“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.” 📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)

Kool Jazz Festival (1980) Jackson 5 (1973) The Commodores (1973) Prince (1985) Prince (2000)

Brunch 🐶🥰😴

Go Wolfpack!

It’s not my practice to use insulting language to describe someone’s intellectual capacity. But even with my boundless imagination, I find this to be among the most dim-witted and self-aggrandizing behaviors fathomable.

We don’t talk about Bruno…

There is an age-old poker adage: If you can’t spot the fish at the table, you are the fish. My friends, Josh Barro, is and has always been the fish.

Beaucoup trop de gens pensent que cette situation est surmontable. Ils croient que nous reviendrons simplement à la normale après les élections de mi-mandat et présidentielles.

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Amen.

Baby, that’s the Auntie Done Had Enough of Y’all Shit bundle. No ice or bras necessary. Fucks sold separately.

I missed watching KNIVES OUT when it debuted some years ago. Watching the first installment now and, well:

Labor?!

The day is young.

mignonette, but not mignon?!

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Somewhere tonight, a national political correspondent is hoarding critical information to for yet-to-be announced book deal.

C'est grotesque. Ces révélations devraient tous nous révolter. Quiconque a contribué à garder ce secret est également coupable.

It’s All Her Fault.

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C’est tres bizarre.

…or maybe they found a way to turn the lights back on and preserve the filibuster w/o outright defying the WH. That means they effectively threw in the towel on healthcare. There is no road left to kick the can down.

Senate Democrats had the power to do one thing: This shutdown. And this is what they did with it. Maybe this is some brilliant political calculus, in which case I'll happily eat my words. But right now, it feels like the beginning of the end of the party in its current form--and by its own hand.

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My dog has the loveliest dreams. He’s basically laughing in his sleep.

Something super fishy is happening. They’re all in on it. 8 (not up in ‘26) voted for a deal they know* won’t pass the House— on a Sunday night.

This is all show. A hunnid percent theater.

Bingo.

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If they won’t fight, send them home.

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

AOC should primary Schumer.

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Wait, they want to claw-back benefits paid to the states?

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“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

In a word: complicit.

Chaque jour, je me pose la question suivante: Quelle est la raison?

Il détruit tout, partout et en même temps.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Liberty is collective or it’s nothing, it’s all of us or none of us.

Exclusive: The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington.

SNAP rolls also include *current* military personnel and veterans, as well as millions of people who go to work everyday. In Louisiana and West Virginia, both red states, nearly 1 in 5 people receive assistance.