Gomna meet up with some white Tunisians tonight don’t call me

At Starbucks they call it a tall even though it’s the smallest size. They do this to demoralize you

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

Yay! Structuring!

I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer

nathan fielder (narrating): in order to better understand airline captains, i have to know what it means to lead. so i spent the last year in disguise as an italian cardinal named pizzaballa with a plan to get elected pope in the next conclave. i recreated the sistine chapel in a studio warehouse,

My complaints about Spotify Discover Weekly -Release them earlier so I can explore the playlist on Sunday evening -The week went by too quickly, where does all the time go

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University grad student + pro-Palestinian activist who Trump sent to a remote Louisiana detention center, misses son's birth after ICE official denies his request to be there www.huffpost.com/entry/mahmou...

He was a fucking kid

I do not have time to explore music on Mondays. Spotify needs to release Discover Weekly on Sundays instead

During our Red Scare lesson I heard students asking each other “have you ever kissed a communist lesbian? Have you ever held hands with a gay communist?” “This is like the Rice purity test”

He runs our government like a mob boss. Do not give him anything! Do not indent yourself to him even a little bit!

Sounds like respecting of the establishment of a religion to me

I had the first good Discover Weekly playlist in a long time so now I’m using Spotify very carefully and exploratively to get another week this good Vibes panopticon

Someone should let the business community know that impeaching and removing Trump would lead to a Republican president still in power

scores of pissed off Mormon CIA agents who just got canned are ideologically cross-pollinating with platoons of fired trans FBI agents. we are on the verge of new types of politics our ancestors could only dream about

Matt Yglesias doesn’t hit the mark every time, and sometimes is a contrarian to his detriment, but I think the Slow Boring newsletter is worth a read

Rape and support for rapists are now key aspects of U.S federal government policy. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

Rewatched a few clips of Shōgun and goddamn it is so good, better than I remember

The thing about American reactionaries online is that they’re like “under a true Christian monarch, the West will flourish with the enlightened guidance of a philosopher king…” and it’s meant to justify supporting a senile gameshow host and a drug-addled manchild who cheats at Diablo.

I don’t just think we’ll abandon Taiwan to the CCP. I also think we’ll deny Taiwanese refugees (even TSMC engineers) entry to the country

My biggest district to watch for 2026 and beyond is CA-11, Nancy Pelosi’s seat Until recently, everyone was waiting for Pelosi to step down. It looked like a potential three way race between Christine Pelosi, head of the WFP activist Jane Kim, and America’s best state legislator Scott Weiner (1/2)

Grading papers and unit exams for my civics/history hybrid class. Kids are describing Andrew Johnson as a public drunk in almost all of the short answer questions, even though that’s not necessarily the question Feels like I’ve done my job here

I don’t think it’s constructive to complain about someone or an institution being late to the party. I’m glad the Times seems to be pushing back

This is a kind of thinking we have to get ourselves off of You can’t put all of culture, all great events, and all joy on hold while bad things are in the news. There is nothing wrong with finding joy in your life concurrent to world events, otherwise nobody would have ever enjoyed anything

NEVER break Zoom meeting camera-turned-off solidarity

This would be bad. Harris should take a Nixon and run for Cal Gov. we need a totally open primary if we want a president who captures popular energy and can bring us to the finish line

Had a free period on a half day between my reconstruction unit and the civil war unit so I put on Lincoln. All I wanted was for most of the kids to pay attention and at least one kid to love it and I hit that bar. Hell yeah I love Lincoln

The Democratic “plan” is to “not get distracted” as Trump seizes Treasury, purges the FBI and the military, and completely defies all laws limiting himself, and then win back the House in 2026 by talking about inflation. It’s an awful plan.

All the smart, savvy bankers and CEOs who think they're just getting deregulation with a side of racism do not understand they will also be taken for a ride, as Trump & Musk treat the entire federal government like a mob protection racket, freely skimming anywhere they like.

Paper and pencil baybee

What’s the over-under on Trump being impeached 3.5 times by Feb 2029?

Yes it fucking does, the man barely squeaked by with a 51-50 tiebreak in a 53-47 senate You can disagree with the trade off of harsh but accurate language, but it is how normal people talk and we shouldn’t stop for fear of “otherizing” horribly destructive behavior

Incredible burn overheard from a middle schooler today: “your dad flirts with AI”

Trump sounds like he has a minor cold ngl

Hearing that anti-Trump comments are being censored on TikTok, which seems like a very possible requirement Trump would make of the app to get it back online If it’s true, they’re really overplaying their hand, turning an easy victory into a failure

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

With their new tax plan, Republicans are considering repealing the home mortgage interest deduction. That would be a big hit to homeowners, especially ones who bought in the last 2 years with high interest rates

The House Republican plan includes a repeal of SALT Deductions SALT stands for State and Local Tax, and the deductions are often highest priority for members who they affect (very wealthy districts in high-tax states like CA or NY) There’s a good chunk of freshmen Republicans who fit that bill

Trump and his cronies are stripping this country of copper wire, they are packing White House silverware into their pockets

Bannon saying openly that he wants to boot Elon from the White House, that Bannon only tolerated him at first because of donations, is so funny I am going to guess that he is overstating his own power and influence, but I just love that they’re bickering in the open

Battle Hymn of the Republic goes so fucking hard. America’s *real* national anthem

The website thing is weirdly true

Ossoff, Gallego, and Kelly all called to support the horrible anti immigrant Laken Riley Act today. Total collapse of pro immigration politics, it’s so over

Schumer saying he’ll work with trump on renaming the Gulf of Mexico

there is obviously tough competition by cannon is really gunning for “most insanely corrupt person on the federal bench”