the fact that I came across this roughly ten minutes after very seriously considering hurling my phone into highway traffic

do have to credit them for trying

“I love Germany, and I want Germany to thrive.” name three Germans!!!! I dare you!!!! the first one you’re thinking of is an Austrian!!!!

Perhaps we shouldn't have assumed it was an insult when JD Vance said Trump might be America's Hitler

“I’m interested in that period of history, Tom”

discouraging that “being a sniveling dick who gets 100% of his information from twitter meme accounts” is no longer a major character flaw, but the fundamental essence of our national policy

Here's the piece, by @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Possibly the most disgusting thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life (i.e. creation of the video in the first place + its sharing by POTUS), which is a somewhat high bar to clear given that just a couple months ago, U.S. taxpayers financed the burning of someone alive in a hospital bed. 1/2

will love to see how this goes given that these pillars increasingly exist in direct opposition to each other

this has defined my last three weeks lol. have never experienced anything like it

incredible honestly

euphoria season 4

this is a personal favorite country genre tbh

yimby grimes … approaching her final form

I actually love this because it so succinctly captures the entire MO of this administration and this party — “some people said things that made me feel bad about my beliefs and my actions and my place in this world, so now I’m entitled to cause mass destruction and material suffering”

here is something i NEED: a reality show documenting grimes and kim kardashian living in a house together, raising their kids, and reckoning with the people their hideous exes have become. or it can be a fictional depiction!!! i don't care. must have

all of the men in this photo look so miserable

honestly insane that the ostensible cancel culture era did not prevent famous people from doing things as humiliating as this is

sitting in the hallway of the cathedral of learning at pitt. 60something dad walks in and immediately mutters “can you imagine how much it costs to heat this place.” god bless the consistency of dads in times of chaos

it is literally offensive to me when i see these listings. it looks like you made an interior out of tupperware

this resonates quite deeply, and at the same time nostalgia for the era of viral facebook video and upworthy headlines and gif listicles should speak to how truly dire the state of digital media feels today

the level of “give up” here is soooooo funny … probably 70% of Americans can’t watch a 30 minute TV show without also being on TikTok but what’s gonna bring them back to print media is … a riveting story. that’s gonna be $400,000 in consultant fees

At least gesture to the actual story: the power-hungry Plagiarism Company laundering its own reputation by exploiting people’s loneliness

imagine having tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and not feeling truly liberated until you can pretend you are in the 8th grade again

fixing climate change *for the benefit of others and future generations* is too expensive. protecting one’s own property from climate change is worth any price. perfect encapsulation of the moral apathy around climate action imho

I did really love the barn cat (both article and subject) and bitcoin tomatoes (the article but emphatically not the subject)

ok this is my second year of freelancing and the first one that i ended in a financially solvent state, which i consider somewhat miraculous! i also published some pieces i wanted to share, especially since i have some new followers who might not know my work:

Guys, this latest from @mollytaft.com is wild and fascinating and frightening. The bonkers stuff is going to stick in your mind and you're going to talk to other people about it and be That Person at the holiday/NYE party and it'll be great. Do it. Go read. newrepublic.com/article/1871...

i will get this novel published so help me god

the governor said that luigi mangione spent time in PITTSBURGH before altoona...... of course he would seek refuge in western pennsylvania!!!! a known hotbed of anti-healthcare corporation sentiment, where upmc employees owe medical debt to their own employer!!!! www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Whatever you've heard about the strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the reality is more complicated. I spent months speaking to people on all sides of it. It's an important story that journalists, labor folks and Pennsylvanians should be paying attention to. penncapital-star.com/labor/the-st...

The Drake gambling video is maybe the most diseased piece of advertising I've ever seen. Roulette and born-to-lose parlays sold as some kind of holy, nu-age self-help. Drunk and alone in a windowless mansion. Do you even dream about Bugattis? Have you ever risked it all? Do you even love your son?

watch his wife’s face! that’s all

discovered this evening that the painted plywood floors of my pgh rowhouse are insulated with newspaper from 1948. papier-mâché ass house

opened a pages doc (yes I use Apple pages!!!! I am an Apple pages ride or die!!!!!) with ~5000 words of a book in it that I haven’t touched in six months and some paragraphs in it are actually good. similar feeling to finding cash in a coat pocket but better

wow the parade this year was crazy

DRAKE'S LAWYER: *talking to him on the phone while looking at pictures of a big house on Zillow* do I think it's a GOOD idea? I think it's a GREAT idea!!!!

I smelled something burning in the dryer and it was my “I voted” sticker that got caught in the lint filter which is a bit much as metaphors go

making every single onion in the grocery store $10 to keep fentanyl (?????) out of the country has got to be the dumbest possible way we get a coup but fine

This list has grown a bunch since I first tweeted it out. Take another look and find some of the best climate journalists in the biz -- who are reporting from a precarious position!

in like three years I am legitimately going to be viggo mortensen in captain fantastic

mosquito bite on nov 18

this is so so spot on — the culture of possession envy and the belief that one has to always be replacing something with its nicer, updated version is a top 5 societal problem imho

oh they are blowing us up before thanksgiving

very heartened by new followers on here. if you don’t know me, I want to share my latest piece that I think remains relevant post-election, on voters in East Palestine, Ohio and what they were promised. for @motherjones.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

this entire time I thought the Bradley cooper fake jewish nose movie was about Leonard COHEN

really blown away by how much clarity I found for very muddled thoughts and feelings from this extraordinary piece: jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/w...

truly don’t know where to promote my work anymore but I have been really fascinated by shifting politics around pipeline resistance and I wrote for @tnr.bsky.social about how that’s showing up in a Virginia landowner case against the mountain valley pipeline: newrepublic.com/article/1760...

drake released this album today specifically so I could listen to it while driving to the pharmacy for uti medication

expected this to make me really angry at the author — and it did, at moments — but was ultimately impressed by the thoughtfulness here: www.wired.com/story/confes...