oh fuck

Cheering myself up by looking at an ancient scan of a 1982 USPS booklet I loved as a kid: "P.S. Write Soon," developed jointly by the postal service and the National Council of Teachers of English to instill a love of writing letters. It worked!

flying spirit airlines tonight, pray for me

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

just in time for another crisis! sounds great! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

When I say tech is now the world's most powerful religion, I mean 1000s of little examples like this. This=AI as divine authority—not in the sense of, say, replacing god's vengeance⚡(though ask in Gaza/Iran whether we use AI to fill that role) but AI to Explain Your Mother, replacing...actual wisdom

It's a clear and sunny day in Chicago. ICE is out and about, with vehicles sighted across the city and suburbs. Berwyn Cicero Rapid Response just confirmed feds took two people from Cicero shortly after 8am.

ok, typically what tyler austin harper says is just not my business, but someone please tell this man about compulsory heterosexuality

Want to emphasize this isn't a guarantee! Months before Midway Blitz started, they did similar flights (which obviously didn't materialize into next-day enforcement activity). But it does align with Bovino's threats on his way out of town about CBP returning in the spring.

Welp, CBP is back to its nighttime surveillance flights over us in Chicago.

the number of people handing it to joe kent

The year is 2026. Researchers at The Museum of English Rural Life have pushed rural heritage to the brink. They asked: what would happen if we got some toy rats and dressed them in beautiful, handmade clothes inspired by heritage crafts?

Joe Don Baker’s headstone is so badass

The right-wing extremist head of counter-terrorism (that sentence ALONE, oof) who has played footsie with Nazis and White Nationalists, has “resigned over the Iran war” - meaning: he put out a 2026 version of the stab-in-the-back myth that essentially claims Trump is being tricked by Israel.

Joe Kent is a right-wing lunatic with a “PANZER” tattoo (yes, in the original German), has close ties to White Nationalists and extremist paramilitary groups, he has consulted with Fuentes about social media strategy, employed a Proud Boy on his campaign - and that’s just off the top off my head.

An EXTREMELY helpful thing folks can do, if they live near a federal courthouse, is volunteer for Habeas Dockets. Docs in habeas cases aren't viewable online by default. But they are at courthouses. This site makes them available/searchable for free. Helps lawyers a lot habeasdockets.org/volunteer/

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

"these tools actually seem to mitigate against the educational goals I have for my students" is IT

Anyway here’s a video of Ryan Coogler’s speech for winning best screenplay for Sinners on Jan 13 at the NBR, which he uses to talk about Minnesota and Renee Good and whether or not filmmaking can empower political change

so many statement brooches worn in this oscars telecast

PLEASE y'all, file witness slips in opposition of this ILGA bill that would require OPERATING SYSTEM-LEVEL AGE VERIFICATION. This is a bad bill on privacy and a bad bill on rights and a technical nightmare with terrible implications. There is no implementation of this that would be good.

Meta is throwing astronomical sums of money at IL legislature to get bullshit "age verification" here— if you live in Illinois, kindly sign a witness slip as 'opposed'

Uhhh holy crap y’all someone is trying to backdoor get age verification for computers though the ILGA. This is a bad bill. It cannot be allowed to pass. www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

I wrote a little song I sing when I am watching the news sometimes. 🎶they don’t talk about the middle class because they don’t intend to have one 🎶

RIP to one of the greatest German philosophy posts of all time.

A source once told me the firearms industry is the only business that directly facilitates the exercise of a constitutional right. I didn’t have the heart to say the press is one amendment ahead of them.

the funniest excerpt of terry gross's interview with rhae lynn barnes about her new book DARKOLOGY

*low whistle*

There are white CHILDREN in Pennsylvania currently facing SERIOUS CHARGES after THEY were attacked by plain clothed cops. Their families are raising money for legal fees through GoFundMe. Some of you are pathetic.

For weeks now, I've shared information about HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS protesting ICE REGULARLY. So much so that whole states like Kansas and Texas are rolling out LAWS to sanction schools and laws to criminalize TEENAGERS. Please let's be serious.

always going to take the side of teenagers over you losers.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

In America, people are regularly forced to crowdfund cancer treatment.

sometimes i think about the fact that my mother died the same way jonathan larson did

“read the wikipedia page on PT Barnum” challenge

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Two kinds of article that need to die: 1. They’re Hot, Young, and Hate Minorities: Meet the Cool New Right Wingers of Today! 2. These Former Right Wingers, Faces Freshly Eaten By Leopards, Are Ready to Tell Their Story and Join the Fight For Practical Centrism

And I feel like this should be put into conversation because just who the promise of protection was targeted towards and the targets of “transgression” through race science etc is very salient to why they held an affinity for the right. bsky.app/profile/solo...

One of the things I think people should grapple with is the easy description of “Peak Woke” as haughty moralism, only to then describe the “race science” of the right as a secret thrill. Feels like the “woke” people knew about the race science, but even in these mea culpas, it can’t be said.

weird how none of the defectors—or, indeed, the writer—acknowledge that many women were making all of these critiques (that, surprise!, turned out to be correct!) ALL WHILE they were in their contemptuous radicalization phases

Absolutely aghast at the idea of someone reading everything else in the Guardian but not reading the best part of the Guardian

real estate investment trusts, or reits, have been crucial to the expansion of u.s. private prisons and immigration jails. but what actually is a reit? and how can you make sure your retirement savings aren't invested in one that owns prisons? check out this guide from @jamieludwig.bsky.social:

If you would like to learn about American empire, including all the Immerwahr stuff PLUS the perspectives and lives of *people who actually live in the territories/colonies,* I also have a book for you

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

insofar as anything i write comes close to this ethic, it’s in the fact that i always fall a little in love with people i profile. at the end of the day, i am never writing about someone i can’t like.