Today, Republicans are again targeting trans kids with a bill that would require public schools to forcibly out students who want to use certain pronouns or accommodations, even if it would put them in danger. I'm a hell no. Trans kids deserve better.

basically the whole thing is the result of a conspiracy involving less than 10 bilious transphobes, most of them at The Atlantic or the NYT bsky.app/profile/kiss...

Ken Jennings is a real one. www.instagram.com/p/DYi5ddcCii...

[extremely NIMBY voice] b..but Coney Island Avenue is one of Brooklyn’s most beautiful thoroughfares! Truly the Champs-Élysées of Kensington.

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

The OG CYM opened two blocks from our house on Georgia Ave in Park View, DC, and I was, as a recent transplant from NYC, happy to have passable bagels nearby, but it’s really weird to watch them have become A Thing

trump is basically an endless string of omens and visual metaphors that a medieval chronicler would refuse to include in his narrative on account of being too on the nose

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

This is how you deal with trash

Instant follow from me.

Christ almighty just give me 1998-era Altavista back. I can search with Boolean operators like an old fart

Laid up in bed with a gout flare and god I need it today

Ballmaxxing

He will go down as one of history's great monsters.

Coffee, OJ, sausage, eggs, hash browns, $3 tip (am just getting back from UK and I loved not having to math after a meal, just saying)

At Schiphol, eating a lobster roll 12 feet under sea level.

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

i think it is extremely weird that Claude spontaneously uses the word "cromulent."

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

carly rae jepsen’s emotion side b remains a catastrophically underrated gem. the first album is undeniably a better piece of work as a whole, one of the greatest albums of this young century, but as a personal listen i return to side b more

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

james lipton IS shia labeouf IN curtis sliwa: renegade angel

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

Milhaud, Poulenc, Honegger, Auric, Durey, and Tailleferre.

Jeeeeezus Christ

The view from my pint: Dunstanburgh Castle in the distance, Craster Harbour in the foreground, and a moody North Sea

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

At Edinburgh Castle: a biblically accurate rhinoceros, from a quilt made by Mary, Queen of Scots (reconstruction)

RED ED THE CROWN IS IN THE GUTTER

“Hoofdgerecht” = all I see is “Hitler Dood, Wat Nou?”

Boarding Muzak on this Detroit-Amsterdam flight: solo piano rendition of “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls

Definitely thought Rex Reed had died 20 years ago

Biden had a trifecta and squandered it by trying to win back rural voters with massive investments when all those people wanted was hyper racism

Chicken skin dumplings are an incredible, incredible innovation

I’m flying to the UK tomorrow for a week and I swear to god if it happens when I’m gone and don’t get to celebrate with my countrymen OR drink the bottle of 2017 Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru that’s been waiting in my fridge, I’ll be real pissed.

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

Ok now I need a statue of Midge (my beloved, aging dilute tortie cat) biting Oliver Cromwell to death (ironic because she hasn’t had teeth since 2018)

Oh fun. My old station. gothamist.com/news/old-bri...

lmao “perspective on the importance of synergy”

Rewatching Gosford Park and learning that Kristin Scott Thomas’ film début was Prince’s Under the Cherry Moon

I wore this shirt (dog not included) to a goth market in LA and no joke, I was stopped by more than one goth kid who raved about how cool my shirt was

under woke 2 we’re expanding the metro to georgetown just to torment these shitheads

As a former Minnesotan, I know people who worked for her as Hennepin County DA who hate her, and everyday Minnesotans who want Nürnberg trials in Loring Park. She’ll be less popular than Jacob Frey.

I would love to see this because it’s not only a thumb in the eye of judges but a personal attack

like I genuinely do not care about whether you support Medicare for all vs. a public option. all I care about is are you willing to get your hands dirty to crush the MAGA cult via every possible legal avenue from DC/PR statehood to Supreme Court reform to mass prosecutions/ignoring any trump pardons

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

In the face of a fascist takeover of our country & the reinstatement of Jim Crow-era anti-black voting rights discrimination, Spanberger accepting the Court’s illegitimate ruling against Virginia voters is cowardice & collaboration. There is only one proper response that protects our democracy:

I like to imagine him singing this to the tune of "She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain"

While the case that sets the precedent is very, very bad, I will note that Virginia is the only state to have executed someone for treason against the state (or Commonwealth, you pedants)