The value of believing what you see on TV peaked during the civil rights era.

Ghosting as a form of politics. It’s effective!

For the record I am being provocative

What the right and BDS have both known and succeeded with is the steady drip

The only kind of love is stone blind love

“Take as your motto the Welsh proverb Dyfal donc a dyr y garreg which literally translated would be Steady tapping breaks the stone, that is, if you’re diligent you’ll succeed.” Is what it says in my copy of Teach Yourself Welsh

Well. This *must* after all look (to someone whose business it was about to be) like a repetition of the trauma of US cities in the post-riot years. I’m not buying what Trump is selling but for a change I don’t think this another one of his out of nowhere confabulations.

I love a perfect ~800wd review. Good movie too variety.com/2025/film/re...

The correct reply to any of my posts.

Tagalog and Telugu and Thai and Georgian and Azerbaijan on Duolingo when

For some reason, this morning the welcome lcd screens in my office building said “happy birthday” to me in Tagalog

Who’s more freaked out about their hold on power, Putin or Schumer

Billboard charts for motivational speakers

Sky sieve

Now to watch the blocks roll in

Left-wing antisemitism is foundational. Anti-normalization is just the latest iteration. You’d have to start over to have a non-anti-Semitic left. I sincerely doubt it’s possible, even though it would take almost no work to start over. Especially since it would take almost no work.

I think they might understand, and also not like, the idea that people need health care whether or not they are in the owner class

IC President

The Jim Downey doc is worth watching, though I could do without seeing any more SNL hagiographies for another fifty years

Just one — why does it take so many syllables to name this concept

Steady drumbeat of on-message bad news

I love this town actually

We watched more of the Knicks Nets game than was necessary

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

When every hairdresser in town hates you, so you have to do it yourself.

Opened up an old unfinished notebook to the line “Huff the glory like Ponge did”

Typing responses in Indonesian, Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, and sometimes Danish. (Why not Greek or French yet I’m not sure. Hebrew and Yiddish, I’ll get there. And in the other direction I see from CM that I need intensive remedial work in Russian, Arabic, Welsh, and Irish.)

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

I’m giving a reading in 85 days.

(Winter is coming.)

Folks in the tri state area who condition air with window units, we’re hearing a polar vortex may be on its way here soon — you might want to bring those boxes in and close the windows now.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

It turns out Schumer is an accelerationist, but he’s terrible at that too

Studying up

Ghosts

M. Syd Rosen: A veritable rogues’ gallery of gurus

Starting to suspect anyone vowing to abolish ICE and prosecute these fuckers would win in a historic landslide

Why is the microphone at the rock and roll hall of fame not adjustable

When a mutual comments without liking

What’s the haps

Wired Bulls Unlimited

4) We really should have the Guide for the Perplexed as a core part of our high school curriculum

Fox goes with real-world math over WH gaslight.

Ok in trying to straighten out what happened to my health plan I learned that on Oct 8 the federal govt screwed up the MA health connector subscriber database with an update intended to cross-reference it with immigration info in order to deny immigrants - legal immigrants - health care subsidies

Ok. Putting the pitchfork back in its stand by the front door. For now.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Guys! I have had afternoon caffeine and am feeling mildly euphoric, so at the risk of being earnest on main, I just want to say: Keep up the good work

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona. Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

Empathy is commodified compassion, with the obligation to do anything stripped away