my body just picked the worst time possible to get terribly sick

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

buddies with English teacher AND nemesis of my senior year band teacher, who absolutely hated me

I would bet a non-zero number of their instructors are housing insecure as well.

GOP Senator admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown, long airport lines: "The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. ... Thune submitted that to President Trump. The President said, 'No deals with the Democrats.' We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week."

I think this is a great idea that will be even more amazing when floated by someone whose hobbies don’t include covering up murder

The bedrock belief of the supremacist spirit is that life must be earned, and those who fail to earn it deserve to suffer and die.

He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this

THIS FRIDAY! jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/youre-invi...

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

New art up in Bushwick a few blocks from where ICE kidnapped a man off his stoop and then were driven out of Brooklyn by the community defenders who mobilized against them.

When I thought about fighting robots in the past this was not on the list.

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

I have been wanting to go full rage rant on some discourse I saw a while back but I will leave you with this thread about digital hygiene. Privacy is a luxury. Always obeying the law, playing by the rules and having nothing to hide will not keep you safe from bad people or governments.

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

One essay by Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social on the evangelical Christian coded nature of the franchise itself contains the following line and I cannot stop thinking about it. "The contestants are in an open relationship with the lead while professing traditional values holy crap." 🤯

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY DAY! let me take the opportunity to shout out some of my teachers and favorite colleagues who i learn so so much from — 1/

oh my god i am fucking begging everyone to stop doing this

the cognitive dissonance I’m experiencing writing about the medieval Catholic Church and then checking my phone to this headline:

love to be greeted by name by my wine store guy

ECLIPSE SEASON IS OVER B*TCHES, here's some new moon inspiration for you and your creativity jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/new-beginn...

*whispers* might I recommend the genre of romance, where many such happy sluts (affectionate) dwell!

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

If you wish people had come forward sooner, help create a world where they feel safe doing so, where it isn't going to ruin their mental health and haunt them for years. Or, you know. Shut the fuck up.

I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly two decades and I have never experienced the kind of yellow smog that used to define this city why? because we cleaned that shit up none of this is beyond salvation

i just passed a guy in a MAGA sweatshirt on the sidewalk here in queens, in case you're wondering whether that part of the political spectrum is alive and well in NYC 🫠

tonight’s new moon heralds the official end of eclipse season — and the reveal of precious seeds for Something New. jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/new-beginn...

People care about a lot of things but are only able to prioritize a very few. Once you internalize this, it becomes easier to organize.

I will literally never forget this one boss I had who was also an ex-academic who bragged about dating one of his undergrads during his PhD. As if we were supposed to be impressed rather than disgusted.

I also worry. The forced equivalence between Judaism and Israel is both historically & politically inaccurate & dangerous. When this war really goes south, the "our guy got hoodwinked by Bibi" excuse is going to be most eagerly consumed by exactly the segment most vulnerable to antisemitic agitprop.

you can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... or whenever you listen to podcasts

in this episode, we talk about the spirit activity we experience at our table, the blurred lines of pretend and reality and what that means for the witch, how ttrpgs can give you space to practice occult skills and crucial social skills, and how we take care of each other as a party.

what happens when witches play dungeons and dragons? @megjoneswall.bsky.social, @jeannakadlec.bsky.social, @sasharavitch.bsky.social, and i have been playing in a homebrewed campaign for almost a year. we got together to talk about it in the most recent ep of the "call your coven" podcast. 🧵

One of my more small-c conservative-coded opinions is that we badly need to reintroduce a notion of virtue as a public good and conversely vice as worthy of ruthless public sanction Prideful ignorance is a vice that should result in, I dunno, banishment or something

Here's why you'll never pry me away from my nonbinary siblings, and it's nothing to do with being a squshy softy who doesn't want to reckon with hard truths, it's this: Empirically, nonbinary people exist.

I'm a firm believer that when two people who value the Oxford comma find one another, their relationship is destined to be fulfilling, beautiful, and everlasting.

same. what a perfect explanation for everything I’m trying (unsuccessfully 😂) to do with my novel.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

this is EXTREMELY promising

THE shot

A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.

Javier Bardem at the Oscars: No to war, and free Palestine.

The "nobody's talking about" style post is really grating right now because like my brother in christ, we're all triaging horrors right now.

Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists variety.com/2024/film/ne...

Ryan Coogler is talented, but more than that I love that he is and has always been a rising tide that lifts all the ships around him. That’s leadership 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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This is one of the funniest corrections I’ve ever read

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

the moon is void and so are you