This is so dramatically unprofessional that I can only assume Vanity Fair will promote her.

People keep posting about how “maybe Leavitt will learn a lesson now that it’s happening to her sister-in-law” and…you are missing a key point. The woman is Leavitt’s brother’s *ex* & Leavitt’s entire family - including her brother & his new wife - seem pretty eager to deport this woman.

fuck everyone involved in this decision. scum.

One popular Thanksgiving tradition is making a wish while breaking the fulcrum of the turkey, more commonly known as the wishbone. 🧵⬇️ (NOT HIM)

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

U have died of dysentery

People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"

“Device hoarding” un fucking real Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit

dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus

NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next. Will come back to dissect. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

maybe i am going insane

I will admit to many frailties and flaws. I am far from perfect and have made plenty of mistakes and there are plenty of things I am bad at. You could not pay me enough to declare that I am incapable of composing my own insults.

lindsey halligan can go back to her previous job as an extra on dynasty

“We need to be nicer to men” no state made spousal rape a crime until 50 years ago and too many loopholes exist today

the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you

ryan lizza is a bad person

Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship. She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST

MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down TRUMP: Uh huh MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade? TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom

The Daily Mail is IN HELL

trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker

everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust

I'm going to get something up Monday but in the mean time, y'all, IMLS got a *massive* win today. The judge in the case between 21 states and the administration blocked further dismantling of the IMLS by Trump. It'll be appealed, but we've gotta take the Ws. www.wordsandmoney.com/in-a-major-v...

Not a kangaroo court, a hamster tribunal www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

Waited all day to read this and it was even better than promised. And comments that anti-trans panics -- and moral panics in general -- are a way to avoid dealing with the far more endemic sexual abuse of girls and women are spot-on.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

I’m howling.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Stand with all sisters not just cis-ters🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Claire Sharpe gets the "lifted my heart and inspired me today" award. Not a big award but I am grateful and admiring. Hell yeah.

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Aiming for Joan Didion but landing on Eva Braun.

“Olivia Nuzzi is on the phone, she wants to do a profile” starting to approach Isaac Chotiner levels of danger

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on

Lizza alluding to the age gap between Nuzzi and Olbermann as problematic, when Lizza is himself 20 years older than her, is so funny

POTUS tells a woman to shut up by snapping "Quiet, Piggy." Strike up the band for another rousing chorus of our theme song: 🎵MAGA is a war of men against women And Donald Trump is its Generalissimo🎵

The way both Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi are now selling their personal lives like melodramas while also both still supposedly being serious political journalists makes me deeply uncomfortable

Truly you do.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $35.9 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

thanks to @marisakabas.bsky.social & @melbuer.bsky.social for this -- sticking families with the bill for the abduction of their loved ones is one of many indicators that this is terror as state policy. the desirables get to pal around with epstein and teach at harvard. those who aren't get this: