and another new one from me today www.powmag.net/p/afromans-f...

I'm genuinely fascinated to see what happens with Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio gubernatorial race. I want him to lose because he's a moron and a policy disaster, but I suspect MAGA's inherent racism will be the source of serious headwinds. bsky.app/profile/mani...

I can tell if somebody is prejudiced just by looking at them

while walking my dog I saw a "don't blame me, I voted for Trump" flag in someone's garage and I just thought "keep honking: I'm honking too." what else can you do

(grimacing, inhaling through gritted teeth) The nasty fake media, they're saying I've lost my marbles. Slide whistle, cymbal crash, boiyoyoyooing. Klasky Csupo style. (crowd boos) however I am less mentally here than I have ever been,

This is a fantastic piece & the 1st in which I’ve seen the inclusion of colonialism in respect to support of oppressors. Wealth & the model minority myth are/have been factors but generational trauma is ever present in identity & the deeply flawed belief that white adjacency grants exception.

Our own unchecked model minority BS, the community's general rampant anti-Black racism, our Islamophobia, our vile enduring casteism, our yearnings for fascist "daddies" to fix our problems, our greed, all mean we will vote against our interests, and for people who hate us.

I've been curious to get the perspective of Indians who voted for Trump, given how much of the right is now saying "pajeet" this and "completely eliminate H-1B" that. www.wired.com/story/maga-i... my latest for @wired.com

First day as an infrastructure engineer at Bluesky. They let me put a piece of bologna in the CD drive and nothing bad has happened so far

Great piece by Ashwin. What’s particularly fascinating with the newer Americans who went for MAGA is: we have a pretty decent glimpse at the timeframe it takes to adopt “successful American” assumptions about inclusion and identity, and the utter sincerity with which some new Americans believe in it

I've been curious to get the perspective of Indians who voted for Trump, given how much of the right is now saying "pajeet" this and "completely eliminate H-1B" that. www.wired.com/story/maga-i... my latest for @wired.com

As a desi, I’m fascinated by the Indians who caped hard for Trump. Many of them seem to have felt insulated by their wealth and success—the “model minority”—only to now realize that a lot of MAGA hates them. @ashwinrodrigues.com reports: www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

This “-maxxing” and “-mogging” stuff comes from an ugly place and has never been particularly funny. But what about if *I* adopt it, but ironically,

the fire department just pulled up to wake up a guy passed out on the sidewalk and they knew him by name. one of the EMT/fire guys was like "yo we thought you DIED" and they were all laughing including the not-dead guy. daps were exchanged. very heartwarming as long as you don't zoom out

starting to feel the claviclular-esque “no one should have to know about this guy” angst but about the pope

LOL

MTA is supposed to be putting a big-money contract out to do this this year

Mayor Mamdani, please consider updating Chambers St. station so it doesn’t look like the final level in Depression: the Video Game

Good news in media? Is that allowed?? www.powmag.net/p/pow-mag-en...

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

everyone who owns a pair of Allbirds will now be required to wear a helmet that forces them to solve a captcha twice an hour

The retailer I get the most questions about from friends and readers is Quince, and it's not close. It carries everything from cashmere sweaters to American-made sofas to Dom Perignon champagne, most of it super cheap. I finally wrote about what Quince is up to. 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Clavicular is a 20 year old child and famous for no good reason, not due to any particular celebration-worthy talent. He is a victim of a form of mental illness that is exacerbated by attention. However, if I come up with a good joke about him, I will post it.

if this guy ran through an ICU turning off machines he’d get tackled by an orderly, but he gets away with doing the same thing from a distance at scale

The support staff pull me out of the cold plunge. I repeat what I said hundreds of times before. "Iran's cooking with the AI-generated footage of Donald Trump operating under the spell of Venom, who is Jeffrey Epstein in this scenario." I go under again. But I know what I saw

college kid in Earl Sweatshirt t-shirt at Turning Point event asking JD Vance how people can trust a group implicated in the Epstein files to properly investigate them. that’s the power of music

Sharks, my dog can sense when something bad has happened. It's not a business idea. You don't need to monetize everything. How many watches does this shiny bald man need

when you walk around outside, you can't help but wonder if we're living in the golden age of ass modulation technology

regarding Geese, two things can be true. for example: honk honk

171 murders... and counting. theintercept.com/2026/04/14/t...

gonna be honest. I didn't know you could do that

"My real name is Braden, but people know me as Clavicular" sounds like something a young man might say to a woman before getting pepper sprayed

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak On Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ defector.com/president-ex...

god this album review for greta van fleet is so funny. i love this pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

The president's style of faith can be boiled down to a simple idea: one way or another, he's going to make you say "Jesus Christ." The results are undeniable

using grabby, active terms for passive activities (e.g. doomscrolling, binge watching, bed rotting??) was part of a long-term campaign to rebrand "just kind of sitting there"

it does seem like the timing of the Geese botnet was quite a bit of time after their explosion (from my observation.) so maybe it's like the guy claiming to push the subway to the next station

Here's my take. If you found out about Geese and Cameron Winter through an Instagram reel, you're a fake fan. If you found out about Geese and Cameron Winter because you read about them on www.noexpectations.fyi, you are free of sin

this stuff sucks. running a shady bot network to promote a band creates a system where the only way to promote new music is through these monopolistic choke points. now the digital marketing company is in control and can turn the tap on or off whenever they want

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

According to documents I obtained for @goldengoalmag.bsky.social, FIFA is demanding personal information from stadium workers ahead of the World Cup—information it says it can share with law enforcement agencies like ICE goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/why-does-f...

maybe the term "fandom culture" should be replaced with "spiritually incel-like behavior" so people feel worse about being part of it

The culture fandom creates is the one where u send literal death threats to random not even famous high school girls and your fave can't even go to the prom, because of how he doesn't want anyone to murder a teenager girl

By popular demand, I'm sharing my preprint discussing the implications of large language models for qualitative sociology research. Advocates emphasize the efficiency gains of LLMs: "interviews in minutes for pennies". This paper asks: But at what (epistemic) cost? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧪

this but with "You know I respect you immensely, but I am sure you are the Antichrist"

"You trust me? Dumb fuck. Ha ha. That is just a joke. Follow me on Threads. Don't say it's Fisher Price Twitter"

Guy with a lot of problems: Please just let each post just exist on its own without context, there’s no need to group any of them together or draw any conclusions based on them as a larger entity.

This is a great interview about how we ended up with the internet being hell, and how that results in today's politics, including the role journalists have played. Watch, subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_n...

beautiful and poetic for so many American Christians to express their first feeling of disgust for the president, after being presented with a picture