NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

"In a small house, the tide of objects / is driven by you." "Interior with collection of tie tacks" by @jeanneobbard.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/23/i...

“I am disrupting business as usual,” Booker told TPM. “I am not allowing us to just carry on with the expected order of the Senate.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

Regret to inform you that it's the end of Women's History month and I have made zero history

This is why it's very important to get your niche memes right the first time

What's funny is I made this prior to the episode where she actually says it to him

Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. THE INSIDE STORY:

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Every product becoming more and more heavily scented while more and more people develop fragrance sensitivities is just very late stage something

Leopards.

I'm not pro-irony in place of sincerity and effort, but at the same time the pitchbot is the only thing keeping me going. What can I say I contain multitudes

None of this is normal

It's unclear if they will pick the strains or not. I am pretty scared though... many of us need those shots.

NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who participated nationwide!

So the thing is, Zelenskyy has been only wearing military clothes since the war started. He was an entertainer and it's an intentional choice, I assume to a) signal his allegiance with Ukrainian troops b) signal that his country is in a state of emergency.

Look at this beautiful creature 😭 we don't deserve the world

Worth noting that when the war started Zelensky’s English was very shaky and he’s clearly spent a ton of time improving it for exactly this purpose.

I feel like this is Elon living up to his family's N@zi dreams of eugenically doing away with every non-white person

Babe are you okay you've barely touched your fear for the fate of the republic today

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

For a person who is pretty good at words, I am exceptionally bad at word games and it is my secret shame

Hear me out but I'm starting to think Nate is not a high IQ people

Nazi salutes are having a moment. Our critic weighs in. Steve Bannon’s offered precise form worthy of 1930s Germany, but Elon Musk’s honored the drug-fueled mania of the original Nazis.

White Lotus theme song has changed and I don’t think Mike White realizes just how little it will take to push his core audience of white liberals over the edge I need a wellness check

“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

One of those Super Bowl ads was wildly fatphobic so that was fun

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

Every time I log into Twitter (whatever I refuse to call it the other name) it tells me I have dozens of notifications but it's just random tweets I don't necessarily follow or care about.

I am trying to not have a day of wall-to-wall panic attacks but so far it's hard

People who explain themselves really well in their bios both amaze me and haunt me

if I had to work retail I would of course attempt to open a store called Jewels by Jeanne but I would spell it ~ jools by jeen ~ and the sign would be in papyrus obviously

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Syrian journalist Dima Azeddin breaks in tears as she reports live from Damascus after 14 years in exile Cc @leilana.bsky.social

With friends like this, who needs enemies

The question always on my mind in my advanced age is "which Miracle Balm should I get?"

"legacy press ... are heavily invested in aiding and abetting the GOP which, as always, is good for their bottom line. During the four years Trump was on Twitter spewing hate and nonsense, reporters gobbled up his tweets and wrote thousands of articles." opinionatedogre.substack.com/p/why-is-the...

what an absolute fucking atrocity, I hate it here www.propublica.org/article/pors...

Huh

“The world that they want to shape—to go back to before Me Too—is one where consent really doesn’t mean much. And we go back to an ethos that says it’s fine for powerful men to do whatever they want,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the many Trump cabinet picks accused of sexual misconduct.

For decades the underlying logic of campaign finance law was preventing the appearance of impropriety, and here’s the richest person in the world literally purchasing control over federal personnel in the Trump Administration for $130 million.

I feel like I have so many things to say about that Vanity Fair Augusta Britt profile but... these predator man authors exhaust me

Resharing this piece I wrote for The Independent this year about Andrea Skinner and her mom, Alice Munro (link in the replies). I hope somebody gives Augusta Britt a massive book deal + advance to write a tell-all. I’ll read that over McCarthy any day of the week.

omg

me: Vanity Fair has a profile of Cormac McCarthy's muse. do you have any guesses about her? my sister, a child trauma therapist who works with, among other things, trafficking survivors: teenager. me: yep sister: adopted. me: foster care sister: every time.

I am going to make an observation and it's that a ton of women writers are on Substack, here, or both.

I want to talk about scifi shows I failed to watch in 2021 but now realize are really good

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

Meanwhile, in the department of The Answers to These Questions Prove The Point Without Me Saying Anything... Here's Twitter... I don't follow this guy yet he shows up in my feed. Half the responses are sane, half are some version of this:

It needs two of them because Elon has never done a full day's work in his entire life