Hot weather will make you grumpy in ways you thought you’d grown past and moved on from.

Omg good news my worlds are colliding (Dr McMillan-Cottom book rec + Imbler creature beat)

“Now, I know I come from clutter & hoarding, like the makeup & Q-tips that litter my bathroom counter in constellations of chaos.” From “BNA → LAX,” a poem by Tiana Clark, originally published on January 21st, 2016. theoffingmag.com/poetry/archi...

These data centers don’t even create a lot of jobs. They’re simply a fucking drain.

I endorse this message in my professional capacity

fuck the met gala and fuck jeff bezos. that is the official stance of the handbasket.

Exciting Announcement 📣 Our Essay department has decided to stay open until they reach 750 submissions! Submit at the link below. theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

It's crazy to see my hometown being smote from the map between the general disinvestment by the state, data centers, fed surge, and this

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

The Supreme Court is an illegitimate institution. This remains the case.

This week on VIBE CHECK, we did a segment on violence against women of color. We talked, for example, about the singer D4VID who murdered the 14-year old girl he had been “dating” and then wrote a popular song titled “Romantic Homicide.” It took 7+ months for him to be arrested.

You acting humorless and miserable does not actually make the authoritarians go away

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PSA to my fellow immigrants: white people are easy, you can control them with cheese

Happy 4/20!!

I have come to learn and internalize that no system cares about Black women. Not really. They extract, they exploit, they warp, they twist, they lie, they trivialize, they conditionally accept, they tolerate, but they do not care. They do not care about Black women.

As a woman with a female gaze, simply do not do this. We don’t want this. We want Magnum PI. We want ‘79 Knicks. We want to see what your leg day do.

they are. next question!

When you are targeting a marginalized community as a marginalized person... look at who is laughing with you... Because the ones laughing WITH you will be the ones laughing AT you

ridicule softens the ground for abuse

If we all work together, we can make sure the World Cup is an absolutely embarrassing failure for the rich people who care about it.

“I tell myself it was okay to take the pups From their mother. I’ve seen them kill their babies. Mice make bad mothers.” From “Microglia Isolation” and “Genotyping,” a set of BOTE poems by Noor Jafari. theoffingmag.com/backoftheenv...

this is called "a job" and it's traditional to pay people to do it

Affirmative action, quotas, diversity /equity/ inclusion Is essential because the single thing Black folks have learned in the multi generational experience of building this 💩 brick by brick White people got slippery memories on pay day… get it in writing

Every thing POC got somebody Black paid for in Blood

All four of NASA's Artemis II crew members have been extracted from the Orion spacecraft off the coast of San Diego. Watch live with us as recovery operations continue: www.scientificamerican.com/video/watch-...

Alexa play Bad Bunny

“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political” Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for. There is no “other half”.

Absolutely exhausting, but also profoundly morally corrosive, to live like this.

I love how we all have access to the same news that says black women are currently unemployed at the largest rate yet ppl are still wondering why donation goals arent being met. Black women are the backbone of mutual aid.

the fuck am i supposed to say in therapy today lol

Roe v. Wade was a 7-2 decision. But reactionaries made it their white whale, and spent 50 years building a far-right Supreme Court that would overturn it. I’m not saying the same thing will happen with birthright citizenship. I’m just saying that any dissent in this case will leave that door open.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

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Kingdom Hearts was never my game but shame to see Sora go out like that

this is my district, i voted today, the Democrat was outspent literally and this is not an exaggeration 10x to 15x by the Republicans who were running TV ads every 15 minutes of the county sheriff saying the D candidate was a literal criminal while the D campaign couldn't even afford yard signs

NOW WE TALKING!!!! Let’s get GAY!

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

I’m so glad the Oscars are today which is to say, I’m so glad the Oscars will be over tomorrow.

Target -gave Trump big campaign money -rolled back their DEI polices (which, were they reinstated? NOPE www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-oper...) -tried to tokenize their way out of it -failed to stand up for the residents of their state who were being killed & occupied by ICE Yeah, no. Me either.

Kiese Laymon’s HEAVY is not really about gambling but it was the first book that really illustrated for me how dangerous gambling is

If you LOVED “Sinners” 😍 and got the ick from “One Battle After Another,” 🧐you’re gonna love this episode of VIBE CHECK. 🤓 We also share our Oscar predictions: who we want to win 🤞🏾 and who we think will win. 🤔

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of poet Theo LeGro. To honor their work and writing we are highlighting their poem ‘All There Is.’ theoffingmag.com/poetry/kundi...

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It was a 2025 goal of mine to send new work to @aaronburch.bsky.social for Short Story, Long and I'm so happy he liked "Home is a Relative Term" enough to give it a, well, home! It's a story of suburban existentialism, queer panic, and a desire for connection. open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...