This is what we're talking about when we say we're excited to have honest-to-goodness sunlight in our new game, Mandrake.

Obsessions This Week: May 11–17, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/hopereha...

I Am So Fucking Tired of Listening To Women My Age Complain About Being Old and Washed open.substack.com/pub/angelica...

Oh this one is gonna be fuuuuuun. AND ALSO? INFORMATIVE. Build queer community and learn from the TV of our elders, with instruction by the brilliant @hoperehak.bsky.social More info at iamspringstudios.com/shop

Nobody voted to let Elon Musk cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

I love getting chain gunned by disease from the daycare plague pit. I've had more respiratory illnesses in the last year than in the previous decade put together

Pritzker: "He promised he was gonna lower costs & make us safer. He's done none of it. I realize he's only been in office 2 weeks, but it's gotten worse, not better. You think grocery prices have gone down? No, they've gone up bc of what he's threatening or what he's already put in place"

Please kill me

This is a great piece, and sadly on the money on how hard it is to admit you were used and manipulated by someone you’d worshipped.

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls

Shameful and murderous www.propublica.org/article/trum...

and it's worth noting that the Biden admin kept the Trump Title IX rules in effect for almost his entire presidency. Survivors and advocates begged for change earlier but they didn't release anything until Spring 2024 www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Leah and Ezra explain how you can help stop the nomination of Russell Vought, the architect of Trump’s unconstitutional power grab that set off mass chaos: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Langston Hughes

Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies: “What a weird thing to say” “Do you hear yourself right now?” “You shouldn’t say shit like that to people” “I won’t let you talk to them that way” “That’s a disgusting opinion to have” “Shut the fuck up, dude”

I enjoyed learning that if a moose ever decides to kill me, it was meant to be, fated in the stars, foretold in the ancient moose texts. It was always going to end this way and really, the moose would be setting me free. Oh also, they enjoy swimming! How neat!

Midweek Obsessions, Vol. 67 open.substack.com/pub/hopereha...

Where we started; where we are now. Thanks for sharing this, a while back, in your own Substack, @hoperehak.bsky.social anitabhagwandas.substack.com/p/is-this-an...

Wondering why my vibes are off this week then remembering I started Monday morning reading the entire Gaiman article at 6 am. I am my own haunted house.

Ope, it me

Can we just talk about Danny Kaye for a minute *two hours later* Anyway that’s why my first two boyfriends were gay

About Briana Boston: This is what prison abolitionists have been trying to tell us. Prisons don't exist to lock up "bad people," they exist to lock YOU up as soon as you realize how dangerous the system is and try to resist it. Police budgets are rising along with inequality, it's not a coincidence

Gonna be a lot of focus on what kind of internet douchebag this guy is but in some ways this backs up the other theories: a person who has been fucked by the health insurance industry and is suffering with chronic pain.

a white guy doing vigilante gun violence is inherently right coded.

so they're saying the killer just went to a neighboring state, kept the murder weapon, and just carried around a manifesto????

Join @lanikaps.bsky.social and myself at The Ripped Bodice on Dec 9 for an event celebrating her book NORA EPHRON AT THE MOVIES! Grab your tickets here www.therippedbodice.com/events-and-t...

media clearly know how to cover victims and avoid victim-blaming narratives, because I haven't seen any rush to demonize the UnitedHealth CEO by bringing up the insider trading or his DUI or his secret separation

“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” as devastating as I feared, but the moment that took me out was when the narrator said $4782 was the number in a 17-year-old’s bank account like that’s… average

Hey, so, there are way too many people following this Nazi account that is impersonating antifa. Could you notify your mutuals? We used to track this one on Twitter and I have the suspension data for it. bsky.app/profile/jack...

As of yesterday booksellers at The Strand are on strike. Solidarity with them. Don’t cross the picket line, even virtually.

For some random reason I can't put my finger on, I've been thinking a lot lately about the jurors in the Martin Shkreli trial harpers.org/archive/2017...

Midweek Obsessions, Vol. 59 open.substack.com/pub/hopereha...

Respectfully wtf does this mean

if only more white people did this. instead of getting huffy about a term, learn what it means and why it exists.

It’s so fascist

I'm Black; my family wouldn't do this.

You never see this said about the almost codelike way conservatives talk that binds them to each other in a shared vernacular of talking points and meme references

Two vital pieces of info b4 Black Friday: 1. Price trackers have proven that Amazon has been slowly hiking prices so they can pretend to slash them on Black Friday/Cyber Monday. There are no actual deals. Just the appearance of them. 2. Amazon workers are on strike www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...

If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

Free yourself and your families from the tyranny of motion smoothing.

Do me a favor and support this campaign with a donation however small. Think of people behind bars and think what it would mean to you, if that was you, to have access to books. Thanks.

Unfair to dogs

1. This continues to be very very bad. 2. “No one is talking about” is one of my least favorite rhetorical flourishes. Many of us have been discussing the NLRB for years, particularly during this latest wave of (slightly) increased unionization nationally.

Cattelan (banana-on-wall artist) says “However, art, by its nature, does not solve problems — if it did, it would be politics.” I as always counter with Brecht, “Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” The absurd spectacle of wealth in itself isn’t novel.

Now that we are all on the same Jonathan Bailey page, let me remind you that the hottest he’s ever been is when Waller-Bridge’s character Lulu begs to peg his character Sam in “Crashing” and he thinks about it