More than anything else classism is that if you lose your company half a million you get fired, but if Zuck loses Meta 77 billion he gets paid $28 million. Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.

helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Grift Phase Two: Fox News

Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃

why it’s good for scientists, engineers, administrators, diplomats and jurists to be artistically literate

when you think of a snappy comeback 18 months after you lose an argument.

Watching Felicity for the first time in decades. I had forgotten about the tapes she sent to Sally, the OG voice note.

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

An absolutely devastating piece about the cowardice (and worse) of the editorial leadership at the New Yorker from a fact checker who quit. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.

"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Breanna Stewart is at practice with a left leg sleeve. No brace.

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The Luddites were right.

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Has anyone seen David Axelrod in these social meduia streets today? He was comparing this murder to the assassination of Dr. King just yesterday.

A banger from the suspended Gretchen Felker Martin's Patreon.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

It's been a gift to see all of the white people who are publicly defending that man. A true gift. They are offering you an opportunity to clearly identify your antagonists.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

I’ve reached an age where I have to travel with my heating pad.

I need Zohran to add “improve Terminal 7 of JFK” to his platform.

When I took Penny into the vet today to get her sutures/wound checked, I passed a room where a woman was crying hysterically over her dog. I was just devastated for her, recalling that painful day back in November when Lizzie died.

Fiancée of someone currently detained in Alligator Alcatraz details how her loved one has been in there for nearly a month. Conditions are so bad that he tried to commit suicide, and he has fungus due to constant water intrusion into the tent where he is caged.

Justice for sandwich bro!

When you see Cuomo attacking Mamdani over his rent stabilized one bedroom in Queens, do recall this please:

oh good, we've circled all the way back around to the quest for the Philosopher's Stone

Run him the fuck out of town. Now.

“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion… This isn’t just about fighting for better wages and working conditions… This is about who is willing to fight for life itself?” by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

I’ve lived in a rent stabilized apartment since 2009. It’s the only reason I’ve been able to remain in Brooklyn, the place where I was born and raised.

Sunlit angry cupcake

"L.A. needs to withdraw from hosting the Olympics—the sooner the better," writes @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. "Trump would love nothing more than to traipse around an L.A. radically transformed by his deportation blitzkrieg to proclaim his mission accomplished & broadcast his conquest to the world"

When you’ve got an injured dog in a cone, you have no choice but to sit with her on the couch and watch every season of Outlander.

please mr trump sir please endorse andrew cuomo new york city needs this

I'm sorry, how many times has JK set lawyers on people because they criticised her?

This is why you should reject any attempts to attribute the atrocities as strictly the fault of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, etc.

My current, probably unattainable goal: to read through all of my open tabs before my trip abroad next week.

This did give me an opportunity to plug Michael Waters’ excellent book The Other Olympians

I just got asked about Riley Gaines on a date because I said I write about sports. I don’t know what I did to deserve that.

Riley Gaines energy

Trans people are now banned from UPenn, Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, intntnl track & field, the Olympics, chess, darts, most federal jobs, the US military & intelligence services, federal facilities, public bathrooms in most states, & many local sports. Seems bad! Let me know what I missed!

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

The Washington Post reports that Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour since October 7. To be clear, that figure is a massive undercount. wapo.st/46zv2I4

lol holy shit www.nickforisraelforcongress.us

four decades of dems appealing to bipartisanship later:

As usual, Miss Rachel said it better than me.