Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

a microgeneration that came of age on the unsupervised wilds of aol & social blogging platforms, where we learned to be voicey online... now uninterested in the heyyyy guys narration into front-facing camera/lip synced video way of Being Online.... & twitter is unusable ...... so here we are

obsessed with how unserious (nonderogatory ) the louvre heist saga insists on being

Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social @futuretensebooks.bsky.social

Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all. Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.

baby exoplanet is my chosen family 🥺

Another big loss for the President, who has been forced to allow his constituents to eat food

quick question do you think our brains will ever recover from the noxious clownery flumes

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Reminder that the Trump Admin cannot just do whatever they want: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity

i don’t think there’s adequate enough market research on the surveillance tech-fatigued spite shopper…. i’m sooo much more inclined to buy your whatever it is if you leave me the hell alone, instead of making it grotesquely apparent that my every ocular movement is being tracked online jfc

there is a LOT going on here but lord have mercy if you don’t get the fuck out of my good jewish face with ‘judaism is both a religious and a national identity’

do i get to use this as a reason to call out of work or what

Please, my data centers for my plagiarism machine, they are very sick

(cackling intensifies)

This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.

i'm not a patriotic girlie, but as an immigrant & the daughter of a Ukrainian taxi driver, it made me weep to think that an America like the one Zohran describes, like the one my parents believed existed—where there's hope for a decent life & dignity, & opportunities exist for them too—can be real

(cackling in philadelphian)

i know she’s just being her trollish self but this is an extra whoooooosh thing to say when ppl literally are being abducted off the streets in nyc

Bluesky rn

Philly is at close to 34 percent turnout, up from 22 percent four years ago. People are pissed off.

among other wins, another golden era of memes is upon us

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

me arriving at mamdani's new york

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

I hope the billionaires are crying tonight ✨

We need at least a year of education spent drilling kids on the concept that it's okay to say that you don't follow politics the same way that you'd say that you don't follow sports.

if you're in NYC, you probs already know they're great, but if you're like me & rooting remotely, highly recommend Hell Gate's Election Day coverage.... let's goooooo

today i learned that according to Attention Restoration Theory, there's 2 main attention types: directed (deliberate, top-down, effortful focus—studying for a test, etc) & involuntary (effortless, bottom-up attention to compelling stimuli around you) & now everything about being a poet makes sense

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

imagine being this guy. imagined saying this in public. imagine living the rest of your life knowing people heard you say this in public.

Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way. by Ezra Klein

artless, soulless, imaginationless, heartless, clown shoes ass government

HEY! I wrote a review for Luisa Muradyan's "I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated" for Zona Motel!! "Muradyan's is the craft of the hoodwink, the comic’s timing, the magician’s perfected prestidigitation, each poem its own fully realized and complicated world." zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-i-m...

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

Chat, I'm not sure if a system that endlessly rewards being a cruel, dishonest, soulless hack and endlessly punishes doing something useful or good is a system that will survive, or a system that we want to survive.

ICE employees are still getting paid even in a shutdown. Calling my Congresspeople today. If you can withhold pay from air traffic controllers who hold lives in their hands, with the intent to save them… You can withhold pay from ICE, who also hold lives in their hands.. and intend to destroy them.

OPINION by Jack Criss, air traffic controller: “After my shift, I don’t go home to rest. I clock into DoorDash, trying to make ends meet for my daughter and me.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

maybe we just love heists as a genre (in life, in media) but also i have to say, the possibility of regular ppl [initially] pulling this off in our mass surveilled police state reality thrilled my heart. it was giving low tech finesse in the face of AI surges, it was giving reckless whimsy

Hey medically speaking is it good to live with a constant background hum of anxiety about The Economy and your cruel violent government?

this is next week!!! ⬇️

i worship at the altar of dapple

the biggest trick is this autocratic ass government & the biggest treat is a general strike

SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. www.wired.com/story/disinf...

all very resonant for the literary writing & publishing side of things, too— “the ecosystem loses diversity, vibrancy, & reach” & “loss of an important communication channel” & difficulty of maintaining/finding “deeper, more focused communities” feels very true post-twitter exodus

I’m usually pretty zen about where people draw the line on what they support, but Spotify sucks in so many ways. They pay artists peanuts, push AI generated music and are running ICE ads. You could buy mp3s and CDs and could have music you own and can listen to offline without paying monthly.

Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"

the year is 2029.... "left" & "right" are useless as terms to describe political ideologies because everyone's forgotten how to read & write. the president is an amazon ring doorbell. hamburger costs $800. trees have touch screens on them & they put ads between birdsongs