Kiké is like Gilmore Girls, something for fall

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

The face of a man whose bullpen shat the bed after he gave nothing but beauty and brilliance.

im mad at tanner. yes. but blaqe is now a war criminal

I can’t believe JD Vance also ruined Mazzy Star for everyone.

NGL: there’s something about this that evokes that flashback scene from Hunting Wives where Sophie agrees to go to (her future husband) Graham’s party after a Sapphic snog w/ her roomie sent her into a homo-panic. #GaylorTruther

I guess it’s been 18 days since I last posted. Anyway, here’s proof of life, taken at the end of the first day of my 20th year professing at USC, and my 6th year of chairing my department. The expression says it all.

Apropos of nothing: sometimes I like to watch TV on my iPad in the kitchen while I’m cooking, which makes me feel like I’m one of those 80s moms w/ a little TV in the kitchen.

I’m enjoying the sapphic intrigue of Hunting Wives as much as everyone (hello bisexual Blundstones in Sophie’s bag!), but don’t let it launder the reputation of Republicans who are literally trying to kill the whales right now after 50 years of this nation & the world trying to save them.

“As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza,” it notes, “Israeli officials have confirmed to [embassy officials] on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge.” www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

How can one wake up every day to the hypernormalization of genocide and fascism and not break down and sob, no matter what personal / communal pleasures, joys and accomplishments feel available to us. So many beings systematically starved, disappeared, rendered less than human. It truly is too much.

Ok just when we thought this Boston story couldn’t get more Boston SHE HUMILIATED A CABOT??? And thing is, Cabot money predates Kennedy money, by like a few centuries. This is now the most Boston of stories

Fantastic piece by Jannat Suleiman out today in @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/hijabs-on-th...

“It’s the way a city looks before a coup.” — LA Mayor Karen Bass. More like *during* a coup. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

stages of returning home from week away: 1) hello to cat 2) oh god 3) unpacking 4) laundry 5) collapse 6) cold hard assessment of entire life, all future plans, sense of self 7) other cat finally emerges from under the bed

Just heard a guy read this and let me tell you it seemed like a pretty strong blind item

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Amazon paid $40 million to license a Melania Trump documentary. ABC paid $15 million to settle Trump’s defamation suit. META paid Trump $25 million for suspending his social media accounts. And now Paramount is paying Trump $16 million to settle his ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit. Truly pathetic.

Concentration camps with no privacy, guarded by the military, in terrible climate, on indigenous lands. This happened to Japanese Americans. And of course indigenous peoples were “removed” to reservations, that is to say, camps. This is who we always have been as a country.

It’s an out and out assault on the city of Los Angeles in every way, shape and form.

It continues to be wild to me that the Dodgers barely even stood up and said anything and that walking corpse stephen miller and his cronies are still coming after them. It's almost like being cowardly wasn't going to stop them anyway

Upper Manhattan about to call private security on the rest of the city lol

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

“They don’t want to deport their uncle or their wife or their brother-in-law,” Woolford said. www.latimes.com/california/s...

The world is shit but I’m feeling pretty amazing after my first ever Great Lakes swim (in Lake Michigan at Stearns in Ludington).

Fuck CNN.

the quintessential experience of news coverage in 2025 is going to the nyt homepage to find the headline "us enters war with iran" under a three-quarter screen banner ad for dishware i bought 5 weeks ago

The U.S. bombing Iran also creates the opportunity to codify fascism at home: if we are “at war,” there’s an excuse to intensify executive & military oversight, to declare “enemy combatants” within, to curtail our civil liberties even further (cf. The Patriot Act). 1/2

Mystal: It all goes back to Dobbs. It tells everyone on that side that they’re open for business to take away, to smash, every civil right they don’t like. We’re living in the post-Dobbs era.. it’s going to take some time before the country has a moment of clarity about what’s really happened here.

Spotted by the Barclays Center. Very curious who’s paying for this 👀

My “papers” from when I moved permanently to the U.S. in 1983 at the age of 10. I didn't become a citizen until I was 16 in 1989, though my mom and I did have our greencards. ICE is abducting anyone and everyone who "looks illegal" (think about what that means viz. my photo) 1/

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

ICE is bankrupting itself www.axios.com/2025/06/16/i...

We fumbled the game, but not the message.

cc The Dodgers

“Harvard’s claims about campus antisemitism don’t only misrepresent Jewish diversity – they violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by subjecting Jews to harmful stereotypes about what constitutes “authentic” Jewish identity.”

a woman just trying to get home gets shot

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

I’m not of the mind that a protest has to be “peaceful” to be effective or morally just. But the truth of the matter is that the reporting on Los Angeles in the national media is aligned with the administration’s propaganda justifying its reactiveness and excessive force. Our friend’s daughter…

$134 million that could provide healthcare, food, and housing www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/t...

We’re at a point where the "news" (both local and cable) are adopting the propagandist rhetoric of the regime by describing what's happening in L.A. as "riots." They fail to acknowledge who actually incites and escalates the violence, namely ICE, the new Gestapo.

this is literally the same thing southern segregationists said about the civil rights movement.

Sending 2000 National Guard troops to L.A. is nothing but fascist theater. Angelenos are standing strong against the “disappearing” of our neighbors, the lack of due process, and the state terrorizing our community.

happy pride month 🌈

Thoughts about this Pride month, and how it felt like things changed for me in June 2023.

Possibly the best pop culture news of late spring/early summer: season 2 of The Ultimatum: Queer Love has a June 25 release date on Netflix.