BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Do yourself a favor and drop everything to read this essay.

Sometimes the sink has to be moved, and there’s no way to do it but to try. www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...

Well, it's that time again, folks. Go read this. Again.

Gave this the soundtrack it deserves. Kubrick was onto something when he picked the Blue Danube as the Theme of Objects Floating In Space. Call me, Nutella

Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.

The allegory is so loud it's giving me a headache.

I just wanted to come by w my kid to show him what’s up and instead I’m trying to explain what “if it’s brown, flush it down” means in the context of 1930s Germany and 2020s America and why it’s a sign at a march

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.

This is an exciting new constitutional development.

Passed a large house of worship called “SUBSTANCE CHURCH.” And I have questions. Most of them are about their position on the council of Nicaea.

no one: absolutely no one: Martin Buber:

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

The Statue Lives Matter guys are back in force and in government for America's 250th and it's never been clearer that by "history" they mean "Mel Gibson movies" and "that book about how George Washington was a really cool dude that I got out of the children's section of the library"

“Brilliant new take” is really underselling his piece. Just read it.

Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

Gonna be honest, I’m somewhat sad Iran couldn’t find a totally different and unrelated Ayatollah whose name was also extremely close to the prior guys

So you’re saying the war may end up having unforeseen consequences?

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

Did.. Did the Music Factory go out of business?

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

They don't want us sintering. 💙🩵🌨️❄️🩶🤎🌧🌱🌻🍧 But think of the snow falling as the changes that bring us together under certain circumstances 🌨 Think of the way we sinter once we're in it together ❄️ Think of how heavy, sintered snowbanks give way to nurturing, melt — muddy, with its own challenges🩶🤎

/8 My point is one in opposition to the “free speech culture” movement: I think that there are moral dimensions to taking stances about other people’s rights and I think we should feel more free to voice our moral reactions despite the defense “but it’s an academic paper!”

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

Framing it this way, in a way that ignores the moral content of a speech designed to rile the basest immoral instincts of a base w immoral views. IS A MORAL CHOICE. And one that shapes how ppl view the speech, likely downplaying its immorality. It is NOT objective.

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

"It is not a coincidence that Epstein was also interested in crypto, in AI, in right-wing populism, in trad Cath extremists, and anti-trans ideology, ... Epstein gravitated toward fields and figures that rank humans, explain away cruelty, or biologize inequality."

RECIRCULATED, NOT HOARDED is a winning message!

Hop in, fellas, we're rehabilitating Herbert Hoover.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Since it’s Audre Lorde’s birthday, here is part of my ongoing engagement with her thinking. open.substack.com/pub/keguro/p...

'If I read Lorde alongside the Combahee River Collective, I can imagine that creative victories sustain and transform relationships. Not, “I disagree with you, so I must destroy you,” but “I disagree with you, so we must use the creative energy of our differences to imagine something else together"'

Bookmarking this video for the next time someone claims that science communication can’t be engaging unless it’s about an inherently exciting topic or made personally relevant to people’s lives

The funny thing is, the Empire is scarier when Vader is just an attack dog. Like, they just have a fallen samurai mystic on their payroll as a mid-level lackey. The last dying echoes of magic and wonder in the universe from the old age is an errand boy.

New response to any criticism of my podcasts just dropped

“A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in neutral reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[&] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.” open.substack.com/pub/theratio...

greatest headline of my adult life