I like to remind people about lifetime limits and the refusal of insurers to sell coverage to people with preexisting conditions. The ACA has issues. But those 2 things alone make it worth saving and fixing.

Warming waters cause corals to “bleach” when these organisms expel symbiotic algae that provide nutrients, oxygen & vibrant colors. The latest global bleaching event - researchers estimate >84% of the planet's coral ecosystems have been affected since Jan 2023 - has made it clear the crisis is now.

And we will NEVER RUN OUT of cool shit to learn. There's always something new. It's amazing and beautiful.

About to launch OnlyFathers where a priest will give a sermon while he mows the lawn shirtless

i think what I'm saying is enshittification has hit corporate pop in a very legible way so the biggest stuff rn is v bland even while tons of weird bangers bubble just underneath

feels like the "why no song of the summer this year?' and the "why did TS's album flop?" questions are related 1. the chaotic political/econ context & all the noise it makes in ppl's lives puts their attn elsewhere 2. weird music is doing fine (Kpop DH), but gulf grows btw it & bland chart toppers

Greta is an honest to god good person in a world that hates good people.

Toxic boyfriend ass republic

one funny part of the new school year is all of the club signs. who leads the ucsd archery club? and how are there signs about it literally every 30 feet

The attack on the synagogue in Manchester and the attack on the mosque in Sussex are completely horrifying. Violence anywhere is terrible of course but it takes a certain tenor when it’s clear that people are being targeted because of their identity. and criminalizing protest won’t fix it. like ??

i gotta say it is disheartening how much the r-slur is coming back in casual conversation

why does this job application ask for a THREE PAGE cover letter with included topics that they want you to address? this isn't a cover letter any more. this is an essay.

a parasite that feeds on secrets the texture, the gravel, the fry of your larynx is stirred into a bubbling vat and reconstituted into a quivering homunculus you receive $0.30

birthday camping trip canceled due to an avoidable miscommunication from my university 😭

Thanks to the Texas Tribune for this comprehensive, fully reported account of the firing of the Texas A&M Instructor for teaching “gender ideology.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

drum circle? yeah bro. most of them are

Love to my AFM brothers and sisters.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions. Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country? Fuck. That.

What they’re doing is refusing to talk about what really matters in this equation: power Discourses about debate pretend there are fundamental power symmetries between the two positions and the people impacted by them. They ignore the power asymmetry induced by white supremacy. Civility is a cover

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

i am ashamed of the moan i let out stepping into the air conditioned music building after weeks of sweating in my sweltering apartment

Yeah it's great that we're eradicating practices that devalue and demean the Christian faith, that's why my wife can't get a federal grant for the church where she's a pastor without signing a statement that she'll help the cops arrest immigrants and homeless people

When my brain starts working again, it’s over for you bitches

If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.

The only prayer that matters when it comes to the regular and repeated murder of American children while they are at school is the kind of prayer that is taking action, the kind of prayer that materially fights for the living, the kind of prayer that says "never again" and means it, from MN to Gaza.

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

made muhamarra for the first time with some zaatar broccoli and pita

spent 2 days on an application that will probably be rejected 😑

You cannot bargain with evil.

🚨ATTENTION EVERYBODY🚨 🚨IT IS FERAL HOGS DAY🚨

Anyway, hi Bluesky. Here's something I wrote for @lrb.co.uk earlier this week about Danni Perry bringing the Palestine flag onto the stage of the ROH and why claiming political impartiality in relation to a Verdi opera is like calling Guernica a painting of a horse. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

i went to a special exhibit on cannibalism

expensive week had to replace my computer expensive car repairs emergency dental work and now my studio monitors are on their way out

would love to have just one day where the people and things I care about are not under direct attack

“wait so you will be Dr. Mencher???? that’s so tough” one of my high school students who thinks i am way cooler than i actually am

Every journalist in the world should be screaming about this at the top of their lungs.

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use.

realized that the mario kart item sound is bach’s prelude in c major but really fast and now i can’t unhear it

“It depends if you look Hispanic.” From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.

what if they made a country that was easy to immigrate to

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.

“That year [2023], private jets polluted more than the total of all commercial flights departing from London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest hub.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

it appears like i am not a bad composer it was just a first rehearsal and they were still learning the music who could have predicted this not me