This new video by Wednesday is the best movie I have seem in months. Also maybe my favorite single of the year.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

We’re cooked

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

An already dumb world just got a chunk dumber. RIP Jane Goodall.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Flying home from a great week doing our #digitalfinancialinclusion work at the Interledger Foundation. One highlight was the debut of the documentary film, The People’s Code, about the work we fund creating open payment remittance pathways between migrant workers in the U.S. and Mexico.

"This used to be the best job I’ve ever had, the best environment I’ve ever had, the best culture I’ve ever had—and they fucking ruined it. I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

Always

as I wrote literally yesterday, gamergate never ended. It took over the country. www.moryan.com/on-the-firin... Congrats I guess to pepe the frog for his forthcoming talk show

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

the joke that got Kimmel kicked off ABC isn't even at the expense of Charlie Kirk. the way the US is accelerating in fascism is truly scaring the shit out of me!

lol new clown car just rolled up

Here is the deleted report in it's entirety: web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Yikes, so dumb

You know how a bunch of people who agree with each other over 99% of things but get into the pettiest beefs over that other 1%? Well now imagine the most immature racist assholes in the world engaging in the narcissism of small difference after pickling themselves in irony & violent rhetoric.

Lodge 49 #lodge49 #lynxlodge

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.

I will never read your substack

Tom Friedman finally found a cabbie who told him what's been going on in America the last 40 years www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

What a nice page showing you how to move your newsletter off substack: leavesubstack.com

I am calling on the Governor to convene a special session. The GOP budget attacks New Yorkers—cutting health care, fueling immigration raids, and rewarding billionaires. We must act now to protect our communities and lead. We can't wait until January.

To so many writers I love and would support “I will never join your Substack”

Congratulations to our new ambassador to the UK Ghislaine Maxwell

This is just heartbreaking, his music has given me such joy for 30+ years www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

We're in the radical honesty phase of politics. MAGA is shouting its plan to create a fascist state and a modern-day caste system from the rooftops and America's wealthy elites, and making it clear that they fear a guy with mild socialist leanings running NYC more than the MAGA fascist state.

Reading: Richard Powers Playground Listening: Larry Charles c Comedy Samurai

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

I really don’t care about the Sean Combs trial, and I don’t need to know the verdict in real time. The Senate just passed a bill that expands ICE into a no-shit unprecedented secret police force with more funding than the US Marines, and ALL OF THE CABLE NETWORKS are fixated on Sean Combs.

I’ve seen enough, abolition is the centrist position

Carmy sucks #thebear

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

bitch that's a warehouse. you just invented the warehouse good job

My statement with @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social on Senator Gillibrand’s racist, Islamophobic comments about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

The usual press reach-around every fucking time someone affluent chooses to advocate for a common good is at least as old and calcified as calling Franklin Roosevelt a "traitor to his class." Sometimes, and routinely, men and women are capable of being governed by more than self-interest. Go figure.

The production value, stage craft and vibes of Trump’s parade had this on it’s mood board

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

A lot of people are cringe and the most "edgy" political thing they've encountered is Hamilton and you're just going to have to live with that and be glad they're not at home OD'ing on white nationalist propaganda. They will be cringe and you can be like, jesus christ that's cringe. It's all fine.

Boy, Pam Bondi is real fucking quiet about political assassinations after being real quick to make statements about burning Teslas.

I will hold the line on this. Right-wing violence has far more support, materially, institutionally and ideologically, in the U.S. than left-wing violence. There is no both-sidesing it.

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

Via @nytimes.com: I’m proud to team up with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and cross-endorse each other for Mayor because of his strong commitment to a more affordable city. Together, we'll fight for a safer, better-run New York — and ensure that Andrew Cuomo makes it nowhere near City Hall.

Thanks (again) Oprah

liberals are stuck on this dumb as shit idea that everything we do must be focused on deprogramming racist grandpa i dont give a fuck about racist grandma. i want the people who dont get a boner about racism but are still justifiably cynical about politics actually doing something good for a change

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

This, this, this.