Should Biden have pardoned Hunter?" has about as much urgency to our immediate situation right now as pondering "Should my in-flight movie have been Drive-Away Dolls instead of Madame Web?" as your plane is about to crash.

If you are a sexual predator waiting to be appointed to the presidential cabinet, stay in line

If Sarah McBride had raped a teenager, Nancy Mace and Marjorie would be welcoming her as a new colleague.

Protect Ann Selzer from this monster.

November 2024: I’ve replaced political podcasts with true crime—they’re more relaxing and uplifting.

Hello. 👋 I left Twitter in 2023. Threads is boring. So now I’m here. Fingers crossed on this place.