"Washington has been pushing Canada to do more to keep out products of forced labor from countries such as China." Well ok then:

sorry

Happy Light Jacket Day to all who celebrate

We don’t have to do this, Kierkegaard absolved us of the need to

Goddamn

Being short, shy, brown, and chubby on my own didn’t help me much but the apps actually helped me to, you know, date.

I feel like the people who post how sad it is that you just can’t ask people out anymore are mostly just admitting their pretty privilege. And the people who say their friends set them up are assuming larger friend groups with compatible sexual orientations. Like a sitcom set in a major urban area.

I’ve seen people shoot their shots at coffee houses. And get turned down. It was uncomfortable. But also no one got creepy defensive and no one called the cops, so … I still think it’s OK to ask people out cold IRL? Maybe brace yourself to be the subject of some giggling?

The Internet is Dead

What Bovino means: About a third of the population isn’t white.

works for me, feel free to never vote again

I don’t want NYC to become a museum. It should be a living, breathing testament to the working people of our city.

Agree with this, but I’d add that the predecessors here are your blue state, often centrist led anti-wind power movements, anti safe-streets movements, fights in CA and CT against HSR infrastructure, etc.

something like two-thirds of Romanians today have a positive view of Ceausescu so I think we have to assume that future generations in America will probably also be idiots to some degree

Just tapping this sign again.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Brazil bans Kalshi and Polymarket from operating in the country. obviously things aren't perfect there but I think we need to think seriously about how to get institutions like theirs

13yo getting annoyed that I’m harping on the inaccuracies of John Wick 3’s depiction of the NYPL

I'm at the TJ Maxx (what) I'm at the insurance disaster (what) I'm at the combination TJ Maxx and insurance disaster

the thing about these kinds of lifestyles that gets me is, if you don't have the money to begin with you aren't getting in these countries to nomad and leech off of them

All of it.

This is an incredible tweet.

RFK Jr. is a guy who was meant to commit a series of themed animal crimes in Gotham City with the ultimate goal to “eat the Bat” before being subdued and returned to Arkham.

part of the reason i'm so hesitant to think left-populism is the one simple trick to win is primarily because it basically wants to short-cut the path about expanding the coalition of people are socialized against the bosses

UAW is also not just auto workers, here in California, the median UAW member teaches classes and does research at a university.

The working class in people's imagination: Median UAW/Teamsters member The working class in reality: Median SEIU member

Happy 64th birthday to John Hannah, who has always understood the assignment.

The thing about the champagne socialists and the downwardly mobile children of the petite bourgeoisie is that they are not being particularly traitorous to their class a lot of the time! They like their diverse portfolios and inherited single family homes!

Also, everyone is a small business owner. Which I think does more than anything else, TBH.

I don’t know if the stupidity comes. from Hasan Piker or whether he attracts stupid people, but they appear to genuinely believe that the only wealth worth attacking are those at the level of Musk or Bezos. Not their fave streamer who also monetizes quite a bit

The “rich” are always one tax bracket above me 🫠

Complaining about HR is also how capitalist would-be tyrants who resent the strictures of bureaucratic shareholder capitalism launder their class interests into something resembling populism. It's not about being pro-worker, it's about giving men like Elon Musk total control over their companies.

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Blue 2, by Joan Miró, 1961

WTF

I would have said that I was one of those people who had it “easy” during COVID but I thought twice and realized: I had a massive anxiety attack after 4 months of WFH, my health-related habits were completely upended and now I’m pre-diabetic with occasional blood pressure issues

I don't think non-Black people understand how much Black people calculating spaces as to whether they'd be hostile to Black people. It's the same way I think men don't understand that women navigate spaces thinking about whether or not they'd be safe

With all due respect, wearing my own culture studies hat I'd say this is overly nostalgic and ignores how much silly, dumbass culture of the past has just been left in the dust because it wasn't worth remembering to anyone who wasn't a specialist

There were a lot of erotic thriller movies in the 80s and 90s but that genre has kinda faded. I think they were just too boring, and the casting didn’t help. Who would you put in a modern erotic thriller to make it more interesting? I’ve got my answer.

our friends from Maine are visiting and told us their five year-old daughter asked them last week “mom, can we get a TV without Susan Collins in it?”

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

I SPAT MY DRINK OUT #StrangeCentral

Riffing on this a bit, natsec as a whole is way more like this than I ever thought it would be when I started out. Not just in DC. People write things down, sometimes, but being the person in the office who KNOWS WHAT FOLDER A DOCUMENT IS IN makes you some kind of skald or shaman.

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

“After going on a passive house tour led by a neighbor … Cheng became part of a small but growing group that meets once a week to support one another with rebuilding energy-efficient, all-electric homes. A former JPL engineer, he has decided to become a passive house consultant.” Love this story.

~W.H. Auden