One of those observations that hits you really hard.

my kid's rights are not window dressing, amd they are not trivial my child is not a "distraction" or a "purity test" and my kid is not an incomprehensible alien your willingness to sell out a disfavored group preemptively is a huge red flag go learn some shit #NeverNewsome

Look for my new children's book "80 Different Vaccines, and Beyond Vaccines" in which I make up lots of new vaccines that rhyme with animal names and we go visit them at the vaccine zoo.

True mensches (decent human beings) are willing to hear when someone says, "you failed here; there's repair that's needed." True mensches are willing to ask what might be useful if they're not sure. I just had a conversation with someone who listened & responded like a grownup. It was refreshing.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Concerts (most recently TVoTR) 2. A good cocktail on the porch in great weather 3. The smell of a book 4. Making my friends laugh 5. Whatever the hell was happening on this strange night

This is sweet, and I am suddenly wondering whether I could handle being called 'Bradder'. Oh who am I kidding? I've been called worse.

Scenes with Grey: Grey (working through a puzzle): How did I get here? Me: Yes, that is one of the things you may ask yourself

Hey you. Yes you. Do you need a little break from, well, everything? If you missed the Mood Music takeover by Melana Cadiz, she picked mellow songs and we talked about her life and creative process. You can still hear it on the archives for a few more days: spinitron.com/WOWD/pl/2117...

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Just me taking a moment to remember that time I found Waldo amidst thousands of people at a music festival.

At this point it's probably not helpful for them to actually find the shooter, since they've already decided all of us were the shooter.

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

(slowly raises hand)

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

"I don't wish to speculate irresponsibly, but I think it's probably Jason Orfendmakezst of 242 Trimbledurk Lane. I hope I am wrong about that." (Dear god help me if the most fake name and address I could think of belongs to someone)

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

Stochastic violence is a real problem, and I hold a grudge in my heart for every person that has used their platform or made a pollcy decision that has encouraged it.

"Refraining from celebrating doesn’t mean tolerating bullshit." The whole thread is great, but this stands out. Stochastic violence is a real problem we have barely begun to talk about how to deal with. Celebrating is not that.

The good advice you absolutely should take.

/10 The Supreme Court and the institutions supporting it being corrupt doesn't mean that you stop defending accused criminals or suing to get your client what they deserve or fighting for justice in lower courts. When Nazis occupied Paris we didn't raze it, we took it back.

I live in a world where at once people seemingly believed that a risotto recipe in hacked emails represents real proof of sex trafficking of kids, and also that a 200+ page book that contains graphic references and barely veiled innuendo made by people who've been convicted of said crimes, does not.

Editor: You get that illustration of the box of Grape Nuts and the gentleman? Illustrator: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what.

Would love to see more discourse about why conservatives fantasize about going to war against American cities they don't live in or visit.

The following week, they will host the mid-Atlantic regional dressage quarterfinals. The week after that, a Ted Nugent/Lee Greenwood "concert".

Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.

Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left

New future present to myself just dropped.

Brad’s 3am brain: Getupgetupgetup! Brad: hnuh? Brad’s 3am brain: When an album is reissued and there’s a big deal about being remastered, is there someone that did the initial mastering thinking “WELL FUCK YOU TOO!”? Brad: ugh why

New Unofficial Life Milestone (tm): An awful lot of my discussions with friends seem to start with a comparative health rundown.

Good thread

People need to calm down with the conspiracy theories, here’s Trump today at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks

Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.

I have the same question everyone else has: Is Jake Tapper still alive?

No notes.

Elon Musk continues to be the bigoted shit-stain he always was. Just because he goes "quiet" for a while, doesn't mean he has had a change of heart, it just means his stockholders are begging him to shut up and stop undermining their retirement investments... but even then, the pus must ooze!

Everyone who does anything where AI starts assuming responsibility needs to know that this happens. When people can offload responsibility to machines, they will. Software makers need to account for this and take the attendant risks seriously.

I would be 100% for doing a 'ghost bikes'-style protest effort for people that are being taken away.

They *want* people hived off into antagonistic groups; they *want* people to believe that they can't form cross-cutting social ties; and they *want* people to see all institutions everywhere as eternally compromised.

You know what? I am pretty sure I have heard 7 Nation Army enough for this lifetime. It is a great yet utterly inescapable song.

(Looks out the window. Can’t tell.)

It also occurs to me that whenever it finally does happen, MAGA is going to throw a shitfit of epic proportions about how joyous a lot of us are.

Also, someone needs to shine a picture of Jake Tapper into the sky so that the world’s foremost reporter on aging knows he is needed urgently.

Just saying, what if it was the Gavin Newsom trolling posts that finally did it?

"how am i going to explain gay people to my kids" my man I was on a hike with my family and my wife mentioned "grizzly man," I had to explain grizzly man to my kids. you need to get onto my fucking level. we must have talked about grizzly man for forty five minutes and i felt every one

What a fucking joke.

RIP Jean Baudrillard, you would have loved hating 2025 America.

Because we also need joy: I gave a refresh listen to Malena Cadiz's album Deep Below Heaven and remembered how much I like it. open.spotify.com/album/4l2qKl...

Trump's economy forcing the old Cracker Barrel man to delay his retirement

This is important. The point of all of this is to drive immigrants out of participation in society. This happens both through direct means (ICE actions) and indirect means, such as below (or depriving immigrants of things like hospital or police access for fear of harassment).