If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

This reads eerily like a Trump tweet

Tonight! AC Reading and Performance Series - Online Edition / 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern Featuring @perfidiousscript.bsky.social / @incastellated.bsky.social / Gina Abelkop / Glenn Shaheen Music by Terence Hannum and eHpH tinyurl.com/273z7ubk ID: 975 4131 3220 PC: 116657

"the reason I’ve done the things I’ve done is simply because I found them beautiful. It’s beautiful to see a poem of madness, love, and death traced on the sky." - Raul Zurita

I mailed a copy of this book to the parents of one of my dearest friends, a pair of true New Orleans exemplars who I saw so much of in Lemann’s novel, and my friend’s mom wrote me back to say actually Lemann is her cousin. Life is a rich pageant. 🥰 (She’d never read the book and will now.)

Next Wednesday / AC Reading and Performance Series - Online Edition / 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern Featuring @perfidiousscript.bsky.social / @incastellated.bsky.social / Gina Abelkop / Glenn Shaheen Music by Terence Hannum and eHpH tinyurl.com/273z7ubk ID: 975 4131 3220 PC: 116657

The Balcony, by Édouard Manet, 1868-69, 📸 by Sarah Stier

"How do I hold these two truths together? That I walk through the city afraid and that the city, in small and persistent ways, tells me I am welcome. That I am watched and that I am seen." — Mahmoud Khalil nymag.com/intelligence...

The word for this is "coup."

For my fellow writers and publishing people, I went long on how mad I am about nonfiction authors not getting paperbacks + the NYT moving its nonfiction paperback list from weekly to monthly. www.talkscratch.com/list-full-of...

Boosting this, and paging all reporters: same. @splcenter.org is still a 501c3. Fidelity, I’ve read your fine print but am still absolutely outraged, and you should be ashamed.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

the actual project that needs to be—and in some places is—happening is MAKING CULTURE TOGETHER. so okay, sure, rallies and marches have their place. but also, and honestly MOSTLY, what about: grocery handouts; free community dinners with great food; a dance; an ice-cream social; a freedom school

new plot twist for Marty Supreme 2

Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Writing is hard because it's so easy to say absolutely nothing at all

EVs won the war.

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

“I want it to advance their highest good, and if that means I have to change my ideas about a particular sign or my approach to life, that’s fine. My goal is to be of service.” —astrologer @rob-brezsny.bsky.social, interviewed by Ginger Greene www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

“ I cannot speak too much about my cousin’s note or about the particular instructions and disclosures contained in the note. I can only insist that you please strongly consider not opening the box of Crayolas—“

Of course Trump is looting our tax contributions: the Trump family fortune is based on looting our tax $. Trump owes his political career to mass theft of public $: If his father hadn't stolen $413,000,000 by ripping off federal housing funds, plus tax evasion, there'd be no POTUS Trump.

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

To bring to bear my favorite verse of the good book, Ezekiel 27:67: "Yeah, verily, he that wantonly mixeth his love of state violence with public and sanctimonious professions of faith shall be brought to the Temple Mount and thereby made to consume a full sackcloth of stale, unspiced foreskins.

Can confirm

Feel the excitement of Real Life with me in person this Saturday at the Music Box in Chicago!

It’s hard not to see Vance’s criticism of the Pope’s theological bona fides as just silly hubris. But I also see it as a stress test of sorts — can they manipulate sentiment against a pontiff. Not for Trump’s interests. More likely for Thiel’s.

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

as me about the prestigious foundation who told me and my dean IN WRITING that "UIC does not meet our standards for an eligible faculty institution"

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

Pretty weird to watch Orban lose and concede and say "see, democracy in the US is fine if that can happen" instead of "oh shit we're worse than Hungary"

he's ok

I legit cannot stop laughing, welcome to hell

Where is the Pope on affordable housing though?

the fuck is the literal Secretary of State and supposed national security advisor doing at a moment like this

Hungary’s prime minister is more important to Donald Trump than all of his voters put together, than all Americans, than America itself, and it’s not even close. I wrote an essay yesterday to explain why: snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

“In times of crisis, preaching reasonable things is to feel like losing your mind.” - José Ortega y Gasset

Reading Helen DeWitt on declining the Windham-Campbell and Judy Chicago on dropping her Google commission, you see the demands that institutions make on artists. It’s interesting that two women who felt these institutions went too far are revealing the process. news.artnet.com/art-world/ju...

President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran to be a “total and complete victory.” “If this was victory, I’d hate to see what failure looks like,” @sbg1.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YKqjnK

Love this public service announcement on a neighborhood bulletin board (looks like it got wet in the rain, that's why it's a bit blurry) "NO ONE CAN TAKE SELF PUBLISHING AWAY FROM YOU. NO ALGORITHMS OR OLIGARCHS CAN CENSOR YOU. NO GATEKEEPERS CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IS NOT IMPORTANT..."🌹🥀

Had a thug with kratom eyes from a gang called ICE check my ID so I could get on an airplane about four hours ago. I’m still mad hours later. This shouldn’t be a thing that happens. The agency needs to be dissolved the second power allows it. Even kratom eyes needs to hear the clank of a jail cell.

with chicago pope it's italian beefing

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

cuban missile crisis with trump playing both roles

SPEAKING OF ACTIVITIES: Chicago, this is tomorrow. Go. Bring a friend. Bring a coworker.