Part of the right's war on education, especially the part that appeals to voters and not Douthatian perverts, is pretty explicitly about limiting kids' horizons and trapping them where they are.

please sir may i just have my butter pecan (global stability of some kind) you are ruining my life

This is the kind of game that if they hadn’t lost 9 in a row I’d be like “eh they can’t all go your way” but they have lost 9 in a row

Cannot tell you how pleased I will be to have off-street bike lanes in these intersections, as drivers cannot manage turning from Franklin to River while using Looking.

Swaggy V is just built different I guess

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

Testing the bedraggled stranger who claims to be me from 30 years in the future by sitting him down with a pen and paper and asking him to list all the samples in Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals" in chronological order from memory. I have him covered at gunpoint under the table.

have the Mets considered getting bangs

New innovative ways in losing.

THREAD: I've now analyzed @massgovernor.bsky.social's proposed social media legislation and ... ... it is somehow even worse than the House bill that passed last week (which was already one of the worst bills on this issue we've seen in the US.) You might wanna sit down for this. Here goes: 🧵

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

Thank you for that catch, Tyrone Taylor. If you missed that, I was in real danger of crying

Baudrillard wrote that the shock of 9/11 was not that it was unthinkable, but that it was the ultimate object of the American fantasy and the shock was having the fantasy realized it. This is how I feel on seeing the post "Mr. Met is an antisemite," towards which we have always been headed.

“The time stolen from me by the U.S. government belongs not just to me, but to the children and youth I have dedicated my life to advocating for.” It's extremely sad that we are forcing people like Rümeysa out of our country. She represents so much of what should be great about the United States.

Trying to think of the Wellesley equivalent of this advice: “We’re having a cookout along the marathon route. Students 21 or older may enjoy exactly two (2) beers in the Drinking Pen. Try not to overscream. If you do overscream, make a plan for class participation later in the week…

Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

The “splashy new programs” were paid for by increasing tax rates on income over $1M/yr by ballot question in 2022. The $1B tax cut the next year was a slap in the face to MA voters, who know that the wealthy need to pay their fair share.

Well the advertising works because I saw this and thought, “You know what I could really go for right about now?”

Basically the same for me, but perhaps with stronger sentiment: 1) if you play Kokomo within my hearing range I will kill you dead 2) I adore Pet Sounds even though I once listened to it for three days straight at a vulnerable time in my life and have since made it a problem for myself and others

With a walk up song that bouncy and catchy, it’s a wonder Hyeseong Kim doesn’t hit more home runs

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Justice for Scooter! Iirc this was a solid shot!

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Happy birthday, Mrs. Jack. Saint Isabella of the Fenway, pray for us.

Found a copy of The Transsexual Empire in a little free library and took it home lest it fall into influenceable hands and I just opened it up and it has the name of a still-practicing psychiatrist in it. Hoping he’s thrown out the ideas along with the book!

It’s one thing to lose, but it’s quite another to be so fucking boring about it. I barely even feel like I watched a baseball game tonight.

One thing I’m a real RETVRN guy for is baseball stadiums having an organist

Housemate insists that she is no longer a Youth as of this birthday, but I’m pretty sure she’s a little lad who loves berries and cream

Last-minute Call to Action! Email [email protected] to express your support for Keeping Garden Street Calm. Tonight's "Policy Order #2" will direct funding to low-cost traffic calming in surrounding neighborhoods instead of returning Garden Street to two-way motor vehicle traffic.

So often when someone is killed by a driver, we get stories from neighbors about how speeding has been a problem on the street. These deaths are preventable. These deaths are policy choices.

MASSACHUSETTS! The social media ban legislation that passed the House is a nightmare for online privacy and safety, would force YOU to upload a gov ID to post online, and would harm LGBTQ youth and undocumented families. @fightforthefuture.org is organizing a sign-on for MA orgs opposed. DM me!

Facing some uncomfortable truths about just how much Baja Blast I will drink when it is free

We can still win, babes

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

*cups ur face* You are not a “smol” “bean.” You are in your thirties and have a pet that’s grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle. You need to get it together.

I believe the Pope should respond: “Non omnia illa legam. Sed gaudeo pro te. Aut doleo quod acciderit.”

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Heehee, 🤭. Imagine.

I’m convinced that the American psyche was woefully unprepared for the global instability caused by COVID or the chaos of our political pendulum swings since.

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

I am being so good and not futzing with my earrings even though I know there are crusties in there. I am gently misting them with the special saline from the store every time I wish to futz with them. Please clap.

My relationship with Basil cat is showing some progress. She has not bitten me in like four days and she now has her own silly little song. I’m still working on the verses but the chorus goes, “Basie, Basie, Basie, Basiiiiieeee! I’m begging of you, please don’t eat my hair”

Dispatching three Long Island finance guys who look like they should have ponytails but don't, two 67yo Florida real estate developers named Steven and Stephen, and a nephew I don't think very highly of to negotiate an advantageous peace in the war I started.

I used to live like 3 blocks from this factory and on Junior Mint days I swear I could get there like this:

Outdated sign accurate again for tonight. #BostonFleet #PWHL @universalhub.com

i will say it again: challenge coins should be outlawed and as a social matter we should make fun of these people for collecting Big Strong Boy Pogs