Our failure to find paczki in Dc prefigures my annual failure to find a Lenten fish fry in DC…

Okay, I have made birria several times now, and I know that corn tortillas are traditional for making birria quesotacos, but I cannot figure out how to keep them from disintegrating the second I dip the tortilla in the consome. I’m warming them up first, so it’s not that. What am I doing wrong?

I firmly believe that the actual reason Americans eat turkey at Thanksgiving is because everyone who encountered them took one look and were like, “Oh yeah, the only way to get any peace is to eat these fuckers.”

Discussing how we’d *like* to show our kid SHORT CIRCUIT, but it has most certainly not aged well. Fisher Stevens’ entire performance, for example…

u guys there are 2 Pączki Days, one is today (Poland) & one is Tuesday (Polish diaspora), i just learned this, v impt

When you're on a video meeting, and backchanneling in Slack with a coworker in the meeting, and you make them laugh on camera, so now you're laughing on camera, and finally you have to turn off your camera AND mute because you can't get your face under control...

Apple is a ludicrously valuable company. It has SO MUCH cash. And literally WHAT is the point of having "fuck you" money if you never say "Fuck you" with it?

Me, assessing my child's bedhead: "Please comb your hair before you leave for school." Child, affronted: "But... It's a signature LOOK!"

PACZKI DAY IS ONE WEEK AWAY. NOT A DRILL. HAVE A PLAN.

Please stop spreading misinformation, please do not post that they had to close the air space over El Paso because the president was sundowning and took Air Force One out for a joyride and now he is doing barrel rolls over West Texas while JD Vance clings to the wing like that Twilight Zone gremlin

New pronoun labeler!

The most discredited long-running joke of an anachronistic institution in our legal system has come roaring back as one of our most important safeguards simply because it involves regular citizens getting a chance to say "no, this is bullshit."

DC jurors stay resisting.

Ope, that’s enough internet for today. *quits Bluesky app, turns off phone, chucks it into the sea.*

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

First day back at the gym after a while and my membership had been mysteriously canceled. They had to start a new one for me. Shout out to the guy at the desk who was all set to enter my birth year starting with a 2. That’s so sweet and not at all observant. 💀

@pqkate.bsky.social brought us a loaf of homemade bread and people, let me remind you: Good bread, toasted, with butter is one of the most consistent simple pleasures there is. Instant mood-lifter.

I was bewildered by all the carrying on like Spanish- SPANISH!- is this obscure tongue until I realized that 16 states do not require any kind of language study in school, and 24 treat it as one of many electives. I grew up in PA and had to take at least 2 years of a language to graduate.

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

Wait wait… Jeff D’Onofrio is the CFO of WaPo? TUMBLR Jeff D’Onofrio? This explains so much…

If the March For Life turns out to have brought the measles plague to DC… www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “WooCommerce is just a WordPress plugin. Anybody can install it.”

Also it deprives us of getting to enjoy that moment.

God, these Opening Ceremonies. “Here’s the torch, we’re about to light the cauldron!” 30 minutes of opera singing and slow flag-raising later: “Let’s learn about the solar system…”

Big "I was born at night but not LAST night" energy here from Judge Reyes.

Again, this is a crime. Any federal troops or agents at a polling location is a crime. They don’t think you know that.

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

I'm used to thinking of patriarchy as a diffuse cultural custom that only *looks* like a conspiracy. And while that's still true, I am shocked at how quickly the most powerful tier of patriarchy organized when challenged.

This, and the reply about single-gender boarding schools, is a big reason we have been so insistent about our son's Scouting America (fka Boy Scouts) troop fully integrating girls, vs. two linked troops. They take him into the woods to learn resilience & camaraderie. Girls should be part of that.

I get this, but here's where I'm at: Trump & Vance are the worst of us. America is bigger than them, and they win if we let them define us. Team USA is the best of us. It's filled with Americans MAGA hates—first-generation + immigrants, LGBTQ+ athletes, people of color—& I'm gonna root for them.

When he's dead Evangelicals will go back to pretending they cared about the morality of politicians and I'm telling you it will be the most shameless shit you've ever seen

My actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together

Why do you people insist on screenshotting BJG into the TL and not even using alt text so I can mute that shit.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

It’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.

Somewhere in DC, Dick Heller is wearing his MAGA hat and feeling betrayed.

The funny thing about this is that in my head, I absolutely heard it in Sean Bean's voice and the specific accent he used in this movie.

This is so not the point but I'm about to announce to the group chat that we're a "secret society" because we occasionally go out for a meal together.

I think about strategic nonviolence like this: you are trying to defeat the greatest chess grandmaster in world history. The good news is you get to pick the game. Don’t pick chess.

oh my god everyone stfu already

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

don't mind me, just finding lots of bread crumbs showing Epstein and the League of Pederasts were a driving force in pushing transphobic hate. This email was sent in October 2014, at the start of the current anti trans political campaign and astroturphing.

i think we should focus on kitchen table issues, like contemporary transphobia as a political movement designed explicitly to keep trans women disenfranchised and subjugated so we’re free to exploit for the sexual gain of rapists and pedophiles