Ladies’ morgue is so good

“Philadelphia is the asylum of the disaffected.” - Philip Schuyler

I didn’t remember the plot of pee wee’s big adventure, but so many images and moments indelibly shaped what I imagine about America in the past

Every few years you hear about US troops killed in Africa and for a minute we pay attention to the US military presence there, our bases, alliances, the way US interventions add to instability, and then we in the US forget, only to be told that it’s good that Trump is dropping bombs for peace.

I don’t know how many more indoor days I can take with my spouse and children

I think the phrase “feeling undermined” is apt because we are among the people who are being affirmatively disempowered

It suggests that being married to an immigrant, hiring immigrants, working with immigrants, having an immigrant child or relative, being an immigrant yourself, any of this, isn’t enough to foster investment in pluralistic democracy

Google AI seems awfully certain about this and a little rude, but what if the last decade and a half shows that the ubiquity of cameras took bits of our souls

The copaganda of Disney on ice is extremely unnecessary!!!

I bet you could make a graph that shows divorce rates tracking smoke detector usage

Should I start TNG from the beginning to show my 8 yo or should I select some bangers to get her hooked? I don’t have fond memories of s1/2 but have you found that children like it?

Trying to figure out steps to take when smoke detector is chirping in the middle of the night, one of the most enraging experiences of search being cooked and AI being dangerous trash

The way Trading Places is a love letter to Philadelphia… what a place this is!

US military interventions in Africa have made things worse for the last couple of decades

We started the 1988 pee wee Xmas special with no explanation and the children asked no questions, they just instantly accepted and understood everything about this

I think we underestimate how much anticatholicism is still a big part of nativism since 1965

I sent this to my friend who brought his new baby home from the hospital today and he said: missed opportunity to not make the dateline Bethlehem PA

Pope Leo at Christmas Day Mass: “The Word has pitched his fragile tent among us. How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold; and of those of so many other refugees and displaced persons on every continent? www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Go birds 🦅 merry Xmas 🎄

The best Christmas movie of all time filmed in the greatest American city

Watching Buffy freak out near the end of season 5 when she’s been fighting so hard and suffering so much and “it just keeps coming” I don’t think they intended this to be a metaphor for being a mom on day 1 of winter break/xmas eve but

Are there any must see new Xmas romance comedies this season?

The visa lottery is just a very special thing timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Toy Story is amazing because they eventually realize they’ve created an absolutely horrifying premise

Merry Xmas to all the grown ups making magic happen right now lol

"Elected officials must ensure that funding for technology and training is readily at hand. Schools must allocate those funds in ways that prioritize student learning." No. Elected officials must increase the number of teachers and their pay, and fund arts programs. "A.i." should get no money.

And it takes place in the greatest city in America. I always take out of towners on a Trading Places tour when they visit

This sucks so fucking much 😔 you can’t equip us to mitigate the harms of a project of mass disempowerment

She’s asking what Xmas movies we are watching tomorrow and uhhhhh

“Taking my things should be a federal offense. I’m an adult”

When Warren made the sex/robots in season 5, it couldn’t have been a louder warning to this society and yet

It is interesting that nativist racism and ardent xenophobia don’t scan, to certain people, as bigotry

Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra nine months after she was taken into custody ICE "I am thankful that they never gave up, remaining committed even when the outcome seemed dark […] This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people,"

How old does my daughter have to be to watch Trading places, which by law must be screened at Christmas time in Philadelphia

We can do better

Teens everywhere enjoying the forbidden 60 Minutes video, they call it Rooney Maxxing, going Leslie Stahl mode, they go to parties dressed as Scott Pelley

Bari Weiss saw this and questioned what the victims of US state violence should be called depending on if they had a visa stamp

This would be more process than was afforded the people this country sent to their torture

I kind of want Peter and Michael to write an airport book and I want to buy it at the airport

I know reading student papers doesn’t burn calories but I’m so wiped out, it doesn’t seem fair

We celebrate all wins!!!!

something that I have been/am very unprepared for is people just lying to my face, our collective faces, just saying things that are not true. I just expected people to have more shame.

The US cannot do harm because it is definitionally Good, therefore the people it tortures cannot be “migrants” they have to be enemy combatants or illegals, they have to be Bad

The list remains freshly embarrassing doesn’t it

“Migrants” deemed insufficiently dehumanizing hmm

Do you have Hanukkah candles you love, that fit the menorah well, that are largely dripless? I like to purchase them now, a year in advance, so I don’t forget. Ours were so-so this year.

It’s staggering how every headline from the last year is foreshadowing for the worst day of someone’s life

I liked how wicked shows fascism’s shiny appeal

honestly, “it’s because they’re still mad about the New Deal” is a pretty good guiding hypothesis for a lot of stuff