it's 2007. you're scrolling your favorite rss feeds in google reader. the internet ad market has led to a boom in mid-sized blogs that can employ tens of writers and editors in a relatively niche subject. you don't know it, but this is the last time journalism will be any good.

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SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY shot off some sexy fireworks when it ended last week, too, I found out. This is all downstream of the consent conversations we had in the wake of Me Too, though, which were incredibly valuable but needed some follow-up for new arriving adults that got shelved when COVID hit.

Bullet "evidence" startin' to get a little too specific and whatnot.

As far as analogies go, this one isn't particularly kind to either party, not least of all because the matador arrives on the scene last, after like four other people have.....you know what, never mind.

like, try to picture vance giving a heartfelt compassionate speech in the wake of a deadly hurricane. it’s impossible. he is utterly without compassion for anyone, which makes him profoundly unfit for office

Not "Fuck ICE" or "Death to ICE", you know something that makes sense, but "Anti ICE" lol. The FBI is really bad at this, but maybe it doesn't even matter anymore.

Big shout-out to the indifferent universe for nobody taking me up on this because Gillian Welch and David Rawlings played one of the most beautiful shows I've ever been lucky enough to attend last night. Holy mother of God, friends, I was *sobbing* at one point. Just amazing, amazing performers.

It's fascinating to live in a time when movies and books and the like were clearly greenlit, made, and/or bought when the people in charge thought things were going to go one way but then they didn't, and for this to be the second time that has happened in under a decade.

The whole idea of making the customer happy seems dead. Everything is being forced on us whether we want it or not.

this shit is like 90% eugenicist pseudoscience at the expense of autistic people who in no way deserve it, with a sexy little 10% of paternalistic tyranny over expectant mothers, and i’m here to tell you all that i will have absolutely none of it. let the fucking kid be autistic who fucking cares

You gotta do what keeps the lights on but man, this shit isn't worth it, Megyn, and you know it.

Wild shot in the dark here, but: Anybody want two tickets to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings tonight at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee? Great seats, lower balc center 2nd row on the aisle, $150 for the pair. Not an emergency, happy to fly solo if and when, just trying to find them a happy home.

Thank you. There’s a lot of “don’t infantilize adults” sentiment out there right now re: voting, but there’s a lot of daylight between “oh this poor baby 35-year-old man didn’t know what he was doing” and “half of America can’t read and that’s going to hurt their ability to make good choices.”

That last part is a good thing, brother.

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

man who divided himself from fellow democrats to support a republican resolution says the resolution was a republican plot to divide democrats

For years I didn't realize how far out on a limb Pitt went with that performance, but he really fucking nailed what a mostly-kind dunce in way over his head Mills is. I thought he was doing the acting-but-not-really thing a lot of pretty actors do, but he's way deep in the sauce on that one.

In late-October I had a conversation with a guy HEAVILY involved in labor union polling and outreach in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, he worked like 180 days in a row with three weeks to go, and he was absolutely convinced she'd win by ten points. Everything they saw, and he heard, said so.

When it's dead. We celebrate. It won't be long.

"Let a thousand flowers bloom" (In the long run, it's good when formerly hidden enemies show their faces)

He didn't take credit for his victories, he didn't throw Trump in jail for insurrection when he had the chance and support, the Garland DoJ was a disaster, the media ratfucked him over and over bc he wasn't interesting/didn't play ball, he was old and out of touch and couldn't explain himself, Gaza.

I don't know if the guys I know from HS who vowed to freeze me out of their lives forever for making fun of Charlie Kirk on Sunday started that new text chain without me like they threatened to but I kind of wish they hadn't because I have some links I'd love to send them.

Yeah, no, we know.

the average trump administration official’s mobile phone contains scenes that larry flynt would have found obscene

Witnessing some of the worst people on this planet sell off their earthly possessions & quit jobs thinking they’re gonna get raptured has been funny as fuck. Baby the devil himself dont want half of these folks. Only way yall levitating is off crack Rock.

A big part of the reason they're going to lose is they are such hopeless cowards who can't handle forty unarmed people yelling at them.

You’re Catholic!!! This was very deliberately patterned after evangelical megachurch spectacles! Have some self-respect!

Even down to how they exploit the changes in diagnostic criteria to suggest there's some "contagion" or "epidemic." What those changes actually point to is a move away from a model of suppression to a model of acceptance, and that's what actually terrifies them

Anyone with a brain knew what DOGE was.

Kind of surreal that a government official was caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe and there's not even a question that he will continue serving as it nothing ever happened. Like even the most basic standards of public accountability are a joke.

Can you imagine how much she fucking hated her ex-husband by the end of their marriage? I'm sure she hates him now, too, but before they split, wanting to do stuff like this and being saddled with that arrogant douchebag piece of shit instead?

Years ago I saw a distant cousin at a wedding and she told me she read and liked a piece I'd recently wrote, I was touched and said thanks, then I saw her five years later at a different wedding and she told me she'd read and loved *the exact same piece*. I was gracious about it, but only just so.

I would be so stoked to get the country back from the evangelicals, tbh.

Bucks, in 6.

"Harvest Moon" is a perfect song and it's a joy to play but it's so fucking annoying to practice over and over, I don't know another song quite like it in that way. I love listening to it, love playing it, but drilling it down to get the timing and changes and vibe just right was so tedious.

The speed with which we decelerated out of “Democracy is over, civil war, outlaw Democrats, massacre the left” to “Charlie who?” once they started trying to valorize the actual man is pretty breathtaking

Miller being younger than me and Carr being younger than my older brother is some real Arc of the Covenant shit, but Emile Bove having been in high school the same time as me is... We buried my 100y.o. Grandma last week and that dude looks like he waited in the Depression breadlines alongside her.

what if trans people were worth as much as a talk show host, collectively if not individually, as a treat

Having millions of people who categorically do not understand the concept of "it's a bit" suddenly exposed to GWAR is pretty magical

It would be so embarrassing to be a person who treats these worms’ victory as inevitable

Can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, motherfuckers.

They aren't dating, whatever these two are doing is far too depraved to call it that.

Don't pull that smol bean stuff on us now, prick. We know your game.

Interesting thread

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.