things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

realizing a lot the past few years that, in all kinds of ways, 1993-94 was one of the very best times to be alive and in america. i was a teenager and longing to be older and in the future but goddamn i should have tried to freeze time instead

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

It’s very hard to be a person who likes compassion, decency, democracy, reading the news, and movies today (ok most other days too for the past year)

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Some days it’s hard to get much of anything done, and that’s ok, he posts to himself on social media, trying to pass it off as serene self-help wisdom instead of the strong frustration and deep self-criticism he feels

me after playing basketball games before my 40s: ugh it sucks i have to wait two more days until the next game me after playing a basketball game in my 40s: ugh i cant move so many various parts of my body for at least the next two days and then maybe i can play again

Tom Hanks playing Lincoln in a live-action stop motion animation hybrid adaptation of an an amazing but seemingly unfilmmable George Saunders novel, adapted by Saunders and directed by Duke Johnson (who co-directed Anomolisa with Kaufman) is either gonna be amazing or terrible and i am here for it

“If there could be only one recording of mine permitted to exist after the day of judgment, this one would instantly be my choice… this goes way beyond [Beethoven’s] massive 9th Symphony, chorus & all. One might say it goes beyond anything the human brain has ever created.” - Leonard Bernstein

PAULIE DOES IT AGAIN! Build the statue now

Paul Rothrock is maybe my favorite soccer player, pure hustle, pure spark plug, love him so much and what a save and cross my goodness. So glad the Sounders are back ⚽️

this might sound controversial to some, but i think being an artist, writer, etc. should be a sustainable career

new birthday night tradition starting now: watching moonstruck

Sometimes the universe just works out and you get to see HER in a theater in the middle of the day on your birthday boxd.it/ddiwf5

48 - sunny day real estate

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

The very first political figure i was ever aware of outside of the president, and the very first presidential candidate i ever supported (in my 4th grade class mock election in 1988) and had a pin and stickers for, and a human i’ve admired ever since. An amazing life, a sad day.

Jesse v Marvin

Goodbye to a filmmaker who taught me so, so much. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

Contemplating the immensity of what Frederick Wiseman brought to documentary filmmaking is too dizzying a task to take on the same day he leaves us. Put it this way: he lived to be 96 while never ceasing to find new ways to see & film & show the world around him in all its complexity. A+ job on life

Crossing Delancey (1988)

"Schubert’s music speaks to something timeless: the longing for connection & the pain at not finding it. He gives voice & then consolation to that part of us that feels alone in the world even when surrounded by people who care for us. A colleague of mine refers to him as the musician’s best friend.

Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

it's kinda impossible to do

“Oh no I had to pay 500 million in taxes!” to Elon Musk would be the same as you or me saying “Oh no I had to pay $58 in taxes!” To be fair, that would be like $230 to Jeff Bezos, poor guy

Try picturing it this way: If you had Elon Musk’s current net worth ($857 billion), spending a million dollars is basically equivalent to you or me spending about 12 cents. So any time you hear that he just spent (or lost) $10 million, try to remember that’s like what $1.20 would be to us.

It absolutely sucks that, in addition to everything else they benefit from, billionaires also benefit from our brain’s inability to process/realize how much a “billion” actually is. If you have that much & don’t give at least half of it away—leaving you $500 million!!—your moral compass is broken

I’m past wanting billionaires to pay the same tax rate as my middle class rate, and now want a federal law that for every billion you accrue each year, you have to give 1% of that directly to the arts and/or education. Don’t worry, billionaires, that still leaves you with 990 million dollars

Co-written by sexologist & pioneering LGBTQ advocate Magnus Hirschfeld—and made during a brief censorship-free era in Germany—DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS intended to rally support to overturn Paragraph 175, a longstanding German law criminalizing homosexuality. In response, new censorship laws arose.

I cannot stress enough how much these kinds of notes mean to teachers. Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.

I’ve always been a huge fan of Paul Thomas Anderson’s musical inspired music video for Fiona Apple’s “Paper Bag” - I swear there used to be rumors long ago that they’d make a full on musical together, but alas this will have to do! (His video for “Hot Knife is fantastic too)

Sorry, had to get that out of my system—but don't worry, as long as you're not using AI, I feel like I'm a pretty easy person to pitch! If you *really* want to write a thing, and can really write, I'm all ears, almost always. 16 years of doing this and a good pitch still absolutely makes my day.

Of the 52 million jobs created in America since 1989, 51 million, 97%, have been created under Dem Presidents. Essentially all of them. 4/

Every time I rewatch The Lady Eve I remember all over again how perfect it is

they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"

This feels like something that many people paid a lot more money than most of us should have been able to spot before the Patriots 23rd game, & honestly something most high school coaches would probably see on tape? That shit ain’t gonna get by the beautiful mind of Mike Macdonald though 🤷‍♂️

ernest jones iv is worth loving with your whole seahawk heart

I liked the part yesterday where the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, that was pretty cool.

The Seahawks just had the most dominant playoff run any team has had in 35 years and also this entire millennium

Mood

And Sam Darnold, who was NOT out indefinitely

last time you have to hear me talk about football for a long time but: SEATTLE SEAHAWKS WORLD CHAMPIONS 💚💙💚💙💚 what a season, out of nowhere, maybe the only good thing to happen in the last year in america

Seahawks get a strip sack and it goes for a Uchenna Nwosu TD

i don’t think you can say there’s ever been a better defense in a super bowl in 60 years of them?

Great politics should look like a party you want to join