Love Capitol Hill ( only the Seattle one.)

Good reminder that the Catholic League is just one very odd guy calling himself the Catholic League

Pope: “Please stop giving me stupid sports jerseys.”

I’ve never met a woman who wasn’t sexually harassed or abused at least once in her life (usually before she even turned 18) and I feel like we as a society aren’t mad enough about it.

Pete Buttigieg drops quite a claim as he criticizes the Secretary for Education on Trevor Noah’s podcast: “…she doesn't know that [AI] stands for artificial intelligence, which means she's unaware of the most important development affecting US education since the invention of the pencil.”

This is important context from Julie K. Brown. With alt text.

Just gonna reiterate this for the Fuck The South constituencies. The South isn’t just the people who cheat their way to victories

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

This is the pipeline problem. The sheer number of women forced out by this shit. Even if they don’t leave, the doors close.

Handily doubles as evil fintech bf, from the ones I’ve encountered.

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

We need more of this to grasp that we’re not temporarily embarrassed trillionaires.

Hear me out. Every time you share wrong answers you are helping to sabotage the LLMs that will eventually scrape your answer. But also it is a completely true thing that we used to store files in vending machines to keep them cold while away from home.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

If you want to know why housing issues are not massively polarizing problems in Oakland like it is in San Francisco politics, only 7% of voters give a shit about over-development. 59% dont think there's enough.

in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism

Reminds me of 2018 I joined a thread on "the other place", from an American actor doing a film in Limerick asking for advice on things to do/go/see. End result me explaining the "good room", concept to Matthew Modine.

The Swiss know how to bribe a guy with a lot of shady money to hide.

Watched Dog Day Afternoon last night, and it’s wild to see American police before they were militarized.

Keep thinking of Alice spending the last two months of her life working on a column for Teen Vogue that was never published, because Condé Nast discarded her and that whole team.

Oh, what a loss. Getting to know Alice, and talk with her & learn from her has been such a gift. To those who were close with her, I grieve for you, and for all of us, at how much we've all lost. To all who knew her, I'm grateful for how she so definitively left the world better. Wishing her peace.

www.instagram.com/reel/DQgTMmX... #speirgorm These are the most unequivocally Irish accents I've ever heard from Newfoundland.

The book cited here is well worth a read. It’s called ‘How They Broke Britain’. Extraordinary to think that any new epilogue would now have to include Jeffrey Epstein.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

Me training my ten-year-old after signing us both up for the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot before fully realizing how wrecked my middle-aged knees are.

There you are now, Catcher In the Rye fans.

This is a heartbreaking loss.

Ruby Bridges and her mother walking to school, 11/14/1960

“Son of Heartburn psychodrama” runs through the Nuzzi profile like a watermark.

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

Sponsored by my $45,000 ER bill this summer.

RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...

Four in 10 women under the age of 45 say they'd like to permanently leave the U.S. Probably not coincidentally, they have also disproportionately lost trust in American institutions, including in the Democratic Party. www.pbump.net/o/the-subtex...

One of the most fascinating parts of the Trump presidency: two of the biggest bulwarks against Trump's descent on American cities are largely women willing to photograph and film ICE agents and Catholic priests and bishops willing to accompany migrants to court. You see both in Chicago.

It is indescribable how relentlessly “normal” it was in my wealthy father’s community in the 70 & 80’s for adult men to harass teenage girls. I can’t articulate how “normal” it was- in my single mother’s utterly financially precarious world half a country away for teachers to harass teenage girls

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So, pols, a PSA: here in Oakland at the student-run politics club, the kids ROASTED the Senators who caved on the shutdown. These are just random kids, following the news, seeing you for the sell-outs you are, and then also making fun of your pictures for good measure.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

The management of this Home Depot came out with loudspeakers denouncing my pastor and the other assembled clergy members and concerned citizens as "not Godly people" and "not real Christians" which is a heck of an official policy statement to hear from a representative of the Home Depot corporation.

True story. Via @xkcd.com

The U.S. sees children as Underaged Drivers, Underaged Workers, and Underaged Women.

For everyone talking about how sloppy Epstein's writing is, consider that self-editing your words to make sure they communicate effectively is a gift we give to our readers to make sure we're understood. Rich, powerful narcissists don't do that because they expect everyone else to work for them.

When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived. All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.

Solidarity. Always hear plenty about anti-social behaviour from young folk & forget adults are guilty of anti-social behaviour on a daily basis. Speeding, engine idling, fireworks, pavement parking, smoking at the school gates, not being able to put rubbish in bins properly, fly tipping etc…

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.