“The crutch of sexual identity politics” might seem more important when the GOP goes after Obergefell. But then again, whiteness and privilege seems to overrule every other consideration so who’s surprised. LE SIGH.

If you click through to the list of signatories it’s almost sad how insignificant the signatories are.

I found the focus group on the disillusionment of Trump voters really clarifying, despite the general negative reaction on here. As @aedwardslevy.bsky.social, this is the electorate we’re working with—better to face reality as it is rather than as we want it to be.

this is how humid it is in NYC: I just passed a group of 8 or 9 year olds complaining loudly about the humidity.

!!! Kerry James Marshall rarely does interviews. But on the occasion of his survey at the RA, he has given a great one to @arunadsouza.bsky.social, whose story dives right into the bold new works that other coverage, so far, has not known how to address. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/a...

@arunadsouza.bsky.social’s brilliant article on Kerry James Marshall on the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy of Art in London. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/a...

A career high point: interviewing Kerry James Marshall about his new show at the Royal Academy in London, including a new series about the Africans who sold slaves to Europeans starting in the 16th century. Total honey badger energy in the best way. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/a...

Also they just called back hundreds of thousands of workers that DOGE fired 7 months ago. Like, day before yesterday.

Does anyone remember in Trump’s first term that there was speculation that Melanie was keeping Barron away from Washington because he was autistic? My kid (12 or so at the time) used to show me social media posts from other kids (all very supportive of the boy, touchingly so) who were convinced.

Is there a reason to say “stochastic” vs “threatened” violence?

Really good piece by Roxanne Gay.

I have to say, I kind of love this project. Anyone who knows who’s behind it LMK.

The victims were detainees, not ICE. Pass it on. These assholes are creating a fake race war so their supporters will start a real one.

Jeez Louise what is it with these companies leaving money on the table?!? I would watch the hell out of this series, as would every woman I know.

What amazes me about the current discourse around IQ is… who the hell has taken an ACTUAL IQ test (not one that you self administer from a random website)??!?!!!! I was skipped up a grade as a child and put in multiple accelerated programs but not once did anyone actually test me.

This article is horrifying, and also very well reported. CW: chile sexual abuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

My friend Chad has a new book coming out—he’s the real deal.

This Tylenol thing—it’s just a recommendation, correct? Acetaminophen will still be available OTC? And people can take it even if Trump says not to? And docs can tell patients to take it even if the CDC says otherwise? Not trying to minimize the idiocy of the stmt, just want women to have options!

I’ve finally found some common ground with this man.

Important—don’t resubscribe to this deeply crappy conglomerate of companies.

Wow, that was fast. Turns out that censorship is not as popular as people think. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

Walking the walk.

I heard this in the voice of Oliver Twist. “Please, sir, may I have some more authoritarianism, please?”

LOL this thread.

It’s the same way that people who manipulate stock prices can foresee changes in the stock market.

99.9th percentile is higher than my GRE scores.

I’m going to this tonight—can’t wait!

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

“Never get involved in a land war in Asia” is something America will never actually figure out.

Can someone please explain to me why Instagram darkens my photos so much when I upload them from my iPhone?

Ooof—just missed this. I flew out of Heathrow just yesterday.

For a woman of color to say this is esp infuriating—Black cis women in particular have been targeted by sports organizations under the guise of bans on trans women. If a woman of color excels, she is deemed not a “real” woman. It’s not just the .01% of trans athletes affected—it’s cis athletes too.

The H1-B visa thing is terrible, just another mechanism for Trump to extort money, but the fact that 73% of H1-B visa holders are Indian makes me think this all goes back to Modi not nominating Trump for a Nobel. Petty petty politics. Anyway, here goes the brain drain.

I just don’t understand how all these companies and universities are making these decisions. They are opening themselves up to MILLIONS of dollars in wrongful termination lawsuits. Just because the courts have protected the executive branch from liability doesn’t mean they’ll protect businesses!!!

Michelle Wu. Zohran Mamdani. Francesca Hong. James Talarico. Kat Abughazaleh. Plenty of smart, passionate, progressive candidates/rising stars are out there. Support their reelection and ascent to positions of higher impact. Don’t mourn the Democratic Party we have. Build the one we want.

And if no one’s doing it already we need a real+transparent agenda to protect democracy, restore what Trump has broken as quickly as possible and address urgent, growing problems we’ve faced long before him—inequity, healthcare, the environment, education. If Project 2027 isn’t out there, WRITE IT.

We need contested primaries for anyone who’s refused to stand up against Trump’s horrors. While we’re at it, we need to nominate young, tough, savvy, progressive candidates at every level, who will not just fight Trump but fight for the needs of the American people—and the globe.

LOL the whole fantasy/fear about “antifa” is truly hilarious—as if opposition can only be paid and choreographed and not just well up from discontent. You go after those funders, man. Please spend a whole lot of effort finding them.

I sent this to the artist Paul Chan, who has spent the last six years creating exactly this LLM as his latest art project. His response: “It’s definitely not thinking, BUT! it can be just as thrilling as thinking, if being surprised and scared is a part of your inner repertoire.” LOL.

Never expand the tent to the left, always to the right, apparently. Never expand the tent in a way that protects the vulnerable, only in ways that harm them.

A man walks down my block just before dawn every so often whistling a slow version of “This old man” and it’s so foreboding, like I’m living in a potential horror movie.

Dems like Newsome, Kamala Harris, Buttigieg finding “middle ground” on trans issues (or Ezra Klein on abortion rights) but none of them ever finding middle ground on taxing billionaires or policing or bankrolling Israel or etc. Apparently middle grounds only run through people’s bodies.

Cancelled Disney/Hulu/HBO due to the fact they have chosen to become state-directed media, and now I will have to go back to reading books or god forbid listening to podcasts. The sacrifices I make for democracy, I tell ya.

One of the FOUNDATIONAL parts of fascism is to CONTROL PEOPLE'S BODIES. My God. Bodily autonomy is ANTI-FASCIST. Begging these white men to please SIT DOWN.

Western Mass, vote Neal out and vote the hot teacher in.

For all of our Canadian superiority mentality, we really just don't get how far as a country we are down the slippery slope. Just because we might be (arguable) better off than some countries in terms of the slide to fascism, doesn't mean we get to celebrate it, its a constant struggle and battle

My classmate at the IFA, who was also a student of Linda Nochlin. That people can be punished simply for amplifying things Kirk himself has said is beyond ridiculous. I’m really hoping that all these companies and institutions who take these actions are sued to the moon and back.

Do you believe that your body is yours to do with as you wish? Then believe that the same is true for every trans person on this planet.

Was Kash Patel adopted? Because no Indian parent would allow their kid to fail a pop quiz this hard.

"Nothing that I learned, here, lessened my feeling of pain and confusion and bitterness as related to my origins...Nothing showed me how I might try to alter the political and economic realities underlying our Black condition in white America." June Jordan, "Notes of a Barnard Dropout"