*chef's kiss*

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

So. Serious question. So people still major in English? In 2025?

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Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

500 national guard vs. the city of Chicago? lol ok sure

So proud of my hometown 🇺🇸

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

seriously tho whatever is in those Epstein files is about 500000000000000x worse than whatever we think it is because my gawd that dog and pony show has been BUSY whew

reading these replies is the first time I've had fun on this app in months 😂

Yes I know my password is too easy but it's easy because this is a low-stakes app and I need to be able to get into it without having to guess what the hell I was thinking that one Tuesday afternoon 4 months ago after staring at Word for three hours, two urgent emails and my fifth cup of coffee UGH

Why didn’t any you - my VERY good friends - tell me that Kali Uchis has new music coming out tonight?! it’s like you don’t even care about me

The NFL really just said “fck tr*mp” lolol

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Pre workout today was four hard boiled eggs and a chocolate chip cookie because I do what the fuck I want. And because *gestures to everything* but mostly the first one

rapture day?! darlings, we do not DESERVE the rapture. have you seen us.

how about we not take medical advice from a guy who cannot pronounce “acetaminophen”

Guys the bears are gonna win their first game of the season and they actually look GOOD good (hell yeah Chicago!!!) Completely unrelated: my gawd the cowboys are a terrible football team

I used to think fluency made me a better speaker. Turns out, stuttering does. 👉 The future of leadership isn’t about perfection. It’s about permission to give others the space to be human. Emotions aren’t liabilities. They’re assets. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Anybody else have a preferred font in Word dependent entirely on mood/goals? Mine is Georgia when I'm feeling creative and Arial (regular) when I need to get shit done. Yes she's basic

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

These past three days have reminded me why I keep my burner clock app account because whew

Vulnerability isn’t easy, but it's worth it. Judgment often stops us from showing up fully — but when we lean in anyway, we create the possibility of connection If you’ve ever wrestled with judgment, I think you’ll find something encouraging here: open.substack.com/pub/sharonst...

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away

actually I badly want groceries to be more affordable, universal healthcare and a better economy but yeah sure this too WaPo

This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

oh that wasn’t good. I know the national anthem is a hard song but whew that was a choice, Boyz II Men.

Actually honkers to me that I have not watched one second of the K-pop demon hunters move and I do not have children but I cannot stay away from that song. They’re playing it at my (very meathead) gym. All the dads are singing along lol. Up up up!

Friendly reminder that your life is what you make of it. You are in the driver's seat. If you say your life sucks, it does. If you say it's good, it is. Choose wisely. Let's get after it, friends. 🫶💪

"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."

I was wrong. The worst airport isn’t Newark. It’s PHL. The worst customer service. Employees are rude. Just the fucking worst.

good morning just wanted to remind everyone that even when you die you get a bill from the hospital. my dad's was $13,000 and that was AFTER insurance paid their portion. America is a scam! Happy Monday!

Honestly the best love story in "My Oxford Year" is the one between the main character and her gay bestie. I genuinely teared up when he gave her the shoes and she said she'll think of him every time she wears them. 💙

For my writer, instructor and content creator friends out there: I've been really loving this resource from Utica University with every possible combination of Bloom's Taxonomy of measurable verbs. www.utica.edu/academic/Ass...

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I’m watching “Coma” on HBO Max - a doc about people who have had accidents that have resulted in traumatic brain injuries - and I’m officially depressed. Imagine being completely healthy and able-bodied then one day losing everything and not being aware of it. This is gut-wrenching.

I’m only halfway through the first episode but I’m convinced that The Hunting Wives on Netflix is the horniest show in the history of time.

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I don't think people realize how insane Philly is. Like I'll pass by a person overdosing in front of a $2 million house; some 8 year old talking about their Mandarin homework; a natural wine bar demanding $20/glass next to a filthy dive bar filled with lifers drinking $3 beer. On the same block.

I've reached the point in the summer where I genuinely cannot fathom leaving my house when it gets below 70 degrees. The thought of snow? A coat?! Scraping ice of my car when it's 2 outside???!!

Sunglasses love to cost either $7 or $500

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We’re just one bored nerd away from knowing exactly what’s in those Epstein files someone PLEASE make it happen

Honestly, bless Teen Vogue. My tween daughter saw this headline over my shoulder & said “she’s so real for that.” Then pulled up the story to read it on her tablet. To my knowledge she has never read a political news story on her own before.

Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.