I wish I’d found this video on Graham Platner when he was still in the race/during his rise, but I’m still sharing it because it perfectly encapsulates the problem I had with him (and frankly, his most ardent & vocal supporters). youtu.be/m8bE13OJ_es?...

Back on my Nirvana In Fire bullshit** and the YouTube live stream is at the Emperor‘s birthday party. And once again, I am just going to say: put some respect on the name of His Royal Highness Xiao Jingyan. Because the ministers stepping forward to press the Emperor? That’s all on Prince Jing.

"can I complain about something?" literally always yes. I am waiting with my ear trumpet and a cup of tea. tell me your woes. even if I'm going into a meeting or about to go to bed I will react with appropriate shock / anger / disgust on your behalf when I return.

🎶 I’ll see you at the crossroads/so you won’t be lonely … 🎶

'Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Bizzy Bone, Flesh-n-Bone and Wish Bone from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony pose on their newly unveiled star during their Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony'

Going through some old bookmarks and was reminded to subscribe to the fine work over at Aftermath. Great stuff coming from there.

And another goddamned thing abt Platner: stop framing the prior criticisms of him as a failure of wanting ‘perfect’ ppl to run for office. That’s not the issue & never has been. The issue is that the prior “red flags” were all things that rendered his judgment unsound for office.

Said this elsewhere but I’m bringing it here because I saw the way folks acted about Graham Platner, especially when others criticized him. For everyone now posturing about how ‘if everyone has to be perfect, no one would run for office’ and whinging about hearing “I told you so,” this is for you:

the point of due process is to guarantee one's rights are respected in a system where they are in danger of being, and all too often *are*, ignored. there is no right to not have voters deem you unqualified for the senate, much less not have the general public deem you an asshole.

The body of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells was found Monday off Horn Island, Mississippi. That's where he was last seen with friends Saturday. Crump says the family is seeking answers. n.pr/4vkd5WC

Judge authorizes payment of multi-million dollar award to E. Jean Carroll in Trump case reut.rs/3TpZ5Ny

I’m tooling around the house so of course the Nirvana in Fire livestream is on and today—briefly—I want to talk about Tong Lu. The more you rewatch things the more of the background, lower-tier character work you start to notice. TBRH it’s not surprising to me he was susceptible to Jun Niang.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Its simple when you realize that people like that study us so they know how to destroy us. This is how you get made up “facts” about black ppl WE know aren’t true. We are not people to them but rather petri dishes and specimens meant to be fundamentally disassembled because we are seen as lesser

#NirvanaInFire YouTube livestream is on the hunting lodge arc and b/c I’m me, I’m going to ONCE AGAIN point out that everyone who went along w/MCS lying to Prince Jing about who he was b/c they were so sure Prince Jing would handle it poorly handled it 1000% worse than he did — incl. Consort Jing.

Listen if you’re gonna complain about the odyssey you better have been in the trenches for the Armand Assante version, otherwise you’re probably just being weirdly racist and transphobic

I went off about being descended from “recently servant class “ people and this is part of it. Sex work is service, honey pot espionage is service and the realization that certain people automatically get loose lipped when they think you’re in service to them is one of the greatest hacks

and we'll all go together to pluck wild mountain thyme all around the blooming heather #sinners

Thanks to Coachella for giving this fundraiser a free boost in popularity while vilifying itself!

I will be on my deathbed (probably still in debt from student loans) reminding everyone about that fucking memo Biden requested then sat on for over a year. NOT TO MENTION THE NUMEROUS LAWS HE WROTE AND SUPPORTED IN CONGRESS MAKING IT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO DISCHARGE STUDENT LOANS VIA BANKRUPTCY

read the cornell’s sun original story which is fucking CRAZY

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

I don't believe for one second they wouldn't be down with banning these drugs, but my personal conspiracy theory is that some of them know this ends with banning birth control, and they don't want to be on the bench when that one drops. The speedrun to 1890 got away from them.

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happy star wars day to this tweet in particular

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: Nirvana in Fire Smallville Law & Order Homicide: Life on the Streets Sex & the City The Wire Rome Cold Case The Sopranos Buffy the Vampire Slayer Living Single Dynasty Star Trek: The Next Generation Justice League Animated Agatha Christie’s Poirot

GameStop wants to buy, uh, eBay? aftermath.site/gamestop-ebay-...

#NirvanaInFire I love Prince Yu but his continual surprise in Episode 44 that his l i t e r a l general of a baby brother & said baby brother’s cohorts keep out-strategizing him is so funny to me. Did he just hear the Charlie Brown adults every time someone pointed out that Prince Jing is a soldier?

#NirvanaInFire This is very me specific, but low-key one of the funniest things to me is how Dadperor never throws anything at Jingyan. He does to Jinghuan & Xia Jiang. I think he even tries at one point to Jingxuan. But I always feel like he can’t be sure Jingyan won’t just throw it back at him. 😂

c) "Worries about birth control are also increasingly spreading to a growing group of wellness influencers on Instagram and other online platforms." Fuck them + the maga pipleline they rode in on. Highlighting this insidious BS the damage they did to vax was already.. Stay vigilant on this, OK?

a) We fucking called this before Roe fell ffs LISTEN TO US b) if they win this will set our whole society back to the 1950s or earlier. Workplace equality? Sexual freedom? What??? THIS MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK ISSUE c) (see next skeet)

There is a direct throughline from this and the rise in global authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is actively hostile toward the arts and intellectualism, and thus imagination. When people say that AI is a “fascist project,” this is explicitly what they’re referring to.

Well...as promised

WSJ reports that Sam Altman has apologized to the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge, for not alerting authorities after OpenAI banned the ChatGPT account of the person who later did the mass shooting there. Read my recent investigation—and I have more coming soon. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x

Folks act like he didn’t have multiple civil rights judgements, including a one for 9 figures . He came in being racist but targeting Black people and the Post let reporters erase every Black person Everyone is trying to frame this so their noticing is the important part not the actual harm

I sure af would hesitate to make a deal with the U.S. because apparently all it takes 1 election to undo a decade of work, investing and planning, and nobody with any power seems to care. That's just not a good return on investment and that's bad for us

Now think about everything and everyone else he has threatened at some point. Canada, Mexico, Ukraine, Cuba, Venezuela, NATO countries, the U.N. The fishing boats that got bombed. The girls school in Iran. Everyone getting screwed because of Hormuz The entire U.S. political system is being judged

Imagine being a Danish official and meeting Jeffries or Schumer. Oh you're the guys who didn't do anything when trump threatened to invade our country and steal Greenland from us? Stuff like that has long term implications

Too many americans still don't understand the long term impact of this administration. Everything isn't just gonna "go back to normal" if dems win the next presidential election The entire world isnt only judging this administration, they're judging the entire political system for not stopping it

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#NirvanaInFire Jingrui’s birthday party is on the YT livestream right now and y’all, Xie Yu really played with his own life and the lives of everyone he cared about if he thought Yan Que wouldn’t raze that entire compound to the ground if anything had happened to Yujin.

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Dropped and it’s over.

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics:

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics:

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

Here’s the thing abt Graham Platner: folks in Maine know better than folks outside what they need as residents. But b/c he is running for the US Senate and not, you know, some Maine jurisdiction’s county council, if he turns out to be another Fetterman — that hurts more than just people from Maine.

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