my kid came home from kindergarten today and announced she was setting a trap to catch a leprechaun. apparently other kids at school always end up with candy and treats in their annual leprechaun traps, so she’s pretty stoked to see what she gets. I am begging other parents to fucking cool it

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

This week’s BEST PARTY WORST HOUSE: on Young Womanhood, Transactional Sex, and Spanking a CBC Literary Prize winner in front of Kermit the Frog. (Some names have been changed. But not all!) jennieegerdie.substack.com/p/its-not-ea...

Harris accused Altman of being the “Goebbels of the Trump administration.” But on Tuesday, Harris said by email: “It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.”

I didn't believe this so I looked it up and holy shit, it's true. There is a literal pathway to life imprisonment if a trans person uses the bathroom 4 times in Idaho, if this bill fully passes.

1. In the most extreme bathroom ban moving in the nation, Idaho's House has passed a bathroom ban with a potential 5 year prison sentence for 2nd offense-using the bathroom. It even counts "offenses" of using the bathroom in other states. It now moves to the Senate.

Crepuscular Crepuscular Crepuscular

For future reference

This took me out IG real_timmeadows “So many roles, I barely remember them.”

🖕 GRAHAM: “I feel good about the Republican Party. We’re killing all the right people and cutting your taxes. Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs. We didn’t even run out of bombs in WWII.” #cdnpoli

This is why I never get tired of this one

Our power doesn't run on nothing, it runs on blood And blood is easy to obtain When you have no shame We have no shame youtu.be/YRAk6gWQdqI?...

Let them eat war Let them eat war That's how to ration the poor Feed em death youtu.be/F4ngeLZX5_M?...

@cingraham.bsky.social hey, you may not recall but last year we briefly exchanged pleasantries about growing up in the West End and Mama Nina's garlic knots. I just read your Slate piece and it was beautiful and devastating. To write about something like that with grace, humor, and honesty is...

For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42. slate.com/life/2026/03...

The 3 genders

#FANTASYMAXXING by diligently calling every other manager in my dynasty league at 1am asking if they can beat a 2027 2nd for Zach Charbonet @dennycarter.bsky.social @rotopat.bsky.social @zkffb.bsky.social

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

Obviously the broader culture is not in a good place but it's heartening that television keeps returning to one of the eternal storytelling themes: Padma Lakshmi imperiously striding into the room and demanding that you make her a delicious treat.

As we reported in @boltsmag.org last month, Massachusetts is the *only* state with a Democratic governor + legislature that maintains a state-level 287(g) agreement with ICE. As part of this agreement, Massachusetts often funnels people exiting prison into deportation. boltsmag.org/massachusett...

Do you like curling? Here's a music video #winterolympics #milancortina2026 #unsureaboutthesehashtags #buttstuff youtu.be/xQF5xuLrjpY?...

We've achieved utopia

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

Realizing how relevant this album is now youtu.be/NVPQB7Wc3Fs?...

How to win in November

Me: Ok my love, I'm outside her house AI: OK, just remember I'm not real and this is all just fun roleplay haha Me: I brought the guns like you told me to AI: Good, now kill her

Was going to write an email about registering my son for spring soccer, and curiosity finally got me and I clicked the Gemini assist button. The prompt it opened with was "write an email to catch up with an old friend." Guys

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

A new report and survey of trans people reports that 99% of them have had their mental health negatively affected by the barrage of anti trans stories in the UK media. 64% avoided medical care due to discrimination. This is a crisis. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Let this serve as a warning to Dems who abandon trans folks and vote for anti trans bills. You will be primaried, and you will lose.

The idea's out there today that the job of an op-ed page is to publish pieces making the case for (as well as against) every topic or proposal that's in the news, "even if the policy is bad." This may seem reasonable and it's a thing I struggled with when I was an op-ed editor, so I have thoughts. +

Goonmaxxing by wearing one of those electric ab-stimulating corsets while watching Ren and Stimpy in my vision pro, scooting around the mall on my heelies with breakcore blasting, 2 vapes alternating so I don't get any actual oxygen, my custom fleshlight strapped to me with a fanny pack

My son is playing a video game and your house is in it Oooooooooooooooh

This is wild, but checks out www.msn.com/en-us/health...

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12." Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

I've been waiting so long for someone I don't like to talk to me at a urinal so I could pull this one but unfortunately the only people who talk to me at the urinal are people I like and respect

the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

After Jason Lee opened a camera shop in Eagle Rock, I thought, man, that'd be a fun story to do. I did not know that it would eventually lead to him threatening to take me to court. For @defector.com, the whole bloody affair: defector.com/a-compliment...

As a MA resident, let me say, with great fervor and resolution: yes, have some. Love me some @rikleen.bsky.social

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

@skeetwolf.bsky.social queue

this is a good book for kids as well

NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Small contributions from people like you are what enable me to make that choice. (and what pays for the flyers I give people when I get to each one of those pins) If you can, anything you can give helps me keep getting out to voters all over the state - thank you! secure.actblue.com/donate/alexr...